Sentences with phrase «instead of an actual person»

Einar switches between himself and Lili in transparently melodramatic ways, and Redmayne's performance has the quality of a quiet martyr instead of an actual person.

It seemed to me, though, that the Spartans were fighting the hordes of Mordor instead of actual people.

She's currently working with portraits, manipulating this canonical form by creating intricately marked paintings of imaginary personas instead of actual people, to convey narrative.

Why did you choose to depict animals in «A New Interpretation of the Paradoxical World» instead of actual people?

Not exact matches

Old school tactics aren't useless, but most people are checking Yelp instead of the actual Yellowpages.

Now, instead of cooking classes for people who may or may not be prospects, Pirch offers private classes for actual customers, either in stores or in their homes.

«Instead of a watch list limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,» Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU's National Security Project, told The Intercept.

For precisely the same reasons that I found your statement to be laughable, the government must insure that mechanisms are put in place to insure that the actual persons granted free speech rights by the Supreme Court (the owners of the corporations) are the ones actually exercising their new rights instead of having those rights stolen by fat - cat executives and self - appointed boards.

Those that do are just guilty of an ad hominem fallacy; attacking a person's grammar / spelling instead of the actual point of the comment.

Seems to me that if we elected real statesmen and not just politicians, we could get to work and make our government truly represent the people and solve some actual problems instead of creating them.

The closest it comes is in a passage where compensation is to be paid if a pregnant woman is injured and miscarries... and the compensation is less than that required for the adult of an actual person instead of a fetus.

(Even if most of them are answered IN the actual post) Funny how we want people to tell us everything instead of reading the information provided (ie substitutions, loaf pan size etc etc) You're a blessing.

Lots of people see him through the lens of Vince's project instead of as an actual character.

Due to the overwhelming response to my Ultimate Baby Travel Gear Prize Pack giveaway with people who actually want to buy the gear instead of win it, I've come up with the Canadian buyers guide for all the items listed — ie, actual stores and online stores that originate in Canada (therefore no need to pay duty)...

I know a fat person who went to the doctor for a sore throat and left with a prescription to get more exercise instead of one for an actual antibiotic to treat her strep throat (which she got instead from a more helpful urgent care clinic).

Intentionally making a child feel bad about himself or herself, as a person, instead of focusing on the actual behavior you're trying to change

Have you ever stood in line at the grocery store, irritated because they only had one lane open and the lady checking out with what seemed like fifty tired, whiney, crying children was counting out actual cash, including change, instead of using a quick credit card like normal people?

Most people will find it strange or maybe outrageous to turn up for a wedding only to find the bride wearing actual shoes or sneakers instead of the usual heels for weddings.

Many people opt to take photos with this background instead of the actual smog - filled view of the city.

Steve: And there are people who are out there, instead of hacking into the actual electrons that are flowing, and reading what you are up to that way, they are in an office building a block away with the telescope looking through the office window of somebody else and just looking at the computer screen to read what they are up to.

Imagine a social networking site, where instead of having a page with posts of people here you have an actual cave wall or roof full of different pictographs.»

But there is an element of unpredictability as a quarter of these recordings are not of actual birds but are instead people imitating the birdsong they have heard.

I prepare people for a herxheimer reaction when there's candida, but I never feel comfortable addressing hypoglycemia and often it seems like it could be sugar addiction instead of actual hypoglycemia

Instead, we have this monstrosity of legislation, which I don't think is going to make a difference in people's actual well - being.

A recent study actually found that people with self - reported «gluten sensitivity» actual had zero bad gut effects from eating gluten and instead experienced complete elimination of their gut issues after they simply underwent a dietary reduction of fermentable, poorly absorbed, short - chain carbohydrates — also known as FODMAP's (2).

So, I mostly got still shots instead of photos of actual people doing actual things.

I also cook for a million instead of the actual amount of people that are coming over, and then there are leftovers everywhere and I need another fridge for a few days.

I suspect that the actual number of people using online dating sites that are really looking for a relationship instead of a good time is fairly small.

Instead of requiring you to browse through their selected matches and trust that you are talking to the actual person seen in a picture or described through words, they take these potential matches and hook you up in the real world.

Also instead of one single photo of a person, the homepage now includes 8 to 14 photos arrange like an album with actual eHarmony members.

I mentioned this in my rave review: «One of my favorite parts of this documentary is when the film finally starts, instead of showing actual footage of people watching, they switch over to these amazing photographs.

Instead of doing that, we're always kept at arm's length since we never get to find out more about the actual world, people and planets that exist within this fictional universe.

Instead of casting an actual French person, Zemeckis places Joseph Gordon - Levitt in the role.

The Urus test mule also shows a pair of roof rails now, while the Concept had a very low, clean roof line the actual production model will offer rails on top so people can install a ski box more easily for extra storage... the Urus will be a four seater instead of a 7 seater like the Audi Q7 for instance, rumor has it one option on the Urus list could be for a five - seat configuration.

It's definitely nice to let the actual market determine the success of our work instead of a semi-informed opinion of one or a handful of people.

How about parents read the actual book at the same time and discuss the issues instead of trying to prevent their child from finding out about and trying to understand issues faced by other people?

«Instead of driving the cogitative complexity of a two - year commitment, tell people, «This is the actual cost of the device.»»

I couldn't be happier, it's the best site, they have the lowest prices and they treat you like an actual person instead of a number.

Some people add up actual cash value instead of replacement cost.

We have many people inquire about natural oils especially in cats — I have many Vets also that have inquired about our various ingredients including NEEM oil — and after we explain that less then 1 / 100th of the formulation is made up of any of our essential oils they are very pleased with the concentration — especially when in our recommended usage less then 1 / 3rd of a teaspoon is recommended in very small breed dogs and cats — now take 1 / 100th of that and when it is used daily for the first 30 days on serious conditions with a topical application, and then the maintenance phase is one application every 3 to 4 days — the actual amount of any of our essential oils is very very small — and to add to the safety issue as I mentioned earlier it is a topical application and yes some is ingested — but with approximately 700,000 bottles used — and not one reported case of injury or death we have a fantastic record when compared to anesthesia scaling — according to the statistics reported in a very large study of 2,500 dogs — going under anesthesia — if the same 700,000 using our product chose anesthesia scaling instead according to the study — 2,358 would have died and 12 % or another 60,000 would have been injured!!!

But I genuinely think you're dropping the ball when it comes to exciting people who haven't heard of a Taro Yoko game before, and that bums me out: / I wish you guys made this more of an event, like Koei Tecmo with Ni - Oh's demo; grab a lot of attention and generate some actual hype that way, instead of just counting on the fans of the cult classic to show up again.

Many people consider this game as the true follow - up, instead of the actual Super Mario Bros. 2.

I always thought the negative remarks about the game were from people's disappointment that Nintendo gave us that on the Cube's launch day, instead of an actual Mario game.

A name request is the same thing as a friend request except it allows you to see people's actual names instead of they're PSN ID that way you don't always have to remember your friend Jim is BigDogx1945 or something like that.

The reason this matters is precisely because people who want to learn about the «actual findings of science» were instead shown a distorted summary from people who felt the need to cover up their actions afterwards.

Instead of presenting an actual argument for a different policy direction, the author is arguing that certain people who present information that might inform policy, should stop getting involved in anything related to policy and should leave it to others; presumably people with whom the author agrees.

I've occasionally encountered people who feel that presenting temperature graphs as anomalies instead of actual Celsius temperatures is misleading.

Which one is more likely: All basic thermodynamics and stat mech textbooks are wrong, including the ones that make showing that there is no lapse rate a homework problem or that do it in the actual text, or some people who have a really hard time understanding what a degree of freedom is or how to do an integral or mess with logarithmic expansions have made a mistake, the biggest of which is assuming that the DALR worked out in climate systems is stable in the absence of a driving thermal gradient and that air is locally truly «adiabatic», instead of just having a thermal conductivity that is slower than convection?

It was an actual person instead of just a machine.

«What sort of feminism is it that faults people for asking actual women about their experiences, and for trying to start a public conversation in which women's opinions are actively solicited, on the grounds that the questioner should instead have gone to the library or taken up the time of his colleagues?»