Sentence examples for intrusive figure from inspiring English sources

There is a reason Abrams refused to cast William Shatner's Captain Kirk in 2009's Star Trek reboot, opting instead for the less intrusive figure of Leonard Nimoy's Spock as he sought to reimagine the series with a new cast.

To date, the relative age sequence of the CVF was indirectly established on the basis of the K-Ar ages determined from the intervening intrusive granitoids (Figure 2).

It would get really interesting (and a lot more intrusive) if Facebook figured out how to notify us of interesting people around that we didn't know but would likely benefit from meeting.

The underlying idea of a specific class of such models the so-called intrusive models is depicted in Figure 2.

On probation, she finds herself stuck in a series of dead-end jobs and subject to dictatorial and intrusive supervisors until she figures out how to live off her looks — and finds that German law is as narrow and rigid as the country's pious mores.

Oh, there was some lip service given: "How do we start this discussion on defending our nation and protecting our civil liberties and privacy?" Metadata analysis was described as "the least intrusive measure that we could figure out.

The orchestra reacts with nervous harmonic bursts, skittish figures for an intrusive piano and, now and then, a sustained series of chords that seem to want to stop the music cold.

Mark Silberman, counsel to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, said that if waivers are not granted, the commission will work with the office and the building owner to figure out the "least intrusive solution" to bring the building into compliance.

Douglas Carswell, the Clacton MP who defected from the Conservatives last year, told the Mail on Sunday he had received a phone call from a party figure who asked "grossly intrusive questions" about his marriage.

The SIS was then placed bilaterally and activated to produce an initial intrusive force of approximately 500 g (Figure 3a,b).

During the Korean War, we had to endure intrusive government "investigating" committees and much-disliked figures like Senator Joseph McCarthy.