Sentences with phrase «as a blank slate on»

The post modern city is depicted as a blank slate on which business is conducted, ruled by an oppressive uniformity, a nexus of control and surveillance.

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Beginning with the consumer decision journey as a blank slate, pair specific channels to each section depending on which marketing channels your brand invests in.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

When blank slate stem cells are exposed to a soft as opposed to a hard surface on which to grow, they begin to transform themselves into neurons, the large, complex cells of the central nervous system.

There's nothing particularly unusual about him, but that's intentional; it allows him to be our viewpoint character — and we do get a pretty good feel for him as the movie goes on, so it's not like he's a blank slate or anything.

Nathan sets up the parameters of success, and through the blank slate of Caleb, we're actively involved in trying to determine whether a certain look, pause, or intonation on Ava's part is the work of a conscious mind or the reflexive reaction of programming (Vikander's performance is as effective as it is because she only hints at either possibility).

She gains more personality during cutscenes and as she interacts more with the supporting cast — they too take some time to grow on you — but she reverts to being a blank slate a little too often.

As I have done previously I wanted to give her a Slaw blank slate to post on a topic she was interested in, the only guidance I provided was to generally keep it law related and what follows is what she wrote.

The National Association of REALTORS ® today is asking its members to let their senators know that real estate tax provisions are critical to the economy and should remain high on lawmakers» priority list as they take a blank slate approach to tax reform.

But on the other side, does it make more sense to leave it empty and let a buyer see it as a blank slate?

As for the Traveler's Inn portion of the house... the bathrooms are a lovely retro pink & yellow, we've put a third bathroom addition on the house that is a complete blank slate at this point, we're still finishing our kitchen remodel, I haven't even started on the laundry room or dining room, and the family room is always a mess... goodness.

We were lucky when we moved into our current home that we had a completely blank slate to work with so far as furniture was concerned and my non-existent budget meant that I had to buy everything slowly on ebay, a restraint that worked out beautifully in our favour — I found couches, armchairs, tables and a piano that fitted me perfectly and although our house is small, it is bright and airy so we decided against having any curtains to maximise the light... oh I could keep rambling on, but my point is that yes — a house should be organic and personal, not chosen out of the Pottery Barn catalogue.