Sentences with phrase «made oblique»

Girard told me that the game would have some important story ties to both Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV, as both titles made oblique references to the imminent Industrial Revolution in the Old World.

Unfortunately, in its quest to tell the whole story of J.D. Salinger, Rebel in the Rye speeds along too fast for us to enjoy the little things that would have made an oblique biography more satisfying.

Draft State Energy Master plans made oblique references to the implementation of hydrofracking here, and prominently factored fracked gas in the state's future energy portfolio as a «bridge fuel».

When Adam Skelos made an oblique reference to his work during a Feb. 24 telephone call with his father, Dean Skelos interrupted to say: «Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam.»

Bultmann seems to be making an oblique reference to these changes in saying that «the decisive thing is not the results of scientific thinking but its method.»

If NP was making an oblique reference to Onan, it's not quite accurate.

In a statement, President Dick Iannuzzi makes an oblique reference to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's criticism of the education system for costing too much money, but offering little in the way of success when it comes to test scores and other indicators.

I was making an oblique comment as an example not as a recommended course of action... So yet again you are correct but seem to have misinterpreted my comment.

• Interestingly, the budget only makes oblique reference to two huge K — 12 programs.

Taylor's works make use of household materials like broomsticks, Formica, and twine, and make oblique reference to others, such as bicycle wheels.

His work sometimes makes oblique reference to earlier 20th century masters; the dense mood - scapes of Mark Rothko perhaps or the eye - confounding monochromes of Ellsworth Kelly, or in the case of the painting exhibited here, the vertical «zip» so often associated with Barnett Newman.

Less successful are Richards» other two works: «Untitled Merchandise (Lovers and Dealers)» (2007) makes oblique reference to AIDS victims through six knitted banners, while «The Screens» (2013) is a bizarre decision: a slideshow of people applying fake wound makeup.

Not exact matches

This combination movement targets your obliques and rectus abdominis — the long, flat muscles that run vertically and make up the «six - pack» — all while challenging your upper body, too.

I think the reason for this objection is that Cobb has not kept in mind the distinction I have made between inheritance from a dominant past occasion and oblique inheritance from occasions in the past which are contiguous but «at a slant,» so to speak (PPCT 328).

When Paul makes his one oblique mention of Jesus» mother it is to point to her as a sign that he was indeed born, and so was genuinely human (Gal.

But strained obliques rarely make things that easy.

Following an injury to Jim Adduci's right oblique, it was announced Thursday that J.D. Martinez will make his long - awaited Tigers» season debut on Friday against the Angels.

However, a transverse or oblique Baby A makes vaginal delivery nearly impossible, unless babies twist around at the last minute!

In meetings on Monday with trade officials, Cuomo made more oblique references to Cuba's human rights record.

The document released by the governor started by making note of an unfolding scandal at the City University of New York and calls for greater financial disclosure from local government leaders — an oblique reference to recent arrests in Nassau County.

After making some major inferences from the researchers purposefully oblique statements, Nakamura began exploiting a technique known as lateral overgrowth.

Perched atop ladders, the researchers examined the walls with oblique lights, specially designed to detect faint marks, and began to make out graceful, sweeping lines incised into the rock.

Come into a side plank position, making sure your hips are up and in line with the rest of your body to really engage your obliques.

Cut - out dress If your obliques are out and not so proud in this season's cut - out dress, a coat of instant colour will make them look contoured and toned.

That makes this an «anti-rotation» movement, forcing you to engage your entire core: obliques, abs, lower back, glutes and more.

Twisting through the trunk helps to slim the waist and work the core and obliques so you achieve beautiful curves through the midsection, while high knees make this move cardio — so you strengthen your abs while burning belly fat.

Adding the medicine ball (and a twist) to your lunge helps engage the abdominals and obliques in addition to the legs, making it a more full body move.

Just as the hanging leg hip raise, the incline oblique crunch also relies on the added resistance of your body weight in order to make it more efficient.

Apart from targeting the upper and lower rectus abdominis muscles and both sets of obliques, it also hits the transverse abdominis, which makes it a unique and complete abs workout that effectively targets every muscle in the abdominal area, leading the way to a stronger core.

Though the abdominal muscles and oblique muscles are part of the core, the spinal erectors, rhomdodis, trapexius, and gluteal connect to the axial spine make up a part of your core as well.

Your core is made up of the rectus abdominis (the abs), the linea alba (the dense band of mid-line tissue that vertically connects the abs), the internal and external obliques, and the transversus abdominis, which is the deepest core muscle layer.

This warm - up has been respon - sible for making me pain - free and mobile in the places I want to be (ball and socket joints) and stiff in the places I need to be when I'm lifting, like my obliques, erectors, glutes, and abs.

Together with your lower back and oblique, they make the total midsection of your body.

It is notable since we can make movements on the sides which are particularly beneficial to exercise obliques.

The exercises you do and how you do them can affect how your body changes, e.g. if you do a lot of ab exercises concentrating on your obliques (such as Russian twists and weighted side bends) you may be, unintentionally, making your waist look thicker.

Your abdominals are made up of four main muscles: rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, internal obliques and external obliques.

Then, make sure you're doing a well - rounded workout that also targets the deep transverse abdominis muscle and obliques as well.

This way you'll have to use your core and obliques a lot more, making the exercise a great core builder.

To make overhead pressing even more challenging for your core, instead of using a barbell use a heavy dumbbell in just one hand while standing and bend slightly to one side (bend away from the side holding the dumbbell) to help engage your oblique muscles more to help you lift the weight.

Starting the art with the index finger, I took the red glitter nail polish and starting from the base of the nail made two oblique / slanted stripes.

This suggests two possibilities: Either Haneke has attempted to shear his sensibility of trickery and failed to do so convincingly, or he has made an experiment in manipulation and feigned empathy so exacting and oblique that nobody has understood its real purpose (I wouldn't put the latter past him).

Musically, the exciting on - the - rise composer duo of Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans («Martha Marcy May Marlene,» «Simon Killer «-RRB- bring an atonal A-game of discordant cellos and oblique half notes that would make Jonny Greenwood proud, and keeps the movie tilted on its discomfiting axis.

Despite being, in a sense, the most straightforward, linear narrative movie the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has made in quite some time (perhaps since «Punch Drunk Love» — and this is not the only respect in which the two films resemble each other), «Phantom Thread» could be the filmmaker's most fascinatingly oblique work.

Phantom Thread is perhaps the clearest, least oblique film he has made in recent years, and yet that tremor is palpable throughout: you might say that it is the phantom thread running through this supremely seductive fabric.

While that statement makes a lot of sense when considering the soft and oblique manner in which the film opens and the shockingly abrupt manner in which it climaxes, you feel like he's probably just being falsely modest and there's actually much more to it than that which he'll never let us in on.

And yet this is not simply an exercise in dry cinephillic academia, but sees Tsai making simple (yet profound) observations about time, landscape, human interaction and how the more time we are given to look at something, the more oblique, untenable and (perhaps) strangely beautiful it becomes.

As one character is obsessed with Elvis, it strikes as ironic that Elvis's blue - eyed soul reflects a lot of the same marketing success as The Commitments outrageously popular soundtrack album — making one character's line about the Irish being Europe's black folks interesting for more than just the realization that Parker is taking another oblique shot across the bow at America's race record.

Very early on in the process of doing last year's crossover, Greg Berlanti said there's probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can't increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that's a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.

If this all sounds a little oblique, Kates presents a dizzying whirlwind of visuals, which not only illustrate the argument, but also make the intellectual babble seem terribly exciting — re-creating a cultural moment when ideas still mattered and an aesthetic revolution was there for the taking.

As it stands, the film falls awkwardly between two stools; its gentle fantasy and unabashed sentimentalism could make for a lovely family film, but the storytelling is too oblique, and the characters too dry, to please a wide audience.