Sentences with phrase «series of conundrums»

When the box of tricks they've knocked together in their garage starts behaving in ways they neither expect nor understand, so begins an escalating series of conundrums for Aaron (Carruth) and his best buddy co-creator Abe (Sullivan).

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The conundrum was created by a series of studies beginning in the previous decade that directly compared the cognitive abilities of parrots and crows with those of primates.

They were then asked to make choices about a series of moral conundrums.

The sparse arrangement of the film's action allows us space to ponder the all important conundrum of perspective and in doing so to realise that the whole affair is a series of Dante - style abysses glaring back at us from the theatre screen.

Here's a conundrum that would get even ol' Professor Layton's puzzle - solving knickers in a twist; how do you do justice to a series of best - selling puzzle games on the big screen?

Rather it has a series of more isolated queries and conundrums.

Now if you insist on forcing First Class into the existing X-Men time line, you may find enough conundrums and continuity problems between it and the other films in the series (even if you assume that the third and fourth films never happened — believe me, a lot of us do) to make you wish you had Magneto's helmet to block them all.

For another example of students sharing their final products with a community audience, watch the video Anatomy of a Project: Kinetic Conundrum, from Edutopia's Schools That Work series.

«[A] droll and intelligent series... As Brunetti makes his tactful way through a Venetian maze of office politics, family connections and moral conundrums, his focus switches from school children procuring narcotics to old people victimized by greedy and unethical medical professionals.»

Hung like a tacky air freshener, the dangling protagonist must be coaxed upwards though a series of physics based conundrums, collecting blocks and crystals on his way.

Much of the action consists of raising a horde of undead and managing different types of utilitarian zombies (like strong or stealthy ghouls) to help solve a series of macabre conundrums.

The Visitor Talks — Dialogues... further develops issues raised in the Fall 2013 — Spring 2014 series of The Visitor Talks: Pre-Ambulation and Retrospection, reflecting upon overarching issues pertaining to the conundrum of research within contemporary art, curatorial practice, and their attendant discourses.

In her Twice Into the Stream series, Turkish photographer Meltem Işık explored this conundrum, photographing models along with magnified portions of their bodies to create new perspectives of the human body.

The mischievous, violent, abused, melancholic, and curious middle - aged men that are often the protagonists in Madani's work offer a bevy of answers, and their attempts to figure out this conundrum expose them to a series of indignities and bacchanalian outbursts.

Nor did he create elegant perceptual conundrums out of solid black squares like Ad Reinhardt, nor structural pronouncements about what constitutes a painting, which is what young Frank Stella articulated with a 1958 - 1960 series of black - and - white striped canvases.

From the eternal «lay» or «lie» conundrum to more arcane issues of textualism such as «last - antecedent canon vs. series - qualifier canon,» the archives of LawProse probably have an answer.