Sentences with phrase «not as antagonists»

To work together, not as antagonists The Bookseller's Author Day conference opened this year's FutureBook Week on Monday (30th November).

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From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

But his main point would stand; and as in the case of the charge about demeaning man, time has reversed the opinion of his antagonists, though it has not reversed men's opinions about Edwards.

For these reasons, I see the coming encounter and dialogue between humanism and theism not as the occasion for sour - tempered vendettas, but as another of those recurring interludes in the history of the race when the search for truth pits conscientious antagonists on the battleground of human thought.

Like so many of Shakespeare's tragic antagonists» think of Edmund in King Lear» Iago is best regarded as a threat to traditional Western Civilization, not as its exemplar.

I don't want to look as if I am an Antagonist or a person who is against the popular opinion of the Gooners.

But when the dust has settled on the unnecessary and ill - judged redefinition of marriage bill, the perceived EU bust up and allegations of disrespect to activists, the reality is that back benchers do not emerge as the «enemy» of Number 10 - and Number.10 does not, in the cold light of the day, default to playing the antagonist.

A late - breaking clinical trial, known as the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, to be presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, November 18, 2013, demonstrates that spironolactone did not reduce the primary outcome of cardiovascular death, heart failure hospitalization, nor surviving a cardiac arrest in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (pump function).

Findings from the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

A pair of second - line HIV drugs are expected to boost each other, but researchers write in the Journal of Biological Chemistry that co-receptor antagonists and fusion inhibitors don't synergize as expected when certain viral proteins evolve to avoid binding drugs.

A recent work reported additional N - containing scaffolds as novel CXCR4 antagonists [112].

Amine substituted N -(1H - benzimidazol - 2ylmethyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-8-quinolinamines as CXCR4 antagonists with potent activity against HIV - 1.

Novel N - substituted benzimidazole CXCR4 antagonists as potential anti-HIV agents.

To date, although more than 20 different chemical classes have been claimed as CXCR4 antagonists, only a few have been described in detail including tetrahydroquinolines, N - substituted indoles, 1,4 - phenylenebis (methylene) derivatives, and N - containing heterocycles.

Don't label it as an antagonist.

But the illipsoas and the rest aren't they the antagonists in the lower body movments such as squats, lunges and their varations?

The long - term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and H2 - antagonists, as well as atrophic gastritis, affects the composition of the gastric microbiota; this is not surprising, considering that gastric microbiota depends on gastric acid secretion.

The transverse abdominis (TA) and internal obliques play an expiratory role in breathing, acting as antagonists to the diaphragm; when lower crossed syndrome causes these muscles to become lengthened, they can not optimally partner with the diaphragm and assist in expiration.

Sure it doesn't make much sense that the teenagers of this small town that has outlawed dancing for five years could all dance so well, yet this is an enjoyable film with a great soundtrack and John Lithgow as a character who is more complex than your typical zealot antagonist.

There are so many things wrong with this game, first of all the plot is too linear you play as Mario throughout the whole game you don't get to play as peach or bowser, there are no new characters other than kersti, all the characters in the game are from the Mario platformers, there are no exp so you can't level up and if you run out of stickers you have no choice but to run away, peach only has about five lines, bowser is the main antagonist and he has no dialogue, in the previous installments the main antagonist always had dialogue, and one of this game's worst problems is that luigi went from being a playable character to a glorified cameo, I have no idea what nintendo was thinking when they made this game.

Jason Momoa however, is great as the primary thug, though not chief mastermind antagonist.

Sophia Lamb isn't nearly as charismatic as Andrew Ryan but succeeds in getting me to despise her, making her a decent antagonist at worst.

Critics Consensus: 47 Meters Down doesn't take its terrifying premise quite as far as it should, but its toothy antagonists still offer a few thrills for less demanding genre enthusiasts.

Though it does unmask one of its antagonists, it's not a character reveal so much as it is proof that these thrill killers are still human.

Using Amora seems extremely likely as she's also a member of the Masters of Evil and an antagonist of Doctor Strange as well, a crossover villain not unlike Loki.

birdo is not a bowser minion, the games she appears as antagonist, like mario e luigi super star saga she does nt have anything to do with bowser.but yeah, i like her, hopefully shell be back

It's actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices: quirky Tarantino-esque monologues delivered in formal period speech; slow, rambling scenes punctuated with extreme gore; antagonists that could be read as racist caricatures, except the movie bends over backward to assure you they're not; and, to cap it all off, an operatic theme song that lays out the plot, Gilligan's Island - style.

And the same promises of a persuasive villain were made for Cate Blanchett's Hela in Thor: Ragnarok, casting another acclaimed actor as a fun, but not exactly groundbreaking antagonist.

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

is a modern behind - the - scenes documentary that has the benefit of a few impassioned interviews, including one with actor William Zabka that reveals that this Johnny had thought through his rationalizations for kicking poor Daniel - san's ass to the point that he, to this day, doesn't see his character as an antagonist.

Other weak areas include the cast, mostly in believing Berke, a geeky misfit, could get not one, but three hot babes fall for him, and a curiously bad attempt at a Brit accent by Shane West as the antagonist.

Best of all, it contains an interesting time travel story as you search for the antagonists and the characters you encounter are not too clichéd but help add to the overall mythology of this title.

Although not on obvious display in the trailer, which can be viewed below, two other villains will reportedly join Keaton's Vulture as antagonists.

Under the Rainbow is not subtle with its allusions — the man we view as the primary antagonist is named Maxime Wolff, first encountered when advising the red - haired, red - hooded Laura which route to take at a forked path in the forest.

Pitting the God of Thunder against his comic book antagonist isn't the only thing fans are waiting to see in the movie, though, as as it was revealed at San Diego Comic Con this year that elements of the «Planet Hulk» storyline will feature heavily in «Thor: Raganarok.»

As the villain in 2008's Iron Man, he was not only the first antagonist in the MCU, he wasn't half bad doing it.

The Captain America: The First Avenger antagonist returned as the Stonekeeper, guardians of the Soul Stone, on the planet Vormir, with The Walking Dead star Ross Marquand taking over the role from Hugo Weaving who had previously suggested that he wasn't overly keen on returning for another outing.

This raunchfest not only benefitted from the two great and energetic lead performances in Vaughn and Wilson, it featured an intensely humorous antagonist in Bradley Cooper's break - out performance as Sack Large (yes, that indeed would make it Large Sack if ever to be written out on a legal document).

Evelyn Poole The show's producers have already stated that Ms. Poole (formerly known as Madame Kali) is this season's main antagonist, but we really didn't need that confirmation based upon our own observations from early sneak peeks that show her bathing in a literal bloodbath and chanting such charming rhymes as, «Miss Ives, Miss Ives, speaking to demons and touching lives.

Micheal Keaton was menacing as the main antagonist and instilled fear in the heart of not just Peter Parker but even the audience.

Though the film suffers from a bloated runtime and is a tad one - sided in its depiction of the antagonists, «Captain Phillips» is nonetheless a gripping hostage thriller that boasts some of the year's finest performances, not only by Hanks, but his amateur co-stars as well.

Brosnan still has a certain welcome grit and gravitas here and he's probably trying harder than anyone to make it work (not saying much, though), yet Animal Kingdom's immensely talented James Frecheville is thoroughly wasted as the oddball antagonist.

Of all the major horror franchises, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has been pretty poorly served despite being eight films in, and still filmmakers and studios can not move away from trying to give a definitive background on main antagonist Leatherface, a fact given credence by the eponymous title which, in any other franchise, would be seen as being definitive but this being the schizophrenic series that it is, this is the second movie in it to bear this title, the other being 1990s Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.

John Hawkes and Dale Dickey do not disappoint as her protector and antagonist, respectively, though Dickey especially is unforgettable, layering her character with surprising sympathy.

When we finally arrive at the climactic battle, there's no sense of geography or space, so that friendly Indians lining up along a ridgeline to shoot at baddies not harmed by bullets (until they are) may as well have been inserted in post-production along with the antagonists.

Malin Åkerman and Jake Lacy's performance as the brother and sister antagonists were so overacted, I wouldn't be surprised if they had an evil laugh, and it's made worse by the fact that we spend quite a lot of time with these characters plotting their evil schemes, but we don't care for their schemes because their motivation for money is so uninteresting and lazy.

There are very small amounts of tension and exposure to the antagonist, to the point he might as well not even exist.

The antagonists of that picture will be the alien race called the Skrulls, who have a knack for shapeshifting, so expect that to play an important role in not just Captain Marvel but possibly Avengers 4, as Larson's movie serves as a lead - up to that culmination event.

As for the antagonist, I wouldn't call Rita a memorable presence, but it does seem like Banks is having the time of her life in the part.

So when I heard that Dead by Daylight was finally making the transition to consoles I couldn't help but get excited; as a massive Horror Hound the prospect of playing a game that allowed you to take control of Michael Myers, The Shape from the Halloween films, amongst an assortment of other antagonists crafted from different genre archetypes definitely appealed to me and would serve as a nice counterpoint to stalking around Crystal Lake.