Sentences with phrase «than the pictures led»

After a co-worker came back from a meeting I didn't attend and told me that its a WHOLE lot thicker than the pictures lead one to believe (twice the size of the ipad) and said that the build quality is less than that of even the galaxy s phones - Count me not interested at all.
The downstairs pool was bigger than the pictures led me to believe, another treat.

Not exact matches

The leading Republican presidential candidate's wife knows how to do more than just take a pretty picture.
The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.
That required the editors to be more self - critical than I, for one, had been led to picture them as being.
Yosef Garfinkel, a highly respected archaeologist in Israel, said that the Tel Dan Stela (pictured above, left) «led to the collapse of the minimalist paradigm in which David was little more than a myth.
The Holocaust, in which some eleven million people, more than half of them Jews, were killed by the Nazis, destroyed many people's faith in God and has led other believers to question traditional pictures of God.
Recently we had a fantastic meal using this recipe, prepared with our high - fat Chaokoh coconut cream rather than coconut milk, and we omitted the peanuts altogether which led to a very rich, slightly spicy satay full of true Thai flavors (see pictures below right).
Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene
A blistering start saw them race into a 3 - 1 lead with less than half hour on the clock as Charlie Brown, Dujon Sterling (pictured celebrating top) and Jacob Maddox all netted early goals.
It's been an incredible run with no fewer than 21 goals scored which has included seven goals from Tommy Wood (pictured) and six from Nashé Chakwana, and it was Chakwana who gave us the lead this afternoon, scoring from the penalty spot with just over ten minutes of the game gone.
The distortion happens when you lean over the subject, it can lead to it looking out of proportion, making the top look bigger than the bottom, or giving the dizzying effect of it sliding out of the picture.
Manjoo's article focuses on how the new feed emphasis is leading certain LOLCats - style word / picture combos to go viral, which may be useful for some advocacy and electoral campaigns to know, but it also suggests that our substantive content is LESS likely to get noticed now than before.
With older adults, mugshot viewing led them to experience a feeling of familiarity when they saw the pictured actor performing a familiar action from one of the videos, even if it was a different action than the one that was suggested when they viewed the actor's mugshot.
The study, «CEO Narcissism and Accounting: A Picture of Profits,» published in The Journal of Management Accounting Research, by Professor of Accounting Mark Young, who holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports Entertainment and Business at Marshall, Professor of Accounting Kelsey Kay Dworkis, Ph.D.» 13, University of Melbourne, and Kari Joseph Olsen, doctoral student of accounting, Marshall, found that companies led by narcissistic CEOs reported higher earnings - per - share and share price than those with non-narcissistic CEOs.
«Taking a picture of an exoplanet is extremely challenging because the star is much brighter than the planet, and the planet is very close to the star,» says Ben Mazin, lead researcher on the team.
Regardless of your aspirations, dividing your ultimate goal into smaller, manageable tasks has been proven to work better than sticking only to the big picture — if anything, the latter seems to lead only to confusion and frustration, especially when you put all of your hopes and motivation into a life - changing complex goal without realizing that it's a long term commitment and small failures are bound to happen.
If you spend weeks chatting with those pictures in your mind, then you risk disappointment when you finally meet and being disappointed may lead you to overlook someone who, while a bit less stunning than your imaginary chat partner, could change your life if you just let them.
Toma also reported that most women's profile pictures are at least a year and a half old, which means the gal that catches your eye may actually look older or be heavier than she is leading you to believe.
More provocative than satisfying, which is as it should be, the picture has a solid art house appeal enhanced by screen - consuming performances by two eminently watchable leads, Weisz and Michael Shannon.
The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.
The sword - and - sandals, «Jesus Picture» star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, sillier than ever — an injoke reminiscent of Steve Buscemi's ever decreasing mortal remains in the Coenography) is missing, and the gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton, both underused), the sailor tap - dancing musical has an alarming case of closeted gayness (and a wonderful cameo from the Highlander frenchman, Christopher Lambert), the Busby Berkeley mermaid picture has a star (Scarlett Johannson, in a glorious Noo Yawk accent) and whose fish tail is getting more ill - fitting by the hour due to a pregnancy scandal about to break, and a Euro - flavoured drawing - room melodrama has been saddled with an aw - shucks singing cowboy leading man (Alden Ehrenreich in a breakout performance) who is far, far out of hisPicture» star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, sillier than ever — an injoke reminiscent of Steve Buscemi's ever decreasing mortal remains in the Coenography) is missing, and the gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton, both underused), the sailor tap - dancing musical has an alarming case of closeted gayness (and a wonderful cameo from the Highlander frenchman, Christopher Lambert), the Busby Berkeley mermaid picture has a star (Scarlett Johannson, in a glorious Noo Yawk accent) and whose fish tail is getting more ill - fitting by the hour due to a pregnancy scandal about to break, and a Euro - flavoured drawing - room melodrama has been saddled with an aw - shucks singing cowboy leading man (Alden Ehrenreich in a breakout performance) who is far, far out of hispicture has a star (Scarlett Johannson, in a glorious Noo Yawk accent) and whose fish tail is getting more ill - fitting by the hour due to a pregnancy scandal about to break, and a Euro - flavoured drawing - room melodrama has been saddled with an aw - shucks singing cowboy leading man (Alden Ehrenreich in a breakout performance) who is far, far out of his depth.
I'm hearing (not altogether surprising) rumblings that Robert Downey Jr.'s role in Joe Wright's «The Soloist» is larger than Jamie Foxx's homeless violinist Nathaniel Ayers and that he'll be pushed as a leading actor contender by the good folks at Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG.
Unfortunately, the script falters — telling a boring story about their battle against the evil Muriel (Famke Janssen)-- and the nauseating graphic violence becomes tired quickly, leading to more disgusting images than are necessary in what should have been an entertaining motion picture.
Between the non-stop action and the lack of a strong male lead, your chance of hooking up after taking someone to this movie is slightly less than the chance that «Ultraviolet» will win the Best Picture Oscar in 2007.
Anything in «Nine» being predicted in the crafts categories, for instance, is likely to be critic - proof, while «Invictus» is simply afforded a modest picture - director - lead - supporting quartet for the moment, slots with players on deck, more than willing to step in.
The problem is that the movie becomes more focused on diagnosis than character, and so what eventually unfolds is a meandering picture that only too late in the game leans toward highlighting any kind of thematic undercurrent while introducing romantic interests for the leads that do little but pad out an already too long running time.
Columbia Pictures awards hopeful Roman J. Israel, Esq. leads a slate of limited release newcomers more crowded than last weekend's.
But it came up empty - handed that night, was largely overlooked by the guilds and, in the end, scored only two Oscar nominations, for picture and lead actress (Streep)-- major categories, to be sure, but far less than what 20th Century Fox must have been hoping for.
Overall, men do better than women across the board in both lead and supporting categories when tied to Best Picture.
Perhaps even more interesting than the entire picture is the fact that the lead performer, Aniello Arena, was discovered from a prison troupe (something like what goes on in Pablo Taviani's 2012 film «Caesar Must Die,» wherein a group of prison theps prepare to stage «Julius Caesar» before a crowd of upscale theater - goers).
Imagining the production in Black & White rather than color, and picturing Vincent Price as one of the leads, probably give this one more credit than it earns.
Here, she chooses to expose herself in a way that is somehow powerful and yet flippant, but sitll leads to the ultimate doom of those who might objectify her in the context of the film, but viewing the picture as a whole, it still seems flimsier than I believe she intended.
All that aside, it would be silly to regard Martin McDonagh's film as anything other than a potent Best Picture threat, if for no other reason than it's one of only a few films — certainly including Shape, and extending to Dunkirk, believe it or not — that can feasibly put together a string of wins that would lead to Best Picture.
Of the nine Best Picture nominees, four of them feature an exclusive female lead, which seems enormous compared to the usual Best Picture breakdown, even if it is less than 50 %.
Bogart proved his mettle as a lead actor in The Maltese Falcon and High Sierra but here he showed he could play the romantic lead, something studio heads were more than skeptical of considering he'd spent nearly a decade as a heavy in gangster pictures.
With with young actresses emerging as bankable leads in sci - fi and action pictures, taking a bit of the pie from their hulking male counterparts, casting the right actress in those lead roles is more crucial than ever.
Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.
It has led to some problems, but when I look at the big picture, it's a hell of a lot better for the public to maintain the public facilities and allow charter operators to use them, rather than sell them off.
First impressions are encouraging, as the BRZ looks more special than pictures had led me to believe.
Today, the Internet is a lot more than just putting up pictures on web site or responding to leads.
Yes, self publishing will lead to the release of more poor - quality books than every before, but anyone who fixates on this fact is missing the bigger, more important picture.
This current financial picture leads many Millennials to prioritize getting out of debt, rather than saving for the future.
Many believe that using cashflow, rather than accounting earnings, delivers a truer picture of a company's business performance, which in turn leads to better investment performance.
How could it not be when pictured up there is the producer of the game, Guido Henkel (look at that picture again and tell me you'd dare produce mediocre work), while the lead designer is none other than my fellow Hokie, Chris Avellone, whom you may know as the guy behind such gems as Fallout 2, Icewind Dale, KOTOR 2 and more.
Made four exhibitions with more than one hundred pictures each one, attended by leading specialists.
The first exhibition contained 257 works (including sculptures and some enamels and miniatures) with a good selection of the leading British artists, including (selecting on their modern rather than contemporary reputations) two Turners, two Stubbs paintings and five enamels, fourteen Benjamin Wests, four Paul Sandby's, two by Thomas Lawrence, one a huge history painting, three Copleys including his Death of Chatham, four James Wards, as well as 24 pictures from the Arabian Nights by Robert Smirke, who was to turn against the Institution.
In contrast the purity and precision often offered by empirical researchers more often than not leads to confusion in the big picture and attention to detail that camoflages what is really important.
Given all the independent lines of evidence pointing to average surface warming over the last few decades (satellite measurements, ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, retreating glaciers, phenological changes, shifts in the ranges of temperature - sensitive species), it is highly implausible that it would lead to more than very minor refinements to the current overall picture.
«In addition to having the backing of Paramount Pictures to market this film, it had the full backing of the media, and leading the cheerleading charge was none other than the Associated Press, and of course they had the elitists, from Hollywood.»
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