Sentences with phrase «ciphers who»

Some of those mentioned in my Dirty Dozen are ciphers who represent their employers» stance (such as Willox, Hooke and Walsh).

More than the simplified conceptions of the artists — Calder, the ingenious extrovert who commanded the Parisian avant - garde and set the simplicity of abstraction in motion; and Smith, the man of iron isolated on a mountain top, a constructor of enigmatic, wildly diverse ciphers who gave three - dimensional form to the Abstract Expressionist generation — the exhibition, enriched by the dialogue between these two modern masters, sheds light on the deeper complexities of their achievements.

They are upper - class ciphers who stock soy milk in the refrigerator, feed their dog expensive Wellness brand kibble and keep a Tivoli radio in the kitchen.

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.

Playing something of a cipher who reinvents himself as the occasion demands, Wood is unusually well cast, but it's Hunnam, with a psychotic twinkle in his eye, who turns the movie on whenever he's onscreen.

And yet there are only two moments that make us really understand and empathize with Lucy as something other than a cipher who represents the un-evolved human.

In any case, there hasn't been a well - developed woman in a Mann film since Joan Allen's poor little blind girl in Manhunter, and true to form, Billie is made the cipher who begs her fella not to pursue the course that will lead to his ruin — although we know it's that aura of insuperable testosterone that's drawn him to her in the first place.

Her Billie Jean King is a cipher who mouths platitudes about «equality» when what she really means is that she's a vacuous narcissist who steamrolls everyone trying to help her in a movie that is in fact as woman - hating as the men it sets up as straw... well, men.

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This moral discipline informs Fredriksen's effort to present her subjects as persons who loved, aspired, and suffered, rather than as mere ciphers moved by abstract historical or cultural forces.

The historically ecumenical churches have for the most part become ciphers in this respect, and uniting them is a matter of joining weakness to weakness, while the evangelicals and Pentecostals who do have political weight are un-ecumenical or anti-ecumenical.

It is the task of humanistic Marxists to explore this human - affirming principle and to use it to judge the activities of Marx's disciples — especially those who call themselves scientific socialists and who manipulate persons as dispensable ciphers.

It centres on Tom Jericho, a brilliant student of Turing, who breaks one of the toughest ciphers, only to break himself after the end of a brief affair with a woman at BP.

Of course the situation is only made worse when a couple introduce you to the only other single friend in the room — an accountant or acne - laden nerd who you get ciphered off with for the rest of the night.

Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the «cipher bureau» of the British government.

But who she is when she's not on the job is a cipher; we only know that Paula shares a pad with Kit, a cute - loopy weirdo who, in the tradition of eccentric romantic - comedy roommates in the person of irresistible comedienne Zooey Deschanel, sashays away with the picture every time director Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon) gives her a chance.

George is played by Aaron Eckhart, who was so dominant in «In the Company of Men,» but here, wearing a twerpy John Ritter beard that he doesn't seem comfortable with, he's a shallow cipher.

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.

One of Heineman's best tricks here is stripping the audience of a cipher, making it difficult to figure out who to root for.

The movie maintains a scientific detachment even as it brings us inside the minds and hearts of its people, starting with Caleb (an audience surrogate with real personality), then embracing Ava, then Nathan (who's as screwed - up as he is intimidating), then finally Kyoko, who is not the cipher she initially seems to be.

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.

But unlike the director's earlier films, Stone no longer starts with characters and shrouds them in issues of cultural significance, but has acquiesced to being a director who conceals his primary interest in issues with thinly - veiled stories and characters that are ciphers for, again, expository revelations or political screeds.

Meanwhile, the victims who are actually in the cross-hairs of some real bombs, guns, grenades, and even plain old physical violence, are ciphers to this story.

There's a dog, an orphan, a drunk preacher (Clancy Brown, the best thing about this whole mess, so of course he dies fairly early on), and an exchange late in the belly of the stupidest alien spaceship since the one in Super 8 where Ella implores Jake — and the rest of us who were supposed to identify with this glowering cipher — to «stop thinking.»

And on a broader scale, Graham's character progression throughout the film is a cipher for confronting twisted, broken authority in many arenas — including, of course, scaring up the bravery to confront power - hungry leaders who want to turn the world against you.

Deprived of the privilege to joystick this little featureless cipher boy around, it's reasonable to expect some kind of compelling characterization in its place, but it's quickly apparent that Abreu intends primarily to use his character, who's technically on a mission to reconnect with an absent father, as a vehicle to shuttle the viewer through a generic exposé on the state of the world.

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.

This is a huge tactical mistake, because Hans is a cipher, a man absent to himself and who should therefore properly be the vehicle through whom we come to understand the alternately entertaining and threatening Chuck.

Days before graduation, two Princeton seniors who have spent years peeling back the labyrinthine layers of a coded, weirdly erotic Renaissance manuscript finally crack the cipher only to find themselves in an equally labyrinthine maelstrom of...

Also, they gave us rubber and the cipher O. Would be great to know more about these people, but no one really knows who, why, when or how they came and then disappeared.

In battle our taciturn cipher becomes a truly unique combatant, who fuels his attacks with the party's own HP.

Of course, the game is also celebrating with some anniversary goodies; players who log in during the game's seven - week course starting on May 20th will be able to pick up an Echad Ring, a Red Crab mount, a special clock, and a Kupofried cipher.

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, a leading art theorist, labeled them «ciphers of regression» — insignificant, backward daubers who would soon disappear.

The show contains work by three contemporary artists who tinker with the forms, meanings and positions of words and ciphers.

Although the decoder project was abandoned, Turing was impressed with Flowers's work, and in February 1943 introduced him to Max Newman who was leading the effort to automate part of the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.

Rather than invent new words, though there are some in leet, leetspeakers (who really write more than speak) pervert the spelling or form of current words, which is why the really good Wikipedia article on it calls leet a cipher.

Just came across this blog and very helpful to those like myself who aren't too good at arithmetic or ciphering....