Sentences with phrase «as a cartoon character»

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has a double life - as a cartoon character.

It's tempting to see these creatures as cartoon characters, caricatures of ourselves, done up as clowns or, more seriously, as metaphors for the human condition.

In The Raven, he almost comes across as a cartoon character rather than a real person with real problems — it almost makes a joke of the actual person.

After a brief stint as a co-host on the WB's weekly show «Behind the Screens», Martin (along with the rest of the Reel Deal crew) took to the internet in 2004 where he continued to review movies as the cartoon character «Leon» for Spill.com.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson, 2017) Possible to analytically compare with Jenkin's grand epic, fellow female filmmaker Angela Robinson's narrative tells the story behind Wonder Woman as a cartoon character and becomes a refreshing and bold story of polyamorous love between the visual and narrative creator of Wonder Woman and his two leading ladies (his wife, and his open - minded female student).

Breed Profile: Basset Hound The real dog behind the lovable cartoon character Fred Basset Basset Hounds have grown to become a popular pet, readily recognised by even the youngest members of the family due to their popularity as cartoon characters.

This lawsuit may seem strange, but this isn't the first time Disney has faced legal trouble over inappropriate behavior among employees dressed as cartoon characters.

Not exact matches

Pokémon Go's instant popularity appears to be the result of nostalgia for the classic 20 - year - old cartoon franchise and players» desire to win kudos within the game by capturing as many characters as possible.

Eager Japanese rushed to their phones on Friday to start hunting as Pokemon GO, the hit Nintendo - backed smartphone game, finally launched in Japan, home of the colorful cartoon characters.

The game has enthralled players and boosted investors» view of Nintendo's future, as they bet the group can cash in on a treasure chest of other lucrative cartoon characters, from Donkey Kong to Super Mario.

cartoon character Daffy Duck wails, spit flying and lisp in full effect as he stuffs Bugs Bunny down a rabbit hole in hopes of keeping the pile of treasure all to himself.

Yahoo also said that on April 1 it will stop supporting Yahoo Avatars - the cartoon - like digital characters that consumers create to depict them on Web services such as Yahoo instant messenger and Facebook.

A cherubic British cartoon character has become an unlikely target of China's censors as fans use her porcine likeness in rap videos and «gangster» tattoos.

«Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as «Mr. Magoo,» a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling... Trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with Sessions, who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal.

Few people would think of the British cartoon character Peppa Pig as a subversive icon.

Strauss is obscure, but Trump's cartoonish Machiavellianism is comparable to that of another character who started life as a cartoon.

It uses a cartoon character to appeal to children and is advertised as being «wholesome» and «a great start to the day» despite being high in sugar.

The internet has been very good at painting Brooklyn Nets Owner Mikhail Prokhorov as a bit of a goofball or a cartoon character.

If you go on arsenal media player the players are represented as cartoons or comic characters.

Aside from the aesthetic concerns of making a newborn's room cute and comfy by matching colorful palettes and cartoon character details — safety and comfort still comes as top priority on every parent's checklist.

Dyes The cartoon characters and other images on the outside of many diapers are made with dyes such as Disperse Blue 106, Disperse Blue 124, Disperse Yellow 3, and Disperse Orange 3.

Displayed Sunday along with the Bushes and the British royals were cartoon characters such as The Simpsons and custom drawings of people's pets.

In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected — the kids themselves.

Noting — as I often have on this blog — that cognitive deficits make children especially vulnerable to the persuasive power of advertising, Simon and Linn object to any use of cartoon characters and other standard tactics for marketing to kids, even for objectively healthy foods such as this:

As I hail from India, here one cartoon character «Chhota Bheem» & another one which is famous across the world «wheels on the bus» is extremely famous & kids can easily develop connect with this....

Because most of the action takes place inside your child's head, detailed costumes — such as those specific to particular cartoon characters, for instance — aren't really that helpful.

Since almost all of the cartoons and movie characters have their video games as well, you should choose the one that the child likes.

Although as an adult I enjoy the simple look of the seats, I'm sure it would be more tempting if it had some cartoon character on it.

It's only after they are around other children who have already latched onto this notion that kids don't like vegetables and after they start watching television where cartoons, commercials, and other television shows perpetuate the «kids don't like vegetables» notion (if you watch kid's programming, you'd be surprised at the number of times that either kid characters in shows or television commercials portray vegetables as yucky) that they are exposed to the much - accepted norm that kids don't like vegetables — and so they decide that vegetables are yucky.

It's nice they acknowledge how cartoon characters could be used to encourage healthier eating choices... but as you pointed out, that means little.

Using specially created cartoons, which show two characters («Timmy the Turtle» and «Billy the Bird»), interacting in various ways, the project sets out to measure (using an Implicit Attitude Test (IAT) as well as economic games), how children aged from four to fourteen perceive others» sharing.

Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, chairwoman of the Committee on Public Safety, said that it was troubling that the colorful packaging of the drug looked like candy, had cartoon characters on the cover and came with names such as «Scooby Snax.»

The Beano has sent a cease - and - desist letter to Jacob Rees - Mogg, ordering him to stop masquerading as one of its popular cartoon characters.

Locally, many officials are already arguing that ripping out pedestrian plazas as a prophylactic against scantily clad women and creepy cartoon characters is like throwing out the baby and keeping the bath water, so we don't expect that to go anywhere fast.

«It's been a long time since I watched cartoons with my kids, but I recall Scooby Doo as a pretty good character,» Reid wrote in the note sent to supporters.

Companion robots can't just do their jobs — they should be as charming as our favourite cartoon characters, says special effects roboticist Derek Scherer

That is, before looking at the ovoid cartoon character and then taking a cookie taste - test, the children's health knowledge was activated when they were asked to choose the healthiest option represented in six pairs of pictures and words — such as getting your sleep versus watching TV, soda versus milk and playing inside versus playing outside — which led to lighter cookie consumption.

Children consume more low - nutrition, high - calorie food such as cookies and candy after observing seemingly overweight cartoon characters, according to a first - of - its - kind study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

«I think it is important for parents to know they should think about the way they might be associating food with fun for kids — in the form of exposure to cartoon characters, for instance — as opposed to associating food with nutrition and the family structure.»

The findings — gathered from just over 300 participants in three age groups averaging 8, 12 and 13 years old — have implications for marketers as well as parents navigating a world where children encounter cartoon characters in a variety of media, from books to graphic novels, TV shows, video games, movies and more.

Only cartoons in which the main characters were either human or animal were included in the analysis, as it's not clear if the concept of death among «humanised» objects, such as cars and toys, exists.

After taking account of total run - time and years since release, children's main cartoon characters were 2.5 times as likely to die as their counterparts in films for adults, and almost three times as likely to be murdered.

«Kids» cartoon characters twice as likely to die as counterparts in films for adults: Content on a par with «rampant horrors» of popular films.»

In a bid to assess the amount of violence young children might be exposed to, they analysed the length of time it takes for key characters to die in the 45 top - grossing children's cartoons, released between 1937 (Snow White) and 2013 (Frozen), and rated either as suitable for a general audience (G) or with parental guidance suggested (PG).

Parents of main characters were more than five times as likely to die in children's cartoons as they were in films targeted at adults.

In the week since its release as a free smartphone app, Pokémon Go has sent millions of people worldwide on digital scavenger hunts to hunt down and collect cartoon characters.

The real Tasmanian devil doesn't look much like the familiar snarling and whirling cartoon character known as Taz, but it's every bit as fierce.

«The addition of a lizard, depicted as a cartoon image of a lizard, and Spock — a picture of Leonard Nimoy in character — was to increase the repertoire of possible hand shapes available to our tetraplegic participant, Erik G. Sorto, whose limbs are completely paralyzed.

Separate yourself from this emotion by thinking of the emotion as a silly cartoon character that has no power.

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