Sentences with phrase «blank slate at»

It's definitely a pretty blank slate at the moment The bones of this house are so great, though.

As for the Traveler's Inn portion of the house... the bathrooms are a lovely retro pink & yellow, we've put a third bathroom addition on the house that is a complete blank slate at this point, we're still finishing our kitchen remodel, I haven't even started on the laundry room or dining room, and the family room is always a mess... goodness.

Your career path might be a blank slate at this point, but you're not.

Not exact matches

In Toronto, Sidewalk Labs is looking at something between a blank slate and New York City: a sizable plot of land to develop that's still part of a city large enough that any successful ideas could ultimately spread.

Pinker, who comes down on the side of Wilson and Co., says, quite rightly, that proponents of the blank slate approach are sometimes prone to implicitly totalitarian plans of social engineering aimed at imposing equality.

This was my first attempt at red velvet anything and I went into it with a blank slate.

Rich's designs are excellent, and we're really looking forward to giving him a blank slate for a full homepage redesign at some point in the future.

When you superimpose on all of these little blank slates the powerful external forces at work to promote poor eating choices — coupled with the fact that processed, unhealthful foods are generally delicious — it's surprising indeed if any child chooses the brown rice over the pizza slice.

«We are going into this with a completely open mind, thinking big, looking at the data, and saying if we could start with a blank slate, what would we do,» Mahoney said.

In his books Pinker argues that the brain at birth is not simply a blank slate to be shaped by culture and experience.

Calling the study a first step in researching the effect of social media interactivity in political campaigns, Brewer said that it may have been easier to influence viewers looking at the «blank slate» of a fictitious candidate rather than at a real candidate with whom they may already be familiar.

Today started a new year and with all this beautiful snow at our lake cabin I couldn't resist a walk on nature's blank slate.

The whole collection started with a blank slate and not going to lie, of course there were dresses that reminded me of her Valentino days but I'm excited to see a woman creative director at Dior and the message she's bringing to the house.

This notion that identity can be both constant and endlessly mutable is at the heart of Complete Unknown, the third feature by Maria Full of Grace director Joshua Marston, in which Rachel Weisz plays a woman who (depending on your point of view) has either never stopped running from herself or made constant blank - slate changes in search of her fundamental truth.

The problem is that Tipton is, by and large, a blank slate — her peculiarly gawky beauty aside, she's a desperately lacking lead presence, at once bland and aloof.

Thor (Hemsworth) is a blank slate who swings his hammer and growls at people.

Right now, the actor is looking at a blank slate.

Alma is deliberately written as a blank slate; we know nothing about her at all, not even where she is from.

The characters have pretty much zero development and are almost blank slates aside from their small profile at the character select screen.

Nathan sets up the parameters of success, and through the blank slate of Caleb, we're actively involved in trying to determine whether a certain look, pause, or intonation on Ava's part is the work of a conscious mind or the reflexive reaction of programming (Vikander's performance is as effective as it is because she only hints at either possibility).

Looking out at their students each day, faculty members at Seattle's John Stanford International School don't see just baby faces and blank slates: They see future citizens of an interconnected world.

Commission member Julie Underwood, a school law professor at UW - Madison and the former dean of the university's School of Education, said she wants the commission's work to build not from a total blank slate, but from the state Constitution's requirement of providing a «uniform system of education.»

While young puppies, for the most part, are blank slates with little or no behavioral or training problems, it seems like at some point or another, some issues just seem to pop out of nowhere.

At this point, though, despite the relatively large size of this graphic novel, he's also something of a blank slate.

The hands of famed game designer Peter Molyneux are all over the design, from the handful of expressions that are the only way for your character to interact with townspeople - which includes farting at them - to the blank - slate lead character that seems to alter the world around him.

You play as Tatsumi or Ami, the blank - slate protagonist whose name and gender can be selected at the start of adventure.

The player enters the shoes of a character that is more than just a blank slate, somewhat at odds with the going trend of VR design philosophy but none the worse for it.

Beyond that, it's hard to go into detail about reviews, because the critics are making their own choices, and at this point I am a blank slate about the relative merits of the four artists.

The famous cases don't get to the Supreme Court by themselves, and judges at any level don't write on a blank slate — they write based on what lawyers write.

A blank slate of a house brings its own challenges, so it was not always an easy feat to get my mind wrapped around the vibe or how to pull it off in this house and on a reasonable budget (and at a pace and scale that we can handle).

It might not be very pretty to look at, but having a more «blank slate» sure helps me to better visualize.

My goal is to transform this blank slate into a charming, unfussy, light filled space for us and our dogs to relax in when we are at the beach.

Last week this bathroom was totally a disorganized, blank boring slate, but look at it now!

Our blank slate of a garden needs a huge white pergola of its own; there's one I want at our local home center.