Sentences with phrase «at polar opposite»

Hammer landed two of his first major roles at polar opposite ends of the dramatic spectrum: one playing the young Christian evangelical minister Billy Graham in actor - turned - director Robby Benson's chronicle of Graham's early life, Billy: The Early Years (2008), and another playing the son of Satan on the small screen fantasy adventure series Reaper.

Legislative Gazette: Likely Cuomo challengers sound off on prison college plan: Astorino, Hawkins at polar opposite sides of the debate

These two strategies are at polar opposites on fundamental factors and usually attract two different types of investors.

In the film they play siblings at polar opposites, one's a care - free optimist (Rudd) and the other is a controlling mess (Deschanel).

If anything, Zuckerberg's retort shows that Silicon Valley isn't just at polar opposites over privacy, it is polarised over charging models.

The two concepts are at polar opposites to one another.

Not exact matches

What it is: «At Wired for Wonder, we explore polar opposites.

If you want to know what the complete polar opposite of «Jesus» teachings and philosophy» is... look at our home - grown fundamental - case «Christians.»

Nothing is so unique in apocalypticism as is its enactment of a new totality, an absolute novum that is the polar opposite of a primordial totality, but a novum in full apocalypticism that is already dawning or near at hand, just as it is in Jesus» initial eschatological proclamation that the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is immediately at hand (Mark 1:15).

Because in the end, the schools sit at opposite ends of Washington with polar opposite surroundings, but the people intermingle everywhere in between.

And yes we do need a change I think, but not a massive upheaval, so I reckon the calls for a manager like Diego Simeone, who is almost the polar opposite to the prof in the way he works, is not the way to go at all.

Any positives will be passed off as some form of luck, and in this you have become the polar opposite of what you claim is wrong with pro Wenger bloggers.Your opinion seems to be that they feel he can do no wrong, but if you step back and look at yourself you yourself come across as a blogger for whom the club and manager can do no right, so in reality you are the same but at the opposite end.

«Giving to candidates that are polar opposites just shows that there are interests in this country that think they can buy the electoral system,» she said at a press conference Wednesday.

Birthday parties, busy work trips, cocktail hours and shifts starting at three o'clock are not the polar opposites to staying on track.

Like most Westerners, I tend to think of «awake» and «asleep» as polar opposites, and that you can have one only at the expense of the other.

At first they don't get along very well, being polar opposites in terms of personality.

Pitting awkwardness and self - doubt against physical and economic perfection, their polar - opposite dynamic is at once universal and specifically female in nature, which is also true of the other bridesmaids, a rag - tag bunch of types composed of cheerfully naïve conservative Becca (The Office's Ellie Kemper), disillusioned mother - of - three Rita (Wendi McLendon - Covey), and overweight horndog Megan (Melissa McCarthy).

It is powered by forceful leads from Christian Bale («Out of the Furnace») and Joel Edgerton («The Great Gatsby») and although the two are, or become, polar opposites, their screen presence is palpable and it's a pleasure to see them act out their craft on screen alone or together at odds.

The polar opposite of Mike Leigh's grimy, naturalistic overviews of contemporary Britain, Topsy - Turvy's Victorian recreation and light comic touch match the flair of the Gilbert and Sullivan focus even as the director digs into some of the underbelly of both the stage and period society, with various insecurities and much darker, half - spoken bindings at work on the men and, especially, women.

Julia is almost too sweet at times — the polar opposite of her «jerk - off» boyfriend, Glenn Gulia, who seems to be marrying her just for the chance to have a bachelor party.

When these two polar opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same.

Such a balancing act between polar opposites is the stuff of mythology, and critics have noted the mythological — at times even epic — dimensions of the Coen Brothers» ouvre.

At the same time, Pais, a standoffish sort who's the polar opposite of his sister, begins miraculously healing his patients simply by placing his hands on their jaws.

She has managed to choose a remarkable range of roles, and seems right at place in polar opposite movies like Mars Attacks and Beautiful Girls.

Earlier this year three limited series (The Night Of, Big Little Lies, Feud) completely dominated the limited series acting races at the Emmys having polar opposite effects on the two lead acting races at the Golden Globes.

By the same token, I also recall remarking to myself about how quickly the backlash cycle gets at film festivals these days, as evidenced by my enthusiastic reactions to Moonlight and Jackie being met by polar opposite reactions, either online or in person, maybe a day or two after I had seen them.

These two books are polar opposites in terms of readability — Mindset is easy to read, popular psychology, while The Brain at School is a more serious scientific analysis of educational neuroscience and how it may relate to classroom practice.

If supercars sit at the top of the automotive tree, what are their absolute polar opposites?

Commenters may disagree just as reviews at Amazon can be polar opposites, but either way, they matter.

They are, in other words, the polar opposite of the dog now sleeping at my feet, a desperate - to - please golden retriever whose primary need is reassurance that yes, he is still part of the pack.

The complaints were the polar opposite of those levelled by some critics at Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation, who claimed the game was too long at around 15 to 20 hours, and outstayed its welcome.

These two series seem like polar opposites at first glance.

And the artist is at his very best when one painting holds such polar opposites in a tense dynamic together, somehow alert to visual complexity and perfectly poised.

But because we are such polar opposites, the way it would manifest itself would be so different that it was hard for other people and, at times, even for us to see it.

The open - air art experience that is the former is pretty much the polar opposite of what you get at the latter.

While Holt stresses analytic, systematic thinking, Smithson represents the polar opposite, privileging visceral experience and instinct, saying, «I never read books; I just go out and look at the clouds.»

Artists Kevin Wixted and Ro Lohin share life harmoniously as husband and wife but when it comes to art making, the pair are at almost aesthetic polar opposites.

Not wanting to push the LOTR analogies too far but... in these emails one senses that Hansen at once recognizes his polar opposite in McIntyre — indeed the true scientist he was meant to be.

I would hope he would at least consider the concept that true skeptics are the polar opposite mindset of both deniers and the «true believers» in CAGW, and that true skeptics can both provisionally accept AGW and / or CAGW as well as reject either.

When I suggest we have a polar opposite situation here, enviro - activists appearing to be doing all the racketeering to keep their cause alive in the face of withering science - based criticism, this sort of thing is what I'm talking about — Newsweek «s Sharon Begley practically yelling about the need to stop skeptic climate scientists in their tracks, and less than three years later, Dr Schneider telling policy analysts and media experts at a major symposium exactly how such critics can be marginalized.

What has the legal profession's upper ranks abuzz is that for decades partners almost never left Cravath voluntarily — not for other law firms, at least, let alone for a firm like Kirkland, which is in some ways Cravath's polar opposite.

Now when I look at the lists above, I see polar opposites.