Sentences with phrase «as the magician in»

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

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.

Not exact matches

Philip moved from waiting on tables in Jerusalem to serving in Samaria as evangelistic front man for Peter and John, proclaiming the Messiah, performing signs, amazing the people and cutting into Simon the Magician's business.

Commentaries on Virgil and Virgilian legends» in which Virgil appears as a powerful magician» make up the last half of the book, which will be of great interest to scholars and devotees of the poet.

Schakel notes, for example, how, if one has not first read The Magician's Nephew, Asian begins as a mysterious (named but unseen and hardly known) presence in Narnia.

This characterization is further enhanced by the activity of the magician, illegitimate priest as he was, who is commonly recognized to have been in some way ancestor of the modern scientist.

I think the following story pf Jesus sums it up beautifully: As an Athiest, I can say he's a semi-fictional Jewish magician from the year 0... born in March or April, although we celebrate his birth in December, and killed in or around December, although we celebrate his death in March or April.

If the Bible is so vocal about magic then magicians had to be active back then, and since it never describes their feats as being mere tricks, it's assumed that people really did believe in actual magic, right?

Man, however, likes the magician's way better; he is naturally impatient; as a popular song puts it, he wants what he wants when he wants it; and in consequence he fails to carry on to a fine finish.

Einstein also used the word God, but it was more to describe the beauty of universe rather than a magician as said in most religious text.

And elsewhere Kingsley wrote about Darwin's contribution thus: «Now that they have got rid of an interfering God — a master magician as I call it — they have to choose between the absolute empire of accident and a living, immanent, ever - working God» (quoted in Raven, 177).

The diminutive midfield magician has played in a number of roles for Arsenal and I am sure that Arsene Wenger will ask him to do so again at times, but the boss does seem to have settled on the central midfield role as the best one for the Spaniard.

The little magician also scored 12 goals in that debut season and was voted by the Arsenal fans as our Player of the Year, but has since had to contend with the arrival of Mesut Ozil and now Alexis Sanchez, as well as a few injury problems of course, He does play for Arsenal after all.

Combining a few ballots from around SB Nation (SBNation.com, Rocky Top Talk, Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician) and way - too - early rankings by Athlon, CBS, ESPN, Fox, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Yahoo! Sports, plus early national title odds by the Westgate in Las Vegas, gives us a top 25 something like this (and, spoiler alert, the preseason AP Poll in August will look a lot like this as well):

For me the obvious choice to fill in at number 10 is the little Spanish magician Santi Cazorla, just as he did with great effect last weekend.

The Gunners really missed not having the Spanish magician in the side last season and as a result there were times that our gameplay wasn't as good as it needed to be to win the game.

Philipe Coutinho tested his goalkeeping skills out in training today, as tweeted by Liverpool's official account, and the little midfield magician could give the error - prone Simon Mignolet a run for his money.

We don't have time for him to adapt and settle back into his role, we need someone to grasp the position and be magician feeding the forward line as well as get us out of tight spaces in defence.

The other Arsenal player set to start tonight is Santi Cazorla and it looks to me as though the Spain manager Vicente Del Bosque is going to try the little magician in his new deeper midfield role, so that will be interesting.

The Italian magician is currently working his wonders in Serie A, scoring two and assisting four goals in Napoli's first seven games as they top the Italian top flight with a spotless record with seven straight wins.

But Wenger insisted that it was money well spent and was quoted by The Telegraph as saying: «You expect the team to play well and not to put the responsibility on any one player to be a magician that does not exist any more in the modern game.

A great point in the Community Shield victory over Man City was when our little Spaniard magician came to make a block inside our 18 yard box as a City attacker was about to shoot.

thanks for the vids SF the little russians magicians a legend... love him and he shud serve as a reminder to people that AW can produce in the market... all be it a saga... refreshing to hear a loyal player honest and upbeat about next seasons prospects and the respect he has for le boss and teammates.

Guests can warm up indoors with hot cider and enjoy Fireside Magic Shows with magician Robert Olson in character as famous 19th - century master magician Richard Potter (1783 - 1835).

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.»

In one of the core texts that many modern stage magicians read while in training, Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic, the wand is described as an ideal prop for distracting the eyes, for granting an excuse to close the hand and hide something within it, and to provide the illusion of having real magical poweIn one of the core texts that many modern stage magicians read while in training, Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic, the wand is described as an ideal prop for distracting the eyes, for granting an excuse to close the hand and hide something within it, and to provide the illusion of having real magical powein training, Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic, the wand is described as an ideal prop for distracting the eyes, for granting an excuse to close the hand and hide something within it, and to provide the illusion of having real magical power.

But I was fascinated by everything he told me, and as I wrote in that article, we were interrupted at one point by [a] phone call from Ray Smullyan, the logician and magician and musician — although I didn't know about the latter two, I only knew of him as a logician at the time and a very, very influential logician on myself; he had written a book that had a great impact on me.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

So even though there's a lot to connect — well, I have to choose my words carefully, it could be seen as a lot to connect Tycho Brahe to the play Hamlet, but maybe also to The Tempest, because after all, we have this magician — well, not magician, but, you know, Tycho Brahe is a great scientist, and in those days scientists, wizards, magicians, they were all kind of lumped together, you know, in the public eye these were very comparable pursuits.

The computer is able to assist in a creative task by taking over some of the workload during the design of the trick and by acting as an aid to prompt further creativity as it can uncover suggestions the magician may not have considered.

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.

Raimi's first film since 2009's Drag Me to Hell (and first big - budget production since his Spider - Man trilogy) is a $ 200 million, visually dazzling, 3D prequel to the story told in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, chronicling the rise of said wizard from his humble beginnings as a small - time Kansas magician.

Colin Firth stars as Stanley, a magician out to debunk a «fake» psychic who has fooled a rich family in the south of France.

We can have these incredible, slow burning series such as The Americans up against the insidious and darkly timely portrait of toxic patriarchy in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale playing against the ridiculous but poignant romp that is SyFy's The Magicians.

James Hong is good fun as the Chinese magician trying to help our distraught heroine who only wants to have fun dancing in her bedroom despite the intrusions of seemingly demonic forces attached to ninja weaponry.

Also in attendance at the party were Westworld «s James Marsden, Thor: Ragnarok «s Karl Urban, Star Trek: Discovery «s Sonequa Martin - Green, The Gifted «Jamie Chung and Stephen Moyer, The Orville «s Seth MacFarlane and Halston Sage, actor Zachary Levi, Once Upon a Time «s Lana Parrilla, Colin O'Donoghue, and Dania Ramirez, Black Panther «s Chadwick Boseman, Sharknado «s Cassie Scerbo and Tara Reid, Supergirl «s Odette Annable, The Magicians «Olivia Taylor Dudley, Game of Thrones «Iwan Rheon and John Bradley - West, Power Rangers «Dacre Montgomery, American Gods «Ricky Whittle and Orlando Jones, Stranger Things «David Harbour, Spider - Man: Homecoming «s Tony Revolori, Doctor Who «s Peter Capaldi, Gotham «s Cory Michael Smith, Robin Lord Taylor, and Camren Bicondova, Midnight Texas «Arielle Kebbel, Jason Lewis, Sarah Ramos, and Francois Arnaud, The Last Ship «s Bridget Regan, comedian Ana Gasteyer, Planet of the Apes «Andy Serkis, Lucifer «s Tricia Helfer and Aimee Garcia, SNL «s Aidy Bryant, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency «s Hannah Marks, former Hawaii Five - 0 star Grace Park, Prison Break: Resurrection «s Sarah Wayne Callies, as well as David Arquette, and Lydia Hearst and Chris Hardwick.

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.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (PG for violence, mild crude humor and brief profanity) Live - action remake of the Mickey Mouse segment of Fantasia updated as a latter - day tale, set in Manhattan, where a magician (Nicolas Cage) enlists the assistance of a college student (Jay Baruchel) to do battle with his evil archenemy (Alfred Molina).

Olivia Wilde (l.) stars in «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone» with Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi (r., in character as stage magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton).

That was Peter Vincent, which Roddy McDowell played perfectly as an aging horror TV host in the original, and here has been reimagined as a Vegas stage magician played by David Tennant.

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.&raquAs usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.&raquas a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

The 2013 thriller Now You See Me was all about a team of varyingly intolerable street magicians who discovered that a mysterious figure was grooming them to join a secret society of supposedly «real» magicians — as in actual magic, not illusions.

In that audience is Morgan Freeman, as Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician who makes his living exposing the tricks of other magicians, and soon to involved are Michael Cain, as Arthur Tressler a multimillionaire and team benefactor, Mark Ruffalo as FBI agent Dylan Rhodes and Mélanie Laurent, as Alma Dray, an agent from Interpol sent in to assist the FBIn that audience is Morgan Freeman, as Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician who makes his living exposing the tricks of other magicians, and soon to involved are Michael Cain, as Arthur Tressler a multimillionaire and team benefactor, Mark Ruffalo as FBI agent Dylan Rhodes and Mélanie Laurent, as Alma Dray, an agent from Interpol sent in to assist the FBin to assist the FBI.

The movie is still trapped in expanding where there needn't be expansion, like a cosmic journey with a magician, and softening the message, unless it happens to be the identity of mystical lion Aslan (voice of Liam Neeson), who, like in the book, quite unnecessarily spells it out as though there's any doubt.

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.

Now playing in theaters everywhere is The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, directed by Don Scardino («30 Rock», «2 Broke Girls»), starring Steve Carell & Jim Carrey as dueling magicians in Las Vegas.

He brings the four magicians in for questioning, only to find them as cocky and unrevealing as you'd expect given their profession.

He has been described as «the mightiest magician in the cosmos» and as the most powerful humanoid hero of all in the Marvel comics universe.

Those in attendance, including stealthily - recording pro magician - debunker Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), do not go home disappointed, as they witness a randomly - chosen audience member apparently be teleported to the vault of his French bank and come away with 3.2 million Euro that is then rained down upon the Las Vegas audience.

Of course the bulk of the Nintendo Direct was devoted to discussing Square Enix's MMORPG Dragon Quest X. Among the announcements were the addition of a randomized Magic Labyrinth level as well as Superstar and Magician classes in the game's 1.2 update.