Sentences with phrase «as a magician»

Any warmth and sympathy in his work, his detractors claim, tends to come solely from his actors, especially Pearce in Memento, Hugh Jackman in The Prestige as a magician who knows he will never be as good as his rival, or Heath Ledger's posthumously Oscar - winning turn as the compellingly damaged Joker in The Dark Knight.

The Prestidigitator, previously known as Magician, is a monster that appears exclusively in Dragon Quest III.

We see Alice in several guises: somewhere in Asia working as a magician's assistant, somewhere in America dressed like a vagabond hippie, driving a car wearing a smart suit in the suburbs, working as a nurse in the ER.

The second is of artist as magician, conjuring life in paint with a vaudevillian sleight of hand.

The titles of works such as Magician (1951) suggest figurative motifs, whereas titles like The Coming of Surprise (1951) hint at metaphysical, nonfigural themes.

The slightly wan sophistication and weary urbanity exuded by Benedict Cumberbatch as the magician in training feel so right that by the time the Doctor has acquired his nattily bohemian goatee and swirling cape, Cumberbatch actually looks and feels stranger than Strange.

We read your books: the Tale of Desperaux, and the journey of Edward Tulane as well as the Magicians Elephant.

The atheist and Christian watch as the magician makes his assistant disappear.

Crossan describes Jesus as a magician bent on subverting the existing social structures.

Stone discovers that as magicians perfect their trade, fewer tricks catch them off guard; however, he finds that even the experts can be deceived.

But thanks to fashion experts that can also double as magicians, we can now create the illusion of making our heights appear taller than it is.

Woody Allen steps in front of the camera as a magician who gets tangled up in a plot to capture a suspected serial killer in Scoop.

Shortly before launching «Seinfeld», «Curb Your Enthusiasm» star / creator Larry David shows up briefly here as the magician's theater manager, his second of three Woody Allen movie roles.

Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist — but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.

It makes sense that he uses the same actors over and over again, just as a magician always starts with the same 52 cards.

He cast Welles as a magician in his 1971 directorial debut, A Safe Place.

James Franco is most believable as the magician of dubious morals.

So could any star in particular moonlight as a magician?

Especially when it involves something as spellbindingly silly as magicians carrying out a bank heist.

Early in the book, Vaclav has a tremendous amount of confidence in himself and in his future as a magician.

Fleming, a filmmaker, started looking into Sam's life after her grandmother died; her research led her on nearly as many travels as the magician himself enjoyed, as she tracked...

As magicians Strange and Norrell — the first in possession of abundant natural, effortless but undirected talent, and the second something of a scholarly pedant — attempt to bring magic back to England, Clarke brings magic back to the world of literary fiction.

Using distraction Much as magicians use sleight of hand to hide their tricks, so dog owners practice the art of distraction to take their dog's mind off of their fear.

Struggle to keep control of your senses as THE MAGICIAN RANDY looses a litany of arcane conjurations!

Packing in his law degree (and a part - time job as a magician) to pursue game design, he was offered 2 jobs; one was for Lucasarts designing a Star Wars game and another for Apogee Software (who later renamed themselves as 3D Realms).

You will spend at least 50 % of the game as the magician due to the game's wealth of puzzles.

In this Android game you play as a magician defending the castle.

space, erasing space, and shifting perception, these artists act as magicians, architects, and archaeologists.

Describing anyone as a magician feels absurd.

René Redzepi uses new technologies, but he also harkens back to a time of «chef as magician.»

The event is free; open to the public and includes fun activities for the kids, such as magicians, balloon artists, music performances and much more.

But the illusion is only as good as its magician.

Another familiar force is known as Magician's Choice, the equivoqué.

One of the more interesting tidbits about Simon was that, while on the lam after jumping bail, he worked as a magician.

«The Artist as Magician and Trickster.»

The men mumbled to themselves as the magician stretched out his arm and watched as Jesus waved His magic wand over the lifeless appendage.

Unlike many creationists, she finds the notion of a world evolving over billions of years theologically exhilarating: «That makes God a lot bigger than thinking of Him as a magician that pulled everything out in one fell swoop.»

Seeing his The Affair of the Necklace didn't rouse me out of my apathy, even though it has Christopher Walken camping it up as the magician - alchemist - charlatan Count Cagliostro, Joely Richardson as Marie Antoinette, and Jonathan Pryce as a corrupt and depraved cardinal.

Though nobody else in town can compete with him as a magician, he finds out what happens when someone tries to horn in on Angelo's racket, and having a hand sliced off serves as quite a warning to folks selling coke in the wrong neighborhood.

Furtive Gestures, Dave McKenzie's solo performance as a magician, which will explore the ways the gestures of black bodies (hands in pockets, shoulders askew, etc.) are said to signal danger or the need for surveillance.