Sentences with phrase «take on the character by»

Thus it undergoes deep modifications, or better, it takes on its character by the process of articulation to which the spirit of the nation or the individual subjects it.

Not exact matches

The characters, played by Jonny Lee Miller and Ewan McGregor, hang for one more second on the screen before Underworld's «Born Slippy» takes over the soundtrack — and we're off.

In part, those expectations were stoked by photos of Western influences seeping into the regime: Jong - un has done photo ops at water parks and taken roller - coaster rides with foreign diplomats, Disney characters have performed for the new leader on state TV, and Jong - un's wife has sported a Dior handbag, to name a few examples.

As a fascinating and in - depth recent profile of several ultramarathoners by Katherine Ellen Foley on Quartz reveals, success over these extreme distances takes a particular type of character.

Retail shopping, the news business and politics have taken on a more national character because the Internet lets people connect along interest lines rather than by geography.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

No one can take his place in our hearts, and to ask, Who would take his place on the Court is to ask: who is there, by character and wit, who is worthy enough to take up his mission?

By taking on complex characters who don't easily fit any predetermined bubble, Plaza is helping the rest of us feel better about our own lack of labels.

And African - American women, to take another example, have complicated the Anglo - European interpretation of the Abraham / Sarah narratives by focusing on the character of Hagar, the ethnic outsider, the slave, the surrogate wife.

The distinction between ethical principles, on the one hand, and ancient taboos and cultic rules, on the other, may have been tentatively and provisionally made by some Pharisees, but in Jesus it took on unequivocal and uncompromising character.

In the little - seen Gamer, a young man shares responsibility for the actions of his video - game alter - ego» an avatar (played by Gerard Butler) who is employed to act out the youth's viral simulacrum in real - world situations where hedonistic consumers take on the identities and vices of video - game characters.

The nation took on a character which we are to envisage as a very moderate expression of the high concepts put forth by the three accepted exponents of the way of the Lord; or perhaps it is better said that hee nation trailed far behind such ideals.

But at the same time Revelation itself enters a sphere of reality which is also determined by other forces, which indeed derive from God, the author of Revelation, but which on that account can not, in the actual form they take and in their special character, simply be derived from Revelation, which itself can not simply be identified with God as he is in himself.

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

I'll take you at your word regarding your recommendation to study and suggest you read WHAT GOD DOES TO YOUR BRAIN by two neuroscientists, Andrew Newberg who is a «theist» (believes in some kind of divine character) and Mark Waldman and agnostic (a non commit on the question).

The moral implications of the covenant did not readily take on the character of universal obligation and were never so conceived by the rank and file of the people.

Thus process itself takes on the character of something concrete; it is the very beings constituted by it.

«12 On the other hand for Aristotle it is once again matter that gives a natural being its potentiality to ground newly arising beings by enabling it to take on endlessly different forms.13 What Whitehead demands with his «principle of relativity» is furnished in Aristotle by matter as the ground of fundamental changeableness and hence of the process character of natural beingOn the other hand for Aristotle it is once again matter that gives a natural being its potentiality to ground newly arising beings by enabling it to take on endlessly different forms.13 What Whitehead demands with his «principle of relativity» is furnished in Aristotle by matter as the ground of fundamental changeableness and hence of the process character of natural beingon endlessly different forms.13 What Whitehead demands with his «principle of relativity» is furnished in Aristotle by matter as the ground of fundamental changeableness and hence of the process character of natural beings.

One of the key characters in the book is disgraced «faith healer» Holy Wayne (played by British actor Paterson Joseph); a once - average man, bereaved on October 14th, who realises he can take other people's pain upon himself, like a kind of emotional sponge.

Many of them, as in the Middle East, have taken on the character of «wars by proxy» between the superpowers, which have armed their sides in the struggle.

So he is able to take the first step on the way to understanding the essential nature of the gospels, by recognizing the determinative character of the influence of early Christian conceptions on the narratives.

but, im ok with this vardy transfer... it shows us many things: 1) wenger is changing, something some of us have been demanding for a long time; 2) it shows that wenger is taking risks: think about it, he is buying a men for a not cheap price, knowing he could not getting anything after, with a future sell i mean... this is an act that shows wengers intentions to win something, the buy is not motivated by any financial or economic reason but only for a «get the f epl once again» reason... this is an act that shows us hungry, even if we fail, we could said we try... first ever, we really try; 3) finally but very important... vardy is the kind of player we need... he is a warrior, a fighter... he has character... look at how he celebrate his goals... full of energy... he, like alexis, can motivate the team when the things are not going in our way (something wenger cant do because of his age and because he has never been an active coach on the pitch)... the vardy transfer, if it finish well, is a demostration of a change, and a good one... lets take care of winning things and do nt look the economic side for once... vardy is a bit old, but we can give a chance to welbeck after maybe, or akpom... u are not thinking about the future when we talk about ibra... guys: u complain when wenger do nt spend or because he is always looking for the bargain when u are the guys who has to pay the very expensive tickets... u complain when wenger buy the always for the future guy... like morata... stop to complain for everything and be consequent with yourself... i would love auba, but it is not going to happen... lukaku is awesome but the asking price is stupid... lets try with vardy, give us the throphy..

They took a real life situation, turned it into a shoot during a live broadcast, then created the worked character of Mr. McMahon to capitalize on the heat created by the shoot while making the action somehow simultaneously a work and a shoot.

On collective worship: «The Committee is concerned that pupils are required by law to take part in a daily religious worship which is «wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character» in publicly funded schools in England and Wales, and that children do not have the right to withdraw from such worship without parental permission before entering the sixth form.

LaBeouf takes on the role of his character convincingly, but despite good acting, is somewhat restricted in bringing truth to the role by his age.

The petition for the iconic public television characters to marry was fueled by New York's same - sex marriage law taking effect on July 24.

We'll get by the character stuff - just show us how you are going to make New York State a better place, where people can go to parks without worry of shut down, where schools will have quality teachers and performance, where roads are taken care of, where bridges don't collapse, where state police do police and are not used to go on witch hunts, where budgets wont be made by more hidden fees and regressive taxes, and the list goes on.

Why in fact, here on outer Mongolia, insist that the county executive actually pay any attention to the daily operations of this overwhelmingly dysfunctional county and their separate and coequally dysfunctional departments that fails to serve the elderly in great need and I have my own story on how this perennial smiley - face character's office easily accomplished such which resulted in the death of someone by clear and consistent neglect, and then you tell me then why should we not just continue to speculate as to why this man is either fit or not for running for Congress and I will tell you to take your «relative trivia» and shove it where neither smart phones or their apps «SHINE»!!

People spend hours role - playing through virtual - reality video games by taking on the persona of a virtual character or avatar.

«Several times we observed prolonged interactions that took on a game - like back - and - forth character, which is reminiscent of how preverbal toddlers interact by way of imitating other's play actions» says Dr. Gabriela - Alina Sauciuc, who conducted the study together with Persson.

Taken together, these findings explain why visual acuity is commonly measured with dark characters on light backgrounds and why visual resolution is lower for lights, as already noted by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei when judging the size of light objects in paintings and the dark sky.

Now, a team led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has found that astrocytes, which perform many indispensable functions in the brain, can take on a villainous character, destroying nerve cells and likely driving many neurodegenerative diseases.

While iodate is huge and surrounded by negative oxygen atoms, its central iodine atom takes on a positive character, or becomes a cation.

Inspired by the ballet Giselle (where the main character dies of a broken heart because the love of her life is betrothed to another), the beauty look took on a dark, romantic, and almost melancholy tone.

The plot of the film is not very different from the Universal classics: mad scientist, longed to resurrect the dead, comic character much alike Abbott and Costello, beauty who of course is taken by the «monster» (which is the Wolf Man), the climax with a burning building, while the battle of protagonists with a monster is going on and, of course, a happy ending.

The 10 most attractive Japanese women's names, as chosen by dating app users — While it's taken a bit of time to catch on, online dating services are gaining popularity in Japan... Aoi Since the study was only concerned with the pronunciation of a woman's name, not the exact kanji characters used to write it, we can't...

With the vast amount of black online daters, a favorite fictitious character's name may be taken, so make it your own by tacking on a few numbers.

Set on an alien world decimated by his people's creations, the Nightsithe, with nobody at your side and time running out to escape, you take the role of the titular character Nelo, a cybernetically enhanced badass who looks like a cross between Spawn and Dead Space «s Isaac Clarke.

On its surface, Mississippi Grind is a familiar story of a road trip taken up by two characters who are polar opposites.

Throw in Neil Patrick Harris — once again playing the Bizarro World version of himself — shattered and reinforced redneck stereotypes and a delightful take on Dubya [here, he may not speak real good English, but he's slyer, smarter and mellower than we are expecting] and the result is a solidly funny movie that Says Something more by highlighting the characters of Harold and Kumar than by the political jokes.

~ Spoiler ~ I absolutely loved the scene with Ernie, who is so bent on getting Danny a date for the prom that he ditches a date (with a character played by the gorgeous Jennifer Tilly), runs halfway across Hollywood and winds up picking an older and slightly plump prostitute for Danny to take to the big dance.

Supporting characters feel increasingly like stations we pass through on a long train journey, and by this point the feeling is not one of intrigue at where we are, but growing frustration at how long it is taking us to get us to our destination.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a brilliant directed film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who manipulates the camera to give the illusion that the film is one continuous long take (which can get dizzying at times) giving a film that is resonate to a modern day audience as it examins these fictitious characters and their commentary on what it means to stay relevant.

This is one of the rarest finds on television: a show where cast and character are so perfectly matched by a creator who understands exactly what journey he wants take his audience on.

But Constantine, which follows Keanu Reeves title character as he teams up with Rachel Weisz's Angela to prevent Satan's arrival on Earth, takes a leap out the plausibility window early on, something presumably dictated by the comic book that the film is based on.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo (Captain America: Civil War) have managed to take their balanced approach from Civil War and The Winter Soldier and inject even more characters into the mix; we're talking well over 30 big names all mashed into one nearly three hour film that briskly flies by as characters we've grown to love over the years embark on their most important (and personal) battle yet.

Revisiting the characters of The Decline of the American Empire in his 2003 drama The Barbarian Invasions, Arcand was back on more familiar ground, and the tale of a man with terminal cancer revisiting his past took both the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals by storm.

Writer / director Alex Garland delivers a striking and impressively captivating opening stretch that instantly captures the viewer's attention and interest, with the movie's compelling atmosphere heightened by Portman's stirring work as the conflicted, grieving central character (and it's clear, too, that Portman's costars fare just as well, though Leigh's bizarrely ambivalent take on her character is questionable at best).

The story also featured photos of the characters — marking what seems to be the first photographs of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch to be released, or at least approved, by Marvel Studios (previous shots have come into the public, but they were taken by photojournalists and paparazzi on the set of the movie)