Sentences with phrase «machina as»

Since January 1, 2009, more than 289,200 product liability cases were filed in District Court, involving products classified by Lex Machina as medical devices or pharmaceuticals, including MDL - associated cases.

«We are pleased and honored to again be recognized by Lex Machina as one of the top law firms hired by leading American companies for their patent litigation defense,» said Shannon Bloodworth, co-chair of Perkins Coie's Intellectual Property practice.

I'm eyeing Pyre and Nex Machina as front - runners, but I might dive into more PUBG and maybe check out Doki Doki Literature Club and Echo.

In 2007, Marvel took an action that many considered brutal and awful: They ended Peter and Mary Jane's marriage not by divorce but by deus ex machina as Mephisto erased much of Straczynski's generally celebrated run on the series.

Less obvious to Vikander at the time of filming was the thematic dovetailing of The Danish Girl with Ex Machina as a story of adopted female identity.

Having made the excellent Ex Machina as his directorial debut, Alex Garland is back in sci - fi territory for this next film, Annihilation.

Not exact matches

«We need to rediscover government as an enabler, not a solution provider; as a platform for our own innovation, a lever for our own work, not as the deus ex machina that we've paid to do for us what we could be doing for ourselves.»

The report, produced by legal analytics company Lex Machina, shows that Apple is the most named company in patent infringement cases, and not just as the plaintiff.

This is the deus ex machina, the external influx of credit enabling financialized economies to operate as Ponzi schemes.

Schönborn again: «Within this perspective of divine causality God does not act as a deus ex machina, as someone who plugs holes, who is invoked to explain that which is «not yet» explained.

God does not, as in the royal model, intervene in the natural or historical process deus ex machina fashion, nor does God feel merely charitable toward the world.

Religious people speak of God when human knowledge (perhaps simply because they are too lazy to think) come to an end, or when human resources fall — in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, either for the apparent solution of insoluble problems, or as strength in human failure — always, that is to say, exploiting human weakness or human boundaries.11

You're invoking a deus ex machina (literally) to justify the impossibility of the Ark actually existing as depicted in Genesis.

The account of God which seems most compatible with Whitehead's categories, and which is presented in detail by Christian, was shown to involve incoherence in that it explains how ordinary temporal actual entities can experience the past as given but includes no account which shows how God can experience the past without making God an exception to the principles of the system, a deus ex machina.

Oakes uses the analogy to show the limitations of the argument from design as a theological starting point, but he then mistakenly assumes that it is for that reason that Johnson appeals to the Logos of John 1:1 as, so to speak, a deus ex machina.

Their fall is soundless vertical as a spider's twig - to - ground descent deus ex machina.

In the twelfth century John of Sacrobosco, flirting with Deism, referred to the universe as machina mundi, the «world - machine,» and this phrase became a commonplace in the writings of Abelard, Hugh of St. Victor, Robert Grosseteste, and others.

After the Copernican revolution in philosophy, not of Kant's but of Descartes», however, God was conceived as a deus ex machina, and the subjectivist point of view leaped forward.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

Today it is a Spiritus Sanctus ex machina, the use of the Holy Spirit as a piece of cheap machinery to evade perceived inconveniences in inherited Christian teaching.

Totals: One burning horse; a sisterly prison slap; a wicked backhand as punishment for hitting a prince; one scaly princess burned at the stake (NOT OKAY); a cornucopia of violence in the Meerenese fighting pits: one totally bitchin» decapitation, one Dothraki impaled, an over-the-shoulder stab to the heart, another guy speared through the chest, a deus ex machina back - stabbing, one combat roll leading to a sword in the gut and an Olympic - worthy javelin toss to kill an assassin.

I find a different discussion in what transpires in Ex Machina, but one just as fascinating.

Barring a political deus ex machina, the only question that now remains is will the Tories manage to secure a majority, or will they be returned to government as part of a coalition or a minority administration.

Ex Machina at least treats the subject as complicated — something that needs to be tested.

March 7, 2018 • As with Ex Machina, says Marcelo Gleiser, director Alex Garland is sending a warning: We are now hacking life itself and will continue to do so with growing efficiency.

In short, absent the magical deus ex machina negative feedback, we are facing catastrophic 5 — 7 °C warming by 2100 on our current emissions path, just as the Hadley Center recently warned.

It is a time of the «Machina Revolution» where people now believe that machina is useful and beneficial, as long as it is used prMachina Revolution» where people now believe that machina is useful and beneficial, as long as it is used prmachina is useful and beneficial, as long as it is used properly.

Instead, we get plenty of opportunities for fast - paced slapstick, and Gleeson — a fine actor who in recent years has ably demonstrated his versatility in everything from The Last Jedi to Ex Machina to Brooklyn to The Revenant — turns out to be an inspired physical comedian as well.

Moreover, such rhetoric overlooks one of the film's Asian performers, and its most unsettling character: an extraterrestrial being played by Ex Machina's Mizuno, named in the film's credits as «the humanoid.»

His debut, the 2014 Ex Machina, co-stars a wordless Sonoya Mizuno as Kyoko, a coy, Japanese - coded android programmed to serve the residents of the isolated laboratory run by Nathan (Oscar Isaac), a brilliant scientist and Kyoko's inventor.

There are allegories in play here, but nothing as potent or easy to sink your teeth into as there was in Isaac's previous collaboration with writer / director Alex Garland, «Ex Machina.»

Adapted here by Alex Garland, riding on the modest success of his directorial debut, Ex Machina, as an infidelity mystery wrapped in big science fiction ideas and a splicing of cinematic DNA of Andrei Tarkovsky and John Carpenter, among others.

Microscopic imagery of cells dividing, the sight of a lighthouse being zapped by some kind of ray and a dazed, bed - ridden Lena (Natalie Portman) being asked questions she can't answer are disorienting, as is the sudden appearance, after a year's absence, of the distraught Lena's husband Kane (Ex Machina star Oscar Isaac), who has been assumed dead.

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

Annihilation is to genetics as Ex Machina is to robotics although the films are related only in their lack of conventionality and willingness to challenge audiences.

As he did in «Ex Machina,» Garland exhibits exquisite taste in manifesting the Shimmer, as well as the fecund Florida swampland it's overtaking with disquieting efficiencAs he did in «Ex Machina,» Garland exhibits exquisite taste in manifesting the Shimmer, as well as the fecund Florida swampland it's overtaking with disquieting efficiencas well as the fecund Florida swampland it's overtaking with disquieting efficiencas the fecund Florida swampland it's overtaking with disquieting efficiency.

Garland's cinematic Turing Test, Ex Machina, featured a genius billionaire inventor who describes Ghostbusters, as, «that movie where a ghost gives Dan Aykroyd oral sex.»

As he showed with his first film, Ex Machina, Garland has an expert sense of how to establish an eerie, enticing world, calibrating dread and allure in just the right measure.

By the time the violent (yet oddly difficult - to - swallow) ending rolls around, Ex Machina has confirmed its place as a strong first effort from Garland that bodes well for his future endeavors behind the camera.

The game's problem's go far beyond the craptastic Deus Ex Machina logic devoided ending that we recieved as the game plays more like a first person shooter than a classic RPG like Mass Effect 1.

Alex Garland's directorial debut, Ex Machina follows computer programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) as he wins an invitation to his mysterious boss» (Oscar Isaac's Nathan) remote estate - where Caleb is eventually introduced to a beautiful, intelligent artificial lifeform (Alicia Vikander's Ava).

Garland, working from his own screenplay, has infused Ex Machina with a pace best described as deliberate, with Garland's willingness to let the story breathe having both positive and negative ramifications on the movie as a whole (ie certain sections are far more enthralling and entertaining than others).

But it's not all sure - bets and big - spenders — the studio also takes on smaller projects, such as Alex Garland's 2015 directorial debut, Ex Machina.

But «Ex Machina» also looks at technology as it now exists, the changes it has already wrought - changes that Garland views with a healthy degree of suspicion.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, in addition to critically - acclaimed award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's Starred Up.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady.

Mark might not automatically sound familiar but the production designer has worked closely with Alex Garland on films such as Dredd, Ex Machina, and Annihilation.

Alicia Vikander (Jason Bourne, Ex Machina) stars as Lara Croft, the main character from the long - running video game franchise that follows an explorer who always seems to get caught up in danger and intrigue among historical artifacts and ruins.

That sequel isn't the only science fiction film in the mix, as Alex Garland returns with his «Ex Machina» follow - up titled «Annihilation.»

Silver lining: Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander, whose plucky German car mechanic Gaby Teller joins Furiosa and Ilsa Faust, if to a lesser degree, as heroines in action franchises this year who don't exist simply to operate as eye - candy sidekicks to their male co-stars.