Sentences with phrase «perform acts like»

I never played the game, but I've played other US Civil War themed games, and never once did I see a requirement that a player perform acts like chasing runaway slaves.

Thou shall not perform any type of nacho sex with you neighbor's wife or girlfriend; it is only ok to perform acts like that if they have been broken up for at least 6 months

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Like night - club hypnotists, e-commerce brands like Casper and Endy have persuaded consumers to perform an unthinkable act — order a mattress online, sight unseen, despite it being where they will spend a third of their lives for years to come — and turned another industry on its hLike night - club hypnotists, e-commerce brands like Casper and Endy have persuaded consumers to perform an unthinkable act — order a mattress online, sight unseen, despite it being where they will spend a third of their lives for years to come — and turned another industry on its hlike Casper and Endy have persuaded consumers to perform an unthinkable act — order a mattress online, sight unseen, despite it being where they will spend a third of their lives for years to come — and turned another industry on its head.

They have performed beyond our expectations, acting like a true marketing partner in our business by expanding the amount we can get done, helping us stay on top of opportunities to brand and grow our business, as well as being an effective sounding board.

The Prime Minister's Office explained, «Like all families of prime ministers, a small number of staff provide assistance,» and, «Given the nature of the Prime Minister's responsibilities and his young family, the Trudeaus employ two household employees who, in addition to performing other duties around the house, act as secondary caregivers to the three children.»

TMM has performed beyond our expectations, acting like a true marketing partner... helping us stay on top of opportunities...

Unfortunately in Islam most of the unemployed street side loafer, rowdy sheather is elevated and glorified to perform certain stupid act like 9/11 11/26, all the background in 11/26 in Mumbai were unemployed youth with to purpose in life.

You also can't perform an act where you know cancer is the natural, end result, like you can in pregnancy.

How dare we presume we can get God to act on cue like a circus animal (and even they don't want to perform all the time!).

It reminds us that one of the essential tasks that the theologian - ethicist at the seminary performs is to help pastors, and through them congregations like Broadway, to appreciate the significance of their common acts.

Martyrdom, Dan concludes, is an act of remembrance, like the Eucharist, in which «we make the past present», and is an act we should perform often, and with gratitude.

How is being given the illusion of a choice make you less like a robot if you perform the same acts that a robot would perform if it worshipped god?

All Christians are saints — even if we don't act like saints, even if we don't perform miracles.

It's like writing a lengthy essay or term paper, or a one - act play and then polishing, practicing it, and performing it — every week!

Does «submission» mean that a woman must perform sex acts she doesn't like in order to please her husband?

If we are all gods, then when one performs a righteous act, it may only prove (to someone like you), that that one person is a god.

That's where mainstream acts like My Morning Jacket, Ellie Goulding, the Arctic Monkeys, and Incubus perform.

But as soon as he doesn't perform or acts like a prick - Sanogo is in.

Last term, David De Gea was called upon to act as a solid last line of defence with the likes of Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and Jonny Evans largely failing to perform consistently enough.

The guy needs to see that he has to perform at his best week in and week out, act like a professional in life as well.

They trounced us 4 - 0, they took a player of ours, which clearly Wenger wanted to retain and then made him act like a performing seal kissing the badge on camera, like he'd just escaped from Colditz, they then tried to sign a player which we hadn't managed to sign all summer!

I hope he acts an shows the players that don't perform that he means business and benches the players that don't perform like he did to Szczesny.

If Mourinho can't get his players back on side, and the likes of Sanchez and Pogba performing on the pitch in the final few weeks of the season, the United board have a huge decision to make on whether to persist for a third act.

It also allowed him the chance to strip off and pose like a muscle man — an act he never needs to be asked twice to perform.

My biggest takeaway from the experience of breastfeeding in public was that having conventions for the act is putting pressure on moms like me to perform in a certain way so that we're collectively inconspicuous.

Now, while my husband has played out these scenes and others like them time and again, it is obviously not only him performing these acts of kindness throughout the world on long, lonely stretches of roads and brightly lit grocery stores.

If you or anyone you know performs selfless acts for others like the PTECH program at Broome - Tioga BOCES, email, [email protected]

Like Speaker Sheldon Silver and Vito Lopez, they appear to walk «Scott» free, to perform more morally reprehensible acts on our behalf.

More advanced versions of this palm - size flapper could spy and perform reconnaissance while acting like an ordinary hummingbird in the bush.

Whereas the Federal Advisory Committee Act regards advisory committees to be a «useful and beneficial means of furnishing expert advice, ideas, and diverse opinions to the federal government» and requires advisory committees to be «fairly balanced in terms of points of view represented and like functions to be performed,» and

Yet according to Willem Hillenius, a physiologist at UCLA who is also a paleontologist, maxilloturbinals perform an even more fundamental task than acting as a filter: they permit mammals like us to be warm - blooded.

When researchers asked women to watch either an erotic film, a sports video, or a «neutral» video of a train, and then perform a series of unpleasant acts (like drinking out of a cup with a bug in it), they found that those who'd watched the sexual acts rated the tasks as less disgusting — and were also able to complete more of them.

Like a research subject performs better when they are wearing a «doctors lab coat» instead of a «painters coat», perhaps I too will act more professional by simply giving myself such a title.

He could perform strongman acts like breaking a hot water bottle by literally blowing it up, lifting vehicles on stage as others changed the tires and deadlifts above 320 kg.

When I saw her perform on the computer screen (I saw this instantly on Netflix), this thought came to my head: Why can't children act like this anymore?

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Povinelli sometimes performed stunts, in films like Van Helsing and Employee of the Month, but largely stuck to acting, earning particular attention for the role of Walter in the 2011 period drama Water for Elephants.

Much like our Graham Greene - inspired friend Donnie Darko, when he floods the school and burns Patrick Swayze's house down, Assayas performed an act of creation by destruction.

Wayans continues to write and act, probably boasting the most diverse filmography of his family, having performed for the likes of Darren Aronofsky and the Coen Brothers.

At various points they are each effective, especially Morton, who brings real dignity to her performance, but again it's like they're acting in a theater and projecting to the back row, not performing with a camera two feet away from their faces.

But he has given plenty of good performances, and his work, like a lot of film performing, runs contrary to the contemporary signifiers of «good» acting.

His newest customer is Nina Dunham (Andrea Riseborough), a television news reporter who sees a story in the lives of people like Kyle — runaways and abandoned young people who try to eke out a living performing sex acts on the Internet.

For instance, are we to really to expect that Mary Shaw not only could afford to build a palatial theater in what happens to be quite a small town, but that her performances within that theater would continue to be attended by townsfolk who act like they are seeing her perform every showing for the very first time?

That experience came back to me while watching Camp, Todd Graff's tribute to the performing - arts summer program Stagedoor Manor, where he (along with folks like Natalie Portman, Robert Downey Jr., and Jon Cryer) was first bit by the acting bug.

Clutching this monologue as if it had been written exclusively for her, and that afterward the sheet music would then be locked in a vault forever, the actress» actress Hathaway achieves a level of frailty we haven't yet seen from her, despite her previous interest in emotionally demanding acting parts, that now all seem like practice for what she has performed here.

Even if you already know the details and the outcome, Captain Phillips gives us a chance to experience what it might have been like to be in such a terrible predicament, as well as how many smaller acts of bravery that Phillips performed in order to try to secure the safety and security of the crew and the vessel they are on.

Flashbacks trace Cohan's rise, from a childhood performing in his family's vaudeville act to his early days as a struggling Tin Pan Alley songwriter to his overwhelming success as an actor, writer, director and producer known for patriotic songs like «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» «You're a Grand Old Flag» and «Over There.»

One minute a fiercely honest character study about a man coping with bipolar disorder, and the next minute a charming rom - com revolving around an amateur dancing competition, the film performs such an amazing tightrope act that it's really to Russell's credit that it doesn't come crashing down like a house of cards.

After learning just how much a male stripper act like the Chippendales make for performing at local bars, Gaz recruits his own ragtag group — including best mate, Dave (Mark Addy) and former boss, Gerald (Tom Wilkinson)-- to put on a show of their own.

And it looks like just enough of a departure from his usual heroics to remind me that when he stops performing and just ACTS, Cruise can be really good, and his best performances, Maverick aside, have been playing scuzzy characters.