Sentences with phrase «than a novelty when»

Roughly one - quarter of consumers say technology options are important features that factor into their decision to choose a restaurant, underscoring that technology is rapidly becoming an expectation rather than a novelty when dining out (2014 Technology Innovations Consumer Survey, National Restaurant Association).

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And I'll gladly suffer through all these pet peeves rather than return to the days when workout rooms were the size of walk - in closets, HBO cost extra, Wi - Fi was a novelty and the average hotel bed had the topography of a mountain range.

We need a functional standard of orthodoxy: one supple enough to do justice to the sorts of nuances Griffiths introduces, but one real enough to help us understand when theological speculation, novelty, and critique undermine rather than enrich the faith of the Church.

«Whether it is ignorance or fear, or both, that inspires this conduct in them, certain it is that the passion for novelty is always united in them with hatred of scholasticism, and there is no surer sign that a man is tending to Modernism than when he begins to show his dislike for the scholastic method.»

I take Plato as on my side in this when he says that in God is both being and becoming, both permanence and novelty, a closed past and an open future, also that God cares about the creatures, thus siding in advance against Aristotle's unmoved mover, taken as the God of religion.14 What moves things is at least «self - moved,» and is soul, including the supreme and cosmic soul, God, whose body is all else than cosmic soul and other than forms.

At first, it can be cute to see how much your baby loves «blankie,» but the novelty of it all can wear off quickly when the toy becomes more important than you or other family members.

Of course, as more people use Twitter and its novelty fades, this route may be pinched off, just as it's now harder to reach many reporters via email now than it was when it was a shiny new tool.

When the novelty wore off and that tactic stopped performing better than other ones, the campaign dropped it and moved on.

Even more effectively than in Frankenstein, Whale adapts the shadowy darkness of the silent German Expressionist classics to the early sound era, a time when most Hollywood directors had seemingly forgotten everything that had been learned about the creation of mood, atmosphere and meaning through image over the prior 20 years in the struggle to capture the novelty of actors actually talking (By 1932, this phase of film was thankfully on it's way out, thanks to Whale, Howard Hawks (Scarface) and Busby Berkeley).

And while the Veloster has four seats, a bigger boot and the perception of more practicality than a regular coupe, those six foot or over will be very cramped in the back and the 2 +1 door layout's novelty value subsides rather quickly when you're travelling along and want to put stuff in the back.

When the 4 Series BMW was released the motoring fraternity was immediately divided, many claiming it was a better than the 3 Series and others swearing it was just a new design and that the novelty would wear off soon.

E-books have gone a long way since 10 years ago, when they were little more than an interesting novelty, or even since 5 years ago — in 2011 they represented no more than 1 % of the book market everywhere (except in the UK, where e-book sales were 4 % of the total and digital sales were 8 %).

The cookbook is more than a novelty item for fans only, it is filled with recipes to turn to in a pinch or when entertaining.

And eventually, the novelty wears off: by the time I finished, I found the game less amusing and enjoyable than when I began.

When did water fountains become more of a novelty than an expectation in urban areas?

«When you hold the remote it's rather difficult to reach the touch screen and some of the buttons with your thumb... The smart home buttons on the bottom of the remote are a nice touch, but I feel they're a bit more of a novelty than a necessity since there are plenty of other standalone switches & voice control devices that can do the same job.»

We found that the super slo - mo feature worked as advertised when we reviewed the Xperia XZ Premium, but it felt more like a novelty than a must - have tool.