Sentences with phrase «ciphers with»

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.

His Killmonger starts off as a cipher with a memorable haircut, but as the film progresses, Jordan imbues him with additional layers of grief, anguish, and fury.

The one - time MacGruber comedian broadens his dramatic range but remains a cipher with little to do except act agape alongside us at his family's redneck behavior.

Not exact matches

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.

Hamlet drives home a similar point in the pipe playing scene with those two irritating ciphers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Despite the assertion that God has favored Christians living in this present moment of history with the key to decode the prophetic ciphers, millennialists are unable to agree on how to read the message.

Neither Mohammed, nor Arabs could understand the modern physics... In the 20th Century, with God's permission Christian / Jewish scientists started to cipher out the quantum physics....

In his reflections upon Valéry's work, Derrida contends that the philosopher gives a formality to philosophical language by forging a connection with natural language that allows mere ciphers to resemble the thing in itself (MP 293).

Unlike with Hillary Clinton (to say nothing of a cipher like John Edwards), it isn't difficult to create a list of Palin's significant policy achievements.

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

However, since the «cipher» constituted by this symbolism carries with it in its structure all the values that have been progressively revealed to man in the course of time, it is necessary in deciphering them to take into account their most general meaning, that is, the one meaning which can articulate all the other, particular meanings and which alone permits us to understand how the latter have formed a structure.

You can also foster creative problem solving with brain teasers and mind games, or try these codes and ciphers.

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.

In communicating with the Government and the other missions and consulates of the sending State, wherever situated, the mission may employ all appropriate means, including diplomatic couriers and messages in code or cipher...

But Sampson was reelected in 2008 with an astounding 95 percent of the vote, and his Republican opponent this year, Rose Laney, is a cipher.)

They will build a network allowing users to send each other messages as virtually unbreakable ciphers, with privacy protected by the laws of quantum physics.

The most famous ofthese cryptosystems is the German Enigma, which used a bespoke typewriter fitted with three rotors to convert messages into cipher text, using a different key every day.

Unlike some, however, he creates characters that linger in the mind, and he never bores his readers with gratuitous technical detail (though the neat cipher on the dedication page shows he's done his cryptologic homework).

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.

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

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.

Bethink that time back you go out with your bunch and cipher seems to apprehension you?

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.

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.

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.

Maybe it's just harder to make this kind of film with a volunteer army: The path Swofford takes to the desert is delivered in a progression of winking flashbacks that collectively amount to that hill of beans, obscuring his character and making a cipher of his suffering.

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.

Lara Croft does not emerge as a person with a personality, and the other actors are also ciphers, but the movie wisely confuses us with a plot so impenetrable that we never think about their personalities at all.

Meanwhile, in a couple of Romeo and Juliet subplots, blank cipher hunk Charlie Baker (Tom Welling) starts up an entirely heatless flirtation with blank cipher babe Anne Murtaugh (Jaime King), and adorable proto - lesbian Sarah Baker (Alyson Stoner) tries on the «femme» when doe - eyed proto - extreme sports star Eliot Murtaugh (Taylor «Sharkboy» Lautner) turns his attentions to her «coolness.»

It's all drowsy, with Therese taking on Highsmith's stock character of emotional cipher and social aspirant against Carol's blue - blood blues.

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.

Over the course of the next decade, the killer taunted police and the media with a series of ciphers and letters of confession, never revealing his identity.

Notionally, it's about an ageing Solid Snake coming to terms with his own mortality — an obvious cipher for what Kojima (falsely) claimed was his last MGS game — and a vainglorious attempt to tie up the series» themes of information control, genetic legacy and the relativity of virtue (plus Jonny Sasaki's irritable bowels).

Considering Corbijn's noted early career as a photographer, one would assume Stock to be an easy cipher, but while Pattinson's given all the right lines to utter about a man pursuing his dreams, it's never quite apparent, instead flatly drawn in interactions with boss Joel Edgerton (in a thankless role).

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.»

Some have found profundity in the images, but I found them to be empty ciphers masquerading as profundity, making Only God Forgives into the sort of film that covers up its utter lack of substance with extreme style.

Jennifer is 17, a black - clad, metal - pierced, acid - tongued, death - obsessed, tattoo - inked, self - mutilating yet poetically inclined cactus of an outsider, at odds with her schoolmates, her self - delusively sunny mother (Carol Kane), her cipher of a stepfather (Michael McKean), and her aging hippie of a father (John Goodman).

The problem is that Glaeken is ultimately supposed to be the hero of the story, and although Glenn's travelling watchman appears throughout the film, his importance remains a mystery until the very end — he's a cipher and his romantic subplot with Eva seems especially tacked on.

As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer.

Banderas is wonderful in the role of the heroic cipher, sadly set adrift in this mess with nothing to do but look good in black and spangle.

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.

Initially talking about caesar ciphers, with a group activity to figure out the enciphered message, it introduces the basics of block ciphers.

Without school ratings, however, parents, educators, and all others are left to cipher through pages and pages of numbers with no guidance about whether their schools» results are up to par.

They would not even disagree with them about the critical role that phonemic awareness or knowledge of the cipher plays in early reading success.

The Q&A ends with detailed examples of the ciphers used by both the North and South during the Civil War.

Messages were ciphered by lining up the letters of each word with the letters of the key phrase.

The completely revised American Edition includes: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know Stickball Slingshots Fossils Building a Treehouse Making a Bow and Arrow Fishing (revised with US Fish) Timers and Tripwires Baseball's «Most Valuable Players» Famous Battles - Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg Spies - Codes and Ciphers Making a Go - Cart Navajo Code Talkers» Dictionary Girls Cloud Formations The States of the U.S. Mountains of the U.S. Navigation The Declaration of Independence Skimming Stones Making a Periscope The Ten Commandments Common US Trees Timeline of American History

What sets The Book of Air and Shadows substantially above the mass of «secret - cipher» novels that have been spawned in the wake of The Da Vinci Code are Gruber's ability to juggle multiple threads and concepts with aplomb, and the depth of characterization.