Sentences with phrase «then stack the decks»

Vinterberg's The Hunt, a study in rumor and fear fueling self - righteous hysteria, and Haneke's Amour, an unflinching, almost clinic portrait in the physical deterioration and emotional fallout of old age and debilitating illness), frame their subjects with a mix of objectivity and compassion, and then stack the decks to set out protagonists in opposition to the world.

By refusing to allow the public to speak out on this important issue and then stacking the deck by only featuring paid pro-Common Core ambassadors turns the Education Committee's «informational hearing» into nothing short of a bad joke and makes it clear that the Democrats have joined Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor on their path of self - destruction.

Not exact matches

They want to «stack the deck» in such a way that if you accept what they say about the accuracy, authority, and credibility of Scripture, then you will most likely also accept their interpretation and understanding of Scripture (what the witness says), if you do this, then you will also buy into the rest of their theological system that they were trying to prove in the first place.

The fact that this is a presidential election year stacks the deck against Republicans to begin with in this Democrat - dominated state, although whoever wins the GOP primary will have more time than ususal between then and the November general election to focus on the real target: Gillibrand.

Now if it's going to be a debate as opposed to a discussion, where people are earnestly inquiring after the truth, then maybe you shy away from that because the deck is stacked against you.

Relentlessly reductive, Haneke stacks the deck by stripping the genre of its redemptive qualities and transgressive power and then chastizes the audience for its presence at such an untoward spectacle.

But where Eastwood meticulously stacked the deck to cast Frankie Dunn's ultimate decision in the most flattering light possible, Affleck bravely does the reverse, conditioning the audience to anticipate one outcome and then offering another far less tidy.

Then the steel sandwich stacks itself neatly under the deck lid, leaving a perfectly crisp profile from the car's nose to its tail.

The next summer they were shimmering gold (Masks and Mirrors), then blood red (Sleight of Hand), ocean blue (Stack a Deck) and finally last summer they were purple (Dim the Lights).

There's four of these horrible things, and at the start of the game you split the player deck into four roughly even piles and add one Evil Stirs card to each before shuffling them and then stacking them together to create a sort of even distribution that stops you from running into more than two in quick succession.

Even then, the deck is stacked against you and the biggest reason for that is the massive and constant onslaught of ill - conceived games clogging the markets.

Throughout his painstakingly precise craft process — likened to the ancient technique used to sculpt Japanese Great Buddhas — Haroshi individually selects and then stacks skateboard decks into a solid, glued cube of recycled wood.

It appears that back then the deck was stacked («something the IPCCC has fallen way short on»), and that has until recently not been admitted nor been allowed to be addressed (which has been the underlying source of the name - calling business).