Sentences with phrase «seeming raison»

As for the film's seeming raison d'etre, the walrus - ization of Wallace (walrus, Wallace — get it?)

Not exact matches

This seems to be the raison d'être of the most dramatic miraculous encounters — as a way for non - Christians to be alerted to the reality of a living and active God.

The revolution in government presaged by an activist population policy would thus seem to be based less in politics per se than in «science,» for in the final analysis it is the field of learning known as «population studies» that provides population policy with its raison d'etre.

It would seem that Erdem's raison d'être is to create romantic, intricately embroidered evening dresses for the coolest girls in the world.

I mean, they will get it dirty at some point, because getting things dirty seems to be their raison d'etre at the moment, but when it happens I won't have to feel guilty about it — the advantage of a cute - but - cheap coat.

As I wrote in my review of it last year, there seemed to be no raison d'être to the first movie other than the obvious one of cashing in on a bestselling series.

The tapering buttresses that it hangs from may seem an extravagance but their raison d'être is a functional one.

It doesn't seem to me that this is much of a raison d'etre.

It's there, driving the plot forward, but it's not the raison d'etre as in games like Bioshock (which a lot of people seem to be comparing it to, for reasons that escape me).

Acts of process seem paramount in your earlier work but not in the modernist etymology of word, not by revealing the making of the thing but rather reacting to it, altering the thing's physical state by responding to its raison d'être.

This might seem like a tautological game, but it is actually at the root of Mosset's raison d'être.

Take the NOMAD tiny house — its whole raison d'etre seemed to be stopping its owner from living the highly - leveraged, consumerist lifestyle.

This seemed kind of mad, since being constantly alerted to messages is almost the raison d'etre of Apple Watch and, indeed, all other smartwatches.

In fact, it seems to me that taxing and regulating such initiatives destroys their «raison d'être».