Sentences with phrase «cipher from»

Watching Homeland sometimes feels like trying to crack the Enigma code: Viewers are left very much in the dark to the overall plot, and Clare Danes's performance as Carrie Mathison remains the single unshifting cipher from which to get one's bearings.

Gray (Jennifer Garner, star of Winick's 13 Going on 30) lives up to her liminal name by being a complete cipher from start to finish as we follow her on the road to recovery after her fiancé dies right before their wedding.

The key to securing the future may be in the rediscovery of a cipher from 100 years ago.

The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies By Craig Bauer

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Unfortunately, this preoccupation with numbers all too often reduced employees to the status of mere ciphers, thereby isolating the company from the creative energies of its work force.

You're just a cipher to be swayed one way or another, with arguments and guilt trips being thrown at you from all sides.

Each one of these new valorizations is possible because from the beginning the symbol of the Cosmic Tree reveals itself as a «cipher» of the world grasped as a living reality, sacred and inexhaustible.

The former wartime Land Girl on Lloyd George's farm, and translator of German naval ciphers for the code - breakers at Bletchley Park, went out in suitable style, however: throwing a farewell lunch party for 50 friends including Sir John Major in the Palace of Westminster — where she regaled guests with a song — before a final, majestic, pearls and fur - clad appearance in the Lords chamber to take the oath one last time, to warm cheers from her peers.

But though he has been in the public eye since he was elected to the State Senate in 1998, the progressive Jewish Democrat from Manhattan's Upper West Side has always been more or less a background player, and something of a cipher.

If any vestige of humanity remains many billions of years from now, and the universe's ciphers remain undecoded, our descendants might have only an all - encompassing abyss to stare into — not just space, but truly, the void.

Jupiter may have seeded early Earth with icy materials, and later shielded us from devastating comet collisions, yet Jupiter itself is largely a cipher.

They are victims not of fate but of an overheated screenplay, and Gino and Bénédicte devolve from characters who determine their own destiny into ciphers who arouse more pity than sympathy.

There is an enjoyable cameo from John Goodman as film company boss Frank King — a baseball bat - wielding but honest hustler in Hollywood for the «money and the pussy» — but these characters are ciphers.

Paranoid and apocalyptic, it distils the troubles of the world to one cipher, one symbolic, hyperbolic entity who by himself represents the rope tied between the beast and the ubermensch given the collective choice to succumb or exceed, draws the only victory possible from avoiding that plummet into the abyss.

Luckily, Chastain makes sure she doesn't devolve into a cipher for American vengeance, and her performance offers surprising depth and nuance, showing true growth and development from the ingénue crying in the corner of a CIA black site torture room to the woman who is comfortable and confident enough to lay her career on the line to make sure the CIA goes along with her plan.

Also taking place in Romania, this time told from the point of view of the father (the teenage daughter, Eliza, excellently played by Maria Dragus — first seen as a teen in Michael Haneke's Das weiße Band / The White Ribbon, 2009 — remains a cipher) is Cristian Mungiu's Baccalauréat (Graduation) that plunges into some troubled waters of ethical ambiguity.

The characters emerge from their bonnets and beards to reveal themselves not as the simple ciphers they may at first seem (the pious Christians, the bourgeois couple) but as full - fledged individuals — thorny, scared, and searching.

Gordon - Levitt makes a meaty cipher out of ostensibly being a sidekick, while Ellen Page breaks free from Juno as the fast - thinking, likeable Ariadne.

Together, they keep everything frugal, ciphering gas from other cars, having just enough cash from gig to gig, and sleeping late after long nights of drinking.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

But other characters are complete ciphers, and Cotrona and Palacki are wan substitutes for any of a number of cast members from the first film, which offers up more punchy fun than this sequel.

He is a cipher of sorts, at times more of a representation of Joy's hopes and fears than his own self, but he is an engaging screen presence who faithfully fulfills his growth toward something quite different from where he started.

Apart from the various code and cipher activities, CryptoKids offers great student resources for those who want to take things to the next level.

Districts that invest heavily in better training and support for their principals, only to treat them as ciphers once they are hired, are a long way from cultivating the brand of leadership described in this report, which holds that authority and responsibility must be broadly exercised in order to create sustainable learning improvements schoolwide.

Better navigation, including skipping to the next puzzle from within a current puzzle, clear all cipher entries for a puzzle in progress, and the ability to remove a single cipher entry is now conveniently located at the beginning of the alphabet list

Taken from Strider 2, Hiryu's cipher features a wide variety of perks which are unlocked and expanded upon as the player progresses, including the ability to reflect various projectiles, and to freeze objects and enemies.

Yet for many Americans, Latinos remain like shadowy ciphers, notably absent from narratives of American art.»

Of the works themselves it leaves only fragments behind, and communicates itself, like a cipher, only through the blank spaces from which it has disengaged itself.

Taking its title from the dark 80s teen cult comedy by the same name, Heathers takes a look at pop culture's (and pop cinema's) co-option of contemporary art and its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

The plastic bag is a cipher — its malignance derives from its perceived worthlessness.

His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on «the residual space of the American / Vietnam War» (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay on the site / non-site dialectic instigated by Robert Smithson's reception of Edgar Allan Poe (with a little help from Yvonne Rainer); a reconsideration of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre as an discourse in ethics (as seen through Étant donnés); and «squatting projects» in various cities (Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), where the squatting body, as a heuristic cipher, is conjugated by an interpretation generated by the conditions of each location.

The ciphers that he has developed over time tend to be geometrical (repeated lines or forms), organic (plants), or drawn from popular culture and sometimes a mixture of all three.

The gloriously named «Law's mercantile cipher code for forwarding business communications by telegraph, telephone or postal card, with secrecy and economy, in use by subscribers and attorneys of the Canadian Reporting and Collecting Association,» (an excerpt from which you see above) was published in Toronto in 1880 and, unlike the Anglo - American code book (held tight by Harvard and Google Books), is available online, thanks to the University of Alberta Library, which digitized it, and the Internet Archive, which hosts it.

A maverick and a visionary in the»60s and»70s, Salvador Minuchin transformed the very idea of what a therapist was supposed to be, from the self - contained cipher sitting mostly silent behind the patient's head into something dazzlingly different — a brash interventionist willing to make people change regardless of what they were feeling or whether they even knew what they were feeling.