Sentence examples for expensive effects from inspiring English sources

Mr. Haney doesn't need expensive effects or projected backdrops.

There were supposed to be hugely expensive effects to accompany her progress – giraffes falling from the sky, etc – but the money ran out, leaving just her.

PAGE E1 AROUND THE WORLD, PLUCKILY Michael Evan Haney's production of "Around the World in 80 Days" with the Irish Repertory Theater makes up in creativity and zeal what it lacks in expensive effects and backdrops: The elephant who helps the characters bridge a railway gap is made of a few tables and a chest.

— The water flowing out of the Bay Park sewage plant here in Nassau County is a greenish-gray soup of partially treated human waste, a sign of an environmental and public health disaster that officials say will be one of the most enduring and expensive effects of Hurricane Sandy.

His protégé Ray Harryhausen would continue to refine this method, but most later dinosaurs movies until the advent of CGI would eschew such expensive effects for cheaper methods, such as humans in dinosaur suits, modern reptiles enlarged by cinematography, and reptiles with dinosaur decorations.

But here, the computationally expensive effect is working in real-time.

Well, if the prospect of a hefty legal settlement helps persuade you to the anti-abortion cause, then the US False Claims Act, being used to expensive effect against Planned Parenthood providers, might be the law for you.

Why would anyone want to spin this slight, charming relic of the pop culture past into a high-tech, expensive, effect-jammed feature film like "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"?

None of them, however, mentioned Mr. Rove's most expensive effect as far as taxpayers are concerned: he established the precedent of installing people into public positions where, although they used taxpayer facilities and resources, and were paid salaries by the public, they did no actual work for the public, working instead for the benefit of their political party.

But in a season packed with expensive, effects-laden films -- including many costing upward of $150 million to make -- there have been many that have not performed up to expectations.

Here, expensive effects-laden movies with inbuilt audience awareness (through familiarity with source material, like comics, or TV shows) and fertile ground for future sequels are dominating the high end of the market.