Sentence examples for rather than hardcore from inspiring English sources

Hits were thin on the ground, with only Army of Me, Bachelorette and the concluding Hyperballad to entice curious onlookers rather than hardcore fans.

In the week and more that I've been using it, for general use (word processing, web browsing, emails, photo editing and so on) rather than hardcore processor-intensive speciality use, it's never seemed anything less than sprightly and impressive.

The band, who were informed by British post-punks such as Wire and the Pop Group rather than hardcore heroes such as Black Sabbath and the Stooges, were initially unpopular.

£750pp including five nights' full-board at three-star hotels; 08451 577422, runningthehighlands.com Tri-Topia runs triathlon training holidays that teach you to "swim efficient, bike hard, and run tough", albeit in a bucolic setting near Poitiers with an emphasis on holiday, rather than hardcore bootcamp.

Appcelerator makes Titanium mobile, an IDE that focuses on web devs rather than hardcore coders.

Miles Jacobson, the director of the game, tells me that most players are football fans first rather than hardcore gamers - the aim is to see "whether the person in the pub after the game who tells you he could have done better, really knows it all".

This takes an arcade treatment rather than a hardcore simulation, and is all the better for it as you run, pass and slam into opponents, while deploying special moves more akin to a beat 'em up along the way (as far as I know, dragon punches and rocket shoes are still banned by the NFL...) iPhone / iPad That's this week's selection, but what do you think?

That could keep it more of a gaming company rather than a hardcore gambling company.

Yahoo! will continue to emphasize familiar or simple games in an effort to appeal to a broad audience rather than just hardcore gamers, Rightmire said.

Rather than targeting hardcore Quantified Selfers or focusing on running, Cody is going after casual fitness enthusiasts by emphasizing sharing rather than tracking and by building an experience that's more reminiscent of Instagram and Vine than RunKeeper and Nike+.

The CEO has to pick the right platform Nintendo Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Sure, Wii is the highest selling console thus far, but it appeals to a "casual" gamer rather than the "hardcore" gamer, who uses the 360 and PS3.