Sentences with phrase «by stick figures»

Not everyone is turned on by stick figures.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, Ora.TV, a fledgling online digital television network funded by America Movil, bought TV production company Stick Figure Productions.

Helped along by strong results in the wireless business, earnings rebounded strongly last year, but figure to be stuck in neutral this year.

Because that's exactly what happened after I descended that platform and walked into a world inhabited not by the straw figures I'd been taught to defeat and convert, but by flesh - and - blood human beings who didn't stick to the atheist / Muslim / feminist / gay / liberal / poor / skeptic / foreigner script, a world less characterized by black and white certainties than by mile after mile and year after year of thick, impenetrable gray.

I remember the end of the little curtained balcony where our class was held, sunlight coming into our room rejoicing through a dusty window, the buzzing of insects in the July fields outside, a flannel board with figures stuck on it, and best of all, the anticipation of a story, followed by Kool - Aid and cookies.

Jesus in Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion and in Faulkner's A Fable is a stick figure, marred only physically in the first (by a leprous rash on his face), distant and ethereal in the second.

Just multiply everything by 4: Figure on 1cup of butter (2 sticks), 16 oz.

We figured that by using something sticky (honey, caramel, magic shell), it would let the toppings stick to the yogurt better.

In an event - full afternoon at the Hawthorns it was Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey who was the stand - out figure for his side as his lightning reactions and composure between the sticks kept his relegation - threatened side in the game and if it wasn't for the Welshman one could have felt West Brom had enough chances to win this tie by one or two goals.

By the way, why are all the aggressive government stick figures black, anyway?

Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 years.

We then used special software that can «join the dots» represented by the markers, to create a stick figure of the athlete.

Brainy New Caledonian crows have figured out how to carry objects too large to move with their beaks by using a stick

Who would insist that India should reduce this figure further, in line with rising population, when the US can claim to be meeting its international obligations by sticking close to its current per capita emissions of more than 5 tonnes?

A lot of things in bodybuilding must be learned by trial and error — you're supposed to stick to some general tried - and - true methods but still try to figure out what works best for your own body and personal goals.

I eat about 80 % primal (i allow a bit of sway for protein supplements and cheeses / creams), but I was wanting to go over my diet and figure out how much I need to supplement given the amount of red meat I eat, if i could eat salmon for half my meals I most certainly would but in my current situation I'm stuck with beef compromising at least 70 % of my total meat intake followed by chicken and what fish I can get in there.

BUT while I've been stuck at home all day I figured out how to place photos side by side on my website!

It is so refreshing to see clothes modeled by someone who actually has a body, not just a stick figure.

I'm standing outside of the upper arts room, which I believe was reserved for the really good high school artists — like my husband — a room that I would have never graced with my stick figure drawings and notebook graffiti made of my name + my boyfriend at the time's last name completed by lots of hearts.

Stick to heels or wedges to help elongate your figure, and finish the look by putting your hair in an up - do which will also help lengthen your look.

Whether in domestic states of undress or in designer threads, they're stick figures articulating and acting out rote issues of monogamy, loyalty and betrayal, all amid a dreamy nighttime atmosphere that's diluted by too - neat cross-cutting between Joanna and Michael that hammers home already obvious parallels.

Based on J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski, the movie sticks to the formula of Strong's other scripts, focusing on major moments in the life of a public figure rather than concentrating on any one period in history.

BEST SONG IN A DOCUMENTARY An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power — «Truth to Power» — Written by Ryan Tedder and T Bone Burnett — Performed by OneRepublic (Paramount / Actual Films, Participant Media) Chasing Coral — «Tell Me How Long» — Written by Dan Romer and Teddy Geiger — Performed by Kristen Bell (Netflix / Exposure Labs) Cries From Syria — «Prayers for This World» — Written by Diane Warren — Performed by Cher with The West Los Angeles Children's Choir (HBO / Afineevsky — Tolmor Production, Cinepost Barrandov, Levy Entertainment Group, Studio Malibu) Dina — «Best I Can» — Written by Michael Cera — Performed by Michael Cera featuring Sharon Van Etten (The Orchard / Cinereach, El Peligro, Killer Films) Served Like a Girl — «Dancing Through the Wreckage» — Written by Linda Perry, Neil Giraldo, and Pat Benatar — Performed by Pat Benatar (Entertainment Studios, Freestyle Digital Media) Step — «Jump» — Written by Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson, and Laura Karpman — Performed by Cynthia Erivo (Fox Searchlight / Impact Partners, Stick Figure Productions)

The rare moment where someone appears to be in the midst of an affecting experience is offset by the figure in the background with a selfie stick.

Spielberg had played down his Jewishness as a child, and judging by his films, the habit stuck: in the Indiana Jones films, for example, all religions get equal time, with Christian and Jewish relics (the Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant, respectively) given equal billing, while Nazis figured as comic villains as recently as 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Life and death decisions are easily made in The Martian; the supporting characters are stick figures except for Vincent Kapoor, a multi-ethnic NASA scientist played with depth by Chiwetel Ejiofor.

A flag designed by Ned serves through its stick - figure symbolism to resolve Klaus's tortured relationship with his «father» (Steve) and «brother» (Ned)-- even as a missive that Steve unearths for Ned serves to reconcile Steve's own ambivalence with his late - life fatherhood.

The film is inhabited by a handful of characters with enough dimension to feel fully human — unlike the stick figures that fi... more

At first his bandmates are stick figures defined by their wacky artistic temperaments.

But perhaps more than a story, 20th Century Women is simply a milieu inhabited by a handful of characters with enough dimension to feel fully human, unlike the stick figures that fill most Hollywood productions.

What's more, it's already been divined by the dullest member of the audience — said dull member the only one who gives enough of a shit to try to figure it out in the first place and stick it out through to the end.

What homosexuality has to do with being victimized by a child molester is something the folks chortling at Dave's long double - take at his boy devouring a wiener on a stick need to figure out for themselves.

Stuck in the middle of nowhere, Moises must figure out a way to survive and make his way make to civilization, while the numbers of his fellow travelers are brutally reduced by their relentless pursuer.

A strict constructivist would have children figure it out by playing with sticks and other so - called manipulatives.

Or does part of the responsibility lie with the people who exploit human beings» limited impulse control and general inability to make sensible choices, whether by saturation advertising aimed at showing how their establishment offers a bunch of drunk people unlimited bread sticks and bottomless cheesecakes for a special low price or lulling them into thinking too large and too thirsty vehicles transform their sedentary fat selves into adventure - loving action figures?

An inspired game of role - playing brings scrappy rival siblings together in this sweet story, expanded by Mathers» crayon stick - figure illustrations.

The stats in the form of a pie - chart throws some surprising figures by stating that a massive 45 percent of users are still stuck on Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread while only a 13.6 percent of the total number of users have upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Which by the way car was suppposidly in my name only but i cant even drive stick shift and if car was in my name only a title and tag would have had to be in my name only too according to DNV but it never was, Go figure

I find figuring out what works for you by trial and error and then sticking with it with the ups and downs works the best.

Protect your financial future by sticking to this figure.

He sticks rigorously to facts & figures — by simply working his way through a daily stack of annual reports, filings, trade journals, railway shipping stats, and a myriad of other obscure corporate & economic data.

Since the latter figure was smaller than the former one, not all of new investment ideas worked out as well as intended for the fund: In some months, the investor would have been better off by sticking to the reference ETF portfolio.

Because of the phenomenon of compounding, you can bet that a 6 figure account is well on its way to 7 figures just by sticking to this path.

(I suspect probably not though: if you're the type that's buoyed by a gradually - reducing figure, you're probably also the type that'll choose and stick with the highest - rate first plan.

Inspired by the humor, whimsy, and storytelling of classic adventure / RPGs Quest for Glory and Paper Mario, West of Loathing is a single player role - playing game set in a slapstick stick figure rendition of the wild frontier.

However, Nico can not enter the art gallery as the investigator's guard has been instructed to not allow anyone in; when you figure out a rather amusing way past the guard, you will find that the investigator is only interested in blood related evidence which you deliberately falsify using tomato source from the underside of a pizza box that was conveniently dropped on the floor by George earlier on, although the tomato source does have a piece of chewing gum stuck in the centre of it that has to be removed with Nico's press card.

The controls and systems were simple to figure out: I could shoot by pulling the right stick in any direction; I could jump and dash in any direction up to three times in mid-air; and I could slow the game down (bullet - time for those that remember a time when the Matrix was the hottest thing ever), which allowed me to shoot and dodge with more finesse.

Plus, there an icon that shows two stick figures being killed by the same sniper bullet, and it's hilarious.

Among the highlights are that there will once again be eight Robot Masters, figuring out the weakness chain should («will») make more sense, hot swapping between special weapons with the right analog stick, the difficulty of designing new Robot Masters, that they were created by Dr. Light, inspirations, no females this time out, and that the guy on the right isn't named «Brick Man.»

In another painting from the «Social Consequences» series, a figure adorned with polygons is poked with wooden sticks or metal spears, as if bodies were at once formed by and put at risk by inhuman elements.