Sentences with phrase «as the wizard of»

They're appropriately called the «Elphaba» booties which I love (as I wizard of Oz and Wicked fan!)

Guillermo del Toro has laid down markers as a wizard of the fantastical with such previous works as Pan's Labyrinth and Crimson Peak (though we'll skate nimbly around Pacific Rim), and now he has brought it all back home with The Shape of Water, as...

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Meanwhile, I know of others who have consistently out - earned me, but in paying too much attention to the latest brilliant fund manager or financial wizard, they have not been as effective with their money.

Much as J. K. Rowling inspired a generation's worth of wizard stories, James's coattails are dragging a slew of similar titles taking the same new route to bestseller.

More than a few people view Secunda, a gruff 59 - year - old trained as a mathematician, as the mad genius behind the terminal, a wizard at connecting the worlds of technology and finance.

«Students include humorous / ridiculous Photoshopped pictures of me in their slides (me in wizard robes, me as a construction worker, me as a chicken farmer).»

In 1981, after five years as a Wendy's manager, Tom Pogemiller opened the first of his four Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre restaurants, a franchise operation founded in 1978 by video - game wizard Nolan Bushnell.

Though described by many as an operational wizard, few believed that Cook possessed Jobs's knack for recognizing consumers» future wants (often before they did) and his ability to act as technology tastemaker, convincing millions that beauty equalled no buttons and acres of pricey brushed aluminium.

At first glance, the spot comes across as yet another nugget of ad magic by the wizards at Wieden + Kennedy.

Definition of a fairy tale: «a story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (as fairies, wizards, and goblins).

As for the first pagans (sumerians), they worshiped the fallen angels that come in form of aliens, gods and goddesses, enchanted beasts, and serpent weilders, and shouldn't be taken lightly, these witches, wizards.

As soon as we all stop believing in invisible men up in the sky that tell us to worship only them, and convert or kill all other non-believers of this one particular sky wizard, then we can finally be freAs soon as we all stop believing in invisible men up in the sky that tell us to worship only them, and convert or kill all other non-believers of this one particular sky wizard, then we can finally be freas we all stop believing in invisible men up in the sky that tell us to worship only them, and convert or kill all other non-believers of this one particular sky wizard, then we can finally be free.

According to The Independent, Redmayne is the Harry Potter author and Beasts screenwriter's choice to play Newt Scamander in a new franchise — based on a fictional Hogwarts textbook — that is described as «neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.»

Many of the central characters of fantasy are country people, like those in Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion tales and other Welsh fantasies, The wizard Ged of Le Gum's Earthsea Trilogy is the son of a bronzesmith on a rustic island and is referred to as «goatherd.»

Acts 13:6 When they had passed through the entire island of Cyprus as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain Jewish wizard or sorcerer, a false prophet named Bar - Jesus.

In doing so, he must also determine or discover where he stands in the timeless conflict between good and evil, particularly in light of his precocious ability as a wizard and his enigmatic role in the culturewide conflict into which he was born.

The point is, we don't know, as I keep trying to tell you, and the fact that we don't know, does not make your big invisible sky wizard with Hebrew flavoring any better of an answer.

his bravery is the source of his undoing, even as the wizard Gandalf is threatened by his compassion, and the elven - queen Galadriel by her beauty.

WBCP partners with best - in - class licensees globally on an award - winning range of toys, fashion, home décor, and publishing inspired by franchises and properties such as DC, J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, Looney Tunes and Hanna - Barbera.

The division's successful global themed entertainment business includes groundbreaking experiences such as The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Warner Bros..

Arsenal take on Sunderland at the Stadium Of Light this Saturday, as Wenger's wizards seek to get back to winning ways after picking up just one point from their last two league games.

Albeit winning the domestic cup competition can not be as significant as winning the Premier League or the Champions League — two most coveted pieces of silverware for any top club — it would have given Wenger's wizards the relief of having finally won a trophy after so long, as well as the belief to continue in the same vein in the future.

We should also acknowledge his unique contribution to the field of protesting unjust yellow cards: first he holds his hand out in front of him, then, while stalking away from the referee and bellowing his disagreement to the unjust universe, he slashes it back over his head, as though he's removing an invisible wizard's hat.

Nevertheless, Messi scored two great goals, particularly the second as he waltzed past the Chelsea defence before finding the back of the net with a clinical finish, and so it comes as no surprise to see the Argentine wizard dominate the headlines and front - pages on Thursday, as seen below.

Most wizards fan think Beal has star potential and this would be a backwards move, but I see it as having more flexibility and getting rid of an injury prone player that may not live up to that max contract.Thank you Ben Dowsett of Basketball Insiders, i.e. an unbiased opinion «Danny Ainge is laughing as he hangs up the phone on that one, unfortunately.

The Welsh wizard clinched his third winners» medal in four years in his hometown of Cardiff on Saturday as Real beat Juventus 4 - 1.

He reiterated that members of the party who are averse to the policy could best be described as enemies of progress, witches, and wizards considering the enormous benefits of such a policy in time past.

Two, beware of getting labelled as a technical wizard.

She has also been rehearsing all night for a production of The Who's Tommy, a rock opera starring a pinball wizard as the classic nerd — socially isolated, extremely talented in a single area.

Although the majority of police officers are not that good at catching liars, her small group of wizards includes unusually savvy cops, as well as lawyers, dispute mediators, and therapists who have taken their natural people instincts far beyond the norm.

Ekman's colleague Maureen O'Sullivan has found that a select few can become nearly 100 percent accurate at catching liars: Of the more than 13,000 people she has tested in the past 10 years, 31 were «wizards,» as she calls them.

Non-sarcastic hugs to those at NASA who will be returning to their jobs as awesome science wizards of the stars.

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.

«Non-sarcastic hugs to those at NASA who will be returning to their jobs as awesome science wizards of the stars,» tweeted Sarcastic Rover, a Twitter persona developed by Canadian screenwriter Jason Filiatrault.

In addition to the usual dating tools that is almost standards with leading online dating sites, tools such as profile wizard, tips for finding the right partner and a powerful search tool that helps you filter potentially non matching profile, we have unique tools that personalises your experience of searching for a date, this includes journal / diary you can keep and share with others, virtual gift you can send when you send messages to a potential dates, astrological compatibility tools to help you checkout of the start signs, ice breaker tool to help you introduce your self to the naughty dating community.

Ian McKellen prominently reprises the most beloved role of his career as the wizard Gandalf.

In the course of the adventure, Harry learns that he is actually a seventh Horcrux, inadvertently made as such when Voldemort cast a spell that killed Harry's parents when the boy wizard was an infant.

Remus Lupin (David Thewlis) and wizard Kingsley Shacklebolt (George Harris), both members of the Order of the Phoenix, as well as the two Weasley twins Fred and George (James and Oliver Phelps) arrived to aid McGonagall and defend one side of the castle.

Elders reading a section of the series to a child or stumbling into one of the films couldn't be blamed for not knowing who Mundungus Fletcher or Regulus Arcturus Black might be, or how, exactly, a Finite Incantatem overthrows a Furnunculus spell, or how so insignificant - looking an item as a cup could possibly be a formidable horcrux (an object into which a wizard deposits a portion of his soul to assure continued life).

Again, though, it is Rupert Grint» s Ron Weasely who supplies the heart as the everyman with whom the audience can identify, the average guy, or rather, wizard, who finds depths of courage and loyalty that are extraordinary.

Radcliffe carries the weight of playing Harry much as Harry carries the weight of saving the good - wizard world, and it ought to age both of them.

The films have all been about Harry growing in stature and skill as a boy wizard, but the finale is about something much more interesting: the willful forfeiture of power.

In the cottage (which functioned as an Order of the Phoenix safe house), Harry spoke to rescued goblin Griphook (Warwick Davis), an ex-employee at Gringotts Wizarding Bank, requesting his assistance to break into the bank because of his knowledge of the underground rail - system.

They include DC Comics» Superman and Wyldstyle's pompous boyfriend, Batman (Will Arnett), as well as wizards from Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, Abraham Lincoln, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and NBA star Shaquille O'Neal (who provides his own voice).

It's monotonous and lacking the exciting moments of the book and film, but you do get to play as Harry and act like a wizard in Hogwarts.

As Lord Voldemort, the evil wizard who could not be named for ages but has been for a while, Mr. Fiennes has been part of the mix since the fourth film («The Goblet of Fire»).

And it's worth a lot, as is the emotional investment of billions of fans worldwide in the boy wizard Harry Potter and the marvelous, sometimes macabre inventions of author J.K. Rowling, brought to such vivid life onscreen by a small army of professional dreamers.

The first film was a tale of investigation and acceptance of destiny, following Harry and the gang as they discovered a crucial weakness within Voldemort while maturing into adulthood as the wizarding doomsday arrived.

A generation of readers and filmgoers has grown up with the bespectacled, wand - waving wizard and saviour of the world from Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, and the appearance of the final film coincides with the birth of a fourth Beckham child, suitably given the middle name «Seven» which could as easily be the number of books in the sacred text as her father's former Man Utd shirt.

She provides Mary a tour of the school, which stands many stories tall, containing devices as ordinary as elevators (Mumblechook points out that electricity is, after all, a form of magic) and as fantastic as bubbles that carry students to their classrooms (In one of the classes, the filmmakers fit in a small homage / jab at a famous, British child wizard, who's tormented by a flying broomstick that he can't control).