Sentences with phrase «serve as a mask»

We're taught to regard large - scale efforts of understanding as ideologies; they are «meta - narratives» that serve as masks for power.

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He has challenged most of the prominent modern theories of religion, including Marxism (religion is a mask for class consciousness), functionalism (religion serves as a moral restraint or social glue) and psychological reductionism (religion is a form of infantile wish fulfillment).

«It's a feeling that transports you back hundreds of years, before the days of mass grocery stores and chain restaurants — all of which serve the same frozen garbage masked as «fresh» and «local.»

Although salad bars and pilot programs, such as the First Lady's Go for the Gold campaign, are positive steps, they tend to mask the larger systemic problem, namely that children can't learn if school districts continue to serve sub-standard food, day in and day out.

Something that masks the egg as a vechile to get cheese and vegetables into a delicious meal that can be transported in tot size servings.

«They can serve as armour for your color or rehab for your lost luster — depending on what mask you are using, you can literally change the health and radiance of your hair.»

Salt serves many purposes in foods, such as acting as a preservative, adding a salty flavor, masking bitter flavors, and fostering expected texture or other property.

This cleanser serves as a makeup remover, facial cleanser, massage cream, exfoliant, and a facial mask.

Each mask serves a different purpose such as brightening, anti-aging, and detoxifying.

Rather, the high - gloss, baroque world of Lily's house serves as an elaborate mask for their true natures, and over the course of a tense, twisted 90 minutes, Finley worms deep into both Amanda's and Lily's psyches.

The iconic character, who hasn't been seen on screen since celebrating the fall of the Galactic Empire in 1983's «Return of the Jedi,» serves as an unlikely mentor to scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley), defector Finn (John Boyega) and pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) as they team up to take on masked adversary Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and his minions.

In the film, Boseman stars as T'Challa, the young king of the African nation of Wakanda, who also serves as the country's masked protector under the guise of the Black Panther.

For purposes of this section, avoiding compliance or masking or otherwise concealing noncompliance includes serving as an officer or otherwise exercising controlling influence over 2 or more motor carriers where --

There is a duality about the Optima sedan for 2013, speaking to both luxury and performance all while masking its true nature to serve duty as a humble family sedan.

Participated as one of the directors at «The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time» and served as the main director at the next film «The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask».

The chance to wade into battle as a gold bearded parrot with monkey ears and an opera mask aside, the Rookie offers a grappling hook that generally serves as a homing jump, and can equip various wrist gizmos that are powered up by gathering Wisps, a collectible from Sonic Colors.

«When I was growing up in Malawi a good projectionist served the same role as a Nyau mask in pre-colonial times, to bring back magic among the people...»

Together, the film, three - channel video, and masks in «Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: Song, Strategy, Sign» serve as testaments to the individuals who forge their own terms for how to live, remember, and advance their own evolving histories.

SK: When I was growing up in Malawi a good projectionist served the same role as a Nyau mask in pre-colonial times, to bring back magic among the people, which is really another manifestation of time as gift.

The plaster casts not only stare but actually redouble absence, by serving as the physical trace or mask of no face at all.

«After the collages, I began to paint the eyes approaching the paintings on board as decorative objects symbolically representing the eye motif while creating an optical situation where the interior image and periphery of the painting (margins outside of the eye and thus painting) serve as a flipping perspective between view finder mask to visible interior image.

The film, three - channel video, and masks in «Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: Song, Strategy, Sign» serve as testaments to the individuals who forge their own terms for how to live, remember, and advance their own evolving histories.

This drawing serves as a realist foil to the many mask - like faces in Still's paintings from the 1930s.

The blunt, naïve nature of the subjects serves as an easy foil / mask, allowing for a range of rich experimentation with paint chemistry, color, installations, and scale.

The curious case of a group of masked Chinese artists detained by police for a brief, spontaneous protest over pollution serves as a reminder of just how sensitive the issue remains for the authorities.

All, Wagner argues, served both as revelation and as mask.

They also serve as a metaphor for female beauty products, which can both enhance and mask a woman's identity.

The collection of badges, collars, buttons, and mask - like forms serve as abstractions that point toward the body and promote the viewer to question the complicated process of identify - building.

Beyond the obvious claim that the mask did not serve its purpose of protecting him, Hickox also claimed that Wilson failed to properly test the masks and essentially used umpires and catchers as «human guinea pigs.»

This long hallway has an art gallery look with white walls as a backdrop to African masks, which serves as a nice visual contrast and adds texture to the otherwise bland space.