Sentences with phrase «as fodder»

It's clear he loves death and gore, but he's running out of historical groups to use as fodder for his blood - lust.

The tweets themselves serve as fodder for news pieces and blog posts.

Use these stories as fodder for blog posts, newsletters, and other marketing materials.

Sometimes I use the information as fodder for the next day's class meeting, and other times I use it to group students by their strengths and challenges for instruction.

This bold move claims the Specific Object as fodder for painting.

Use these quotes as fodder for an in - depth conversation with an agent or simply as a reference point for further research.

That will be used as fodder to attack Common Core, teacher evaluations, charter schools, or whatever else you happen not to like that's prominent in today's education policy conversation.

Most act as fodder for the front bench who mop up their ideas, say thanks and wave them goodbye.

One at least has to appreciate that the movie uses its setting as a fact and not as fodder for lazy jokes about outdated technology and contemporary fads (More technical - minded folks, though, will wonder why television broadcasts of the era are shot in scope).

Featured in Frieze Focus, postnet artist Fornieles continues to mine digital culture as fodder for humorous, poignant works that explore identity in the internet age.

The concept of using one's life as fodder for your art is an underlying motif of «Obvious Child,» and it comes back again and again, seen through different angles of the prism.

Poorly acted, barely scripted, and about as embarrassing for the cast that worked on it as it is to the viewers watching, Over the Top merely exists today as fodder for 80s nostalgia and little else.

Relationships are hard enough, but imagine the pressure of having your hook ups, «bumps» on the relationship road and breakups as fodder for the tabloids.

Ultimately, Fox Valley plans to use the results as fodder for in - person roundtables.

The specter of treating human life simply as fodder for research is relevant for the discussion of «therapeutic» cloning for another reason not discussed in either UM document.

I'm trying to figure out a way to keep writing about mothering without using my children as fodder — and until I do, I'll just keep erring on the side of silence and protection.

Dane Cook is catching a lot of heat for using the Aurora shootings as fodder for some his stand - up material last night at LA's Laugh Factory.

A perennial cousin to bread wheat, wheatgrass was introduced to the Western Hemisphere from Asia in the 1930s as fodder for farm animals.

Same Arsenal he wants to join now at 33 just as a fodder (yes, true) for his kids at school in London.

Year after year we've seen Wenger treat these young players as fodder, he plays them in the early rounds of cup games and then discards them out on loan, very few of them ever getting a real chance to advance their career's at Arsenal.

(You may, however, be able to use those moments as fodder for bribery, once your kid is a teenager, not that I plan on personally doing that, or anything.)

The first column went in yesterday, with one sizable piece and a couple of smaller companions to keep it company, along with some numbers as fodder for the magazine layout guy's infographic skillz.

Democrats have used Ryan's budget as fodder, but now they may have the man himself.

«There needs to be more work in this area,» says Colin Baigent, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who sees the observation as fodder for a future trial.

«Given that cattle breeders usually sow grass species as fodder, our results should be used for managing cattle stocks with bird conservation in mind by selecting the fodder species that are most consumed by the most specialized seed - eating birds,» says Marone.

Wheat, barley, rye, spelt, kamut, triticale (a hybrid grain produced by crossing wheat and rye primarily used as a fodder crop)

Sorghum is a genus of numerous species of grasses, one of which is raised for grain and many of which are used as fodder plants either cultivated or as part of pasture.

I get it — it's not you, it's the bloggerverse and its use of seasons as fodder.

But, think of it this way: you can always tuck these deal breakers away as fodder for the amusing stories that will inevitably be told after your current date wonders, «I have to ask you, why on earth did you write please do not respond if you have any interest in ornithology, whatsoever!»

Pirates, knights, characters from Arthurian legends, and allusions to The Wizard of Oz are now deemed fine as far as fodder for the series to dip inspiration from, and it's getting mighty crowded on the screen.

American independent movies about awkward adolescence are never in short supply, but this highly assured first feature by commercials and music video director Mike Mills is the first since «Donnie Darko» to view the latter stages of teenagerdom as fodder for a phantasmagorical odyssey of Lewis Carroll — like distortions.

However this time, the fur flies when Hans and Billy kidnap the beloved pooch of a gangster (Woody Harrelson), and Marty uses the ensuing events as fodder for his screenplay.

Comic books have a long history of using contemporary world affairs as fodder for their plots, but Batman v Superman utilizes them in a dark, uncomfortable way that precludes entertainment.

«Camp Bloodbath» is a by - the - numbers killer in the woods movie, over full with placeholder archetypal characters — the jock, the geek, the slut, the virgin — all but the latter meant as fodder for deranged and deformed Jason Vorhees knockoff, Billy Murphy (Dan B. Norris) and his menacing machete.

Suspenseful and endlessly useful as fodder for grad student essays.

Television shows have oftenserved as fodder for Hollywood producers seeking a storyline and cast ofcharacters on the strength of name recognition.

It also adds a level of complexity and, in some ways, sympathy to him, as it shows that M just uses orphans as fodder.

Simple grunts as fodder, doors to slow his approach, explosives to deliver damage, posters to boost morale, even special units like Janitors... all strategically positioned to work in tandem and overcome the hero.

The only problem is that Rebecca thinks that Steven is gay, an assumption that Steven doesn't correct because he wants to use their relationship as fodder for his latest book.

Using Indian folklore and mysticism as fodder for a routine psycho - killer yarn doesn't exactly add up to a bold new leap for American Indian images on film.

It is also a rebuke to the venality of its protagonist, Stern (Merab Ninidze), a troubled doctor who initially sees Aryan as fodder for a get - rich - quick scheme.

Adam uses his parents» impending divorce as fodder to get laid, but a frigid Emma will have none of it.

And it treats the complicated moves and countermoves of a major election as fodder for a broadly comic grudge match, with scenes that wouldn't have felt out of place in The Campaign, like Jane mooning Pat during a ridiculous bus race or Pat arranging to have a beloved llama run over during the filming of a Castillo spot.

While most scholarship treats films as fodder for validating and perpetuating sacred theoretical frameworks, much like Thomas Kuhn's scientific paradigms, film criticism takes each film primarily as an autonomous art object and derives from the object the analytical tools necessary for discussing it, which may or may not be found in film theory toolkit.

A gag might be attempted at some point after the fact but is lost in the carnage (The remaining finger is a prime example), although the movie's other best scene results in the grotesque death of a character who immediately beforehand announces his role as fodder by way of a dry line reading.