Sentences with phrase «of puzzle boxes»

Such compositional «quilting» is complemented by eight new pieces «stitched» together from rough - hewn objects — wood blocks, copper printing plates, t - shirt fragments — that extend FAILE's use of puzzle boxes, and obscure the boundary between fine and folk art.

Just like its setting, Statik explains nothing to you about how to go about working through each of its puzzle boxes.

There does seem to be a lot of puzzle boxes though!

But after all of the shifting and reorganizing we did around here this past autumn with the home repairs and updates, most of our puzzle boxes were accidentally dumped upside down, or there was one or two missing pieces from the whole process of putting them together and taking them apart again... so I decided it was time to buy a brand - new jigsaw puzzle.

Naturally intrigued by Kirsty's tales of a puzzle box that appears to be the key to the doctor's fixation, Channard reanimates Kirsty's stepmother (Julia) from the aforementioned haunted mattress, murders off the inmates of his basement inferno to feed his new girlfriend (Julia, again), and gets Tiffany (Imogen Boorman), a mute girl who is adept at puzzles, to open the dreaded antique, thus releasing the Cenobites and allowing entrance into the underworld.

Students love the anticipation of a Puzzle Box: It's an opportunity to challenge students and reward them for using critical - thinking skills.

Not exact matches

«Genetics is one piece of the puzzle, an important one that's been in a black box for too long,» says Koenig, a genetics researcher and former elite sprinter.

But Nooma's are fragments, pieces of the puzzle and helpful, challenging as they are they don't tell you what the picture on the box is.

I feel like last season was 10 straight hours of scumbag people doing scumbag things, and it was all inside this over-decorated puzzle box that didn't really have any purpose.

Recalling my past, I can see now that coming out has been a long and puzzling journey out of the heterosexual box, in which I was no more comfortable at age five than I am now at thirty - three.

Thereby they guide the direction of normal research, which is «an attempt to force nature into the preformed and relatively inflexible boxes that the paradigm supplies».18 Like solving a puzzle or playing a game of chess, normal science seeks solutions within an accepted framework; the rules of the game are already established.

A pile of books looked at on their bed A special box of quiet time toys taken out just at this time Story tapes played softly in the room Easy puzzles to do See other toys here This time can be up to 1 hour long some time after lunch.

Fine and gross motor movement Some examples of manipulatives for fine motor development are puzzles, posting boxes, threading, nesting, opening and closing jars.

Packaged in a small box the size of a box of animal crackers, the eeBoo Glitter Puzzles make great stocking stuffers.

The social intelligence hypothesis posits that having to navigate a complex communal life, which involves challenges such as keeping track of who is a friend and who is an enemy, has pushed group - living animals to evolve the mental machinery required to solve and remember mental tasks such as the box puzzle.

They then administered the bird equivalent of personality and IQ tests: assessing traits like boldness and fear or timing how quickly the finches could open a puzzle box full of seeds.

But he wonders what type of cognition the ability to open a puzzle box actually demonstrates.

Cambridge University biologists have cracked the so - called «black box» of embryonic development, a mystery which has long puzzled scientists.

Instead of short - answer questions or lengthier explanations, the test taker will record outcomes of games, solve jigsaw puzzles and perform experiments with the help of a virtual partner that the test taker can communicate with by typing in a chat box.

Surprisingly, all of the wolves managed to open the box after watching a dog solve the puzzle, while only four of the dogs managed to do so.

To advance this line of research, Delgado said, researchers in the future would use a puzzle box with multiple ways of entry so that the squirrels could be trained to use one access point, and would then need to figure out new ways to gain access to the nuts or other rewards when the familiar path was blocked.

They measured how much time each dog or wolf spent within a 1 - meter radius of a human, as well as how hard the animal worked to solve a puzzle box.

As expected, wolves spent less time near humans, and most worked equally hard to solve their puzzle box regardless of whether a human was present.

One hour later, the ravens were presented with the tool, as well as several toy «distractors» that were too large to fit into the slot of the vending machine - like puzzle box.

Puzzle piece the trimmed branches together to cover the front and sides of the box using hot glue.

The action is contained within a coherent dramatic structure and the puzzle - box paranoia of spy - agency protocol.

Access Denied is a puzzle game in the world where for storage of personal data are used special device in the form of protected boxes.

It plays like a response to the age of fan theories and puzzle box fiction, in which stories are set up to be pieced together, with every element eventually snapping into place.

Arrival is a beautifully polished puzzle box of a story whose emotional and cerebral heft should enable it to withstand nit - picky scrutiny.

The gaming equivalent of watching Saturday morning cartoons, this is an easy - going marriage of puzzle solving and shooting in a game that never tries to box above its weight class, and it never has to.

Consciously, if quite superficially, the film is riffing on the twisty architecture of The Game — an amusing target for parody, given that David Fincher's 1997 puzzle - box thriller is hardly a universally beloved touchstone.

It's an abstract puzzle box of a film, and some have dismissed Velvet Goldmine as a two - hour music video, which isn't entirely unfair.

A clearly puzzled Box Office Mojo attributes the fall to Netflix's Stranger Things dampening the desire of horror fans to...

I don't think they fancy themselves heroes, but perhaps missionaries of a very particular faith, and so the irony of the tortures endured by a parade of pleasure - seeking pilgrims (all of them opening a now - iconic — and stripped of all meaning — puzzle box) was cruel and double - edged.

Now, though, eight films in (the majority of them, after the second, made from non-franchise scripts retooled for franchise inclusion), the puzzle box seems to fall into the hands of not archaeologists of pleasure, but hard - bodied co-eds who aren't interested in discovering new, unknown experiences so much as shitting around in the usual slasher - film fashion and accidentally freeing some wise - cracking, cosmic hook - wielding genie.

A mystery puzzle box thriller doused in mood and dread, the film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness seems supernaturally linked to everything going to hell in a handbasket.

With its slick, split screen compositions and puzzle box plotting, Detour is superficially compelling in bursts, but the elements never coalesce into anything of substance.

As mentioned, recent Jury Prize winners include past Oscar nominees Whiplash, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Winter's Bone, and Precious.Sadly, its one of those outstanding films that didn't find its audience, racking up only 6 million dollars at the box office and puzzling the industry as a whole.

The best source of legendary weapons and shields in Assassin's Creed Origins is papyrus puzzles, followed by side quests, followed by treasure boxes in tombs, forts and bandit camps.

But, then again, what do you expect when you have J.J. Abrams — master of the «puzzle box» theory of filmmaking — involved in some capacity?

Born without memory of his past life (the title is the film's first puzzle, as it is really not so much a search for «Bourne's» identity as it is an examination of an identity at birth), Bourne finds himself oddly proficient in self - defence, preternaturally aware of his surroundings, and possessed of a Swiss bank account number (via the laser projector) leading to a safety deposit box full of enough passports and foreign currency to match his ability to speak several languages.

Dir Clive Barker (Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Sean Chapman, Doug Bradley) From the disturbed imagination of gifted British fabulist Clive Barker comes a Faustian pact with a difference, involving a mysterious puzzle - box, a painful rebirth and the diet of human flesh needed to put the skin back on the flayed muscle of jaded sensualist Frank's resurrected body.

is a little puzzle - box gem of clinically constructed perversity.

«Zodiac» (2007) Savides» first collaboration with David Fincher was the wildly over-the-top «The Game,» a kind of hyper - intelligent fuck - you puzzle - box thriller about a very rich man put through his paces by a shadowy organization under the guise of an elaborate role - playing game.

This film is like an ever - changing puzzle box; just when you think you've cracked the code, it reveals a new section you weren't even aware of.

The Gardens Between is a stylish new puzzler, in which you control two friends as they embark across a series of quirky puzzle box islands.

There are plenty of inner monologues that accompany challenging puzzles that require lateral thinking, unique perception, and out - of - the - box analysis.

Hedonist Frank Cotton solves an ancient puzzle box, which summons the fearsome Cenobites, who literally tear Frank apart and leave his remains rotting in the floorboards of an old house.

A Good Match For: People who like brain - tickling games, people who like solving puzzles, fans of boxes.

All numbers should add up across, up and down, and diagonally to the numbers in the boxes at the right or bottom margins of the puzzle.