Sentences with phrase «pigeonholed for»

The characters are likeable, and played well by the actors, with Aniston in particular showcasing that she can handle dramatic scenes well, and shouldn't always be pigeonholed for light romantic comedies in the future.

It's not a film that is easily pigeonholed for definable mass consumption.

Katrantzou also faced being pigeonholed for doing only one thing.

Similarly, in the past, engineers with Ph.D. s and master's degrees thought of racing as a dead - end job that would pigeonhole them for life, Warren says.

Not exact matches

Arielle Deane, who is graduating in June from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, says opting for an MBA was a way to expand her skills and also to avoid pigeonholing her career.

Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize for his work in behavioral economics and wroteThinking Fast and Slow, believes robots will be not be pigeonholed in manual - labor jobs but will actually replace CEOs.

While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).

But embracing difference in a way that does not stereotype or pigeonhole people appears to hold promise for achieving diversity.

«I was quite interested in both options, because I guess I had kind of pigeonholed myself, thinking that [physics] was my experience and this was the kind of job I'd be useful for, without really understanding the other functions in the company and the kind of people working in those roles,» he says.

Top Gun 1985 established Cruise as an action star, but again he refused to be pigeonholed, and followed it up with a solid characterization of a fledgling pool shark in the Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money in 1986, for which co-star Paul Newman earned an Academy Award.

After his turn as psychopathic bro in last year's Ingrid Goes West, I feared Magnussen might get pigeonholed as a villain, but now his talents seem bound for imbecilic comedy — which is a very good thing.

His work also refuses to be pigeonholed; for example, defying his reputation as a period film director, 1957's The Eleventh Hour is an ensemble - cast, social realist melodrama about a rescue at a caved - in mine that equals anything made by Hollywood during the same era.

Comedienne Amy Schumer has drawn a lot of eyes (and sometimes ire) for her Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, which lampoons, subverts and raises the ground under many traditional American roles women find themselves pigeonholed in at work,...

Gen Xers looking for a good time probably found themselves cheated at having been pigeonholed like this and watching the film's fun, ironic beginning give way to goopy pathos.

While I wouldn't proclaim it a great film as a whole, it is a great debut as a film creator for its star, as there are so many ways this material could have been done wrong, potentially tarnishing the good - guy appeal of Gordon - Levitt, one of the rare child stars who has made the transition to movie star into adulthood without being pigeonholed or gone off on a path of self destruction.

The Fairy Film Review by Kam Williams Night Watchman Belatedly Falls for Fairy in Ethereal Escapist Fantasy Every now and then, a cinematic masterpiece comes along that's impossible to pigeonhole.

Guilt and anger, acceptance and forgiveness don't fall into neat pigeonholes in Wim Wender's EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, a title that is what everyone aspires to in this small but powerful tale of searching for redemption.

But the easy - to - pigeonhole supporting characters (the conniving mayor; the corrupt businessman) primarily serve as reference points for the two leading men to define themselves; the focus of the film remains on them.

But he was keen not to be pigeonholed, and switched tracks, telling Griffiths, «For years, all people wanted was for me to redo that fiFor years, all people wanted was for me to redo that fifor me to redo that film.

Costume designer Milena Canonero (The Shining) is absent for her own hagiography, by the end of which dyed - in - the - wool counterculturalist Bud Cort has admitted that he found his «polyester shroud» of a wardrobe suspect until he realized that Anderson wasn't trying to pigeonhole Cort's bond - company stooge.

Yes, it has generic elements of the genre but by the end, it can't be pigeonholed and the characters aren't your average troubled souls that are played for laughs or zaniness.

Though often pigeonholed as a horror purist, West is first and foremost an astute student of genre in general, and his affection for the Western is palpable in every frame.

The only thing missing from the scene is the underlying reason for Marcus's difficulties in adjusting: that of his complex Jewish self - identity in wishing to avoid the heavy protestantism of his surroundings while also eschewing Jewish fraternities so as not to pigeonhole himself.

Often a go - to source for education reporters, Hess has worked hard to ensure that he's not pigeonholed as a predictable conservative talking head.

In a world that likes to pigeonhole people, Albert Shanker was a paradox.He was one of the fathers of collective bargaining for teachers, but also one of the strongest voices for teacher professionalism.

Over time, political debating points have pigeonholed urban charter schools, especially those run by for - profits and charter management organizations, as an industrialized sector bent on homogenization.

For students of lesser ability, being included in a heterogeneous group rather than pigeonholed into a homogeneous group reduces their risk of being stigmatized.

Despite these expanding leadership opportunities, it is still far too common for teachers to be pigeonholed into traditional roles or provided with scattershot opportunities to exercise their leadership skills that fail to offer strategic approaches to personal career development.

A softcore sports car that moves Ferrari into previously uncharted territory, it is a real departure for the Maranello brand, and consequently very hard to pigeonhole.

There's nothing in between (at least for the time being — the four - cylinder gasoline engines found in the Jaguar XE sedan are expected to be added at some point), which potentially pigeonholes buyers into an engine option they didn't necessarily want to have.

And for as long as hatchbacks have been easily identified, they've also been somewhat pigeonholed.

Launched in September 2014, The Pigeonhole has been nominated for the Digital Innovation Awards at the London Book Fair, Future Book's Digital Campaign of the Year for its work promoting Ken Follett's A Column of Fire, and its founding editor Anna Jean Hughes was named as a Rising Star of the publishing industry by The Bookseller magazine.

Digital reading platform The Pigeonhole have launched a competition with Pan Macmillan, giving 500 winners early access to a serialized exclusive of Ken Follett's latest blockbusting novel, A Column of Fire (see below for more info).

If she's looking for Jewish literary women's fiction, then by all means tell her yours fits that pigeonhole.

Ahead of this, The Pigeonhole's Laurence Kilpatrick shares his top tips for pre-launch publicity.

The surprising commercial success of Umberto's Eco's Name of the Rose (1983), certainly the contemporary prototype of the literary thriller, historical division, legitimized genre - bending — even for those timid publishers who tend to fear any product that can't be pigeonholed.

Jacob Cockcroft is Co-Founder and CEO of The Pigeonhole, a made - for - mobile digital book club, serialising their books in installments delivered straight to a reader's virtual bookshelf on the iOS app or website.

In June 2002, some time after the book had been sold on its own merits to publishers in multiple countries, and optioned for film writes, Rubinstein admitted that she was the author, saying «I think there is a strong tendency among the spectators or the readers of culture to pigeonhole people, and that's the thing that artists hate having done to them.

This year, in addition to the circulation of a special Big Read edition and a series of associated events for both the University and the local Kingston community, The Pigeonhole edition will create a community online.

Over the past twelve months, we at The Pigeonhole, a digital reading and conversation platform, have progressed from running small - scale serialisations for independent publishers looking to make the most out of their marketing budget, to larger and increasingly global campaigns for some of the biggest publishing houses and authors in the industry.

Pan Macmillan has launched an exclusive global book club for Ken Follett fans with digital reading platform The Pigeonhole.

To me LA is a misunderstood city and one that doesn't get the credit it deserves because it's been incorrectly pigeonholed as fake and soulless for so many years.

They showcased a wide variety of games, refusing to pigeonhole their concept of the modern - day player (or the modern - day developer, for that matter).

She might resent being pigeonholed as a woman with teacups, but art, feminism, and everyday life for her belonged together.

«I think the challenge for many African Americans is that there's a pigeonholing.

He then left for New York and pursued abstract expressionism, determined to break free of racial associations in his paintings — he was, reportedly, tired of being pigeonholed as a Caribbean artist.

For many years, Motherwell has been neglected, perhaps because he can't be pigeonholed as gestural (like Pollock & de Kooning) or color - field (like Rothko & Newman).

Some might think the call for the story to be more inclusive and to acknowledge the role of race diminishes the work in some way, or that it pigeonholes an artist.

But they were pigeonholed as «unrealistic» — a theoretical option, not a viable pathway for automotive development.

As a young lawyer, it can be easy to get pigeonholed into one practice area within the firm, and if that isn't satisfying your appetite for international experience, take matters into your own hands.