It's a kind of altered state.
"I kind of altered my shot a little bit," Smith said.
"Didn't he kind of come in at the last minute and kind of alter the votes or something?" Mr. Frasier, 26, asked, his memory barely jogged.
From a career of thinking and talking about himself, the public Kureishi has morphed into someone he can happily discuss as a kind of alter ego.
[Varella] became a kind of alter ego.' Even though the prison stories were gripping, Babenco had no intention of turning his doctor's tales into a film.
For the youthful Picasso the Harlequin was a kind of alter ego, reflecting the alienation of an aspiring artist and foreigner living alone in Paris.
It's no accident that the 8-year-old Yang-Yang shares his name with the filmmaker, since he functions within the film as a kind of alter ego, a watcher and recorder of the world's enigmas.
You sense that he also saw — or wanted to see — a kind of alter ego in Mr. McCandless, someone who refused to conform to the system and embraced the world on his own terms.
His last book, Cain, in which Abel's brother serves as a kind of alter-ego as he travels through the Old Testament, was published in 2009 with an English translation expected next year.
Winnie's offbeat, insightful perceptions make her, perhaps deliberately, a kind of alter ego for Delphine Gleize, a 28-year-old French filmmaker whose first feature, "Carnage," opens today in Manhattan.
