Sentences with phrase «blank slates who»

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.

Babies are not blank slates who simply adapt as many believe.

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

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«It's a blank slate,» said Brian Screnar, who was finance director for Obama's 2009 inaugural committee.

But as opposed to Brown, who as a federal backbencher brought a relatively blank slate to his Ontario bid, Kenney needs no introduction to the national scene.

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.

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.

Of course, there are experts who might argue that this notion of trait anxiety is in direct conflict with the assertion of developmental psychologists — that each of us is born with a blank slate, and environmental influences reign supreme.

And people who are worried about racial discrimination or class discrimination or sexism would prefer that the mind be a blank slate, because then it's impossible by definition for, say, men to be significantly different from women.

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.

Alice is just the latest identity for a woman who is addicted to being a «blank slate,» abruptly leaving everything and everyone around her, traveling to a new locale, and becoming someone else.

This is different from children who are more of a blank slate and learn how to apply the information they're receiving.

Drake wasn't a blank slate like old Lara, but genuinely likeable — a funny, loveable mate who charms ladies, tells great stories in the pub and occassionally steals artefacts.

It worked in Resident Evil 7 because we didn't know who Ethen was and is probably why they kept him a blank slate for the most part.

And then you have blank slates such as Edim who provide anecdotal data of recent warm winters in their neighborhood as proof of a coming trend.

Employers have all sorts of preferences / prejudices when it comes to hiring — some prefer young «blank slate» employees, others prefer veteran performers; there are those who hire only MBAs, and those who refuse to hire MBAs; on and on.

Unlike John B. Watson, who believed children were a blank slate to be programmed and designed according to a parent's plan, Jean Piaget suggested that every child already possesses everything they need to become a healthy adult but must use their experiences and social interaction to construct these «blocks» in a useful manner.

Some theorists insist that a newborn is a blank slate and you, as the parent, write their story, while others claim that who a child becomes is a complete result of genetics and there is little, if anything, that a parent can do to change this predisposition.

Myth — Newborn infants are «blank slates» who will feel the same about any caregiver, and have no special feeling for or bond with the gestating mother.