Sentences with phrase «yore rather»

Unlike other heritage designs that ape the original watch, the Superocean wears influences from watches of yore rather than acting as a simple reissue of an old design.

Not exact matches

Rather than climb a single corporate ladder like the company man of yore, you're more likely to spend your career scaling a professional jungle gym, maneuvering between projects, jobs, companies, industries, and locales.

It's a rather lame alibi — bifocal glasses — but I do get a sympathetic response from those who remember my 250 - yard drives of yore.

The embrace of negativity and cynicism — as much a staple of contemporary commercial filmmaking as the standard happy Hollywood ending was of yore, and every bit as much an evasion of reality — is proffered dishonestly, as if it were simply arrived at by looking at the world rather than at the box - office grosses in Variety.

We're now on to the second generation of Civic Type R to feature a heavily turbocharged four - cylinder engine rather than the atmospheric VTEC screamer of yore.

Rather than relying on the usual gameplay found in familiar games of the genre, Generation of Chaos: Pandora's Reflection uses a battle system called the «Attack Chance» where additional damage is delivered when the player pushes the button in time with the on - screen thythm prompts, like the music games of the days of yore.

And it doesn't look much like Killzones of yore — Guerrilla has finally ditched the gloomy black, brown and grey colour palette in favour of something rather more colourful, and lashings of lens - flare.

For a game inspired by excessively difficult platformers of yore, it's rather surprising just how exceedingly easy it is.