Sentences with phrase «than impressive for»

The graphics, while not quite up to the incredible standards set by previous Crash games, are still more than impressive for the PlayStation hardware.

The footage and screens we've seen from the game are less than impressive for sure, and we've only seen old maps that have been HD - ified so far.

The multiplayer may not have anything truly unique but it's still nothing less than impressive for an FPS on the Wii.

The processor isn't the only thing that's more than impressive for this price category: the Ideapad 700 is equipped with 12 gigabytes of internal memory (8 GB + 4 GB), which is a vast improvement over the regular 8 gigabytes you often see.

While there is nothing «wrong» with these large - cap REITs, some of them have yields that are a little less than impressive for securities that were designed to be income vehicles.

The sound system is actually more than impressive for the $.

He loves to read and does puzzles all the time, his verbage is more than impressive for a child his age and he uses the big boy potty.

By most accounts Black Friday and Cyber Monday were less than impressive for retailers this year.

Not exact matches

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

But Spiegel has assembled an impressive executive roster headlined by COO Emily White, former director of business operations for Facebook - owned photo - sharing app Instagram, suggesting that monetization efforts are coming sooner rather than later.

«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

Even more impressive, companies with fewer than 20 workers account for 90 percent of all U.S. companies.

Is the marketing and hype much more impressive than the actual outcome for those really involved - the small business owners.

Perhaps even more impressive than the revenue growth is the passion GoPro's users have for its products, as expressed by the flood of GoPro videos spreading across YouTube and Facebook.

That would continue impressive growth for a U.S. - focused off - road brand that had little more than 300,000 deliveries in 2009, when Fiat took control of Jeep as part of its acquisition of Chrysler.

Reputation and image are becoming more and more important to big brands, so stay tuned for plenty more impressive stunts in the future, particularly as advancing technology allows us to extend further than the confines of the ground!

Already, China accounts for a third of Uber's global business, an impressive feat accomplished in less than two years.

That game attracted more than 33 million viewers, the NFL said, and while online viewing and TV viewing aren't directly comparable, that's still an impressive number for something that wasn't a big - name match - up.

Rather than going for impressive bulk, seek brevity.

Rather than possess an insatiable drive for greatness or an impressive ability to constantly churn out new ideas, great leaders seem to excel in soft skills.

Perhaps most impressive may have been the $ 124.5 million raked in by the young - adult weeper The Fault in our Stars, which was produced for only around $ 12 million — but still made more than a number of high - priced bombs like Warner Brothers» (TWX) Edge of Tomorrow.

That's an impressive return for a film that cost less than $ 5 million to make.

A frugal man with a fondness for junk food, perhaps the most impressive part of Buffett's $ 60 billion fortune is that it doesn't include the more than $ 25 billion he's already given away.

The numbers were impressive: a $ 25,000 - a-year employee who deposited $ 1,640 into an FSA — instead of paying it out directly for premiums, deductibles, and the like — could be expected to take home $ 19,782 after taxes — a full $ 370 more than if he'd stuck to the old system.

The results are impressive: for example, jobs in the solar power sector south of our border have been growing ten times faster than national average employment growth, now employing more than 142,000 individuals, with 23,000 of these jobs added in 2013.

This is a welcome shift for Google the technology; from the beginning the search engine has included an «I'm Feeling Lucky» button, so confident was Google founder Larry Page that the search engine could deliver you the exact result you wanted, and while yesterday's Google Assistant demos were canned, the results, particularly when it came to contextual awareness, were far more impressive than the other assistants on the market.

As impressive as this news is, there's no sign more compelling that investors have an insatiable appetite for gold right now than the growing demand for safety - deposit boxes.

The move comes less than a week after the latest data for economic growth showed an impressive expansion of 4.5 per cent for Canada in the second quarter.

Yesterday's results were mostly more of the same: wearables were up a lot (more devices per customer); ASP's were down from last quarter but still 11 % higher than a year ago; 2 services revenue, meanwhile, shot through the roof for reasons that are still a bit unclear, but impressive nonetheless.

The median GMAT score for its latest entering class of 710 is pretty darn impressive, considering that most of these students haven't taken a standardized test in more than 15 years.

The Summit features an impressive industry led speaker line - up including opening keynote by Jon Medved, CEO of OurCrowd, the global equity crowdfunding platform leader that has raised more than $ 95 M for 56 portfolio companies since launching in February 2013.

That's an impressive return on the buyers» roughly $ 6 billion of equity — much more than sufficient to compensate for the risk of a continued slide in the PC business.

Dan Caplinger: One surprising area that has been extremely lucrative for long - term investors is the auto - parts industry, and, among its major players, AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) has scored impressive returns over the past decade, seeing its stock price rise from less than $ 100 to almost $ 700 over that time span.

Today's surprise hike of the central bank's overnight lending rate to 1.0 per cent comes less than a week after the latest data for economic growth showed an impressive expansion of 4.5 per cent for Canada in the second quarter.

But, then again, Ethereum «s run last fall was far less impressive than Bitcoin «s or Ripple «s. So, the technical picture has to be attenuated for that.

For a 6 - year - old band to place its focus on the subtleties instead of the broad creative steps most groups their age are working through is impressive, but COIN's always come across sharper than their sometimes «aw - shucks» sound portrays.

For starters, Trump drew an impressive 81 percent of those who self - identified as «born again» — three points higher than Mitt Romney's 78 percent in 2012 and George W. Bush's 78 percent in 2004.

It would need firsthand knowledge of an entirely pagan country to say for certain that these impressive spiritual qualities are growing spontaneously, rather than being the delayed action of many years of unconscious Christian absorption.

But rather than celebrating these impressive everyday «somersaults,» I tend to focus on the «deductions»: I forgot someone's birthday (that's a fifth of a point), the dishes haven't been done (another third of a point), my jeans still fit too tight (a half a point), I never got to that last email (a fourth of a point), I snapped at Dan (a full point deduction for that one).

Adherents of the new Christian sects, of which there were many competing ones, e.g., Ebonites, Gnostics, etc., would have been familiar with the Serapis and likely would not have wanted their godman to seem any less impressive than the gods of the Serapis and other religions of the time, so there would have been a need for a miraculous birth story and other miracle stories for their godman, as well.

He was a more impressive figure than our own Founding Fathers in at least three respects: He had been a slave for most of his life; he was a famously devout Christian; and his accomplishment remains unmatched to this day, for the Haitian Revolution is still the only successful slave revolt in history.

Genetic evidence offers impressive support for human evolution and also strongly suggests that our ancestral population has never been smaller than about 10,000, «Mitochondrial Eve» and «Y - chromosome Adam» notwithstanding.

Perhaps nothing is more impressive, when read at length in the context of some definite medical case, than the intimate relation discovered between the psychological and the physical in man himself, and the detailed tracing of the organisation and operations of every organ of the body to the brain as their centre and control tower for stimuli both incoming and outgoing.

The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old - fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within arm's length at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring, — scarcely humming an audible warning to stand a hair's - breadth further for respect of power, — while it would not wake the baby lying close against its frame.

You could be a little lot more sophisticated than I (I'm betting you already are) and make these for an impressive weekend brunch, or a rich way to start a morning at home with your family, even to make up a dish and have them ready for the work week.

These are significant efforts for a fast food chain and, as noted in my previous posts, more impressive than some coffee companies.

This naturally gluten - free cake is impressive enough for special occasions but secretly easy enough to make in less than an hour.

For one of Australia's newest official wine regions, a small and embryonic region with less than 200 hectares of vines and seven wineries, New England is impressive.

If you're looking for the city's best pre - and post-fest pastimes, look no further than Windsor Court's Cocktail Bar and Polo Club Lounge, which feature an impressive live music lineup all their own.

Having sampled this dish, for which the chicken is actually cooked sous - vide style rather than fried — locking in that coveted flavor and moisture — as just one interesting aspect, I can attest that it is a unique and impressive savory spin unlike any other.