Sentences with phrase «as a foil against»

They were presented as foils against which the virtue of New Testament heroes stood out in sharp relief.

Tertullian uses Jews and Judaism as a foil against which his conception of who Jesus is and what he says and does is expressed.

Not exact matches

Foiled terror plots against Jyllands - Posten, as well as this year's gun attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which reprinted the Danish cartoons in 2006, have changed the conversation on Islam and immigration in many European newsrooms.

Transfer to a cutting board; rest the meat under foil for five minutes and slice it against the grain as thinly as possible.

The Quinnipiac poll finds that most New Yorkers, though they say they like the idea of the governor serving as national foil against Trump's policies, don't want Cuomo to run for president.

The Quinnipiac poll finds that most New Yorkers - though they say they like the idea of the governor serving as a national foil against Trump's policies - do not want Cuomo to run for president.

Paterson that election season was deployed as a foil for the Democratic governor, who at the time was running against Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

The Quinnipiac poll finds that most New Yorkers, — though they say they like the idea of the governor serving as a national foil against Trump's policies — don't want Cuomo to run for president.

The Republicans used de Blasio as a foil throughout the campaign, warning voters against returning the Democrats and their «radical» New York City agenda to power.

The mayor has also began using Trump as a foil in his re-election campaign, warning the sanitation workers» union which endorsed him Monday that Washington may turn against labor unions.

Scientists are currently testing the bacterium as a potential foil against the master vector — the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes — that infect humans with dengue fever, Zika among other diseases.

If that human is carrying a gun, (or just a bag made of aluminium foil), it shows up clearly as a dark shadow silhouetted against the light.

While Poltergeist easily featured a handful of memorably scary scenes and moments of genuine intrigue, Poltergeist II only stands out for Julian Beck's formidable performance as Reverend Kane, whose harrowing face and imposing demeanor makes him a good foil for the naive but tight - knit family to test themselves against.

She's as charming as ever, and she provides a nice foil against the attractive but cocky Tony Curtis.

Chris O'Dowd's character becomes a very important foil for the movie, the Sunday Times writer, David Walsh, who is the only man who stands against Armstrong, determined to oust him as the cheat he is.

That refreshingly female perspective sets Spy up as a world where not only is the protagonist a full - bodied woman with real depth rather than being a one - dimensional punchline, but it's a rarity to see a film that pits a female hero against a female villain, and Rose Byrne is an excellent foil for McCarthy to battle against.

Though the children probably didn't know the academic purpose, they were even given challenges in engineering and physics — competing to see which team could build the highest tower out of toothpicks and gumdrops, and constructing an aluminum - foil boat to be tested against the other teams» vessels with handfuls of tiny toy bears as passengers.

Despite their geographical separation (and lots of hazy memories), they find new, strange ways to communicate and eventually start making their way back to each other as they become embroiled in a race against time to maintain world peace (and perhaps foil a few bad guys along the way).

Now Foil, an affiliate member of the Central Arizona Board of REALTORS ®, is leading a charge to fight back against this lender pressure, a pressure that he and his colleagues describe as escalating at an alarming pace and threatening to send property values, in a scenario reminiscent of the 1980s, collapsing if the economy sinks.