Sentences with phrase «machina becomes»

With its acquisition, Lex Machina becomes part of the ongoing LexisNexis commitment to offer modern, next - generation solutions that help legal professionals work more efficiently, make better - informed decisions and drive success for their clients, practice and business.

Ex Machina became that rare indie to take the Visual Effects Oscar over much bigger studio blockbusters, and it is nice to report that the ingenuity that went into that film hasn't been sacrificed now that he is working on a bigger scale with an Oscar - winning star on board in Natalie Portman.

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Once the market determines that debt levels are too high, then debt levels become too high, and without a deus ex machina the results are predictable.

The state must cease to be a machina machinarum which «strangles the individuality of small associations» and must become instead a communitas communitatum — a union of communities within which the proper autonomous life of each community can unfold.

Such responsibility is not imposed upon us from without, by some alien agent or a deus ex machina; it is the law of our being or, in much better language, the law for our becoming.

In the twelfth century John of Sacrobosco, flirting with Deism, referred to the universe as machina mundi, the «world - machine,» and this phrase became a commonplace in the writings of Abelard, Hugh of St. Victor, Robert Grosseteste, and others.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

Without a sense of the snake's movements or whereabouts throughout the house, it becomes simply a deus ex machina device to complicate or resolve a situation on demand.

Knowing the provocative work of sci - fi auteur Alex Garland, who directed «Ex Machina» and wrote «Sunshine,» «28 Days Later» and «Never Let Me Go,» the primary question evolves: When will the trek through the forest become an expedition into the mind?

Various sites are reporting and speculating that «Ex Machina» is on it's way to become this year's Summer sleeper hit at the U.S. box office.

And it's hard to imagine a more hospitable moment than right now for a commercially viable movie based on the life of Lili Elbe, a Danish painter in the 1920s who — with the help of a supportive wife (played by Ex Machina and Man From U.N.C.L.E. newcomer Alicia Vikander)-- became the first person in history to undergo a male - to - female sex - change operation.

«Ex Machina is destined to become a cult classic.

These soldiers — a psychologist (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a biologist (Natalie Portman), a paramedic (Gina Rodriguez), a physicist (Tessa Thompson) and an anthropologist (Tuva Novotny)-- enter what is about to become a living, breathing nightmare, an environmental disaster zone without scientific explanation, as filtered through the mind of «Ex Machina» director Alex Garland, adapting the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's «Southern Reach» trilogy.

With Ex Machina having also banked $ 7.7 m abroad for a $ 14.5 m total gross, not to mention general acclaim, it's becoming a notable entry in the indie sci - fi canon.

EX MACHINA [BLU - RAY](2015): «Though it occasionally threatens to feel like a catalog of influences, Ex Machina still manages to become its own film.

Though it occasionally threatens to feel like a catalog of influences, Ex Machina still manages to become its own film.

For me, «Ex Machina» as a whole fell just short of becoming a modern classic of the genre, but it was further evidence Garland (who wrote the much - admired «28 Days» movies) is a major talent.

Vikander, who is having a breakout year thanks to this film as well as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Ex Machina, thus becomes film's sole highlight, an ebullient bundle of energy and charm who continues to captivate even as the light behind her eyes begins to dim later on in the story.

Ready Player One is a movie for kids, or, specifically, one kid: the kid Steven Spielberg once was, who grew up, became one of the greatest directors of all time, and then treated himself to a giant VR playground filled with massive robots, zero - gravity dance clubs and time - travel deus ex machinas that look like Rubick's cubes but are named after Zemeckis.

As an example of what's working, he points to Bleecker Street, which has developed a niche for appealing to older crowds with the likes of «I'll See You in My Dreams,» and A24, which has become a home for edgy fare such as last year's Oscar winner «Moonlight,» «Ex Machina» and current awards darling «Lady Bird.»

His debut, 2015's precise and economical Ex Machina, was an exploration of artificial intelligence that became a surprise hit and Oscar winner.

Eugene accepted, Project Jarvis was born and that eventually became Nex Machina.

Ridiculous words like «shoopuf,» «moonflow,» «farplane,» and «machina» became integral and respected terms of its narrative.

ABOUT «deus ex machina» EXHIBITION In her artist statement, Martha Whittington, says the following about her exhibition: «Recalling the moment when machines became gods and workers became machines, deus ex machina is a precisely constructed environment of obscurely comprehensible machines and devices.

To my knowledge Lex Machina doesn't literally call their system improvements an «easy button», but the site developments and O'Grady's description are symptomatic of this moment in how we discuss legal research: there is a desire to make legal research easier, and as technology improves this is becoming a reality.

The project eventually outgrew the academic idyll of Stanford and span out in 2010 into a separate company; what would then become Lex Machina.

The project grew so large that it spun out of Stanford Law School to become commercial venture Lex Machina.

Use of Lex Machina's Legal Analytics has already become a mainstay in IP law.