Sentences with phrase «novelty acts»

These weren't novelty acts; these teens and tweens eloquently delivered.

But novelty acts don't come along every year.

The novelty acts are comfortingly familiar — Brendan Gleeson (pictured below), Tom Conti, Joanna Lumley, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton and Eileen Atkins all muck in.

Set at the Clapham Grand, Beyond the Christmas Cabaret had an enticing line - up of burlesque, singers, comedians, circus acts and novelty acts.

Though Manfredy, 24, has held something called the WBU super featherweight title for more than three years, it was his battle with then IBF junior lightweight champ Arturo Gatti last Jan. 17 that raised him from novelty act to player.

He was a two - time All - Star, which meant he was no longer a novelty act.

A generation of young fans knows Tyson as a novelty act and boxing as a niche sport.

The bearded lady, once a circus novelty act, is now transformed into an icon of political freedom.

His primary opponent, Rep. Kendrick Meek, has dismissed Greene's candidacy as a novelty act and accused him of profiting off the many foreclosures dragging down Florida's housing market.

By briefly profiling each, the filmmakers ensure we care about them all; they are not treated as some sort of novelty act for the sake of the camera, and this is what makes the film a standout

She views him as «The Source» of Earth's pain, while he tries to laugh her off as a novelty act.

July 28, 2014 • A man out of time, Pokey LaFarge never feels like a mere novelty act.

Sci - fi's green revolution began with the lyrical strains of folk singer Joan Baez, and the impressive orchestral music of her sometime arranger Peter Schickele (better known under the name of his classical novelty act «P.D.Q. Bach») with 1972's «Silent Running.»

It may be a bit of a novelty act a little too often, but when it is actually working as a genuine game, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures provides some good (if not raunchy) fun.

Moorman was tagged as the «topless cellist» but far beyond being a novelty act, she was an artist of wit and anarchic invention, and the inventor of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York, an anti-Art Basel if ever there was one.

Best known for their covers of Seven Nation Army and No Diggity, HCB are loads more than a mere novelty act: they're pumping out powerful originals and rebooting the brass band sound for the 21st Century — creating some seriously swinging toe - tappers in the process.

The lack of worthwhile games for hardcore gamers made the Kinect more of a novelty act than something that truly added to the Xbox 360 experience.

Right now, the implementation feels more like a novelty act.

Right now, Google is offering a feature called AR stickers, which let you insert animated objects onto your phones display, but this strikes me as a novelty act at best.

Not exact matches

Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.

God does not become more divine, of course; but God has other and more varied opportunity to adapt the divine Loving to the creatures, so that in any and every circumstance there is the renewed possibility of novelty, with the emergence of a greater capacity to act instrumentally for God's intentions in the world.

In his analysis, he discriminates three factors or aspects of the developing process, all of which, acting together, determine the process so that it exhibits a novelty or a character not accounted for by data and principles which were present at the beginning of the process.

In those instances in which spontaneity leads to valuable novelty — that is, in those cases in which the subject is transformed and the final perfection is not given prior to the act of creation — agape must operate.

The enhancement of the divine life in its consequent aspect has opened up new possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

Prehension is a present creative act open on both ends, to the past on the one hand and to further possibilities or novelty on the other.8 Causal activity in nature shares in this polarity.

Rather, creativity - esse produces the most radical and fundamental of all novelties, the novelty of creativity / esse / activity / being / act.

Even when God does contribute to novelty he always acts along with other causes.

Only by a process of physical and conceptual «prehensions,» «feelings» and «experiences» — through several levels of increasing awareness — do we arrive at a final resolution in acts of self - cognition and conscious purpose.13 In other words, Whitehead believed that conscious and purposive acts are the tip of a «prehensive» iceberg that remains below the level of consciousness, yet participates in every moment of concrescence, resulting in novelty and creativity in an evolving universe.

Actor and acrobatic dancer Fayard Nicholas and his brother Harold were among the most popular novelty nightclub acts of the»30s and»40s.

Since there's nothing consequential here, Burton and Eastwood could have played these roles in their sleep (and let's face it, they pretty much do), but it's a novelty to see acting - legend Burton play against rising star Eastwood, fresh from his spaghetti - western fame.

Also, enthusiasm may act as a «motivational embellishment», increasing a student's interest by the variety, novelty, and surprise of the enthusiastic teacher's presentation of the material.

One of the novelties of the Integral Rear Axle is elasto - kinematics: Forces that act upon the suspension under cornering, acceleration and deceleration can change the suspension geometry to counteract the effects.

Hasn't the novelty of non-white men acting worn off?

Among the BIS subscales, BIS - 11 factor 3 (novelty seeking and acting without thinking) was associated with DSH in both boys and girls in multivariate analysis (table 4).

For both genders, factor 3 of the BIS - 11 scale (novelty seeking and acting without thinking), low self - esteem, alcohol use and depressive symptoms were risk factors for DSH.