Sentences with phrase «taking on another character as»

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Beyond her age, she also lacks the spark of Superman's girlfriend, intent on blending in with the rest of the cast as a side character rather than taking any initiative.

For example, Krzyzewski likes to take advantage of a popular app known as Bitmoji, which allows users to create their own personal emoji character, for use on social media and text messages.

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.

Mike Myers appeared on «The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon» Wednesday night, as his Dr. Evil character from the «Austin Powers» movies, to take some jabs at Trump.

In my six years working as a Walt Disney World «cast member» (that's what they called us), I did everything from working attraction lines, to taking pictures of park guests with costumed characters, to being an actual costumed character (more on that one in a minute).

Dozens of people dressed up as Pikachu, the famous character of Nintendo's videogame software Pokemon, dance with fans as the final of a nine - day «Pikachu Outbreak» event takes place to attract summer vacationers in Yokohama, in suburban Tokyo, on August 16, 2015.

Hoping to avoid the possibility of a white actor taking on the role of the Chinese warrior, Molnar wrote: «Casting a Caucasian actor as a character of colour, regardless of reason has a direct, harmful impact on not only the movie itself, but the audience, as well as POC members of the acting community.»

Besides spending $ 15,000 on the 21 Royal experience for Halloween, Madison regularly posts pictures of herself and her daughter doing Disney - related activities, including having a Disney - themed cake for her daughter Rainbow Aurora (perhaps named after Sleeping Beauty), taking multiple trips to Disneyland, and dressing as Disney characters.

What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of menial tasks — as well as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

(At truly incandescent sports moments, as when the basketball team of my alma mater and former employer Valparaiso University this year advanced, against all expectation and indeed against all rational hope, into the third round of the NCAA championship, the grace takes on the character of the miraculous.)

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.

But as a statement it tends to generate other statements, which together take on a normative and exclusive character.

In the Old Testament, when God looks like He is behaving in ways that do not match the nature and character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ, this is not because God is being deceptive, but because God is taking the sins of His people upon Himself just as Jesus did on the cross.

The proceedings before the council therefore take on their proper character as a preliminary investigation to determine the charge to be preferred before the competent tribunal.

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.

He saw his physical environment as something more than a place for hunting and being hunted: it took on a character; it became a cosmos.

While this Word as proclamation event takes on a secondary confessional character as manageable content, it does so only when it is understood primarily as event.

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of theOn the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of theon the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

I take it for granted that this company of readers insists on the distinction, drawn in one form or another, between abstract features or aspects of immediate awareness and mediated cognition as necessary to describe the character of experience.

And as we will see, the notion of divine personal power takes on a very particular character in the context of the Mosaic covenant.

Although there are particular ways in which the notion of God as divine monarch takes on a distinctive character with Israel, its roots can readily be traced throughout the ancient Near East, from Egypt to Babylonia.

«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.

Ritual worship in general appears to the modern transcendentalist, as well as to the ultra-puritanic type of mind, as if addressed to a deity of an almost absurdly childish character, taking delight in toy - shop furniture, tapers and tinsel, costume and mumbling and mummery, and finding his «glory» incomprehensibly enhanced thereby: — just as on the other hand the formless spaciousness of pantheism appears quite empty to ritualistic natures, and the gaunt theism of evangelical sects seems intolerably bald and chalky and bleak.

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.

A: It's easy to tell on the first page if a film is taking its characters seriously, rather than as punchlines in and of themselves.

The point at which the Eucharistic liturgy takes on this specifically «married» character is also the point at which it is most clearly seen as a sacrament of unity.

This may be the ideal for some, but one can not count on it working out that way, primarily because of the presence of various political ideologies which, as I've described in Political Visions and Illusions, tend to take on an idolatrous character and, like all idols, are unwilling to share power with others.

In the encounter with the world and with sin it can take on certain values that are dissonant with its real nature; the substance asserts itself and slowly discerns the alien character of these things and as necessary rejects them or modifies them so as to adopt them purified.

Under the prophetic influence religion took on a new character which was reflected both in the organized cult and in the formulation of civil as well as moral and cultic laws.

On our fine run of form... «When you look at the games - United, Liverpool away and the character to come back from 2 - 1 down against Liverpool, obviously having missed the penalty and a minute left on the clock but great character from everyone and great character from Harry to take the second penalty as well - and another huge win today, so a massive seven points out of ninOn our fine run of form... «When you look at the games - United, Liverpool away and the character to come back from 2 - 1 down against Liverpool, obviously having missed the penalty and a minute left on the clock but great character from everyone and great character from Harry to take the second penalty as well - and another huge win today, so a massive seven points out of ninon the clock but great character from everyone and great character from Harry to take the second penalty as well - and another huge win today, so a massive seven points out of nine.

I said to him on the pitch after the game at Anfield that he showed great character to step up and take the second penalty and score his 100th goal as well.

As part of the Digital Picture Pass packages, passholders get two (2) free characters / glass slipper added to their digital photos per day on the day the photo is taken at no extra charge.

If a child comes from a home where teasing and sarcasm is the norm or, if they watch a lot of television programs where the characters have barbed tongues, it's likely that the child will model the behavior and take it on as their own.

Parents and kids can bond over the love for these classic characters like Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, and The Animal as they take on the stage (sometimes with celebrity guests!)

As the play itself is a political satire — a character satire — it's taking what people think they know about three world famous characters and putting a spin on what might have happened.

The plans were announced at a meeting of the Church's General Synod on Sunday, at which the chair of the Anglican Board of Education, the Bishop of Ely, set out the «radically new» approach that the Church would take as part of its commitment to maintain its position within the education system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future Church schools.

«In my usual character, I am not disposed to taking issue with anyone or group, especially on a matter that I think could be settled internally, more so, when some of the key actors are not sincerely committed to bringing an end to the festering crisis that has set us back as a party.»

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»!!

Mr. Paladino emerged as a colorful character on the campaign trail in 2010 — he carried a gun, apologized for sending a series of «off - color» emails containing sexually explicit and racist material, and threatened to «take out» a New York Post reporter.

On Friday He praised the Labour leader,: «As recent weeks have brought home to the public, in Ed Miliband we have a leader who has the ability, the determination, and the character to take this country to a better, and much fairer place than under this government».

And as the years went on — and we're now 21 years past this — it became more and more disturbing that this had taken on a very different character than just a few years of people working on a very speculative idea.

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.

Instead of being centrally driven, the creative design element can be more crowdsourced; products may take on an evolutionary character as more people get involved in visualizing and producing them.

This season, which we have to say is an outstanding one for high - heeled ankle boots, is as diverse as the characters we like to take on throughout the week.

The Super Marios Bros theme comes to life in this collection as the Japanese duo take beauty enthusiasts on a pixelated adventure to help Princess Peach, and to bring peace back to Mushroom Kingdom with the Super Mario cast of characters; along with a variety of colorful makeup and hair - care products.

It started life as a remake of a UK show, but this US take on The Office quickly became its own beast — particularly when it came to character development.

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