Pistachios are not actually electric green, and neither are kiwis, while cantaloupes are light orange, not bright orange.
Circuit City has been struggling to turn a profit for the past year and a half, and if history is any guide, the future for Circuit City is not bright.
One who tried to do so late last year, a bright reformer called Koichi Kato, proved not bright enough to carry his erstwhile supporters with him, and is now in the political wilderness.
All is not bright for ITAGroup.
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One was not complimentary and said she's kind of a bully, not that bright.
Looking ahead, the outlook for hiring is not as bright as Robert Half International had hoped to report.
He is, you feel, a dedicated teacher prepared to be endlessly patient with a not very bright class.
Before the 1980s the City was home to well-heeled but not especially bright folk who traded on their connections.
Fortunately, some of the players in the scam were not very bright.
"They don't last very long and they're not very bright, " he said.
There is a fine line not a bright line difference between them.
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She fared no better in the classroom, where she would occasionally inform pupils that they were not as bright as their counterparts at Harvard.
Furthermore, prospects for the Chinese banking sector are not especially bright.
Today, the prospect is not altogether bright that the United States, its goodwill and resources depleted by Iraq and other cares, will play the same role.
It's not a bright picture, and it poses uncomfortable questions about the ability of Western liberal democracies to engage with crisis head on and deal with it.
Further, the prospects do not look bright for finding a popular, durable replacement as Iraqi leader among treacherous army officers at home or the fractured opposition in exile.
She gets the sadness of the character but not the flip side of her personality, and she's just not a bright enough spark to keep Gatsby's torch burning for so long.
And it notes that in Kabul, more than 100 publications appeared and several international stations were able to broadcast on FM, although the outlook was not so bright in the rest of Afghanistan.
Bureaucrats and not particularly bright ones at that dictate what can and cannot be said in schoolbooks about Japan's wartime atrocities, a system that gives Asian countries that suffered at Japanese hands a powerful weapon for keeping Japanese diplomacy on the defensive.
These were not bratty bright kids.
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Researchers have uncovered the reason for this difference in how difficulty is interpreted, and it is simply this: More often than not, Bright Girls believe that their abilities are innate and unchangeable, while bright boys believe that they can develop ability through effort and practice.
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But the colours are not as bright as on other types of screens, and the company's research manager Michael Banach acknowledges the technology at the moment is most likely to be used as a back-up screen which kicks in when batteries run low, rather than the main display.
That three-inch screen is big, if not particularly bright, but does the trick for the camera's fairly simple menu system, which also includes a number of filters like Fisheye, Sepia (move over Instagram) and Monochrome -- the processing on each occurs after the photos are snapped.
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Admittedly the 8X and 8S were only available for a few weeks at the end of the quarter, so the real test will be in the Q1 handset sales figures, but with profits lower than expectations, and confirming the downward trend exhibited throughout 2012, the future is not looking bright.
The bright yellow cover of Power Questions is not half as bright as the simple ideas to be found inside.
It's not about speeches for me, it's not about the bright lights and the cameras.
Even if India manages to rebound now it is not looking very bright ahead.
If we don't do that, the club's prospects in the table will not be so bright.
But El Celler de Can Roca is not the only bright light in the post-El Bulli landscape.
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