Sentences with phrase «wave of popularity»

When digital reading first gained new ground in the recent 21st century wave of popularity, one of the demographics that was initially largely overlooked were children's ebooks.

Now, as children await the release of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, some educators and children's literature experts predict a new wave of popularity for the books.

Once scorned by decent society as the associate of rogues and vagabonds, the tough - looking bulldog — considered by many to be the most courageous of all quadrupeds — is enjoying a new wave of popularity and interest, thanks in part to a magnificent specimen called Kippax Fearnought

Riding a swelling wave of popularity from his five years on «Saturday Night Live,» Adam Sandler co-wrote and starred in «Billy Madison» in 1995, a comedy about a 27 - year - old slacker in desperate need of a kick in the pants.

Names go through waves of popularity and these potential names, although not very popular right now, all went through periods in history where they were at the top of the charts.

As the end of his term neared, Lula rode a great wave of popularity for his measured yet progressive approach towards development.

Emma saw a huge wave of popularity after Friends couple, Ross and Rachel, used it for their baby girl in 2002.

«I think it will last a few more years, and then it will slow down,» says Ascencios, pointing to earlier waves of popularity that have since petered out.

They've certainly benefited from the recent wave of popularity for micro breweries around the country, something that no one could have planned.

Spunky Disney heroine Moana made a splash with many expecting moms: The name saw a big wave of popularity, surging 64 percent for baby girls.

Sivananda Yoga comes from the lineage of Swami Sivananda, as brought to the west by his disciple Swami Vishnudevananda in the late 1950s, making this style of practice an important part of yoga's first wave of popularity outside India.

The trendy no - rinse cleansers that hail from France have been riding a serious wave of popularity over the last couple years that shows no signs of slowing down.

«Infinity War,» too, rides the huge current wave of popularity enjoyed by «Black Panther,» and is smartly set partly on Black Panther's home turf of Wakanda.

I think Adrien Brody probably rode the sudden wave of popularity for «The Pianist» to his best actor win.

Ride the fickle waves of popularity like a bucking bronco?

The massive wave of popularity that washed over Nintendo as a response to the original games several years prior had solidified the company's dominance over handheld gaming.

Lionel Hutz, «The Simpsons» (4:1)-- could ride «The Simpsons»» tidal wave of popularity to the championship; lacks the depth of character of some others, possibly due to being a cartoon figure.

First, an important role of blockchain, the system database distributed we have thanks to Bitcoin, and now lives a second wave of popularity as applied to more and more things: Bitland is a startup NGO in Ghana carrying out land registration of real estate in Ghana on block chain in a country with little centralized or state solutions

Some of them are clear — if a popular game like Flappy Bird or Red Ball hits the charts, there will be hundreds or thousands of clones within weeks that attempt to capitalize on the initial wave of popularity.

But I love a challenge, so I took on the dying beast and rode its final wave of popularity during the era when the dreaded Bec Hewitt wedding / Princess Mary / Jennifer Aniston / Oprah combo raised sales to more than 500,000 copies a week again, and the magazine was raking in $ 40million a year in advertising.

Names go through waves of popularity and these potential names, although not very popular right now.

It's now riding the crest of a great wave of popularity that's only been gaining momentum through the last year.

If he wanted to, Shannon could have ridden the wave of his popularity for a long time.

Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of digital agency VaynerMedia, explains how to identify trending hashtags, tie in your content, and ride their wave of popularity.

Seeing the wave of popularity in hard cider, Hood River Juice has worked closely with young entrepreneurs in its area to help them develop unique products.

The Mets are the baseball equivalent of the twentysomething cast of Friends, riding a wave of popularity that soared in the second half of last season.

The poll also found that former President Barack Obama left office on a wave of popularity in New York State.

You'd think this company would be riding a wave of popularity, that its image would thrive on the gratitude of doctors and the thousands of women worldwide whose lives have been saved by the test.

Breakfast jars got a wave of popularity this year not only for their cute look but also for their on - the - go convenience.

... Marketdata states that «Introduction services» are riding a wave of popularity, fueled by the proliferation of dating - related reality TV shows and estimates the dating services market to be a $ 1.08 billion business in the U.S.

It's coming on nearly four years since the original Swedish language version of «The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo» rode the wave of the popularity of the books, becoming a hit in its own right and making a star out of Noomi Rapace in the process.

Like its fellow surfers on the Hunger Game «s wave of popularity, the Divergent series is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia in which society is divided into distinct social strata and everything has a weird name, and features a tough young person who becomes the focal point of a revolution.

Of course, Lee kicked off a wave of popularity that allowed a market for the movie, starring another man known for the genre,» «Kung Fu»'s David Carradine (Death Race 2000, The Outsider).

Extra notable on Switch is Funky Kong riding a wave of popularity and box art memes to steal the show with his own marquee mode.

That makes their tastes somewhat mainstream but also a bit in keeping with the kinds of waves of popularity that sometimes take hold online but fail to move the needle in the industry at all.

These sometimes become viral themselves by riding the wave of popularity a viral hit can bring.

This is why online courses are riding the waves of popularity with students these days.

Find ways to tap into the wave of popularity of indie authors and social media.

«The currency is riding a wave of popularity with investors as oil prices hit 18 - month highs, economic releases top forecasts and expectations grow that the Bank of Canada will hike its key lending rate this summer, well before the U.S. Federal Reserve makes a move.

Tiki rode a wave of popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s marked by the entrance of Hawaii as the 50th state in 1959 and the introduction of tiki bars and restaurants around the continental United States.

Then came a period of games with a Time Management theme, riding a wave of popularity that likely had a lot to do with the success of the Diner Dash series from Playfirst.

Of course, studios also try to capitalize on this wave of popularity.

The Yakuza series continues to ride a wave of popularity with Yakuza 6: The Song of Life.

It's taking a very different approach from similar games that have popped up since Minecraft's wave of popularity.

But one question that keeps cropping up is whether PUBG can be an eSport that's actually enjoyable to watch, or are the tournaments simply riding on the wave of popularity?

Riding on the wave of popularity of Japanese post-modern artworks, Kumi Contemporary is a London - based online art platform conceived in 2008.

In fact, Katz, whose parents were of Russian origin, and who grew up in Queen's, emerged in 1950 from art school where he had produced detailed drawings of classical sculpture and painted from life, into a hysterical New York where the new heroes of abstract expression, Jackson Pollock and Barnet Newman, were throwing everything up in the air and riding a wave of popularity.