Sentences with phrase «blank slates on»

We spent the weekend in the city and were pretty excited to have a blank slate on Friday after work.

Although he apparently possesses the ability to move objects in classic poltergeist style, he's a passive witness for much of the time, a blank slate on which we can project our own experience of loss or those suggested by extensive use of the Kuleshov effect, a technique by which neutral expressions are given meaning through editing.

She's not a blank slate on which he can write his future.

The post modern city is depicted as a blank slate on which business is conducted, ruled by an oppressive uniformity, a nexus of control and surveillance.

Not exact matches

Beginning with the consumer decision journey as a blank slate, pair specific channels to each section depending on which marketing channels your brand invests in.

On that blank slate, would you own more — or less — of this investment?

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

YOU: If I was a blank slate and had never been exposed to Christianity, and my first encounter was on this forum, you would be one of the reasons that I would say — thanks, but no thanks.

If I was a blank slate and had never been exposed to Christianity, and my first encounter was on this forum, you would be one of the reasons that I would say — thanks, but no thanks.

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.

Any credible scientist begins with a blank slate and draws his conclusions based on facts observed.

When the ideas aren't coming to me on blank slate days, sometimes I create my own limitation.

Basically, if he wants something done on this blank slate, he had better do it himself.

Sure, he was a camp body but Locker made the smart and human decision to leave on a blank slate and became someone who he was meant to be.

So, basically, we're letting kids interpret physical differences, like race, all on their own, without any guidance, thinking they're blank slates.

That doesn't mean they are born little blank slates ready to be written on.

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.

The consensus that emerged was that the former congressman is a blank slate, and Gillibrand supporters needed to move quickly to highlight parts of Mr. Ford's record that might prove troublesome for him, like his position on abortion rights.

In contrast to the turnaround project of the past four years, in which he proudly enacted on - time budgets each March, Mr. Cuomo heads into his second term with more of a blank slate.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

When blank slate stem cells are exposed to a soft as opposed to a hard surface on which to grow, they begin to transform themselves into neurons, the large, complex cells of the central nervous system.

If we were all blank slates, we could change what gets written on children's slates and mold them into the kind of people we want.

Starting with a random setting of its weights, the proverbial blank slate, the algorithm figured out which actions would lead the all - important score to increase — when exactly the paddle was most likely to successfully intercept the ball on the bottom to break a brick on its upward trajectory.

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.

This can give you instant sophistication, an easy blank slate to work with, and a relaxed look depending on what items you pair together.

Do you have any advice on how to develop a style for those blessed with blank slate opportunities?

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.

This blank slate approach to the story resulted in what many considered a whitewashed fantasy - styled game on the DS.

It doesn't help that both lead characters are thinly - drawn: Aurora is an idealistic cliché of a journalist; Jim is a handsome blank slate whose reasons for being on the ship are never convincingly explained.

To watch a modern horror movie is often to watch all the most interesting characters get killed while the boring, blank - slate protagonist goes on to save the day.

There's nothing particularly unusual about him, but that's intentional; it allows him to be our viewpoint character — and we do get a pretty good feel for him as the movie goes on, so it's not like he's a blank slate or anything.

While the blank - slate approach is obviously preferable, a good story is worth hearing on its own — even if you already know how it ends.

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).

A class could start with a «flat world» — one with no trees or hills, a blank virtual slate to build on.

It's a largely empty commercial van — almost literally a big box on wheels — but, more importantly, it's a blank slate.

But after putting hundreds of miles on a Civic Hybrid, we think Honda would have done better by starting with a blank slate.

The i3, on the other hand, arose from a blank slate.

The iPhone and iPad focus on creating a blank slate that can be transformed by software.

The market is like a blank slate that provides equal opportunities for any participant, it is your job to spot opportunities (trades) worth betting your hard - earned money on and sitting on the sidelines for those that are lower - quality.

Your credit is a blank slate and there is no better time to learn how to write on it in a way that will enrich your life than when you are young and have parents to help you avoid pitfalls.

I can agree about making characters into blank slates who all eventually turn into the same class / character with a different skin, that was rather annoying in a lot of games, and way too many developers use that to take a shortcut on character creation.

The game's director Keiichiro Toyama said the future of the franchise is still a blank slate, and suggests that if it were to get a sequel, it would have to be something new, and perhaps on new hardware.

She gains more personality during cutscenes and as she interacts more with the supporting cast — they too take some time to grow on you — but she reverts to being a blank slate a little too often.

«Little brushstrokes on a blank slate cause our mind to formulate and collect an explanation.

It makes a fine object on its own, but whether the material will become a blank slate for a neighborhood art project wasn't clear to me.

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.

As I have done previously I wanted to give her a Slaw blank slate to post on a topic she was interested in, the only guidance I provided was to generally keep it law related and what follows is what she wrote.

To get started, you tap an icon on the home screen which asks if you'd like to add a device, remove a device, move, or create a custom remote — the latter of which creates a blank slate to create a mix of buttons from any and all of your programmed devices.

That's what the Google Edition represents: a blank slate for owners to build on.

It's long been rumored that, given the blank slate nature of near bezel-less displays these days, future Android versions would do away with on - screen buttons, shifting to a combination of swipes and gestures to move around the operating system.