Sentences with phrase «familiar type»

Essentially, a longevity annuity is a twist on a somewhat more familiar type of annuity, the immediate annuity.

If you're not a fan of mustard greens, or just want to use a more familiar type of leafy green veggie, see the variations following the instructions.

Terms deposits are the most familiar type of investments paying interest.

The more familiar types of personal injury cases involve car accidents and slip & falls.

Appropriate Behavior, even with its reliance on familiar types and tropes, feels like a unique vision of life seen through unique eyes.

«This is great execution of a very familiar type of shonen arc, but it wouldn't be half as good without these villains.»

They more properly belong to the second and increasingly familiar type of church statement — those that regard abortion as legitimate in certain circumstances, but largely reject the practice because it involves taking a human life.

For quite some time now, familiar types like pils and lagers have shared the shelves with specialty beers from all over the world.

This limply directed tale emerges as a case study of an all too familiar type of art crime: the making of bad movies.

Playing real characters this time rather than sounding - board side pieces or just familiar types, Zoe Lister - Jones — a scream in «Lola Versus» — and Adam Pally — such a delight on TV's cancelled - too - soon «Happy Endings» — reveal their inherent dramatic chops and create genuine pathos amidst their biting interactions.

Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. head the 322 Fighter Group, composed of such familiar types as the hotdog ladies» man (David Oyelowo), the solemn, hard - drinking captain (Nate Parker), the chaw - chewing jokester (Ne - Yo), the Scripture - quoting Deacon (Marcus T. Paulk), the snot - nosed rookie (Tristan Wilds), the mother - hen mechanic (a very good Andre Royo).

It feels like an assemblage of parts from other, better sci - fi stories, and while the strong roster of character actors gives it their all, they're mostly stuck playing familiar types (the stressed - out lead scientist, the shifty Russian, etc.).

So Bourne must again delve into his past, surrounded by a cast of exceedingly familiar types: Tommy Lee Jones in the Chris Cooper / Brian Cox / David Straithairn role of nefarious middle - aged male intelligence chief; Alicia Vikander in the Joan Allen role of female CIA subordinate who comes to believe that Bourne's a good guy; Vincent Cassel in the Clive Owen / Karl Urban / Édgar Ramírez role of opposing assassin; and Julia Stiles reprising her own Julia Stiles role.

The order Agaricales, also known as gilled mushrooms (for their distinctive gills), or euagarics, contains some of the most familiar types of mushrooms.

The film has so many stories it wants to tell that each one is perhaps understandably underdeveloped, relying on familiar types and star power to give them power.

«This is great execution of a very familiar type of shonen arc, but it wouldn't be half as good without these villains.»

Told in cumbersome flashback as the onetime NSA contractor relates his story to journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Citizenfour director Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) in a Hong Kong hotel room, the movie paints him as a more familiar type of righteous protagonist; in the process, it divorces itself from anything an audience might recognize as present - day reality without offering the juicy pulpiness that would at least qualify it as a «fun» Oliver Stone movie.

A normal, cozy, familiar type of magic that washes you in happiness and awe.

This was an all - too - familiar type of performance by Arsenal against the best competition.

Midnight Sun is otherwise a bland mix of familiar types (the doofus Dad, the quirky best friend who wears woolly hats indoors, etc.) who trundle along the rails of a predictable plot, one that relies on Katie preposterously keeping her illness a secret from Charlie until it inevitably catches up with her in a Cinderella - ish manner.

It's a familiar type of story, and it is deliberately aimless for long spells, which may frustrate viewers into not sticking with it.

Tully reinvents a familiar type of story, hitting all the old beats and somehow emerging with a different rhythm.

His role here is also of a familiar type — the native displaced by a dominant and domineering white culture — but at least he's working from his own experience, and taking center stage in his own story.

There's nothing new about Frances Ha; the plot's been done, the main character is a familiar type, and even Baumbach's use of black - and - white just makes Gerwig's New York look like a vintage Woody Allen film.

His character is a familiar type: a wounded, hard - drinking negotiator who can talk himself out of any situation.

The car is a «plug - in hybrid» petrol - electric saloon of a familiar type, driven primarily by BMW's 182bhp 2.0 - litre turbocharged petrol engine, which sends its power to the car's rear wheels via an eight - speed automatic gearbox.

Many of the Gears classic weapons have returned such as the Torque Bow, Long Shot, BoomShot, Gnasher, and signature weapons like the Lancer and Hammerburst — but a range of new additions are out in force within Judgment that feel like a contemporary twist on some of the familiar types of weaponry.

In this way, Sherman subverts our expectations for a familiar type of picture, drawing attention to the way we look at and process images — particularly, images of women.

The substance of the claimant's case was that it suffered financial loss in the form of lost profits and goodwill, and though difficult to quantify, this is a familiar type of loss, which can be quantified in a conventional manner.

The OIC wanted an Art Director who was familiar the type of work expected in some of the most respected corporate communications environments in the world.

A custody order is another familiar type of court order.