Sentences with phrase «veil of»
By buying into the veil of Common Core and not challenging its underpinning mandates from the beginning, education communities have lost their way, while education spirals down.
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... The veil of so - called ed reform is now off.»
The government is set to lift a veil of secrecy over academy spending in a transparency drive that will reveal reported frauds, and uncover who the highest - paid chief...
«Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City.»
Through a child's eyes, I could see the veil of oppression lift from my parents» shoulders.
What bride wouldn't desire this futuristic wedding dress made of nut cans, hangers, and plastic, with a bodice of juice pouches, a hat of hangers and plastic, and a veil of soda can tabs?
The seminal works on the question include Catholic Schools and the Common Good, by Anthony Bryk and his colleagues (1993); Choosing Equality, by Joseph Viteritti (1999); «Politics, Markets, and Equality in Schools,» by John E. Chubb and Terry Moe (1995); and «Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools,» by Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer (2013).
The film puts on the veil of being an objective and non-biased doc with lots of repetitive visuals and a slick but silly journalistic style, but for anyone who is capable of independent thought, it is easy to see the film for what it really is: an un-American, unpatriotic, ultra-racist conservative slam-fest.
A noble mission, to be sure, and one that shows the filmmakers have the right instincts about how to tell this story, but ultimately The Fault in Our Stars doesn't live up to these claims, as it takes few chances, frequently using sass as a smokescreen, hiding what's unoriginal and cheaply sentimental about this story behind a veil of witticisms about oblivion and «cancer perks.»
For the Kenyan - raised Nyong» o, it's a chance to escape the veil of CGI effects in Disney's «Jungle Book» and Star Wars franchise and play a high - profile part in a film that celebrates Africa.
It's a lot of fun, too, especially when the Coens drop the veil of cinematic propriety in the behind - the - scenes workings of the studio system.
His latest movie is yet another peek behind the veil of NYC hipsters, only instead of focusing on an entitled, twenty - something loser like in «Frances Ha,» it's about a whiny, middle - aged couple that wants to be friends with people like her.
No other filmmaker can channel the sophistication of Jean - Luc Godard and the violence of John Woo through the veil of a 1970s exploitation flick — much less attempt to in a coherent state of mind.
One could ignore that Luhrmann maintains a glossy visual aesthetic throughout the entire movie — even after the veil of the phony sophistication of the affluent lifestyle drops — as stylistic oversight.
The screenplay (by Andrew J. Cohen, Brendan O'Brien, director Nicholas Stoller, star Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg) pulls off what might be the trickiest of comic approaches: It disguises how smart it actually is under a veil of playing dumb.
This gives those moments where the reality of their situation pierces the veil of the valley a more pointedly otherworldly quality, exemplified by John's hazmat suit that seems to exist in the crossroads between 12 Monkeys and Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Director Derek Cianfrance took twelve years to stew on what he wanted to say about love and marriage in his film Blue Valentine, the principle actors, Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, had over half a decade to think about how they would bring Cindy and Dean to life — this rare gift to the creative process paid off astoundingly as the final product is second only to Ingmar Bergmans» Scenes from a Marriage in its capacity to lay bare the wounds of love after the veil of the honeymoon phase has been lifted.
One is meant to tell human stories though through the veil of superhumans and what have you.
The living members of the dwindling clan, including Septimus (Mark Strong) and Primus (Jason Flemyng), make no veil of brotherhood as they chase and connive to retrieve a gem that's the key to the throne.
And Bruno Delbonnel drapes a C.G.I. - enhanced world of witchcraft and wizardry in a sinister veil of shadow and contrast, helping Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince shake the childishness of its subject matter.
Now this week the veil of secrecy has finally been lifted and the first official trailer has dropped over at Apple.com.
Join symbologist Robert Langdon (Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks) and cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) in their heart - racing quest to solve a bizarre murder mystery that will take them from France to England - and behind the veil of a mysterious ancient society, where they discover a secret protected since the time of Christ.
Mitty is a thin veil of Stiller's own self - image, playing a lonely character that is bored by rigid, corporate barriers and dreams of leaving America to explore the more exotic parts of the world.
While I noticed some moiré patterns that may or may not originate at the source, any artifacts are surely compensated for by the colours, which are intense yet precise — when not draped in a veil of increasingly arbitrary blue tint, that is.
At first teasing that it will address — or at the very least acknowledge — some of the widespread negative reaction to the film, «Hitting it Hard» quickly settles into cutesy shots of Penélope Cruz dozing off and Crowe imitating aggressive journalists, though it closes with an indiscreet answering - machine message Cruise left for Crowe that's a fascinating glimpse beneath the veil of Cruise's public persona.
The veil of secrecy around Marth and Roy made them instantly appealing to Smash Bros. players.
The studio kept it quiet because it felt it would have spoiled the ending of Infinity War, but with that cat now out the bag, one would think that the veil of secrecy would finally be lifted.
His hilariously grotesque Masters of Horror entry Jenifer essays the idea that what we see is not always what is there — that veil of uncertainty, discomfort, and denial that shrouds the director's best films, most memorably in Deep Red and Tenebre.
Disney and Lucasfilm have decided to peel back the veil of secrecy surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens ever so slightly by revealing the names of the new characters seen in the recent trailer via a selection of «trading cards» that pay homage to the classic Topps collectibles from the original 1977 movie.
More details emerge of Blue Jasmine director's new film from behind Allen's habitual veil of secrecy
The atmosphere is menacing and the scares, while a bit overly «jumpy», are potent, but fans of the genre will find little novelty here aside from Derrickson using music from The Doors to give otherwise clichéd sequences a thin veil of originality.
Further down the festival grounds was the Head bang for the Highway / Sumerian Records stage which played host to impressive sets by Upon a Burning Body and Veil of Maya before being dominated by the one and only Body Count featuring Ice - T.
A veil of secrecy is currently surrounding the Marvel Cinematic Universe's future.
Lastly, even in the darkest parts of the picture, a shimmering veil of 16 mm film grain is a near - constant presence.
It's a apparently meant to lift the veil of a powerful man as he attempts to explain the art of public speaking to those kids, who may very well need to follow in his footsteps one day, but it instead comes across as a forcefully cute way to introduce the plot.
Should it remain hidden behind a veil of secrecy, or should it present itself to the world with open arms?
As if filmed through a thin veil of delicate lace, Michael McDonough's cinematography saturates this religious commune in a glow that renders black (the colour of evil) into a less threatening palate of charcoal and grey.
Sicko is one of Moore's better films to date as he managed to not only lift the veil of the facade of privatised healthcare, but in conjunction with the myth that socialised services equate to a Communist regime.
They are the same person with the same basic proclivity for murder, with only the thin veil of perceived wisdom differentiating them, and Johnson's externalizing of this similarity underlines that point beautifully.
With a notable lack of traditional narrative or plot the Director relies on the subtext or theme to pierce through the veil of aesthetics and make make some kind of sense for us.
With a notable lack of traditional narrative or plot the Director relies on the subtext or theme to pierce through the veil of aesthetics and make make some kind
Robbin» Season is cloaked in a heavy yet strangely exhilarating veil of dread.
It takes few chances, frequently using sass as a smokescreen, hiding what's unoriginal and cheaply sentimental about this story behind a veil of witticisms about oblivion and «cancer perks.»
While rocker - docs invariably promise to lift the veil of stardom, viewers of titles as diverse as Don't Look Back or In Bed With Madonna will know that the genre generally reinforces, rather than deconstructs, the public personae with which we have become infatuated.
Once they pass through the rainbow - tinted veil of The Shimmer, the expedition discovers that the anomalies within defy the laws of the natural world.
Šulík seems to almost switched into documentarist mode as he employs similar approaches in staging encounters with witnesses or survivors and in even special case, he even embeds a documentary footage to break through the veil of fiction film.
The further you infiltrate the area, the more the veil of a new terrorist plot wears off.
As is often the case with tales of lonely men doing unspeakable work behind a contrived veil of normalcy, loneliness mandates some form of human comfort, which Jack manages to receive from local prostitute Clara (Violante Placido).
Unfortunately, the veil of technology provides us with additional opportunities to bamboozle one another, so it is important to keep your hopes grounded during the initial stages of the dating process and not let yourself be swayed by those who seem charming over e-mail and the phone.
The way to a woman's heart lies instead behind a veil of mystery: 19 % of women picked thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read (James Patterson and Lee Child, take a bow!).