Sentences with phrase «appears as a foil»

Often she appears as a foil to eve: the redemption of womankind and the standard of female virtue.

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«To that end, as the Attorney General and the legislature appear open to revising their policies, the Governor's office will convene a meeting with representatives from the legislature, the Attorney General and the Comptroller to come up with one uniform email retention and FOIL policy that applies to all State officials and agencies.»

Annette Bening is as infallible as ever and plays the perfect foil to Pacino's roguish guff with understated sophistication and razor - sharp wit, while Christopher Plummer as Danny's corrosive manager, is failed too often by misplaced vulgar dialogue, which is so painfully at odds with his character's intent at times, that when he does express emotional humility, it appears alienating and disingenuous.

«It would seem that Richard Muller has served as a useful foil for the Koch Brothers, allowing them to claim they have funded a real scientist looking into the basic science, while that scientist — Muller — props himself up by using the «Berkeley» imprimatur (U.C. Berkeley has not in any way sanctioned this effort) and appearing to accept the basic science, and goes out on the talk circuit, writing Op - Eds, etc. systematically downplaying the actual state of the science, dismissing key climate - change impacts and denying the degree of risk that climate change actually represents.