Sentences with phrase «of a cipher»

Playing something of a cipher who reinvents himself as the occasion demands, Wood is unusually well cast, but it's Hunnam, with a psychotic twinkle in his eye, who turns the movie on whenever he's onscreen.

Unfortunately, these are few and far between, leaving him a bit of a cipher in his own movie.

Nintendo has turned the plumber into more of a cipher in recent years, so it will be interesting to see what kind of personality they give him.

If anything, it makes her seem like even more of cipher.

The Q&A ends with detailed examples of the ciphers used by both the North and South during the Civil War.

McClelland's constellations of ciphers evoke the sound of speech while at the same time, her repetition of a single word creates a highly personal poetry about the shifting, often elusive nature of meaning.

McClelland's constellations of ciphers evoke the sounds of speech and, through the repetition of a single word, she poetically suggests the shifting, often elusive nature of its meaning.

The key to securing the future may be in the rediscovery of a cipher from 100 years ago.

Unlike with Hillary Clinton (to say nothing of a cipher like John Edwards), it isn't difficult to create a list of Palin's significant policy achievements.

Seyfried does her best, but it is a bit of a cipher role.

Garland has far more on his mind than how to creatively dispatch a list of ciphers and his film is wonderfully unknowable, a crackling tension underpinning the unpredictable narrative.

One of Heineman's best tricks here is stripping the audience of a cipher, making it difficult to figure out who to root for.

; in the only noteworthy elision, Deanna confesses to cheating on Charles, something that might've helped make her less of a cipher — and Charles less of an asshole — in context.

Over the course of the next decade, the killer taunted police and the media with a series of ciphers and letters of confession, never revealing his identity.

Based on the biography «Alan Turing: The Enigma,» the film is a biopic of the English multi-hyphenate — mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, computer scientist — whose cracking of ciphers made a massive difference in World War II and whose exploration into early computer design paved the way for the technologies we have now.

But there's a major disadvantage here as well, as Xiao Hong herself remains something of a cipher for much too long in her own film, being talked about by others but not being allowed to simply be experienced without any direct filter, so the audience can make up its own mind about her.

A genius - level mathematician recruited by British Intelligence to break the German «Enigma» code, we learn through flashbacks that Jericho has already cracked one iteration of the cipher and that the task has given him a nervous breakdown.

Have students use the coded message at the bottom of the cipher («The man whose mind on virtue bent...») to try to figure out the pattern.

No characters, except for the party of ciphers you cobble together, no town - filled overworld, no cut scenes, and hardly a plot on which to hang the usual overwrought save - the - world histrionics.

But in regards to the guiding theme of the exhibition, which was superbly organized by guest curator Therese Lichtenstein, this detail is a kind of cipher.

Each artist presents their own perceptions on coding, the result being a diverse and inquisitive exploration of ciphering.

These paintings incorporated an all - over compositional technique using variously short dabs, dense webs of dripped paint, and grids of ciphers and hieroglyphic forms.

It's not that he doesn't inform the debate with robust argument; it's not that Monbiotists too, lack coherent and powerful arguments; it's that an army of ciphers exists, merely to overwhelm them.

The output of the cipher is unreadable unless the same exact key is used to decrypt it.

Schindler is also something of a cipher, just as he was for Thomas Keneally, whose 1982 book, «Schindler's List,» marked a daring synthesis of fiction and fact.

Serricchio's Don starts off as a bit of a cipher / goof, though by Episode 5 he gets fleshed out, his own «secret life» revealed.

But though he has been in the public eye since he was elected to the State Senate in 1998, the progressive Jewish Democrat from Manhattan's Upper West Side has always been more or less a background player, and something of a cipher.

He is, therefore, a disconnected figure and something of a cipher.