Sentences with phrase «source of intrigue»

For Brooklyn - based artist Fanny Allié, the human figure is a source of intrigue.

Zoonotic diseases, which are caused by infectious organisms spreading among species (animals to humans and vice versa), are a continual source of intrigue for me as a practicing veterinarian.

From its outset, quantum mechanics has been a source of intrigue; the picture it presents of the microscopic world being so different to that of everyday experience gained from normal - sized entities, between the atomic scale and the vast spaces of the cosmos.

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In the spring of 2013, Cox, a former ad agency designer who had segued into video - game design, launched a crowd - sourcing campaign to see if he could drum up orders for an intriguing device he'd invented: a 3D photo scanner.

In amongst the swirling mass of stars at its heart lie many intriguing systems, including X-ray sources, variable stars, vampire stars, unexpectedly bright «normal» stars known as blue stragglers, and tiny objects known as millisecond pulsars, small dead stars that rotate astonishingly quickly.

Lucas Leiva wants to leave Liverpool and is intrigued by the prospect of a move to Inter Milan, sources have told ESPN FC.

I find it intriguing that you say, «men are able to spring back to their women to discover the source of their contentment and peace.»

However, there is an intriguing workaround — human milk secreted during lactation is a rich source of mammary epithelial cell RNA.

But the source of the email is especially intriguing: the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Adding additional intrigue to the primary, Lopez called Rice the preferred candidate of the presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee, AG Andrew Cuomo, my source said.

The Littlest Vikings While unraveling the genomes of the Vikings and their descendants makes headlines, a humbler source of DNA is providing some of the most intriguing clues to their lost history.

What's most intriguing about this thick hair pomade is that Jovinno sources most of their ingredients straight from France.

«We've got a spacecraft on the way to Ceres, so we don't have to wait long before getting more context on this intriguing result, right from the source itself,» said Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Dawn will map the geology and chemistry of the surface in high resolution, revealing the processes that drive the outgassing activity.»

In order to explain the multi-messenger data without any of the intriguing contradictions, the scientists propose that the high - energy gamma rays must be blocked from escaping the sources that created them.

«This is a small number of sources, but they're very intriguing,» says Fiona Harrison, an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who was not involved with the work.

«In addition to these intriguing properties, NRL astronomer Dr. Paul Ray and colleague, Dr. Craig Markwardt of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, have searched the source for X-ray emission but have not found any convincing evidence.

The results have been published in 14 scientific papers in a special edition of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, including details of a particularly intriguing new source of gamma rays.

Quasars (short for quasi-stellar radio sources) have been objects of intrigue for astronomers ever since they were first detected in the 1960s.

Quasars — quasi-stellar radio sources — have been objects of intrigue for astronomers ever since they were first detected in the 1960s.

Ray is a rich source of offbeat diet advice and most of the time I am unsure whether he is right or wrong but intrigued.

Along the lines of your lecture, do you have any thoughts about that (small but intriguing) study that raises the possibility that «dietary protein source may modify the effects of saturated fat on atherogenic lipoproteins»; ie, eating butter with your beef may not be a cool thing to do?

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

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Up in the Air landed her an Oscar nomination, and she's continuing to work in movies that aren't quite mainstream: Henry's Crime, Madonna's W.E. (which sounds more intriguing with each nugget of info) and Duncan Jones» Source Code.

With its thicket of intriguing noises, «Source» may sound a bit like a Jackson Pollock painting.

Lonergan told moderator Joe Utichi that he was intrigued by the source material and, at the same time, had many objections — which was one of the reasons why he was «flattered» into adapting it.

They, too, must have at least peripheral familiarity with the tale of Machiavellian cunning and political intrigue, if not explicitly using that as a source text for technique and strategy during their respective reigns and rules in offices.

In short order, «The Americans» turns into a roundelay of coerced sources, overlapping operations and cat - and - mouse intrigue.

I realize it's problematic to review a film on the basis of what it might have been, but when that same film substitutes a vision that's vastly less intriguing and original than the one offered by its source, it's a fair tactic, and what's onscreen here is just another zombie picture, gigantic but otherwise unremarkable.

While we can't say we're particularly intrigued by the source material (the log - lines are almost hilariously vague, referring to Others and Supernaturals), it's shaping up to be a more promising cast than most of these teen franchises carry, and while we can't say we love LaGravanese's directorial work, let's not forget that he was the writer behind «The Fisher King» and «The Ref,» and hopefully he can turn out something a little more interesting.

The movie never quite puts its finger on the source of her power, which makes it both intriguing and a little needlessly opaque.

There's nothing in screenwriter James Vanderbilt's short filmography (which includes The Rock's The Rundown and the military thriller Basic) to suggest the brilliance found here, however, so one is inclined to acknowledge the craftsmanship and pizzazz of Fincher as well as the inherent intrigue adequately captured in the real Graysmith's source texts.

This suggestion of a proximity to reality ends up being the film's only possible source of terror, as its establishing events lack both formal distinction and intriguing character dynamics.

The trailer appears visually intriguing (and very gory), but it will be difficult to capture the expanse and depth of the original source material.

The ranch house was apparently a source of annoyance and intrigue during the shoot.

Bringing it back onto the silver screen is actor - director Kenneth Branagh, who, along with screenwriter Michael Green, manages to deliver an intriguing, if perhaps shortchanged, adaptation which, thanks to a couple of fine performances and the overall strength of its source material, still has its merits.

Liu has launched an intriguing effort to crowd - source a 2016 version of Hirsch's famous list — which, in retrospect, was a double - edged sword: It made Cultural Literacy a best seller, but it also resulted in the book becoming what Dan Willingham has called «the most misunderstood education book of the past fifty years.»

We were intrigued to see that the two sources of leadership consistently showing significant relationships with all three mediating variables, and with student achievement, were collectives: staff teams and parent advisory groups had significant correlations with all our mediators and with student achievement.

Now, sources indicate that variants of the new V - 6 probably will be used instead, first in the Intrigue and then in the Eighty Eight replacement.

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«There's quite a bit for readers to enjoy in this series opener, including an openly bisexual protagonist, the diversity of characters and mythological source material Hocking draws on, and the intriguing blend of fantasy and science fiction elements.

The other, more intriguing possibility put forward by the one of Reuters» sources suggests that Google might price the new tablet even more competitively at $ 149 in a bid to gain market share for Android tablets.

Both of these intriguing ideas come from my Chicago - based friend Brian Gilmartin, who is among the very best sources on corporate earnings.

I find the source of this compound intriguing since we all know grapes and raisins can be deadly for dogs.

While quite a lot of quieries were answered perhaps the most intriguing information to come out of the event was regarding Titanfalls bots, a source of much controversy and confusion.

It's an intriguing mix of elements worthy of its source material, but it's plagued by a sinister array of free - to - play headaches as menacing as anything cooked up by the Cigarette Smoking Man...

As for the stand - in for mass relays, instead there's ancient Remnant technology from a mysterious, advanced race that can cleanse a planet's atmosphere, acting as a new tool and source of technological intrigue that works well within the fiction of arriving in a hostile new galaxy.

KOTOR told the same kind of intriguing galactic opera that made both other Star Wars games and their original source material so popular, but this time allowed players to make choices for themselves.