Sentences with phrase «function as aliens»

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In Project Hope, the children played Alien Game, designed to improve executive functions through rewarding short - term memory retention and quick reaction as participants learn to distinguish between different factors.

The specialized immune - system function of dendritic cells is to sample proteins and serve as a sort of security guard, sorting out alien proteins from the home team.

A new instrument developed by NASA could function as «a rover's sense of smell» to aid the search for alien life.

The big bad at the center of John Krasinski's film, while visually reminiscent of what we've come to recognize as the prototypical alien — with modifications, including a head that seemingly functions like a giant ear — is a species of flesh - eating hellion that happens to be blind, and thus its potential prey can successfully evade capture by being silent at all times.

The film follows a group of friends who discover an alien invasion during a pub crawl, though the genre aspects of the movie, as in the earlier films, function as a framework to explore deeper topics like nostalgia, addiction and male friendship.

This makes the charismatic performance of Serge Livrozet as Jean - Michel, who functions in the film almost as a choral figure, all the more striking — as if one of the best French character actors suddenly stumbled onto alien turf.

A brilliant theatre man, the very definition of a keen cultural philosopher (his book of essays Some Freaks is must - reading), Mamet as film auteur has grown increasingly esoteric to the point now that his exclusive playpens of linguistic masturbation are so alien and self - conscious that they begin instantly to function as satires of themselves.

Small wonder that The Last Samurai reminds of Lawrence of Arabia, since the plot involves a disgraced military officer sent to contact an alien force (that has just raided a railroad) whom he comes to see as noble even as he views himself as their salvation — although Algren ultimately functions not like T.E. Lawrence, but another of Peter O'Toole's roles: Reginald Johnston, tutor to The Last Emperor.

This new function serves as a doomsday mechanic: the further the aliens progress, the closer the player is to losing the game.

Sculptures might be said to have an alien quality too, at least metaphorically, in how their forms or traditional functions (as idols, or totems, or monuments, for instance) can disrupt our usual modes of perceiving the world around us... Definitely.

In effect, high - tech objects may as well be alien to those who do not recognize their function.

For example, in species - poor, sub-Antarctic island ecosystems, alien microbes, fungi, plants and animals have been extensively documented as causing substantial loss of local biodiversity and changes to ecosystem function (Frenot et al., 2005).