Sentences with phrase «as ciphers»

Time stands still, yet the hilltop and lake serve as ciphers for a place of significance to be speculated about in both narrative and psychological terms.

Working with various systems of encoding such as ciphers, codes, and wordplay Cointet created enigmatic graphic systems which read as text yet evade translation.

Human figures appear often in Petersen's early work, but nearly always as ciphers.

The combination of imaginative sadistic cruelty, satire and empathy communicates something about the use of individuals and groups as ciphers through which unwanted fears and anxieties are projected.

Districts that invest heavily in better training and support for their principals, only to treat them as ciphers once they are hired, are a long way from cultivating the brand of leadership described in this report, which holds that authority and responsibility must be broadly exercised in order to create sustainable learning improvements schoolwide.

Overall, Don Jon has its problems — it doesn't explore its issues nearly as elegantly or evenhandedly as I'd like (the women get very little internal lives of their own, instead acting as ciphers for Jon to bounce his porn / mommy issues off), and many elements strike me as overly precious or derivative of other works.

The character comes across as an untouchable, unrealistic superhero rather than a person, and all the other people in his life appear as ciphers.

Once created, each Bitcoin (or 100 million satoshis) exists as a cipher, which is part of the block that gave rise to it.

The volumes on display include evidence of an Elizabethan form of cryptography: this rotating paper volvelle, which was used as a cipher disc.

His Killmonger starts off as a cipher with a memorable haircut, but as the film progresses, Jordan imbues him with additional layers of grief, anguish, and fury.

The supposedly cunning protagonist registers as a cipher, and the directors» tendency to shoot dialogue scenes in close - up blunts any understanding of the social milieu he's trying to conquer.

I do not need character development and thematic profundity, just being there in a sincere way as a cipher for these sentiments, is good enough; there is value in just being.

Denzel Washington's Troy acts almost as a cipher for the entire modern history of African Americans here.

Encryption is a branch of cryptography, and involves making plain text unreadable by using an algorithm, known as cipher.

Homages to the writers and friends at Tate St Ives and Turner Contemporary pay tribute to their affection for the sea as a cipher for the self

Taking its title from the dark 80s teen cult comedy by the same name, Heathers takes a look at pop culture's (and pop cinema's) co-option of contemporary art and its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

Curated by New York's Alex Ross and crossing generations born before and beyond the 80s, the exhibition rides on the inescapable cycle of contemporary art co-option in popular culture via its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

Drawing upon an art historical lineage, Roy recontextualizes Goya's colossus as a cipher for the insatiable search for ultimate knowledge.

Not exact matches

This moral discipline informs Fredriksen's effort to present her subjects as persons who loved, aspired, and suffered, rather than as mere ciphers moved by abstract historical or cultural forces.

Lincoln's education, which may strike us as haphazard, was largely a matter of being drilled in the basics of grammar, spelling, composition, and ciphering, as it was called.

Any social structure that treated human beings as a commodity or as impersonal ciphers was a denial of Jesus» teachings.

Each one of these new valorizations is possible because from the beginning the symbol of the Cosmic Tree reveals itself as a «cipher» of the world grasped as a living reality, sacred and inexhaustible.

In accepting his presence in the world, precisely as man found himself before the «cipher» or «word» of the world, he came to encounter the mystery of the contradictory aspects of a reality or of a «sacrality» that he was led to consider compact and homogeneous.

In those laws, people appear as dispensable ciphers to be manipulated as calculating reason dictates.

It is the task of humanistic Marxists to explore this human - affirming principle and to use it to judge the activities of Marx's disciples — especially those who call themselves scientific socialists and who manipulate persons as dispensable ciphers.

What good was the HRA when New Labour's database state was being built, tourists, photographers and trainspotters were routinely treated as terrorist suspects, and the right to peaceful protest was systematically eroded until it became almost a cipher?

They will build a network allowing users to send each other messages as virtually unbreakable ciphers, with privacy protected by the laws of quantum physics.

Ravi and his colleague Kevin Knight treat translation as a cryptographic problem, as if the foreign text were simply English written in an advanced cipher.

And as Severus Snape, the moral hinge and cipher of the series, Alan Rickman chews....

Playing something of a cipher who reinvents himself as the occasion demands, Wood is unusually well cast, but it's Hunnam, with a psychotic twinkle in his eye, who turns the movie on whenever he's onscreen.

And yet there are only two moments that make us really understand and empathize with Lucy as something other than a cipher who represents the un-evolved human.

As the widowed Ben's sister - in - law and future wife, Joely Richardson plays a cipher.

There is an enjoyable cameo from John Goodman as film company boss Frank King — a baseball bat - wielding but honest hustler in Hollywood for the «money and the pussy» — but these characters are ciphers.

Lara Croft does not emerge as a person with a personality, and the other actors are also ciphers, but the movie wisely confuses us with a plot so impenetrable that we never think about their personalities at all.

Gray (Jennifer Garner, star of Winick's 13 Going on 30) lives up to her liminal name by being a complete cipher from start to finish as we follow her on the road to recovery after her fiancé dies right before their wedding.

The movie maintains a scientific detachment even as it brings us inside the minds and hearts of its people, starting with Caleb (an audience surrogate with real personality), then embracing Ava, then Nathan (who's as screwed - up as he is intimidating), then finally Kyoko, who is not the cipher she initially seems to be.

Also taking place in Romania, this time told from the point of view of the father (the teenage daughter, Eliza, excellently played by Maria Dragus — first seen as a teen in Michael Haneke's Das weiße Band / The White Ribbon, 2009 — remains a cipher) is Cristian Mungiu's Baccalauréat (Graduation) that plunges into some troubled waters of ethical ambiguity.

The characters emerge from their bonnets and beards to reveal themselves not as the simple ciphers they may at first seem (the pious Christians, the bourgeois couple) but as full - fledged individuals — thorny, scared, and searching.

Jill never comes alive as a character as she's written to be a cipher.

Mara tries her best to convey hidden depths in every facial expression, but her Rose eventually becomes an unknowable cipher as the story around her frays out into too many unmanageable and awkward directions.

Gordon - Levitt makes a meaty cipher out of ostensibly being a sidekick, while Ellen Page breaks free from Juno as the fast - thinking, likeable Ariadne.

Only Carey Mulligan struggles, in the role of Daisy, the woman torn between the two men; a cipher on the page, she's not easily rendered as flesh and blood on the screen, even by an actress of Mulligan's skill.

or, «This uncontrollable cipher will be in the wrong lane of the road at a precise moment») as the cornerstones of its various intrigues.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

Considering Corbijn's noted early career as a photographer, one would assume Stock to be an easy cipher, but while Pattinson's given all the right lines to utter about a man pursuing his dreams, it's never quite apparent, instead flatly drawn in interactions with boss Joel Edgerton (in a thankless role).

Watching Homeland sometimes feels like trying to crack the Enigma code: Viewers are left very much in the dark to the overall plot, and Clare Danes's performance as Carrie Mathison remains the single unshifting cipher from which to get one's bearings.

Some have found profundity in the images, but I found them to be empty ciphers masquerading as profundity, making Only God Forgives into the sort of film that covers up its utter lack of substance with extreme style.

Serricchio's Don starts off as a bit of a cipher / goof, though by Episode 5 he gets fleshed out, his own «secret life» revealed.

But there's a major disadvantage here as well, as Xiao Hong herself remains something of a cipher for much too long in her own film, being talked about by others but not being allowed to simply be experienced without any direct filter, so the audience can make up its own mind about her.

Breaking In may do decent business in the US, where the sight of Union in the lead will satisfy those for whom cinema has to serve as a political cipher.