Sentences with phrase «not blank slates»

When adoption agencies start to «get» the trauma adoptees are coming from be held accountable for placing us with ill suited families, that we are not blank slates to fit their ideal pictures of «family»..

Although evolution made our personalities somewhat flexible, we're not blank slates that can be molded -LSB-...]

Handling, socialization, and early environment play a major role, but bunnies are not blank slates.

Districts are not blank slates, but rather places with particular histories and competing forces that shape the implementation of any new policy.

Districts are not blank slates; rather, they are places with particular histories and arrays of competing forces, which will shape the implementation of any new policy.

Babies are not blank slates who simply adapt as many believe.

Pre-linguistic humans have some math savvy, too, which means your preschooler isn't a blank slate.

Potatoes are not a blank slate.

She's not a blank slate on which he can write his future.

Drake wasn't a blank slate like old Lara, but genuinely likeable — a funny, loveable mate who charms ladies, tells great stories in the pub and occassionally steals artefacts.

-LSB-...] Simmons does not ignore the deeply troubling past of race; as his erasure drawings so insistently demonstrate, history is not a blank slate.

It wasn't a blank slate that many buyers like, though.

Not exact matches

The problem with this «blank slate» interpretation of gender differences is that it doesn't jibe with results of developmental studies.

Yet even the most lethargic student knows he needn't stroll into an examination a blank slate.

As I wrote in June 2017, the Alberta Party is a blank slate with a great name, but whether or not this latest group to wander over will translate that name into electoral success is yet to be determined.

While Lee continues his optimism, however, he made sure not to give the impression his idea of Bitcoin's price potential was a blank slate.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

We are born with a blank slate, not believing either way.

If those in the rain forest were given the image of God they have opportunity if they have not the image of God they are a blank slate as to soul i.e. they do not have capacity to love

Barth's alternative implied a methodological pluralism, not an impossible blank slate.

A scientist does not start with a blank slate, no scientist would have time to do her work if that were the case.

When the ideas aren't coming to me on blank slate days, sometimes I create my own limitation.

Since they are not already flavored in any specific way, unflavored protein powders can work as a sort of culinary blank slate, offering nutrition and texture to any recipe without influencing the flavor.

Obviously, the Knicks aren't exactly a juggernaut going into» 09, but after that they're pretty much a blank slate.

The premium property facing the south end of Grant Park is a blank slate, but not for long as its owner makes plans for the site.

That doesn't mean they are born little blank slates ready to be written on.

It's the one room where the babies» arrival meant a blank slate — designing with diaper pails, not against them.

In his books Pinker argues that the brain at birth is not simply a blank slate to be shaped by culture and experience.

You're not starting with a blank slate.»

«Mercury wasn't completely a blank slate, but it was nearly so,» says principal investigator Sean Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Naïve stem cells are blank slates that form the basis for not only all the cells of the human body, but cells that make up the placenta to support an embryo as well.

Today started a new year and with all this beautiful snow at our lake cabin I couldn't resist a walk on nature's blank slate.

The whole collection started with a blank slate and not going to lie, of course there were dresses that reminded me of her Valentino days but I'm excited to see a woman creative director at Dior and the message she's bringing to the house.

Mr. Kingsley's face is a blank slate, which is not the same thing as an enigma.

This was a blank - slate film experience for me, and it's not a sequel or prequel so much as an independent movie operating laterally to Suicide Club, so why am I even talking about all this.

Metroid Prime 4 is effectively a blank slate without Phazon to worry about, so why not take an opportunity to revive the concept introduced in Metroid Prime Hunters and flesh it out further.

Here, he tries to explain Coppola through similarities to other projects («Lost In Translation's» similar «blank slate» male protagonist in hotel rooms) but doesn't show any wear for her view.

Like in his best writing, he has some wise suggestions -LRB-» «Lost in Translation» offers an experience in the exercise of empathy»), and a few deflections («The slate isn't blank.

It doesn't help that both lead characters are thinly - drawn: Aurora is an idealistic cliché of a journalist; Jim is a handsome blank slate whose reasons for being on the ship are never convincingly explained.

The cast manage to wrangle as much as possible from the material, Woodley in particular bringing some raw nerves to an otherwise blank slate, but it is ultimately not enough to rise above the film's many flaws — weird science and henchman myopia but minor among them.

The heroine of Safe (95) is named Carol White; it's not just a metaphor (blank - slate anti-essentialism) but a meta - metaphor (what do you mean by «meaning»?)

Alma is deliberately written as a blank slate; we know nothing about her at all, not even where she is from.

The movie wants to have tension, but it paints itself into a corner — Lance is unlikable, so we don't care what happens to him and the stranger is a blank slate, so we don't care about his motives.

Though you might not think it possible by now, Williams fully subsumes himself into Parrish's spaced - out blank slate.

There's nothing particularly unusual about him, but that's intentional; it allows him to be our viewpoint character — and we do get a pretty good feel for him as the movie goes on, so it's not like he's a blank slate or anything.

That's not to say that there isn't potential for them to grow in the future but the whole concept exists as a kind of blank slate now and none of it is particularly compelling.

But unlike Arnold, his Cyber-wood vehicle embodies not «Star» but «Studio,» an ostensibly blank slate spouting several foreign languages, an unthinking knowledge of music - video beats and martial arts, with a Swiss bank account implanted near its crotch.

Such a blank slate doesn't eliminate expectations altogether.

If the point of restructuring is a fresh start, a blank slate, a New Deal — well, that ain't it.

Looking out at their students each day, faculty members at Seattle's John Stanford International School don't see just baby faces and blank slates: They see future citizens of an interconnected world.