Sentences with phrase «of a cipher for»

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.

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The historically ecumenical churches have for the most part become ciphers in this respect, and uniting them is a matter of joining weakness to weakness, while the evangelicals and Pentecostals who do have political weight are un-ecumenical or anti-ecumenical.

She can explain the heart of each without ever mentioning Jesus, or by mentioning Jesus, but reducing him to a cipher for the one in whom Christians either do or do not find themselves.

The former wartime Land Girl on Lloyd George's farm, and translator of German naval ciphers for the code - breakers at Bletchley Park, went out in suitable style, however: throwing a farewell lunch party for 50 friends including Sir John Major in the Palace of Westminster — where she regaled guests with a song — before a final, majestic, pearls and fur - clad appearance in the Lords chamber to take the oath one last time, to warm cheers from her peers.

The mathematical quantities are ciphers, proxies for the tangible objects of the real, physical world and their measurable properties.

Thanks to the increasing speed of computers, hackers have been able to crack the aging cipher, so NIST decided in 1997 to look for a replacement.

Of course the situation is only made worse when a couple introduce you to the only other single friend in the room — an accountant or acne - laden nerd who you get ciphered off with for the rest of the nighOf course the situation is only made worse when a couple introduce you to the only other single friend in the room — an accountant or acne - laden nerd who you get ciphered off with for the rest of the nighof the night.

It's like Tim says — online dating is about MEETING people — generally lots of them — and each person is a cipher that more or less fits your on - paper parameters, you really have no idea if you'll like them until you meet them, and generally for online dating to work well, the plan should be to meet many people.

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

Luckily, Chastain makes sure she doesn't devolve into a cipher for American vengeance, and her performance offers surprising depth and nuance, showing true growth and development from the ingénue crying in the corner of a CIA black site torture room to the woman who is comfortable and confident enough to lay her career on the line to make sure the CIA goes along with her plan.

Joe is a cipher, and the precipitated flashbacks that ostensibly flesh him out and lend gravity to his sufferance for violence feel somehow reductive, unconsidered, rote in a trauma - by - the - numbers kind of way.

But unlike the director's earlier films, Stone no longer starts with characters and shrouds them in issues of cultural significance, but has acquiesced to being a director who conceals his primary interest in issues with thinly - veiled stories and characters that are ciphers for, again, expository revelations or political screeds.

Notionally, it's about an ageing Solid Snake coming to terms with his own mortality — an obvious cipher for what Kojima (falsely) claimed was his last MGS game — and a vainglorious attempt to tie up the series» themes of information control, genetic legacy and the relativity of virtue (plus Jonny Sasaki's irritable bowels).

But other characters are complete ciphers, and Cotrona and Palacki are wan substitutes for any of a number of cast members from the first film, which offers up more punchy fun than this sequel.

And on a broader scale, Graham's character progression throughout the film is a cipher for confronting twisted, broken authority in many arenas — including, of course, scaring up the bravery to confront power - hungry leaders who want to turn the world against you.

Breaking In may do decent business in the US, where the sight of Union in the lead will satisfy those for whom cinema has to serve as a political cipher.

Garance Marillier is extraordinary as Justine, proving a one - of - a-kind cipher for the familial rage the film explores so potently and deeply.

Overall, Don Jon has its problems — it doesn't explore its issues nearly as elegantly or evenhandedly as I'd like (the women get very little internal lives of their own, instead acting as ciphers for Jon to bounce his porn / mommy issues off), and many elements strike me as overly precious or derivative of other works.

Denzel Washington's Troy acts almost as a cipher for the entire modern history of African Americans here.

A whole - lesson activity ideal for KS3 students and consists of a series of cryptographic challenges including Caesar Ciphers, simple substitution ciphers, Morse code and combinations oCiphers, simple substitution ciphers, Morse code and combinations ociphers, Morse code and combinations of them.

Districts that invest heavily in better training and support for their principals, only to treat them as ciphers once they are hired, are a long way from cultivating the brand of leadership described in this report, which holds that authority and responsibility must be broadly exercised in order to create sustainable learning improvements schoolwide.

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I think, looking back, that the days «Edges» was only a cipher inside my very confused ideas about heritage and psyche, writing and autobiography, real history and the illusions of politics were the days the back - story for the novel began.

During WWII he worked at Britain's code breaking center at Bletchley Park (located halfway between Oxford and Cambridge in what is now Milton Keynes), where he devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers.

Better navigation, including skipping to the next puzzle from within a current puzzle, clear all cipher entries for a puzzle in progress, and the ability to remove a single cipher entry is now conveniently located at the beginning of the alphabet list

We remember Vaas and Pagan Min because when it comes to the Far Cry series, the central characters are really just ciphers for us as players, and lenses through whom we can come to view the games» explorations of their villains.

In this guide you'll find a complete walkthrough for all of the Muspelheim Ciphers along..

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.

1993 42nd Street Art Project: Victory Parade, Times Square, New York, NY Ciphers of Identity, University of Maryland, Baltimore, ME Dress Codes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Identifications and Desires, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York, NY

In Judd's case, this is felt in his constructions — conceived, built, failed, aborted, and then left to the elements — which in Shirreff's hands become a cipher for the onlooker watching them, equally subject to the passage of time.

At the Met Breuer's recent exhibition «Delirious: Art and the Limits of Reason», I was struck by evidence that the grid — often a structural cipher for rationality in Western art — could be used to demonstrate its opposite.

Yet for many Americans, Latinos remain like shadowy ciphers, notably absent from narratives of American art.»

Taking its title from the dark 80s teen cult comedy by the same name, Heathers takes a look at pop culture's (and pop cinema's) co-option of contemporary art and its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

Curated by New York's Alex Ross and crossing generations born before and beyond the 80s, the exhibition rides on the inescapable cycle of contemporary art co-option in popular culture via its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

Selected solo exhibitions include «RENEWAL», Villa Romana, Florence, Italy, 2015; «Trayvon», Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, 2014; «The Bride Stripped Bare of Her Energy's Evil», BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2008; «The New World», Art in General, New York and Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2006; «The Morphologist & the Architect», Falaki Gallery, the American University Cairo, 2004; «Majestic Ciphers», Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy, 2002.

This is a fantastic model for ciphering contemporary reality; an archaeology of the present.

Referencing the language, imagery, and iconography of advertising and product dis - plays, Product Recall is a cipher for the politics of commodifcation, consumption, marketing, and supply - demand economics.

Through the decades, Chicago's cats became muses and ciphers for the mystery of identity — roles commemorated in Kitty City, a series of drawings of cats eating, sleeping and making intense eye contact.

Luminous Sphere (2010), a mysterious glowing orb installed on the roof of the Standard Hotel, lights up only when Golia is in Los Angeles, both acknowledging his own presence and appropriating what he calls «the sign language of L.A.,» such as the billboards of Sunset Boulevard and the Hollywood Sign, it acts as a mysterious cipher for the projection of meaning to the casual passerby — and thus a contemporary urban legend is born.

Suggesting the vastness of the cosmos and the infinitesimal forms of cells or atoms, the complex matrix of swirls and dots stands as the ultimate cipher for the incomprehensible dimensions of infinity.

For the artists, the natural and built environments are both a source of haptic pleasures and a playground for exploration and critical dissent in which landscape and architecture function as stage - like objects or ciphers for memory, social and political networks and Romantic artistic positioFor the artists, the natural and built environments are both a source of haptic pleasures and a playground for exploration and critical dissent in which landscape and architecture function as stage - like objects or ciphers for memory, social and political networks and Romantic artistic positiofor exploration and critical dissent in which landscape and architecture function as stage - like objects or ciphers for memory, social and political networks and Romantic artistic positiofor memory, social and political networks and Romantic artistic positions.

Time stands still, yet the hilltop and lake serve as ciphers for a place of significance to be speculated about in both narrative and psychological terms.

To illustrate my position, Dr. Lawrence Torcello, a philosopher at the Rochester Institute of Technology, put it succinctly: ``... Some issues are of such ethical magnitude that being on the correct side of history becomes a cipher of moral character for generations to come.

The gloriously named «Law's mercantile cipher code for forwarding business communications by telegraph, telephone or postal card, with secrecy and economy, in use by subscribers and attorneys of the Canadian Reporting and Collecting Association,» (an excerpt from which you see above) was published in Toronto in 1880 and, unlike the Anglo - American code book (held tight by Harvard and Google Books), is available online, thanks to the University of Alberta Library, which digitized it, and the Internet Archive, which hosts it.

Where you would normally find a control module with a mic and playback controls, the CIPHER cable has an inline digital - to - analog converter, a headphones amplifier, and of course a Siri - compatible mic for calls.

Building on the international work of CIPHER: Competencies for Indigenous Public Health, Evaluation and Research, the review seeks to address issues of Aboriginal public health, including systemic factors related to colonialism, recognition of Indigenous knowledge, and First Nations, Inuit and Métis health governance.

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