Sentences with phrase «of a cipher in»

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.

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There are times in history when the fate of a war and millions of lives depended on the strength of such ciphers.

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

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

In a new series of works, the artist Andy Bauch encrypted the private key to the cryptocurrency wallet, and anyone can receive digital money if he cracks a cipher.

Lincoln's education, which may strike us as haphazard, was largely a matter of being drilled in the basics of grammar, spelling, composition, and ciphering, as it was called.

Despite the assertion that God has favored Christians living in this present moment of history with the key to decode the prophetic ciphers, millennialists are unable to agree on how to read the message.

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.

Although Ezekiel stresses Yahweh's self - sufficiency, he is not a prototype of the extreme Barthian, the proponent of a theology in which man's role in redemption is reduced to a cipher.

In accepting his presence in the world, precisely as man found himself before the «cipher» or «word» of the world, he came to encounter the mystery of the contradictory aspects of a reality or of a «sacrality» that he was led to consider compact and homogeneouIn accepting his presence in the world, precisely as man found himself before the «cipher» or «word» of the world, he came to encounter the mystery of the contradictory aspects of a reality or of a «sacrality» that he was led to consider compact and homogeneouin the world, precisely as man found himself before the «cipher» or «word» of the world, he came to encounter the mystery of the contradictory aspects of a reality or of a «sacrality» that he was led to consider compact and homogeneous.

However, since the «cipher» constituted by this symbolism carries with it in its structure all the values that have been progressively revealed to man in the course of time, it is necessary in deciphering them to take into account their most general meaning, that is, the one meaning which can articulate all the other, particular meanings and which alone permits us to understand how the latter have formed a structure.

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.

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.

In communicating with the Government and the other missions and consulates of the sending State, wherever situated, the mission may employ all appropriate means, including diplomatic couriers and messages in code or cipher.In communicating with the Government and the other missions and consulates of the sending State, wherever situated, the mission may employ all appropriate means, including diplomatic couriers and messages in code or cipher.in code or cipher...

But Sampson was reelected in 2008 with an astounding 95 percent of the vote, and his Republican opponent this year, Rose Laney, is a cipher.)

Beginning in 1941, the Germans also used Lorenz, a much more sophisticated cipher than Enigma, and to crack it required the first fully electronic computers, the famous Colossus machines, each of which employed several thousand vacuum tubes.

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.

John Nagy, author of Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution, discusses the codes, ciphers, chemistry and psychology of spying in the American Revolution, in a talk recorded by podcast host Steve Mirsky at the historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

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.

Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the «cipher bureau» of the British government.

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.

But who she is when she's not on the job is a cipher; we only know that Paula shares a pad with Kit, a cute - loopy weirdo who, in the tradition of eccentric romantic - comedy roommates in the person of irresistible comedienne Zooey Deschanel, sashays away with the picture every time director Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon) gives her a chance.

The supposedly cunning protagonist registers as a cipher, and the directors» tendency to shoot dialogue scenes in close - up blunts any understanding of the social milieu he's trying to conquer.

Maybe it's just harder to make this kind of film with a volunteer army: The path Swofford takes to the desert is delivered in a progression of winking flashbacks that collectively amount to that hill of beans, obscuring his character and making a cipher of his suffering.

George is played by Aaron Eckhart, who was so dominant in «In the Company of Men,» but here, wearing a twerpy John Ritter beard that he doesn't seem comfortable with, he's a shallow ciphein «In the Company of Men,» but here, wearing a twerpy John Ritter beard that he doesn't seem comfortable with, he's a shallow cipheIn the Company of Men,» but here, wearing a twerpy John Ritter beard that he doesn't seem comfortable with, he's a shallow cipher.

We get just fleeting glimpses of Hermit (Galifianakis), a cipher ominously wandering around in a white jumpsuit, whose one focal scene allows the actor to unleash his signature screaming act.

Meanwhile, in a couple of Romeo and Juliet subplots, blank cipher hunk Charlie Baker (Tom Welling) starts up an entirely heatless flirtation with blank cipher babe Anne Murtaugh (Jaime King), and adorable proto - lesbian Sarah Baker (Alyson Stoner) tries on the «femme» when doe - eyed proto - extreme sports star Eliot Murtaugh (Taylor «Sharkboy» Lautner) turns his attentions to her «coolness.»

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.

Also taking place in Romania, this time told from the point of view of the father (the teenage daughter, Eliza, excellently played by Maria Dragus — first seen as a teen in Michael Haneke's Das weiße Band / The White Ribbon, 2009 — remains a cipher) is Cristian Mungiu's Baccalauréat (Graduation) that plunges into some troubled waters of ethical ambiguity.

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.

Meanwhile, the victims who are actually in the cross-hairs of some real bombs, guns, grenades, and even plain old physical violence, are ciphers to this story.

Only Carey Mulligan struggles, in the role of Daisy, the woman torn between the two men; a cipher on the page, she's not easily rendered as flesh and blood on the screen, even by an actress of Mulligan's skill.

But once we see James Franco in the orange prison garb, True Story makes a calamitous dip into obviousness: It required another cipher of an actor to complete its shame circle but instead got a cool Cheshire cat.

or, «This uncontrollable cipher will be in the wrong lane of the road at a precise moment») as the cornerstones of its various intrigues.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

There's a dog, an orphan, a drunk preacher (Clancy Brown, the best thing about this whole mess, so of course he dies fairly early on), and an exchange late in the belly of the stupidest alien spaceship since the one in Super 8 where Ella implores Jake — and the rest of us who were supposed to identify with this glowering cipher — to «stop thinking.»

Some have found profundity in the images, but I found them to be empty ciphers masquerading as profundity, making Only God Forgives into the sort of film that covers up its utter lack of substance with extreme style.

In any case, there hasn't been a well - developed woman in a Mann film since Joan Allen's poor little blind girl in Manhunter, and true to form, Billie is made the cipher who begs her fella not to pursue the course that will lead to his ruin — although we know it's that aura of insuperable testosterone that's drawn him to her in the first placIn any case, there hasn't been a well - developed woman in a Mann film since Joan Allen's poor little blind girl in Manhunter, and true to form, Billie is made the cipher who begs her fella not to pursue the course that will lead to his ruin — although we know it's that aura of insuperable testosterone that's drawn him to her in the first placin a Mann film since Joan Allen's poor little blind girl in Manhunter, and true to form, Billie is made the cipher who begs her fella not to pursue the course that will lead to his ruin — although we know it's that aura of insuperable testosterone that's drawn him to her in the first placin Manhunter, and true to form, Billie is made the cipher who begs her fella not to pursue the course that will lead to his ruin — although we know it's that aura of insuperable testosterone that's drawn him to her in the first placin the first place.

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.

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.

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 cipheIn 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 ciphein the US, where the sight of Union in the lead will satisfy those for whom cinema has to serve as a political ciphein the lead will satisfy those for whom cinema has to serve as a political cipher.

Through Moore we get a vivid sense of housewife Laura Brown's desperation, but the character remains a cipher beyond her need to escape and interest in the book Mrs. Dalloway.

Finally, ScreenDaily's Tim Grierson was much less positive, claiming that it feels like «a soulless, mechanical exercise in pure kinetic showmanship» and that Berg «too easily undercuts the human element of his story,» preferring to render most of the characters in the film «ciphers representing bland notions of good or evil.»

Their scenes together feel as if they're populated by humans rather than ciphers, and each of them seems to have a goal and purpose that is lacking in the rest of the film.

Banderas is wonderful in the role of the heroic cipher, sadly set adrift in this mess with nothing to do but look good in black and spangle.

Deprived of the privilege to joystick this little featureless cipher boy around, it's reasonable to expect some kind of compelling characterization in its place, but it's quickly apparent that Abreu intends primarily to use his character, who's technically on a mission to reconnect with an absent father, as a vehicle to shuttle the viewer through a generic exposé on the state of the world.

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.