Sentences with phrase «acting as ghosts»

The portrait genre in Boltanski's oeuvre involves nameless faces, acting as ghosts of forgotten identities and making it difficult to trace the lives of people portrayed.

I especially can't stand the ones with actual people walking around acting as ghosts, because you never know what they're up to.

Acting as a ghost hunter for - hire is a fun premise, and the story is complemented by its genuinely likeable cast of characters.

Meanwhile, Silas acts as the ghosts»

Not exact matches

A few hundred years ago, gods, ghosts and goblins inhabited the terrifying night and virtually every act of Mother Nature was interpreted as God acting in some way.

I do believe in the divinity the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and that they are one in purpose like a perfect team; always three acting as one.

Isco was then gliding over the ground and intelligently ghosting his way into positions to act as a springboard for the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Fortunately, I later found out from the Urban Dictionary that «ghosting» simply was «the act of suddenly ceasing all communication with someone the subject is dating, but no longer wishes to date... done in hopes that the ghostee will just «get the hint» and leave the subject alone, as opposed to the subject simply telling them he / she is no longer interested.»

The group said that all the communities in Gbaramatu are already ghost towns because of the heavy presence of the military personnel who were already acting in commando style, stressing that the rights and privileges of the people must be respected as anything that will bring a repeat of the events of 2009 when the military invaded Gbaramatu will not augur well for the state and the country.

From live - streaming funerals to online memorial pages and even chat - bots that use people's social media footprints» to act as online ghosts, the digital afterlife industry (DAI) has become big business.

These movies and a few others show that Whoopi was a serious actress when she did «The Color Purple», and «Ghost», and we really lost her when she started playing second hand characters such as nuns («Sister Act» sequels), and playing off the radar «Star Trek» characters not to mention we totally lost her when she went from acting into the daytime talk show circuit of garbage.

Amiri Baraka's presence as a commentator exhorting Bulworth to act as a spirit and not merely as a ghost is telling, though not in the metaphorical sense intended.

The basic gist of the plot: a bunch of American soldiers on a peacekeeping mission in Moldova are being slaughtered by creatures that sure as hell act a whole lot like ghosts: mean, aggressive, seemingly invincible ghosts who can kill a person simply by sweeping through them like a cold breeze.

Familiar elements such as a dark family secret, a ghost and a Ouija board start to seem trite after a while, and the third act is a little ridiculous, but debut writer - director Nicholas McCarthy does a lot with a little and seems fully prepared to handle a big - studio horror project.

In Maps, Benjie thinks he's strangling the ghost of the little girl whom he'd visited in hospital as a publicity stunt — only to find he's throttled the little boy he's been forced to act with.

Holed up in this consumerist dream space, they play dress - up, host a dinner, are visited by ghosts, watch coverage of their attack on display model TVs, and act out fantasy lives — only to have it all come to a halt when Nocturama reveals itself as the bleak, desperate genre movie it's been all along.

The deleted / extended bits are as follows: Andy Samberg (4:12) on Bob Dylan, Aziz Ansari (1:42) on acting and Twitter, alternate Reggie banter (0:39), Medi - Ship complications (1:06), Fabrice Fabrice (4:21) performing a poem on a lost city, Anna Kendrick (1:47) recalling her Tony nomination as a 12 - year - old and eating a cat's liver, Rodney Waber (5:34) dishes more Harrison Ford gossip, dances, and reveals a senior citizen ticket price trick, David Cross (2:49) talks talking animals and white toilets, Senator Dewhurst (3:14) confesses strange sex dreams about his aunt and his plan to drive drunk, Zoe Saldana (2:03) answers questions about movies and acts out a Jerry Maguire reboot, «Garry Marshall» (1:19) explains why he's done with movies, Gillian Jacobs (1:38) discusses the ghost of Christopher Marlowe and the conflict in Nebraska, Chef Emeril Lugosi (0:34) endures a pun about sun - dried tomatoes, Andy Richter (4:59) delivers a kid - friendly version of «The Aristocrats» joke, pulls a gun after not answering a fart question (a task handled by Andy Samberg on the show itself), and responds to the 1990s TV movie The Shining, Tom Perdy (0:44) shows off a couple of additional cartoons.

She spends much of the first half of the film ranting about a former friend who stole both a business idea and former boyfriend from her; Mistress America's delightful third act revolves around an impromptu trip to their Greenwich, Connecticut home, where Brooke is received as an unwelcome, if entertaining, Ghost of Christmas Past whom everyone present can compare themselves favorably to.

sets itself up as a document of the acting process, a vision of Kate's journey to understand and internalize this ghost of Sarasota's past despite the world's best efforts to forget her.

His characters in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Failure to Launch are not him, because, much as McConaughey may otherwise assess his acting abilities, he's still an idealized version of a person we can't relate to.

Thus, much of Kate Plays Christine sets itself up as a document of the acting process, a vision of Kate's journey to understand and internalize this ghost of Sarasota's past despite the world's best efforts to forget her.

Peter Dinklage gives a less than convincing, at times downright lazy, performance as your «Ghost» companion who accompanies you everywhere and basically acts as a narrator.

The other Pokemon is Mimikkyu, this one is a ghost / fairy type that acts as your typical ghost of a creature under a sheet, to many people it brings to mind Ditto as its sheet looks like a crudely drawn Pikachu.

Likewise stealth has been revamped with three new additions: an active cover system which works with a tap of A, the ability to crouch by pulling the left trigger and a ghost which displays your last known position and acts as a lure for guards.

Finding these missions and their objectives can be cumbersome as the markers only pop up when bringing up your Ghost which acts as a menu screen.

Even though this does injure the ghosts in the game, effectively acting as a gun, the lack of any real weaponry to help you makes everything far tenser.

Unfortunately, there's the usual swarm of ghosts hanging about, including quite a few portrait ghost style characters who haven't quite moved on and are still acting as if alive.

These artworks also consider how the human body acts as a vessel for — and mother to — the memories, languages, and ghosts that link past, present, and future.

Catalogues — Publications 2015 «SUPER SUPERSTUDIO», exhibition catalogue, PAC - Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan «Ärger im Paradise», exhibition catalogue of the exhibition, Bundeskunsthalle 2014 «The State of a Ghost While Hosted as a Guest», publication from the Villa Romana Fellows, Villa Romana Editions, published by Argo Books ISBN 978 -3-942700-62-7 «Kushtetuta # 2 About Mums & Dads», edited by Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano, Self - published zines «TRANSLATION ACTS > PERFORMING POLITICS», Concept by Ifrex, Edited by Ifrex and Fotini Kushtetuta, Published by KOSOVO 2.0, Edited by Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano «MAPPING EVERYTHING», Institut für Raumexperimente (Berlin) and Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur (ETH Zurich) Project Conception: Olafur Eliasson and Guther Vogt, Nicola Eiffler 2012 «STUDIO MAGAZINE # 2», an Architecture and Urbanism Publication 2010 «Ottos impossible talks / Lets start to implement little errors Imposible topics / rescued futures,» Otto Rössler with the Institut für Raumexperimente, edited by Julius von Bismarck, Jeremias Holliger, Laura McLardy, Mathias Sohr, Alvaro Urbano, Euan Williams, Graphic design and concept book by bureau - aeiou 2009 «UNPLANNED: Research and Experiments at the Urban Scale», concept book by Superfront Graphic design by: Do not bend Kønst magazine issue n. 4 Erasing Darkness Pidgin - Magazine issue n. 6 (text by Jose Esparza)

By seeking to decode the signs of a repressed history, the artist acts as an explorer of the invisible, an observer of a reality inhabited by ghosts.

Perhaps the answer will come from the ghost of Irwin Cotler, who in one of his last acts as a member of Parliament introduced a private member's bill that would allow judges to consider particular circumstances at sentencing, notwithstanding mandatory minimums.

A fact to make us property - obsessed Brits weep is that most of these beautiful houses are lying empty with the town acting as a beautiful but deserted ghost town.