Sentences with phrase «almost as a personality»

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Customers also might feel a sense of self when they purchase from a retailer and it's almost as if the company were an extension of their personalities and beliefs.

Facebook users almost certainly had no idea that the information gleaned about them and their friends through a personality - quiz app could be used to try to influence an election, as was said to the case in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

His precise and timely forecasts have come to be in great demand by industry and media worldwide and his impressive career goes back almost three decades, gaining attention with his market calls and energetic personality as writer of The Energy Report.

Theists want to as - sign a personality, intent and expectations to the stuff which then changes it from a something to a someone, and for some reason they think they know who the someone is and that the someone knows who they are which means the tiny speck of carbon we are in relation to the almost limitless amounts of matter in the universe must be the most important specks of carbon in the universe.

My only point is that I would almost rather have a coach that isn't as tested, with a good track record as an assistant or an AHL coach and a affable demeanor; than to go with a retread coach, with a history of an abrasive personality, that seems to wear down his team when it gets to the most difficult point in the process.

Scottishness however seems almost completely unaffected by personality (a very interesting result in itself, but for the time being we can only speculate as to why this is the case).

For Miliband to swagger on stage and talk about foreign policy when he has ignored it for years is almost as desperate and pathetic as the Tory attacks on his personality which it has provoked.

As someone who covered Christie for almost ten years, the latter explanation makes much more sense, knowing his personality.

Her honesty makes her almost transparent as a personality.

Although genes are recognized as influencing behavior and cognition, «genetically identical» does not mean altogether identical; almost no one would deny that identical twins, despite being natural human clones with identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether overlapping personalities.

Think of it as a kind of cross between the Westminster dog show and Sybil: You see another robot dog sashay with style down a virtual runway and almost instantly you can zap that entire personality to your own pet.

Were they to come to the notice of a psychiatrist, John would almost certainly be diagnosed as having dissociative identity disorder, the strange condition more commonly known as multiple personality.

History teaches that society changes its notion of the desirable personality almost as quickly as it changes fashions.

For almost as long as scientists have pondered how nature and nurture shape personality, intelligence, health (or disease) and other traits, they've assumed that each contributes some percentage to the trait.

I do not really like to talk about myself... I would rather answer questions as they come to mind... I can say that I enjoy almost anything outdoors and indoors... My friends (the few that I consider as such) always enjoy my sense of humor and personality... Always looking forward to meet new people...

What they found was the distribution of scores based on personality were almost exactly the same as those based on appearance.

Having a great personality was rated twice as important as intelligence, and a woman's sexual nature was rated almost 3 times as important as her ability to get along with his friends and family, or being a good travel partner.

Unfortunately, here, with only a couple of colorful scenes, Amin's outsize personality almost comes across as comic relief, especially in comparison to the uniformly dour hijackers (make the most of the Daniel Brühl's joke, it's the only one you'll get.)

As with the original, director Shekar Kapur explores that particular side of her personality via the relationships she had and almost had with the men around, personified in «The Golden Age» in the form of Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) an explorer and pirate that tickles her fancy with the freedom she can never have, and manages the difficult feat of being simultaneously loyal and selfish and still likeable all the while.

We're given no clue as to why she's so inept with language, though some explanation might have enabled us to connect this characteristic with other parts of her personality and background; the trait almost appears to be glued on.

As erratic and uneven as most of M. Night Shyalaman's efforts, Split follows three girls (Anya Taylor - Joy's Casey, Haley Lu Richardson's Claire, and Jessica Sula's Marcia) as they're kidnapped by a mentally - unbalanced figure (James McAvoy's Kevin Wendell Crumb) with almost two dozen separate personalitieAs erratic and uneven as most of M. Night Shyalaman's efforts, Split follows three girls (Anya Taylor - Joy's Casey, Haley Lu Richardson's Claire, and Jessica Sula's Marcia) as they're kidnapped by a mentally - unbalanced figure (James McAvoy's Kevin Wendell Crumb) with almost two dozen separate personalitieas most of M. Night Shyalaman's efforts, Split follows three girls (Anya Taylor - Joy's Casey, Haley Lu Richardson's Claire, and Jessica Sula's Marcia) as they're kidnapped by a mentally - unbalanced figure (James McAvoy's Kevin Wendell Crumb) with almost two dozen separate personalitieas they're kidnapped by a mentally - unbalanced figure (James McAvoy's Kevin Wendell Crumb) with almost two dozen separate personalities.

It's almost as if director Lu Yue, who apparently spent several long periods in France between 1987 and 1992, used tenets of Western dramaturgy to delve into aspects of the personalities of his characters that couldn't otherwise be singled out and studied.

The spectacle is threefold, though the elements have a way of overlapping: 1) You're witnessing the anatomy of a disaster as seen from the inside; 2) You're watching a somewhat bizarre personality deal with a cataclysm of his own making; and 3) You're witness to a marriage that is straining almost to the point of collapse.

Played by a dramatically adept cast of character actors, the crewmembers are written by Oren Uziel (22 Jump Street) as almost caricatures of one - note personalities.

Skarsgård explains to USA Today that «it's almost the opposite of the classic tale, where it's about taming the beast... This is about a man who's holding back and slowly as you peel off the layers, he reverts back to a more animalistic state and lets that side of his personality out.»

In recent years, Stanton, who died on Sept. 15 at 91, became almost as well known for his charismatic offscreen personality as for his decades of work in film (usually as an arresting supporting player, occasionally as a sublime leading man).

As it stands, Buck and Rizzo are vaguely interesting personalities, but they're almost never likable, sympathetic or compelling.

It is almost as if most of the characters are half dead, devoid of personality, which I am sure was the intention.

Cruz's character is an offscreen personality from almost the beginning of the film, so her actual presence is going to have to change things, but somehow — even as events become more sensational — they become less interesting.

Though constricting these characters» personalities into differing ideologies can be considered limiting towards their development, it makes for fantastic rapport as each member of this understated cast offer a string of remarkably quotable lines as an almost Hitchcockian level of suspense lingers through this carefully woven mystery.

Given that Split is the creation of Mr M Night Shyamalan, the writer / director / auteur behind deathless chiller The Sixth Sense — and several other almost as scary but not quite so good films (Unbreakable, Signs, Lady In The Water)-- these personalities are not all cuddly and kooky.

The quippy script is handled with aplomb by a very likeable and talented comedy cast, though: Jason Bateman, the «everyman» with personality, Jane Fonda as his sexually cavalier mother and Tina Fey, who almost trips into a New York accent in her quest to play the film's other ballsy matriarch.

You can adjust almost every facet of the i30 N's personality, from Eco, Normal, Sport and N modes to the personalisable N Custom, to make it as benign and polite — or as WRC - car - wild — as you like.

Birdmen sets the engrossing story of the Wrights» war with Curtiss against the thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, and is rich with period detail and larger - than - life personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or «Cap» t Tom» as he styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a celebrity flyer; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent - film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

The scenes played out between the lovers were absolutely fresh and almost unnerving; when the alpha male personality comes out of Bennett Ryan as he orders Chloe around in the heat of passion, she replies with an angry growl of her own and tells him what he can do with himself in very explicit detail.

Zoey has a personality almost as big as her smile and needs to find at least a foster home, if not a forever home.

Their little size tends to make it simple for them to match in to almost any size home, as well as their good - natured personality tends to make it simple for them to adapt to households with a number of animals currently in residence.

The historic popularity of leopards was based primarily on their easy - going personality, as they tolerate handling with a placidity almost unseen amongst lizards.

Though each room is equal in features, such as en - suite bathrooms and climate control, each retains an almost distinct personality shown through a subtle yet sophisticated variety of decor.

Hussein Ali Hatata, a seasoned hospitality professional with almost four decades experience, has been recognised as the Middle East's Leading Personality - For Contribution to Hospitality Excellence by the World Travel Awards.

The rest of the story is told almost entirely by text and quickly becomes a nightmare to follow as various factions are introduced, all of whom can be joined and have stories of their own, are introduced along with the different characters, but keeping track of who is actually who, what they stand for and why the hell they're involved is frustrating as their so devoid of personality that you simply don't care.

While the game might be too cutscene - heavy for some players it uses this to create a cash of fleshed out characters who are almost all fantastically acted and written, and who are often more than meets the eye, revealing new aspects of their personality as you spend time around them.

The overall storyline was decent but I think giving characters» personality can be crucial to immersing the player in the story your game hopes to tell, so it can feel disappointing when the voice acting is almost as tasteless as the lines they're forced to spew out.

It's as if almost every ounce of personality has been stripped out.

Taking conventional weapons and adding creative flair and personality to them is evident right from the start and clearly illustrates that any and almost everything can be used as an asset in dire circumstances.

It's almost as if Treyarch took a page out of Rainbow Six: Siege's book and used it to tweak their weapons and characters; providing them with more identity and personality.

More colors, larger canvases, and less personality were hallmarks of this era, almost as if the developers were trying a little too hard to show off the latest iteration of «next generation graphics» at work.

It's a typical Shin Megami Tensei mainline game, so I didn't expect much out of the characters anyway, since the side characters are almost always given insanely chaotic / lawful personalities as opposed to a well thought out character with some inclination toward them (to reference another SMT game, Devil Survivor's Naoya has a decidedly neutral yet mysterious personality until pretty late in the game).

All of the characters are rendered as silhouettes, creating a really cool aesthetic that works to make each character's design reflect their purpose and almost even build a personality for them.

While it might sound strange to some people, having almost the same access to events as writers and personalities in the gaming industry I looked up to for most of my life, is exciting for someone who's been engrossed in following the industry for this long.