Sentences with phrase «oblique about»

Although the criteria presumably remain constant («One narrative film directed by or written by a woman... making its North American, International or World premiere»), TFF has been a bit oblique about who the actual candidates were this year for this prestigious award.

But it's rather oblique about its themes, so whether you like it or not will depend on how deeply...

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Unions allied with Cuomo are bashing Nixon for her oblique comment about labor deals draining away much - needed resources from the NYC subway system.

They raise concerns about how Trump may have used such information, if true, about the top prosecutor in his home state, and whether a jeering tweet from Trump's account five years ago was an oblique reference to the allegations.

Talk to your adviser about carving out your own research niche within the larger research effort, where you do work motivated by your own original ideas, something related but oblique to what your adviser is doing in the rest of the lab.

It's about having an engaged core where the abdominal muscles (intercostals, obliques, serratus, and rectus abdominus), lower back, and hip flexors work together to improve posture, range of motion, and structural alignment, while simultaneously firing up the third chakra (manipura).

It takes about 5 minutes and it includes some truly efficient oblique floor exercises such as hip twist from plank position, side planks, laying leg twist, knee to elbow from push up position and torso rotation.

I was amazed how much weight I lost, I lost weight in the bad areas, stomach, neck, chin and obliques, I felt great and looked a lot younger, my enthusiasm suddenly increased and I no longer felt lazy about everything in life, I was more motivated to do a lot more for once in my life than just sit on the couch and watch rubbish on television.

You don't have to use a lot of resistance on this exercise to feel your obliques burn — an added perk if you're worried about your taper.

I have been using the Ab Carver now for about 4 months I usually do sets of Oblique: 75 reps * 2 = 150 reps + sets of straight: 75 reps * 2 = 150 reps for a total of 300 reps. My question since I have been using the Ab Carver for the last 4 months the only muscles I feel engaging and tight are my shoulders and triceps.

Now here's the cool thing about the abs crunch... depending on the type of abs crunch you do, you can shift the focus of the exercise from the upper abs to the lower abs and even to the obliques!

And when people talk about the «core,» they're usually including several other muscles such as the obliques, transversus abdominis (or «TVA»), and serratus.

Hundreds of reps of full body exercises will help strengthen all your minor stabilizer and oblique muscles that you don't think about.

When you think of Pilates workouts, it's all about the core — from your lower abs to the transverse abdominis to your obliques.

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A friend and I came up with a theory about this oblique communication style used in the Seattle adult dating scene.

There are more oblique similarities between the pictures: both, for instance, feature comic Mexicans, running gags about their over-the-hill sleuths possibly losing their penises, and passing allusions to their former wives.

l'll be oblique, but the ending is all anyone's going to be talking about.

Part of what's so terrific about The Fits is that so much of it is open to interpretation, even though the film as a whole isn't that oblique.

While the movie does all of its characters the favor of not condescending to them or their perspectives — a Bible Study group that might have been played for snickers is accorded, at the very least, a neutral view — its strategy of withholding both particular characters and information about their actions (the mine supervisor played by Josh Lucas doesn't show up until a half hour or so into the picture), while perhaps looking attractively, insinuatingly oblique on paper, has on the screen the general effect of blunting potential emotional impact.

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.

Writer - director Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin), adapting a book by Jonathan Ames, opens the movie amidst the final, oblique moments of his most recent assignment.

But I really quite liked the slow, oblique approach in this film about a wanna - be skateboarder kid who relishes hanging out with the bigger skateboarders at the titular skate park — but there's a death not far from there, and it takes the rest of the movie to slowly reveal what exactly happened that one night near Paranoid Park.

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.

«This is a movie that I wanted to be about a dog and have an oblique narrative.

And they talked about, in appropriately oblique terms, Thanos.

Generally speaking, each scene features a different character in conversation with Eric, talking in a frustratingly oblique fashion about life, capitalism or the state of the world.

Well, some of the reviewers might well have been puppies or kittens, and certainly some of the books could have been about them, so in a virtual sense it's entirely possible that this entire blog is an oblique one about our beloved little furry friends.

Picture books address this, too, though often in more oblique terms, offering the youngest set an opportunity to think about the great beyond.

As Maria Popova — whom you may know better as the Brainpicker — took to the stage at Tools of Change to make a somewhat oblique case about the difficulty of supporting a career on the web, the «anonymous critic» whom Ingram mentions already had launched his challenge.

So let's talk about Quiet with the agreement that I'm not going to spoil any of the story beyond her presence, her attire, and an oblique reference to a specific scene.)

Intensive Care / Hot New Track (2013) pairs celebrity gossip about Rihanna and Chris Brown with audio testimony from US military interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison, offering an oblique meditation on power relations, the trivialization of violence, and shifting registers of remorse.

As he talked about his gallery and artists, he was demure and more than a little oblique.

Sun Xun, 31, another rising star, claims that his ideas about art are influenced mostly by German philosopher Martin Heidegger, although his stunning hand - drawn animations are packed with oblique references to traditional Chinese culture as well.

A 33 - year - old Egyptian artist from Alexandria, Mahmoud Khaled lived thought the tumult of the Arab Spring and the subsequent crackdown in the wake of Tahrir Square, and he makes work about the experience that tends to be arch, oblique, at - a-distance.

Late July brought Park McArthur's head - scratching residency at Essex Street, which had her hanging clothes outside the shuttered space for two weeks in midsummer, a quiet, oblique show about homelessness, space and place that never closed.

Matthew Darbyshire on the exhibition and commission: «In the development of this project, rather than getting too pop and «Twenty Twelve», I was thinking about the very real possibility of regression, and the potential for a more oblique commentary on the social, political and cultural implications of what's being built around us today.

The artist, however, offers scant details about her subjects or the scenes she depicts, instead furnishing her viewers with oblique and lyrical titles that prompt contemplation or evoke a mood.

Often, you'll be able to spot an oblique request for help from these folks when they complain about political advertising.

The Hammoud majority's oblique footnote addressing Judge Goodwin's serious concerns about alternative sentencing does not answer this question.

Just as they do when left alone to play, children often like to work and rework stories in oblique forms, such as puppet theater, rather than talking about things directly.