Sentences with phrase «as a foil for»

It has become fashionable to invoke Xi as a foil for Donald Trump, contrasting his promises that China will «keep its door wide open» and «say no to protectionism» with the U.S. president's defiant vows to close borders, build walls, re-write trade agreements and put «America First.»

Those concerned with Luther thus have little reason for concern with tradition, which — as «scholasticism,» «mysticism,» or «traditional dogma» — serves mostly as a foil for Luther's «discovery.»

Over the years he began to use that system as a foil for his increasing interest in theology.

Herein, the body was seen neither as foil for the soul nor as a problem, but as the condition of human being, learning and salvation.

provided giroud remains plan - b option im glad but make no mistake, lacazette was not brought in as a foil for giroud.

As the OP pointed out, the PM / LK combo has alot of merits, not least in the fact they act as a foil for one another.

I mentioned before that Arsenal should look for somebody to partner Laurent Koscielny, and as a right - sided defender N'Koulou could be considered as a foil for the Frenchman.

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 governor has also used Washington's partisan gridlock as a foil for his own strategy of always cutting a deal with Republicans who control the State Senate rather than investing serious political capital to help Democrats win that chamber.

Cable is introduced more as a foil for Deadpool — a cybernetically - enhanced straight man — and as a temporary antagonist who helps give the movie more focus as it struts towards its final act.

Caldwell functions primarily as a foil for Davis, an exposition dropper and sounding board as needed.

The free - spirited Tully serves as a foil for Marlo, whose life has become a series of drives to school, meetings about her kids, meals, and, now, changing diapers and nursing.

And handy that as a foil for the ex-servicemen-gone-rogue responsible for blowing up Capitol Hill, he offsets anxieties about the essential moral corruptibility of the individual soldier trained to kill for money.

Created by Nick Park 20 years ago as a foil for Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep got his own spin - off TV series and now comes this feature - length movie.

Hennessey unveiled the Exorcist, a tuner special based on the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, last year as a foil for the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon.

Maserati designed the Levante, the first crossover in the company's 100 - plus - year history, as a foil for the likes of the Porsche Cayenne and BMW X5.

In what ways does Caroline Herschel serve as a foil for Siobhan?

Hollywood «creativity» then transformed the welcoming and friendly people of Belize into coldly rude hotel employees serving as foils for the kidnappers who ultimately ruined the honeymoon vacation of the protagonist couple.

On the way to Sonoma, plan to stop at Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, the working ranch of Mexican General Vallejo who founded Sonoma and served as a foil for the Russians in the region.

It demonstrates not only the power of the artist's use of his autobiographical landscape as a foil for considering a collective experience, but also his technical expertise as a sculptor.

His work often uses meticulous representation as foil for examining skill and craft.

The tempera underpainting, in lazily applied, neutral earth tones, acts as a foil for the chromatically saturated oils scraped and scribbled over them.

Forgoing a voguish focus on the medium's networked aspects, «Outside the Lines» will position «painting» and «abstraction» as foils for genre - defying artworks of the recent past.

Vitruvian Figure includes older works with several newly commissioned works, such as a stadium that combines monumental and miniature forms as a foil for the artist's «uncanny observations on the media as a primary influence shaping contemporary consciousness and behavior.»

Organized by Paul Martineau, Associate Curator for the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the exhibition used these photographs as a foil for exploring Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr.'s enduring vision and influence.

Drawing a Blank is a group show of works culled from various periods, modern and contemporary, in which the appearance of expressionless vacancy and equipoise may be seen as a foil for troubled thought.

Schulz and Bandau: In recent pieces at Sweetow, Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz goes deeper into a vein she has worked for some years: the multi-part shaped canvas as a foil for one of abstract painting's potential weaknesses: the merely decorative.

I do like the white backdrop as a foil for the fun colors.

Use warm taupe as a foil for printed fabrics and quirky accessories.

The adjacent living room floors were restained a dark shade as a foil for the room's creamy - colored woodwork.

Maybe it's better as a foil for a more patterned backsplash.

Exposed chimney bricks act as foils for the coolness of the color scheme and the sleekness of the metal furniture.

Quirky cobalt table lamps from Stray Dog Designs and an eccentric teak table serve as foils for the sofa's old - fashioned fringe.

A minimal base (think all - white furniture, floors and walls) acts as a foil for accessories and soft furnishings grouped and displayed with items of the same colour.

Not exact matches

To think about what «Breaking Bad» would have been like without him is almost impossible, as he was such a key point in Gus Fring's criminal organization, as well as a perfect foil for Odenkirk's Goodman to bounce his humor off of.

The Dyson Hot + Cool uses a wing - foil technology to better circulate air and features a neat loop design, which justifies its $ 500 price tag in a market where competitors can sell for as low as $ 25.

It was an opportunity for Mr. Xi to present himself as a foil to President Trump, who has rejected globalization and focused on an «America First policy,» targeting China, in particular, with a series of protectionist moves.

For that reason it has been a classroom staple for me as a political science professor... I'll be using it this semester to show American politics students the sort of thing the founders were trying to avoid, and I often use it with political philosophy students as a foil to Aristotle's defense of the democratic element in a poliFor that reason it has been a classroom staple for me as a political science professor... I'll be using it this semester to show American politics students the sort of thing the founders were trying to avoid, and I often use it with political philosophy students as a foil to Aristotle's defense of the democratic element in a polifor me as a political science professor... I'll be using it this semester to show American politics students the sort of thing the founders were trying to avoid, and I often use it with political philosophy students as a foil to Aristotle's defense of the democratic element in a polity.

The bulk of this scholarly volume treats the distinctive and different ways that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions adapted what the author identifies as the medieval model; the Catholic tradition, with its insistence that marriage constitutes a true sacrament of the new dispensation, thus serves as something of a foil for the book's extended argument.

Nowhere does he set forth the argument of the book, and on natural rights jurisprudence generally, he uses Arkes as a kind of foil for his own reservations — again, without ever delineating Arkes» position.

nihilism: compassion doesn't really exist evolutionary naturalism: compassion is a foil for survival goals religion: compassion serves a transcendent reality (in so far as it reflects that reality) Christianity (in particular): compassion is the most powerful force in history, and reveals God's eternal heart

For if our 1930s nervous systems did not permit us, as they say, to «act out» the liberation of our minds, our children were to become its perfect foils.

This paper will attempt an assessment of Leclerc's radical position, using as a foil the thought of the baroque scholastic, Francis Suarez.5 The latter was picked to fulfill such a function both because he represents the most complete summation of the older Aristotelian theory of substance Leclerc attempts to appropriate and reinterpret, and because he was the most important scholastic figure for the age that Leclerc sees as both the turning point in the history of the philosophy of nature, and as the golden age of such a philosophy, namely, the modern age (PN 194 - 95).

Cover the loaf pans with foil that's been tented so as to leave room for the bread to rise when it bakes.

In addition to inspecting for metal contaminants, X-ray systems provide detection of bone, glass, stone and dense plastics, as well as having the ability to detect metal contaminants within foil trays or metallized packaging.

You can wrap them in pretty paper (or heck, in aluminium foil) to give as a gift to friends and / or family too — they'll LOVE you for it.

There is currently a lack of recycling options for multi-material laminated films, such as snack bags and foil pouches, which are difficult to separate into their various material substrates.

Cover loosely with foil and bake in a bain marie, as before, for 1 hr to 1 hr 15 mins, testing with a skewer, as before.

It also works wonderfully well in baking, where it not only gives a lovely colour, but acts as a good foil for all that sweetness.

I baked them for 20 min, put foil over, then baked an additional 5 min (they were browned just right but I assumed not done, same as first batch).