Sentences with phrase «conventional role»

Between conventional role playing, band management, and visual novel moments, it doesn't seem to know exactly what to be.

Everyone's talking about Natalie Portman's wonderful performance in Black Swan — but she's playing a more conventional role in February's The Other Woman, based on Ayelet Waldman's 2006 novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.

Here the information graphics that float free in the other works are relegated to more conventional roles, depicting activities such as sleeping, going to the restroom or having sex.

Blue Reflection's movement from conventional role - playing item usage is refreshing, but with parties healing after every conflict, the game offers only a diminutive challenge when facing subordinate adversaries.

Conventional roles used to trigger relationship satisfaction and sexual frequency, researchers note, with «traditionally masculine and feminine behaviors consciously or unconsciously (serving) as turn - ons.»

Together, this informal trilogy interrogates the process and politics of looking while challenging photography's conventional role in addressing social issues.

Lifestyle designers would tell me that I gave in to my conventional role in society.

«I think the conventional role of a secretariat is to shut up and make sure things work,» de Boer said.

Beyond the conventional roles such as student government and team captains, leadership emerges when we encourage our students to take on big issues that have an impact on the world outside the classroom.

The consolidation of the book industry over the past decade has meant a blurring of boundaries between the conventional roles of agent and editor.

Alvarado, Donegan, Hachisuka, Hiro, Hansen, Tuttle and Wurtz each offer discrete challenges to accepted subjects and approaches in modern painting: the nonreferentiality of abstract art, the relationships of artist to model and of artwork to viewer, and the conventional roles of the gestural painter.

Pattern often transcends its conventional role as embellishment and claims the ability to define forms and clarify spaces.

Furthermore, in a reversal of conventional roles, Louise had to nurse her mother, who contracted a serious illness and asked Louise to help keep her worsening condition a secret from her husband.

Dr. Hansen has pushed far beyond the boundaries of the conventional role of scientists, particularly government scientists, in the environmental policy debate.

But early on, Revkin's broad interdisciplinary awareness of science and human development led him beyond the conventional role of the journalist.