Sentences with phrase «than a mass appeal»

But on a longer timeline, less frantic and with fewer Bruce Willis scenes than the mass appeal beast it set itself to dethrone.

Perhaps it just goes to show that quality and giving genre fans what they want matters more than mass appeal.

That audience is much smaller than a mass appeal device.

Not exact matches

(But can you actually call fewer than 4,000 cars sold globally per year mass appeal?)

The company, which launched Versa worldwide in April, is hoping the smartwatch would have more of a mass appeal than its Ionic device.

Products that solve problems beyond the crypto community, like supply chain management or real estate applications, sound exciting, but we believe that the products that are most ripe for adoption in the next 2 — 4 years are infrastructure and middleware that serve the existing community rather than end - user applications that appeal to the masses.

Kimmel is a peer more of Sean Hannity than of earlier late - night hosts, who had mass appeal: Johnny Carson, even Jay Leno or the 1980s version of David Letterman.

During the course of the decade the militancy of its rhetoric rose as its mass appeal correlatively declined but as is usual in the history of American socialism it was based far more on idealistic zeal than on class interest.

Though they both have their place, I find milk chocolate to have a bit more mass appeal than the darker stuff.

He's spent most of them figuring out how to get mass quantities of appealing food from a central kitchen to schools that are ill - equipped to do more than run the lunch line.

Supersymmetry — an appealing idea that attempts to explain many mysteries of physics, such as why the Higgs boson's mass is as low as it is — posits more particles in the universe than those that have so far been found.

Perhaps the mass appeal to Deadpool 2 lies in focusing on Deadpool's intimately human — rather than mutant — struggle.

Estes had to expect such criticisms and made peace with them, because he is clearly less interested in making a film that appeals to the masses than making one that contemplates and conveys the complicated feelings of a long - term marriage.

Every scene is constructed with a need for mass appeal, targeting slapstick for the kiddies and plenty of old film references for the adults, and almost all of these are a distraction from the main story, rather than a means to enhance the characters or plot.

This satire of middle - class media madness owes more to screenwriter Buck Henry than to director Gus Van Sant, who courts mass - market appeal by soft - pedaling his usually subversive style.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

Although similar in size to the Impala, the SS's rear - drive configuration and V - 8 power, not to mention its considerably higher overall price, give it an much more focused, niche appeal than the mass - market positioning of the Impala.

Leasing has always appealed to luxury - vehicle buyers more than to mass - market ones, and a look at financing in the luxury segment shows why.

Softer than some, stiffer than others, the 2008 Ford Edge hits the mass - appeal sweet spot in ride and handling.

The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman tells a story that positions Tetris as much more than just mass appeal and big sales.

Each volume takes me longer to read than most because of the text and panel heavy pages, which I quite like in a series that uses all that space to fill up with amusing character interaction, manga serialization education and a lot of artistic trials that will speak to any artist one way or another, especially when working to appeal to the masses at large.

However, even access to every big publisher's catalog won't guarantee material for every possible library audience; frontlist title acquisition is driven by anticipated sales numbers and focuses on mass - market appeal rather than meeting the needs of smaller interest - based communities.

While nowhere near close to the system Apple put together, there is a lot of potential here and its price will certainly prove more appealing to the masses than Apple's iPad.

Many of the mass produced treats sold in stores are designed to appeal to well - meaning pet parents rather than bunny bodies; they are colorful and they come in fun shapes, but they are nutritionally empty.

And changing their image to appeal to the mass market could take more than 1 console.

I understand the desire to appeal to the masses (or follow the restrictions already in place), but I play adult, M - rated titles more than other games, though, as a gamer, I'll still try anything (Dungeon Defenders is surprisingly fun).

You know a lot of people crap on Nintendo for making kiddie or mass appeal stuff, but the fact is their core games are better than anyone else.

3rd party developer support is radically different on the Home Theater gaming PC's vs Wii U I'm Sorry but XB1 has the games and mass appeal hardware that is more advanced than the xbox hardware responsible for the Wii's decline (project Natal).

«The title's success illustrates the mass appeal of interactive entertainment as millions of consumers are choosing to play Call of Duty: Black Ops at unprecedented levels rather than engage in other forms of media.

Hill went on to say that it's unfortunate that some younger Batman fans will miss out, but the Rocksteady team felt that if they were to give the game a more mass market appeal than it would have hindered the story that they wanted to tell.

Instead, we hear about «ethics», and «facts», much of which are appeals to authority and emotion, rather than attempts to generate positive mass movements.

Sources say that Fitbit's new «mass appeal» smartwatch would be smaller than the Ionic and would be closer to the size of the first generation Blaze.

Fitbit reported less - than - favorable sales for the Ionic during its latest earnings call, and along with this, promised investors it was working on a new «mass appeal» smartwatch that would draw in more customers.

Products that solve problems beyond the crypto community, like supply chain management or real estate applications, sound exciting, but we believe that the products that are most ripe for adoption in the next 2 — 4 years are infrastructure and middleware that serve the existing community rather than end - user applications that appeal to the masses.

Though we don't have specific details just yet, this new watch is said to be less expensive than the Ionic, which lines up with Fitbit's goal of appealing to the mass market.

While it may have been one of the first Android Wear examples, the G Watch encountered criticism for its relatively pedestrian design, described by some as more of a reference design for the Google smartwatch platform than something with mass - market appeal.

Similarly, if you aren't planning to stay in the home for more than a few years, you'll probably want to pick finishes that are appealing to the masses — even if that means you'll have to forego the trendy gunmetal cabinets you had originally picked out.