Sentences with phrase «without devolving»

Without devolving into the antics of Miley Cyrus, Kimye, and Jeff Koons that week — the belief that this affair had anything to do with art seemed farcical.

Painter and sculptor Thomas Scheibitz is sharp, smart, and funny without devolving into parody or citation.

He is the only artist that can introduce whimsy into a work without devolving into the whimsical.

In the best works, James tests the limits of perception and its tenuous connection to language without devolving into affectation or didacticism, which is rather remarkable in this jargon - riddled age.

If the game is capable of maintaining that tone throughout, without devolving into camp or bloody rampage, Naughty Dog will have achieved something truly impressive for an action game.

But I think that MOP's community is overall mature enough to actually have some discussions about this without it devolving into a fist fight.»

There's a high degree of difficulty in properly presenting 45 Years without it devolving into some mawkish soap about old age and young love and regret and whatnot.

What unfolds is Diablo Cody at her best, a fast - paced tete - a-tete that introduces a slew of characters and conflicts as everyone talks over each other without devolving into an incomprehensible mess.

Woodley matches him beat for beat, turning her shy character into a geeky complement to Sutter (she introduces him to manga; he helps her discover the joys of whiskey) without devolving into the ol' manic - pixie - dream - girl cliché.

The best thing about writer - director A.B. Shawky's feature - length debu... is the way it burrows inside Beshay's life without devolving into a pity party.

The idea of slashing red tape and freeing teams to self - organize is certainly seductive, but in practice, few organizations can operate that way without devolving into chaos.

Not exact matches

Cable news, no matter what channel you're watching, has devolved into putting multiple people onscreen while they see who can talk the loudest and longest without ever recognizing that the person on the other side of the split screen may have a point.

Left to their own devices — without sober oversight — communities tend to devolve and become governed by their lowest common denominators.

He has virtues — humility and obedience — that you have never sought after, can not now contemplate, and will not abide with, even for a minute, without soon devolving into a temper - tantrum.

To achieve autonomy without appearing to violate continuity the institutions have done what their pioneering precursors had done earlier: adopt ambiguous language that has quickly manifested a tendency to devolve.

but this is a scheme to scrapNHS direct with its nurses and give the service to a call centre what would happened in the swine flu outbreak without nhs direct what would happen this weekend without nhs direct the patients willsimply turn up at A&E The Tories talked about changing (ie devolving to ambulance trusts) not scrapping

[483] This proposal was opposed by Gordon Brown, who signed a petition calling for the additional powers to be devolved without any other conditions being attached.

He spoke to Nick Clegg, a Sheffield MP, who promised him «the same devolved powers without having to accept an executive mayor».

It's frankly outrageous that Osborne has opened the door to devolve tax raising powers to Wales without a referendum for the people.

And even if Liverpool and Sheffield will now benefit from devolved powers, we are still in a position where the Leeds City Region, one of the areas most fundamental to the Northern Powerhouse, is without a devolution deal — with local and national politicians bogged down in arguments regarding a pan-Yorkshire deal.

Without this historic link, there would no way of ensuring working people are elected to parliament, local and devolved government, and to the European parliament, from where much of the legislation protecting working people originates.

Do you agree that the Assembly should now have powers to pass laws on all subjects in the devolved areas without needing the agreement of Parliament first?

Without observation to check theory, at what point does the math devolve into game playing?

But, as the example of King Farm shows, new urbanism can devolve into the kind of central planning criticized by the very founders of the urban planning school of thought — and can also result in what is essentially a style without substance.

When my second daughter's birth devolved into an emergency C - section, I confess that I was relieved to be giving birth without pushing at all.

(It's interesting, as I type this and reach for a word other than frump, to realize that the phrase «out of style» is what I hear most often, but obviously it's maddening to talk about being stylish and not being «out of style» without feeling like it's devolving into an «orange orange orange orange orange» kind of situation.)

Without much material or throughline, the movie devolves into a succession of scenes in which the scream queen Vivian runs from one imperilment to the next; the proceedings culminate in abandoned mine tunnel that serves primarily as a means for obscuring the action.

The film didn't do much on release, and it's not hard to see why — starting out as a sweet quirky comedy and devolving into something with a much sourer heart and quite the pessimistic streak (at least as far as humans are concerned) it's a film that is difficult to categorize, and therefore sell, without disappointing the audiences who show up expecting something a bit more straightforward.

But while Caine puts in a strong performance, Louis Allred says the film devolves into a violent killing spree without any balance.

It would be hard to make a worse movie than «American Assassin» without things devolving into outright parody.

When will the advocates of school - based management learn that education bureaucracies will not devolve without a fundamental change in authority that extends beyond creating local school councils or adding a few more prerogatives for principals?

But sex is a threshold experience; authors who devolve into language that is breathy and sweet without mentioning the bodies involved are missing a big part of the picture.

With or without teams, players tend to congregate in one area of the huge map, where things devolve into a move - spamming, kill - stealing mess.

Without Randy around, the conversation quickly devolves into Final Fantasy and Star Trek, but it's mostly because Paul played Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander.

Marshall Lichty: So, I'm going to try to respond to that without letting this devolve into huge critique of the law school education industry as a whole.

On the impact of the Bill on devolution and the National Assembly for Wales, Andrew Langdon QC said: «The Bill will give UK ministers the power to amend adopted legislation that falls within the devolved competence of the National Assembly, without being answerable to the Assembly or requiring that the Assembly pass a legislative consent motion.

This post focuses on the decisions made in relation to the more legally significant claim that this Article 50 notice could not be given without Parliamentary approval, rather than those made in relation to the devolution claims — although in terms of practical political impact, a ruling that the devolved assemblies had to approve the giving of notice would have been far more disruptive to the Government's plans.

However, from the outset, there was an expectation that, as a matter of convention, the UK Parliament «would not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters» without the consent of the affected devolved legislature.

Rather, the Bill proposes to devolve power and responsibility for Indigenous heritage to States and Territories without ensuring that State and Territory - based protective regimes will meet human rights standards.

These are all common issues that couples find themselves wading through yet without some kind of perspective and tools, these issues can sometimes devolve into stalemate or separation.

At this point it seems your debate has devolved into specious arguments of you making further assumptions without knowing the entire situation.