If there is any kind of agency responsible then it hates its victims.
Laure is only 10, but as Michael she has a kind of agency that the girls don't.
It gave them a kind of agency, although from a foreigner's perspective it contributed to the strangeness of the place.
"There's a major sea change going on in this space, which requires a different kind of agency," Mr. Bidwell said.
Rosetta has tried to position itself as a different kind of agency, providing consulting services rather than merely churning out advertising, which is seen as something of a commodity in the digital era.
The over-all stakes may be higher for pro athletes — the money, for one, and the greater scrutiny — but they also enjoy a kind of agency that college players lack.
"There's a very particular kind of agency that comes from using the body to get into spaces that you're not supposed to access," he says, "and that translates very easily into a kind of politics".
In 1968, having lost a mayoral campaign here, Mr. Logue was invited to meet Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to discuss a new kind of agency, the Urban Development Corporation, that was to build affordable housing and create jobs.
It's a perilous topic for any video game to approach, especially one in which the player has the kind of agency that can be communicated via the dumbing force of a blade.
Before long, they were living together; Clara got a job in an office, a legal firm or some kind of agency — a really fun job, Clara said, without a hint of irony — and her life seemed to be on track, for good this time.
