Sentences with phrase «role reversal for»

The feature is noteworthy mostly for the fact that it rips a sheet out of Facebook's playbook — a role reversal for a company that watched its biggest competitor clone its killer innovation to wild success.

It's a nice role reversal for you and a welcome juxtaposition between them and predictable Nazi zombies.

The movie details the chaos that ensues after wealthy brothers Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer (Don Ameche) orchestrate a total role reversal for a snooty employee (Aykroyd's Louis Winthorpe III) and a streetwise hustler (Murphy's Billy Ray Valentine) as part of a bet, with the majority of the proceedings subsequently following the two patsies as they attempt to adapt to their new surroundings (which, in Louis» case, includes a friendship with Jamie Lee Curtis» warm - hearted prostitute).

It's something of a role reversal for de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, to have to defend his closeness to the real estate community.

It's a role reversal for Republicans in Albany, who previously had billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg donating to their soft - money account.

It's a role reversal for both clubs throughout the summer, Liverpool have lost their star man to La Liga for an astronomical fee, much like Spurs» main man the...

That heavyweightsmackdown was, in a way, a role reversal for Notre Dame, which was humbled bythe Buckeyes in the Fiesta Bowl last January.

Christians have carried on this practice of role reversal for the past two millennia, particularly during Holy Week.

Not exact matches

As the North American oil transportation system continues to evolve, with new pipelines, reversals of existing lines and a growing role for oil - by - rail, what is clear is that the North American oil market will eventually settle into a new era of pricing relationships which will be very different than those which prevailed prior to 2008.

An even more dramatic experience of role reversal can be had by assigning the couple the job of actually reversing roles for a whole week, or at least a few days or a weekend at home.

Monsignor Kevin Irwin, a professor at the Catholic University of America, told CNN from Rome that foot - washing «has always been - for priests, bishops and popes throughout the centuries - a role reversal.

He shocked his contemporaries by calling for a reversal of roles and overturning people's ordinary expectations.

(Except for the reversal of sexual roles, this was — according to the feminine mystique — a classic example of the ideal relationship.)

I received your book for Christmas (my husband is cooking blog follower, a bit of role reversal!)

The recession has brought about a reversal of roles for many families.

Meanwhile the chancellor was accused of cowardice for not taking a greater public role in defending a controversial budget policy reversal and instead leaving a junior colleague to carry the can.

An appearance on BBC2's Newsnight by Chloe Smith, the economic secretary to the Treasury, was widely judged to have been a disaster, leading to accusations on social media of cowardice being levelled at the chancellor for not taking a greater public role in defending the government's latest budget policy reversal.

This worked for a little, but right as I thought it would be cute to get a photo of him dropping me off at «school» (hello, role reversal) and went to take him out of his stroller, he lost it again.

The Mama Natural clan is in beautiful Salt Lake City for the Young Living essential oils convention, and we're experiencing a major role reversal!

Being on SA for a man is a huge role reversal of the typical scenario where you are trying to impress women in a bar, now women are wanting money and hoping to impress us — whether they realize this or not.

Amelia starts off trying to be the grounded one in order to do what's best for Samuel, but in the end there's a bit of a role reversal as its up to Samuel to try to protect his mother.

In a bit of role reversal, studio Warner Bros. is readying a platform release for Jeff Nichols» sci - fi drama Midnight Special, while Sony Classics, a juggernaut of the Specialty space, is setting its sights wide for comedy The Bronze this weekend.

Action star continues role reversal theme for upcoming comedy, which stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon

Additional time to build out characters, to flesh out the show's time travel rules, and to allow for several different realities and reversals of roles.

(For those who recall Depp in Jim Jarmusch's 1995 neo-Western Dead Man, this is essentially a role reversal, with him taking on the Gary Farmer part as a deadpan Native American sidekick to a clueless white man.)

There's some role reversal at hand for Fey who typically plays the responsible one with Poehler usually playing the trainwreck character.

This is a role reversal from The Room which Wiseau wrote, acted in, produced, and was credited for directing though there's some doubt regarding that last one.

«I love this pitch with the sort of reversals of the roles and it makes it a bit fresher and unique,» he said of the advertising campaign in which Hemsworth's Wally Junior acts as tour guide for Dundee's American - born son Bryan (Danny McBride).

In another role - reversal, a second grade boy who was called to the office recently for an early dismissal told his mother that he couldn't go with her because he needed to be in school.

For more, read samples from the new ASCD book, Role Reversal: Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student - Centered Classroom by Mark Barnes.

However, the season brings a complete role reversal, with the winding road course near the central coast of California displaying the checkered flag for the last round of competition on U.S. soil this weekend.

And what has never worked is inverting the roles of hero and princess, since it's usually dumbing down the hero for the princess to save him, I've never seen in any media this sort of role reversal working outside of a comedy,

Speaking of, I experienced an unexpected role reversal between it and the only other LEGO game I've played for an extended time, LEGO City Undercover; in City the open world is incredibly fun to explore, but the missions mostly dull.

It's a role reversal from the tussle of PS3 and Xbox 360 last generation, and that gap has only widened for Sony over the last three and a half years.

For some, the only way to explore more personal subjects such as desire, power, control and role reversal is to embrace an ulterior identity associated with a literal mask or costume to be donned as a shield of safety from judgement and public scrutiny.

If we are to believe that temperature first increases for some unknown reason, then causes CO2 to increase, and that CO2, having been caused by the temperature increase, then changes from being the forced to the forcer on account of a strong positive feedback and usurps the leading role... then, a very strong positive feedback would be needed to even come close to causing this strange forcing reversal.

In a jurisdiction that has prided itself on the importance of «doctrine» in interpreting the law, the fact that the major French language university opts for content with the lowest common denominator, while a foreign owned commercial publisher offers an authoritative work by leading academics and legal practitioners, is a remarkable case of role reversal, as well as a reflection on how times have changed.

«In a classic enmeshed relationship, parents allow their own troubles and insecurities to promote a role - reversal relationship where the child is used to meet the parent's emotional needs for support, nurturance, comforting and sense of self - worth.

Role reversal is closely linked to later mistrust, anger, a suppression of a need for help, and parenting risk.

Mother - daughter role reversal relationships are marked by daughters taking on a supportive role, providing care - taking and other parental behaviors, with mothers relying on daughters for support.

The concept of role reversal can work for school (kids play the teacher and deal with disruptive students) or home (kids play the parent and deal with misbehaving children).

Again, much like prophets in religious traditions, he proposed that the «group» was the primary source of treatment and that action methods (for example: role play, role training, role reversal, social atom enactments, current events, and surplus reality) were formidable avenues for individuals and groups to embrace growth and healing.

It might be argued that these scales represent core aspects of family functioning and are more straightforward and susceptible to improvement compared to other scales of vitality, role reversal, role exaggeration, and bizarreness, for which no change was found.

Significant correlations were found for tone of language at time 2 with the Vitality (r = −.28), Role Reversal (r = −.32), and Global Pathology scales (r = −.36), but not at time 1.

... After concluding his investigation, the evaluator found that mother had a «seriously impaired capacity for reality testing» and met the diagnostic criteria for a «Delusional Disorder of a persecutory (nonbizarre) type»; that the two older children had become enmeshed in mother's battle against father; that the children were not credible reporters because they were colluding with mother to generate false allegations against father; and that the extent of mother's enmeshment and role reversal with the two older children constituted a form of emotional child abuse.

The presence in the child's symptom display of the three characteristic diagnostic indicators (i.e., the «psychological fingerprints») of the child's psychological influence and control by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent represents sufficient and definitive clinical evidence that the symptomatic child - initiated cut - off of the child's relationship with the other parent is the direct result of the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / (borderline) parent (i.e., the allied and supposedly «favored» parent), who is using the child in a role - reversal relationship as a «regulatory other» (see my blog essay: Parental Alienation as Child Abuse: The Regulating Other) for the psychopathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

When the three diagnostic indicators of attachment - based «parental alienation» (i.e., of a cross-generational coalition of the child with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent involving the role - reversal use of the child as a regulatory object for the parent's emotional and psychological state) are present, if the psychologist does not make an accurate diagnosis of the pathology then the «reasonably foreseeable consequences» would be the child's loss of a developmentally healthy and bonded relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available parent, and the developmental pathology imposed on the child by the pathogenic parenting of the narcissistic / borderline parent.

In the struggle of targeted parents across the globe to obtain an appropriate response from professional mental health to the pathology of attachment - based «parental alienation» (i.e., to a cross-generational coalition of the child with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent involving the role - reversal use of the child as a regulatory object for the parent's emotional and psychological state), targeted parents will need to identify the professional standards of practice applicable to the professional organization within their nation in order to apply these professional standards of practice to the expectation for professional competence.

(i.e., of a cross-generational coalition of the child with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent involving the role - reversal use of the child as a regulatory object for the parent's emotional and psychological state)

Therapy for attachment - based «parental alienation» REQUIRES the child's protective separation from the pathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent during the active phase of treatment and recovery stabilization from the role - reversal relationship with the narcissistic / (borderline) parent in which the child is being used as a «regulatory object» by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent for the psychopathology of this parent.