Sentences with phrase «worse than the sum of its parts»
It takes into consideration the other categories as well as other factors that may make the game better or worse than the sum of its parts.
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The second part of the sum concerned nonfatal health problems, weighting each on a scale from 0 (perfect health) to 1 (death)-- blindness being worse than deafness, moderate dementia being worse than autism, neck pain being worse than infertility and so on, as rated originally by a panel of experts and now by statistically representative surveys of the general public around the world.
It's not a bad movie, by any sense, but it's a movie where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, which I don't think should equal Best Picture.
And while I've seen far worse than this, given the abundance of talent involved, it disappointingly adds up to less than the expected sum of its parts.
None of the timelines function well on their own — the setting furthest in the future, in which Tom Hanks plays a tribesman in distant - future Hawaii after the fall, is least convincing, but Halle Berry as a journalist snooping around a nuclear reactor in «70s California is nearly as bad — but the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.
Even big organizations staffed with Ph.D. economists and other bright people like the Federal Reserve are less than the sum of the parts, as the bureaucracy enforces groupthink (and the Treasury is even worse).
As Roberta Smith argued, «in a way, Mr. Burgos is combining bad painting and bad sculpture that is more than the sum of its parts.»
«In a way, Mr. Burgos is combining bad painting and bad sculpture to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.»