Sentences with phrase «people as a foil»

Use the brilliant people as a foil to spur yourself and the total fools as entertainment fodder...

Not exact matches

The «tenner», as it is known in Britain, has two clusters of dots in the top corner to help blind and partially sighted people identify the note, and is decorated with a gold foil image of Austen's burial place.

We are guilty of using «the poor» as objects or foils sent to teach us about ourselves rather than people in their own right.

This European neologism was used in a way that would have struck previous generations as a plain category mistake, designating not actions, but people — and so also with its counterpart and foil «heterosexual.»

(One of the reasons the founding fathers were adamant all Americans would have freedom of whorship) It's too simplistic to say the English reformation happened because Henry 8th wanted a divorce, it happened because of the influence of Martin Luther and the rise of Protestants in Europe and because the Catholic Church had become too powerfull, wealthy and corrupt and did not hesitate to burn people it considered Heritics, In England Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as the foiling of a terrible plot to kill the king, James the 1st and most of the parliament.

Never sure what amount is good for each person in that situation — Used Parisian baguettes for the buns — cooked as per instruction (had to half them to fit all of them in the oven), baked them in foil but lined that with parchment paper — then completely wrapped them for delivery (no oven on site).

Some people use foil, although we don't recommend it as you can find that some pieces of foil remain in the food!

because cuomo must have preferred having a wet - behind - ears wilson as his foil watching over his budgeting handiwork... and because wilson would have given him cover when he takes his hammer to the working people of this state during contract negotiations, and maybe because wilson also would have given cuomo the «well, he's a republican» excuse in the event that wilson actually landed any blows?

You can use the «Big Guys» as foils: «Frustrated with trying to reach a real person at Match.com or eHarmony?

Hollywood «creativity» then transformed the welcoming and friendly people of Belize into coldly rude hotel employees serving as foils for the kidnappers who ultimately ruined the honeymoon vacation of the protagonist couple.