Sentences with phrase «in predictable sequences»

Some argue that God's rationality makes events occur in predictable sequences, giving the appearance of efficient causality in nature.

Stimulated by baby's oral experiences, the oral motor skills of feeding typically unfold in a predictable sequence and build on each other.

While your toddler may seem like a supernova of unfocused movement, children generally develop physical skills in a predictable sequence, says Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York.

Most children tend to develop skills for thinking and learning in a predictable sequence (eg children start to tell stories by looking at pictures in a book before they learn to recognise words).

Not exact matches

If left undisturbed after birth, in skin - to - skin contact with the mother, the newborn — guided especially by her sense of smell and using her innate primitive reflexes - goes through a predictable sequence of behaviors during which:

To create a bedtime routine that works for your toddler and that will serve him and you for years to come, put together a predictable sequence of events that you can consistently follow in the same order every night.

It might be that only one in 109 (or even 10700) randomly selected sequences would yield a predictable conformation, yet this tiny fraction represents a vast number of proteins.

Perhaps the weakness of Coco will lie in its predictable storyline, as it becomes clear from early in the Land of the Dead sequence where things will be going for the rest of the plot, if you know how these stories always go.

The director, Peter Berg («Very Bad Things»), keeps the predictable story line on course without developing a truly compelling momentum in the action sequences or finding anything fresh in the interaction of the stock characters.

And the hand - to - hand fighting and battle sequences are now so formulaic and predictable in Marvel films that the adrenaline just doesn't kick in.

Italian plumber Tony (done up with enchanting naiveté by Emory Cohen) and Eilis meet, court and soon become inseparable (the Coney Island sequence sealing the deal with sunglasses and bathing suit follies, the latter finding further life in a too predictable encore when the scene reverts to the Emerald Isle).

Hill shifts from sequence to sequence in a predictable routine that plays out like this.

But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes — which means that when the bloody ending arrives, it seems less predictable than inevitable and right, as in myths, legends and Bible stories.

Solid look at how the X-Men came to be - Stellar Cameos - January Jones looks rockin» in go - go boots Cons: - The original X-Men were not used - Some of the dumbest characters were chosen for this film - Azazel» action sequences couldn't hold a light to Nightcrawler» in X2 - The action overall felt held back and the film lacked any «real» edge - The ending was too predictable and too conveniently wrapped up Impressions: Matthew Vaughn is an incredible director and Brian Singer has done solid work with this material.

The meta - level layering and critical dialogue about horror movies in this sequence (characters with little to no development, predictable scare setups, and shocking turns that don't make much sense) are calls for variation that Kevin Williamson's script leave largely unanswered once the plot proper kicks into gear.

Zathura is predictable to a certain point, and the home invasion sequence by the reptilian Zorgons drags on much longer than necessary, but just when you think that the story's ideas have petered out and the movie is going to go into coast mode to the finish, a new story wrinkle emerges to keep us reeled in again.

With undeveloped action sequences, slotted caricatures of Asian mobsters, and a tiresome and predictable Liotta further driving nails into its coffin, Revolver is a spectacular, gaudy trainwreck that serves as a punctuation mark on one of the goriest career immolations in recent memory.

The plot here is entirely predictable but as with Ozu's family dramas the real meat is in the film's visual aesthetic and cultural context, at once captured most intensely during a scene where Teresa witnesses a financial crisis - related suicide with all the suddenness of an Alfonso Cuaron action sequence and Chen captures her jaded shock by shooting her from low angles through light - heavy filters.

Utterly predictable to the very end, War Horse is a failure due to its inability to do anything that we haven't already seen, and this is a war movie that's suitable for younger audiences (it is rated M) so don't go in expecting any of Spielberg's famed Saving Private Ryan action sequences.

But there are enough good ideas and sequences rolled out in a way that isn't predictable or hackneyed.

Despite the foreboding of Ray and his associates, including a gun enthusiast played by Johnny Knoxville who runs a museum in his barn, before the big standoff in the streets of Sommerton, the extended sequence itself plays out in a predictable exchange of bullets and eruption of blood.

The images have cinematographer Janusz Kaminski's typical blown - out glow — «history in the making,» it screams — but too many of these sequences feel predictable: bespectacled editors in shirtsleeves poring over documents while Bradlee's wife (a wasted Sarah Paulson) heroically serves sandwiches.

The script by Chris Morgan (Wanted, Cellular) features a plot that is barely cohesive, and merely serves as a springboard to get the protagonists in and out of action sequences at predictable beats.

Prior to that point in the film, while the filmmakers thankfully also spare us another swinging sequence through New York skyscrapers, it does hit some generic mini action scenes like the predictable elevator saving sequence.

In one sequence, Stiller accidentally takes the cocaine in his coffee — a fairly predictable gag — and ramps up his unpleasantness to a much higher degreIn one sequence, Stiller accidentally takes the cocaine in his coffee — a fairly predictable gag — and ramps up his unpleasantness to a much higher degrein his coffee — a fairly predictable gag — and ramps up his unpleasantness to a much higher degree.

Learners with speech, language and communication difficulties can benefit from the need to be precise in the choice of language, to sequence it in the right order, and to use correct syntax, whilst those with physical disabilities can control a device and make it behave in a precise, predictable way that may be a real challenge when it comes to their own bodies.

Sequence - based reading assessments would make the subject matter of the passages predictable (more like assessments in other subjects), reassuring teachers that if they teach the specified domains, their students will be optimally prepared to comprehend the passages they are to be tested on.

Tips and strategies for presenting the alphabetic principle (the understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds), the rate of instruction, and the sequence in which it should be presented to children.

Many of these crashes happen in predictable locations and involve predictable sequences of events.

The theory states that there are repetitive, predictable sequences of numbers and cycles found in nature similar to patterns of stock movements.

The sequence of events is utterly predictable: too much initial freedom and too little supervision and education all but teach a newly acquired puppy to chew household articles and eliminate in the house.

Wetlands 1995 This game is very like Cyberia; the moving path is predictable, and all you have to do is shoot at anything that moves, and enjoy the animated sequences in between every mission.

It's a great visual effect and also a helpful aid to slow down the onslaught of enemies that come in waves during fairly predictable firefight sequences.

With each new Bitcoin rally, its price has moved up in predictable increments corresponding to the Fibonacci sequence, a famous mathematical pattern.

These cycles are designed to be predictable and intentionally sequenced to build on one another in order to lead to a unified framework.