If America were a blank slate, Medicare for all would be a plausible policy, but we are not a blank slate.
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BLANK SLATE TEA This teahouse specializing in tea drinks and food like a matcha yogurt bowl, as well as items like avocado toast, will open a few doors from Blank Slate Coffee & Kitchen.
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The next time we see Chidi, he's a blank slate.
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If you're really seeking enlightenment, consider a blank slate instead.
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Melania's public persona is largely that of a blank slate.
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He's working with a "blank slate," as he puts it.
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A blank slate, whoever it is we&aposre going to oppose.
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Then, you'll really be ready for the blank slate of 2018.
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Robots are the most powerful blank slate humans have ever created.
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"T-shirts are like a blank slate," Mayock explained to us.
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The po-boy could be seen as a battered blank slate.
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But it is a blank slate — it means turning the page.
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Blank-slate products like Echo Show create a dilemma for reviewers.
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It was a blank slate that we could project ourselves into.
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It's about the endless possibilities that come with a blank slate.
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Mark Zuckerberg's eyes: blank slate or window into a soul in chaos?
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Charley agrees, but reminds Nova that she has a blank slate, too.
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They don't even have character names, so it's a relatively blank slate.
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I wanted to start with a blank slate and let things emerge.
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"I'm just trying to be a blank slate here," Elman says helpfully.
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He is a blank slate, against which this whole thing is set.
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The cult of Hicks also flourishes because she's such a blank slate.
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Plus, there was something alluring about the basketball program's completely blank slate.
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But it left a blank slate for rebuilding some of the woodlands.
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You want to be a blank slate, but you want an edge.
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Keiko is a blank slate; she holds the world at prophylactic remove.
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A blank-slate LBD or LBJ is key to a high-functioning wardrobe.
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Faced with this blank slate, I didn't just decide to do something different.
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It's the perfect blank slate: Add fresh fruit, nuts, chia seeds, and more.
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The fourth is essentially a blank slate left open for a leadership bill.
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We also think it's possible to do amazing things given a blank slate.
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"I didn't come into (being first lady) with a blank slate," she said.
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When it comes to these questions, Judge Kavanaugh is not a blank slate.
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In today's world, it's impossible for any professional to be a blank slate.
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For the first time in his career, Mr. Joseph faced a blank slate.
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It helps to think of ground turkey as a blank slate for flavor.
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He is an unknown quantity, and that brings with it a blank slate.
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The D.E.A. agent Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña) is more of a blank slate.
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"I didn&apost come into (being first lady) with a blank slate," she said.
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It's a blank slate, and this time they've got a license to use it.
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I rarely do demonstrations in classes for professionals because I like a blank slate.
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Grace Gummer is really having a fine performance wasted on a blank slate character.
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Ruthlessly and methodically, he would try to render himself into a biological blank slate.
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His blank slate-iness makes him something of a perfect marker for Democratic performance.
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He is, in every other way, a blank slate, weak in personality and presence.
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You will be a college freshman in the fall but never a blank slate.
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Historically, there are few prestigious appellations here, making it a blank slate for winemakers.
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Instead of arriving with a blueprint, he viewed the space as a blank slate.
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On Twitter, a blank slate of 280 characters, it's attention-grabbing, ratio-inviting shit posts.
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You, New Kid, are once again a blank slate, with players picking their own powers.
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That blank slate with all that opportunity, and all those stories I haven't read yet.
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"This was more about being graphic and clean, almost like a blank slate," Siriano explains.
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Instead, you start with a blank slate — a plain, non-gendered face with no hair.
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But sometimes even the standard blank slate isn't enough for Rolls-Royce's most demanding customers.
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It's a time to step away from your typical routine and create a blank slate.
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This, the team believes, is easier for people to work with than a blank slate.
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Physically, Jokic is a blank slate, a big old Wooly Willy without all the wool.
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Unfortunately, the regional legal structure in the Arctic is, in most respects, a blank slate.
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She is purposely bland, a blank slate in a neat headband and dutifully clasped hands.
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But the president suggested his job-creation strategy was still something of a blank slate.
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It's not the 'repeal and we're starting from a blank slate' because that was defeated.
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A Word With After being in a boy band, Harry Styles was a blank slate.
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And he was enough of a generic evil Sith blank slate that the explanation tracks.
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But there's a fine line between polished gentleman hustler and blank slate of nondescript okay-ness.
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It's not a low; it's just about accepting your blank slate and being pumped on it.
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One of those bills would be essentially a blank slate for leadership to present its plan.
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Mie, in this case, is the blank slate, constantly losing a sense of what was there.
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I refinished the floors, and painted it a bright white to create a nice blank slate.
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And now, he's spinning the #hashtagcampaña as a sort of blank slate invitation to the people.
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The AWS IoT button is a blank slate that can be programmed to do virtually anything.
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By the end of The Last Jedi, Rey's past is still something of a blank slate.
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The first day, it's a complete blank slate to put whatever you want wherever you want.
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My wimpy little weights immediately labeled me a beginner, and I fiercely embraced the blank slate.
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As an attitude, I see pleasure as an attempt to create a blank slate each day.
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An ardent empiricist, Skinner maintained that a child is born with its mind a blank slate.
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The one thing turkey does better than any other meat is serve as a blank slate.
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Petit's conspiratorial and imperious voice calls on readers to vanquish the blank slate and celebrate chaos.
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I want her to go back to being a blank slate, her future a sparkling unknown.
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Vikar is merely a blank slate for Hollywood to inscribe, a zealot woodenly parroting others' opinions.
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It is otherwise a lengthy blank slate that's intended to disappear into your home entertainment setup.
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"I am not analyzing this on a blank slate," Jackson said as Burnham began his argument.
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"You need to approach it with more or less a blank slate and just listen," Reed said.
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But perhaps these new emoji will provide a blank slate on which to build another visual lexicon.
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So, let's not go into 2019 thinking of it as a blank slate or a fresh start.
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These are people who, in saying "I don't see color," treat the neighborhood like a blank slate.
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Borfiga was named vice president for high-performance athlete development and was essentially given a blank slate.
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We should be skeptical, not supportive, of nominees who remain a "blank slate" after years of practice.
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So state lawmakers decided that the fair thing to do was to start with a blank slate.
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DB: First, any proposal for change, including single-payer, should not be compared to a blank slate.
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It's plain surface and easy to replace handles makes this dresser the perfect blank slate to customize.
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Technically, there's no reset button for life, but fall comes pretty close to getting a blank slate.
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That blank slate approach has prompted opponents, activists and journalists to examine O'Rourke's previous comments and votes.
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Rook is a silent protagonist and a blank slate, always available for you to project into and through.
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"This is the one market where it's the rare occasion where we have a blank slate," said Kelly.
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With that blank slate comes an opportunity for Google to make exactly the thing it wants to make.
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Now every single update is a blank slate for people to approve with a tap of the mouse.
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"For all her two dimensionality, Nancy became and has remained a blank slate for female ambition," explained Rehak.
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At first, the neural net is just guessing blindly; it starts life a blank slate, more or less.
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That's all changed in a hurry as I've sort of decided to approach Mercedes as a blank slate.
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This relatively blank slate allows Americans to project their own beliefs and biases onto the former FBI director.
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This makes him anonymous, something of a blank slate onto which we can project our hopes and desires.
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A great blaze can serve as a blank slate onto which people project their social and cultural anxieties.
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I pretty much start as a blank slate, so readers join my character as he figures things out.
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Her palms opened like the pages of a book, suggesting a blank slate, or a readiness for anything.
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"You all came in facing a blank slate and had to invent new processes," board member Andrew Biggs said.
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But ultimately, Howard is eager for big things to happen on what is effectively a blank slate right now.
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Now, from the echoing empty chambers of the band's blank slate of engagement, there is a new auditory experience.
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Juncker has said the EU's priority would be a two-year divorce, then talks starting "with a blank slate".
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Seeing his blank slate filled with information each day is a constant reminder of the beautiful innocence he possesses.
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"Children are born with more neurons than they'll ever have in their life, essentially a blank slate," Hutton said.
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True to his word, McConnell plans to open the floor to amendments on a blank slate bill next week.
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The life ahead was suddenly not a simple question mark or a blank slate but a flashing alarm signal.
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As a result, for financial market participants and the broader public, he was a bit of a blank slate.
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The goal was to have my ears be a blank slate, even if my mind had some preconceived notions.
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Yet Lynch and Frost go one further than the trope usually goes, and make Cooper a literal blank slate.
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The utter destruction of Puerto Rico's power grid created a blank slate to rebuild in a more thoughtful way.
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A blank slate of a home is easier to sell than a heavily stylized space, and homeowners decorated accordingly.
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But her backstory and her pyrotechnic powers remain abstract: When the credits rolled, she still felt like a blank slate.
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Stylistically and aesthetically, the Clippers (just like the Grizzlies) are a blank slate that allows the imagination to run wild.
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This feedback loop also allows the AI to quickly bootstrap itself out of a nearly blank-slate state of ignorance.
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What could have been an intimidatingly blank slate was perfect for Seo, who previously decorated the actress's single-girl apartment.
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They'll essentially turn your keyboard into a blank slate, requiring masterful touch typing skills to get any actual work done.
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They're a blank slate of death that won't stop chasing you, and that's definitely a huge part of the show.
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Blank Slate Three comedians discuss one film that they've never seen before, like Sylvester Stallone's 1983 stinker Staying Alive. 28.
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If you were to look at this as a blank slate, you would think this was a religious liberty case.
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That's why the company has dropped the blank slate for a black slate, appropriately called the Rolls-Royce Black Badge.
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The character you meet in the opening area of White Orchard is no blank slate—he's got a solid backstory.
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But basically it's a blank slate, and it'll be very interesting to see how VW targets its first potential deployment.
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Depending on whom you ask, O'Rourke being a blank slate is either his biggest asset or his most apparent vulnerability.
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However, there may be times when you want to clear your Recent Files folder and start with a blank slate.
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"Tillerson, it seems, is a blank slate as far as Israel is concerned," Israeli columnist Chemi Shalev writes in Ha'aretz.
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I was now a blank slate wiped clean of the dick from my past and ready for my man-fast.
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One Twitter user quickly figured it out, so he kindly provided a blank slate so users could go crazy with Photoshop.
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" But Terry O'Neill, the group's president, lamented that his record pertaining to women's rights are "more or less a blank slate.
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Such reforms should be easier to implement on the relatively blank slate of a charter city than in existing population centres.
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At the outset of each policy subcommittee's deliberations, we started with a blank slate: there were never any pre-determined outcomes.
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Smith's last-minute amendment created a blank slate: Congress had not given any clues to what sex equality might look like.
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As a blank slate for artists, LA has therefore always struggled with its vague identity as a creative-cum-commercial hub.
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If this is the blank-slate flavor, I can only imagine how great the other ice cream flavors are gonna be.
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A projection, onto the supposedly blank slate of the infantilized New World, of European anxieties regarding a lost connection to nature?
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"I looked out the window and saw a big blank slate, and thought I could write something on it," she said.
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To turn it into a rally car, he removed every single part from his Impreza to begin with a blank slate.
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It assumes that Africa is a blank slate mired in problems waiting for a savior to project her good intentions on.
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It was a blank slate of a bagel — arguably, the bagel-iest kind of bagel, if not the most visually interesting.
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Every time you open the Assistant it's a blank slate, and you have to dig pretty deeply to find your search history.
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But #FreeGiannis isn't an imperative anymore—it's a state of being, each possession a blank slate, the lanky guy with the chalk.
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That I wasn't a blank slate like I had always thought, that there were some things that I was just stuck with.
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Unlike other sports, where roles are so thoroughly defined by generations of predecessors and established norms, esports is still a blank slate.
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Not to a 'perfect blank slate' but to a minor who is yet to learn about, or tame, the monster [of fame].
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But its inclusion renders null and void the notion that North America was a blank slate waiting to be filled with Europeans.
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Think of it as a blank slate computer chip that can be physically configured to mimic the behavior of any other chip.
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Whereas KOMRAD's AI has a distinct personality, one that has been rusting away for decades, Kaizen is more of a blank slate.
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This new Dale Cooper is practically a blank slate, only able to follow simple commands and to echo whatever anyone tells him.
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The focus at first is on painting masks, each treated as a blank slate that helps a patient explore wounds and identity.
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Kanye West is a blank slate, criminally speaking -- a judge signed off on erasing his conviction for that paparazzi beatdown at LAX.
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"The business community — the Fortune 500 business community, many of our friends — they don't understand this man, he's a blank slate, " Sonnenfeld said.
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The new game, subtitled "New Horizons," puts you on a deserted island — a totally blank slate compared to previous games in the series.
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Starting with a blank slate, he builds out these detailed worlds full of dozens, and even hundreds, of characters, immersed in complete scenery.
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She's emerging from a five-year-long, emotionally abusive marriage, and is starting off as a blank slate in the scariest, best way.
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The blank slate means the successful luxury brand (it outsold Audi in 2015) has a chance to reinvent itself for a whole generation.
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Kim, first seen in photographs, could easily be could just be a beautiful blank slate—but to the film's credit, she has agency.
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Featuring a remarkable number of playable VR arcade games As in many similar games, Technolust's blank-slate protagonist is a largely solitary figure.
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For Locke and the empiricists, the mind begins as a blank slate (a tabula rasa) and truth comes to us through our senses.
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Greez has the most personality right up front, while Cal comes off as a blank slate and Cere is just... serious about stuff.
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Once the storm passed, the blackout presented a blank slate to rebuild Puerto Rico's grid with an eye toward resilience and cleaner energy.
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I suggest going in with a blank slate, as the mysterious nature of Kravitz and Kirke's relationship makes for a particularly captivating lens.
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Dinosaur bones have long been a blank slate for projecting the artistic sensibilities, popular media, and anxieties of the day onto their forms.
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That's the cycle the Politico piece describes: Trump the blank slate, led to and fro by grasping morons, protected from consequences by enablers.
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"One of the things that was most appealing was the ability to have a blank slate," Mr. Gillespie said in a telephone interview.
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He turned the Sunset Strip on to duck-sausage pizzas and other exercises in treating Italian cuisine as a blank slate at Spago.
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In a cramped city, the island will become a rare blank slate — a large parcel of flat, undeveloped land with nearly endless possibilities.
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That's because this luxury property is being sold as-is — which means you can consider this a massive blank slate for limitless creativity.
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Without color or patterning, Dekyndt's flag reads as tabula rasa: a blank slate for a world without borders in which everyone is welcome.
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There's little of the deep feeling we got from Dolores's struggles toward consciousness in season one, or even, like, Teddy's blank-slate morality.
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All bills introduced this past Congress will be killed once January rolls around, so the new Congress will be starting from a blank slate.
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With Rory's love life a blank slate, fans can campion their favorite suitor going into Netflix's upcoming Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
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For much of the 20th century, psychology was dominated by the idea that human nature is a blank slate embellished by upbringing and environment.
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There are some external data sources so that people don't have to start with a blank slate, including restaurant recommendations from Vox Media's Eater.
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There's also the matter of tabula rasa itself, a philosophical concept that suggests the mind is a blank slate until life experience begets personality.
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The last bastions of no-strings-attached, blank slate characters may be giving way, not least because we are encouraged to want them to.
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Image: ScreenshotWith a blank slate and no ransomware in sight you can then get on with restoring your files back to their former locations.
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Chances are, the new Hinge will launch as a totally blank slate, and current matches, profiles, and messages will be gone forever starting today.
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Starting off with the blank slate of a new brand, there is no established pedigree or customer goodwill for Lynk & Co to rely on.
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"I didn't come into (being first lady) with a blank slate," she said during a speaking engagement several weeks before the book came out.
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It was kind of a blank slate, because the first film really has a very complex mythology, but it hints at it very obliquely.
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Pruitt has acted as if he could write on a blank slate, seeking regulatory reversals before doing the congressionally required work to justify them.
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Nor can Lawrence -- gamely conveying alternating bouts of confusion and pain -- ultimately make much out of a character written as such a blank slate.
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Asia O'Hara fell into the similar trap of trying to do Beyoncé who, for all of her talents, is something of a blank slate.
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The lack of a clock, the blank slate of Opening Day—all these hoary tropes really do get at something real about the game.
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Blank Slate Kitchen in Brooklyn has just introduced an uncommon version made with Sichuan peppercorns, which contribute the intriguingly numbing heat of that spice.
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Zero-based budgeting would have ended that, requiring an annual justification for all appropriations as if the process were starting from a blank slate.
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The plain back of the watch is not a cost-saving strategy but a celebratory one: The blank slate is meant for an inscription.
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But an imperative to say as little as possible and pretend one is a juridical blank slate has been close to inviolate since 1987.
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"The killer weakness of the current DNS system is its overreliance on caching," says Philip Saunders, founder of Nebulis, a distributed, blank-slate DNS system.
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Now, Wendy can't walk into a consulting session without people imagining her with whips, thus shattering the image of "blank slate" she needs so much.
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There are also some external data sources so that people don't have to start with a blank slate, including restaurant recommendations from Vox Media's Eater.
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But through the magic of eyeshadow palettes and hairspray — or orange zest, oil and spices — the blank slate can become something else entirely: Marinated Feta.
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"We had a chance to define on a blank slate, at a time when [Romney] had just come out of the nominating process," Grisolano said.
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You're either limited to futzing around with headlights and other inconsequential cosmetics or you get a totally blank slate with no design constraints at all.
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It's intended to give professional filmmakers more of a 'blank slate' to work with, so research the settings and know how to use them first.
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"It's a very new part of the city, and in that sense it's kind of like a blank slate," Steve Dippel, the brewery ambassador, said.
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With news of Johnny Manziel's latest escapades making the rounds late Sunday night, it became clearer than ever that this franchise is a blank slate.
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They have a blank slate at second base, essentially, and a player (Travis) who will improve the production from that spot dramatically, if he's healthy.
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The first stuff I did was the EP with the helmet [2014's ß], that was pretty much free reign, working with a blank slate.
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At this point, Big Head has become like Peter Sellers's "Chauncey Gardener" in "Being There," a blank slate who reads as a font of wisdom.
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It carries us from a meal's beginning to its end as both a blank slate for ingredient prep and a final stage for impressive masterpieces.
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In this climate, Mr. Zelensky's blank slate is an asset for him — as well as a canvas onto which people can paint whatever they want.
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Therein lies the thrill, therein lies the challenge of not knowing what is going to happen and have a completely blank slate, if you will.
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Memories… Do Not Open would be an object lesson in the perils of universality and the blank slate, if it hadn't topped the Billboard 200.
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Reynolds's blank-slate approach to these issues, about which he's still learning, allows for moments of narration by those meaningfully touched by the Mormon church's bigotry.
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But FCA offers more than just a blank slate of car models for the driverless systems; it does have some experience in the self-driving space.
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So in light of a new year and a blank slate, I decided to ask three personal shoppers how to never make those same mistakes again.
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Sony quit trying to live up to its storied name and reputation at CES this year and now it has a blank slate to work with.
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A whole new year of untainted possibilities lies ahead, and with that blank slate comes the opportunity to rid yourself of your crippling food-delivery addiction.
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When Lurie arrives at the frontier, we first imagine that an immigrant with little memory of his past has been provided with a quintessential blank slate.
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Drawing on a blank slate, Hamilton arose as the visionary architect of the executive branch, forming from scratch the first fiscal, monetary, tax, and accounting systems.
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Whether exploring gentle metallics on "Blank Slate" or droney atmospheres, Long demonstrates a unique ability to take alien sounds and make them feel comfortable and familiar.
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I was a blank slate at which someone's sweet, cookie-baking grandmother could toss casual insults phrased as pleasant inquiries about the quality of my day.
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Drizzle it on noodles, rub it on shrimp or fish, or brush it on sliders: Blank Slate Kitchen Szechuan Chili Oil, $12.50 for eight ounces, blankslatekitchen.com.
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For him, history is a blank slate to be overwritten with self-aggrandizing lies; ideas like justice and equality are elitist dreams to be swatted aside.
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Kentucky Owl offered a unique opportunity: a prestigious brand with almost no footprint, a blank slate on which SPI Group could write its own bourbon story.
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Both FTC Chairman Joe Simons and Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim agreed that if given a blank slate, they likely would put antitrust enforcement under one roof.
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He's hammered into so many different archetypes that his character becomes more of a blank slate ur-man than the kind of love interest you'd lust after.
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For him, the problem is the blank slate: It assumes that humans build their intelligence purely by observing the world around them, and that machines can too.
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If you're lucky, you start with a blank slate and some time in the future, years later, it may become something like what you had in mind.
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It is one of many such laws where Congress created the thin veneer of a process for presidential power that, in reality, was a virtual blank slate.
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Dropbox Paper started off as a blank slate, but given the number of options out there, it has to figure out a way to differentiate itself eventually.
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Better to go in seeing what you're served as a blank slate in need of some work than a finished dish, which can be intimidating to some.
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And when January rolls around, the 2020 Replay playlist will be a blank slate to fill with your favorites from Apple Music's catalog of 60 million tracks.
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The deal between the nation's largest banking tie-up since 2004 was presented as a merger of equals, forcing the banks to start with a blank slate.
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Meanwhile, the empty and numbered slots awaiting campers at the Mississinewa Lake campground, run by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, are more of a blank slate.
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"A blank slate was created, onto which new buildings would have to be created quickly and economically," Dahlman wrote in his biography of the Marina City complex.
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In place of the first game's blank-slate machines, Titanfall 2 offers robots a bit more in line with the ability-driven "heroes" of games like Overwatch.
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In other words, it's giving Facebook a blank slate not only for violations it definitely did, but for any it might have secretly done between 2012 and 2018.
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Buster's story is the most unique mini-arc, but the character can be too much of a blank slate, with motivations that seem externally imposed rather than developed.
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Great places don't rise from a blank slate — they use unique assets to build up what's special about the community, rather than seeking to recreate success from elsewhere.
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They moved to Hainan, the sub-tropical island that was at the time a blank slate for market reform experiments, and appealed to the World Bank for help.
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But much like the iPhone on Day 1, the Touch Bar is essentially a blank slate, and the onus is on app developers to make it more compelling.
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But his optimistic nature also found "a blank slate, ready to be filled in," and he wasted no time building one of Southern California's first great business empires.
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That's why we tend to get so many good ideas as we wake up or take a shower — the brain is usually a blank slate while sudsing up.
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But while a love of music is the one fundamental characteristic attributed to the former's hero, Atomic Blonde's Lorraine Broughton, played by Charlize Theron, is a blank slate.
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In a world in which every runner is known as a "[insert personal best] guy" (Fauble, for example, is a "2:09 guy"), Walmsley is a blank slate.
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Johnson is black and Samoan, and comes off as ethnically ambiguous, a blank slate upon which anyone can project whatever they see — or whatever they want to see.
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To run the system, you first impose a horizontal magnetic field, which initializes the qubits to an equal superposition of up and down—the equivalent of a blank slate.
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It was StubHub because they owned the end consumer, and it was Eventbrite because they were starting from scratch with equity and great engineers and a totally blank slate.
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One of the cool things about getting the gear stolen at that time was that I felt like I had a blank slate for tones on the new record.
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Economist Paul Romer was one of the first to champion the idea of charter cities as a way to boost development by creating new rules on a blank slate.
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Instead of asking users to immediately choose between a male or female avatar, like Samsung does with its AR Emoji, Apple begins with a blank slate: A bald head.
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This blank slate not only invites the audience to project parts of themselves onto the portraits, but allows Toronto to express herself in ways she previously did not dare.
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Its Honduran boss, Carlos Cruz, sees the zone as a "blank slate", which the company could use as a laboratory for new approaches to health care, education and tax.
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"Africa is a scientific experiment for the creative industries of China," Lewis said, noting that the underdeveloped market in Africa often gives entrepreneurs a blank slate to play with.
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Without that, Sweetbitter is just a show about some people who work in a restaurant, and Tess is just a blank slate of a girl watching them do things.
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William Reynolds's white blank-slate set adds a note clinical detachment, as if Jill and Ollie were pathological specimens, there to furnish the room with their wild narrative emissions.
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It wasn't like anyone had a real picture in the back of their head of what Dior men's wear was like — it was like starting from a blank slate.
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"When you're making a new product, you have to look at it with a blank slate and an open mind," co-founder and chief marketing officer Phillip Winter said.
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At Plexus Projects at 198 Greenpoint Avenue, Laura Splan showed me her "Blank Slate" (2016), which didn't immediately visually impress me, but the idea underlying the work is certainly compelling.
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In the second two edits, the scientists used Crispr to cripple genes that code for natural T cell receptors—deleting them from the cell's surface and creating a blank slate.
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They could go the Medium route, optimizing to a blank slate and letting users throw out long-form content, or they could optimize for something much shorter like a tweet.
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Many kids go all out, spending money on throw pillows, extra seating, beautiful storage and fun wall art to make their blank-slate digs feel like a Pinterest-perfect home.
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Whereas Walter White was a lesson for what could happen to an everyman under the wrong circumstances, Jimmy is not a blank slate that aspires to any kind of universality.
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The country had recovered from the war, but was not yet the economic powerhouse it would become in the 22011s — it was something of a blank slate for my imagination.
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Antiques Roadshow is a blank slate for the stoner mind, a way for you to lazily exercise your imagination and see some truly beautiful heirlooms, trash, and everything in between.
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The Mandalorian is largely a blank slate; he's mostly silent, always masked, but very good at what he does: hunting down and sometimes killing bail-jumpers and smugglers for money.
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And yet, this neon dome pulsed, a pink heart on an otherwise blank slate, offering the promise of new growth where none was expected, roots where otherwise there were none.
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The London fashion designer Simone Rocha, adored for her gauzily feminine garments, has collaborated with Saks Fifth Avenue on a capsule collection that's perfect for anyone craving a blank slate.
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If so, four immigration bills would have gone to a vote — Goodlatte, the liberal DREAM Act, a bipartisan compromise bill, and a blank slate for Ryan to propose his own solution.
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A team of scientists at Indiana University might be getting closer to that future, using pluripotent stem cells, cells from the body that can be turned back into blank slate cells.
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A mouthy fuckup from a bad family, Alyssa is drawn to James right away: he's such an affectless blank slate that he seems perfect for an angry girl to scribble on.
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"Based on the premise of that question, you'd want a judge who has never written anything or thought anything, is a completely blank slate and that would be stupid," Kennedy said.
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After I—a non-convert, an entirely blank slate—watched Jamiroquai perform for no less than two hours and 15 minutes straight, my theory is this: Jamiroquai appeals to literally everyone.
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The years since Reeves's turn as blank-slate killing machine Neo had not been particularly kind to him, and his work had substantially thinned out around the start of the 2010s.
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O'Rourke, Hale observes, "is something of a blank slate that voters and party elites can project their own policy preferences onto," a characteristic that can work to his advantage or disadvantage.
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To many American financiers who once opposed Mr. Trump's candidacy, the prospect of fewer regulations and a blank slate with a new leader has assuaged some of the fear about uncertainties.
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I'm at least happy that we have a blank slate at the FTC, although you're right, it is a kind of traditional Republican mold, so time will tell in U.S. FTC.
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One of the ways it accomplishes this interest is by cutting out some of the narrative planks from the previous games and doubling down on the blank slate of its silent protagonist.
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But Angela has to slink around E-Corp itself, train her face to rest somewhere between a smirk and a blank slate, and keep her cool under the most precarious of circumstances.
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The traffic jams would then be replaced with a tree-lined boulevard, offering a blank slate for new possibilities from new pop-up stores and markets to "oasis spaces" for weary shoppers.
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Rather than retrofitting an existing race car chassis for use with driverless systems, the company gave its designers and engineers a blank slate and told them to build the ultimate autonomous vehicle.
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"It's a blank slate, and that's definitely an opportunity you don't see very often," said one lobbyist who met with transition staff early in the process and requested anonymity to preserve relationships.
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It's understandably weird to be honored for the worst day of your life, but Billy comes off as too much of a blank slate, and Alwyn's face doesn't project any real anguish.
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"They did a good job at finding blank-slate candidates, without a lot to attack, and did a good job of supporting their female candidates," said Parker Poling, the NRCC's executive director.
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Rather than being confined to a piece of paper, you have a blank slate (well, a few blank fields) to tell a story about your professional self for the world to see.
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The company, run out of New York City by the former deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff, concluded after a year of study that it needed a not-quite-blank slate to truly innovate.
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However, most people refuse to see this because white identity has always been seen as the standard, a blank slate that is the absence of identity, when in fact it is not.
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"I loved that what the T-shirt symbolized for Obama was this blank slate, this moment of cleansing the palate or transitioning out of his back-to-back decision making," Spivack said.
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In fact, it's seemed that her persona, which long ago moved beyond "cliché celebrity," has recently transitioned, via intense public engagement with her image, into the blank-slate status of a cultural demigod.
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It presents something of a blank slate for forest managers to cultivate a healthy mix of trees with different ages, species, and densities to accommodate recreation and timber harvesting while reducing wildfire risk.
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While adults make prime targets for their account balances, the "blank slate" a child provides can enable a criminal to do more damage by opening new lines of credit before someone catches on.
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The overarching conceit of the program is the idea of "changing landscapes," a theme wide and deep enough to essentially give the artists a blank slate with the prompt "surprise me" written below.
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As designed by the ever-ingenious Soutra Gilmour, and lighted with whispering subtlety by Jon Clark, the set remains a sort of modernist blank slate, like an abandoned contemporary showroom — or, perhaps, laboratory.
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But the blank slate in Brooklyn — where ownership is a largely absentee and ambiguously directed partnership between Mikhail Prokhorov and Joseph Tsai — presented a clean-slate challenge that was more intriguing than daunting.
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During our conversation, we might build something new ourselves: Here's an empty space, a blank slate, a demilitarized zone where we can talk about anything, so long as it relates to this one thing.
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Now, for the first time ever, we all enter the next chapter blind as a three-eyed raven — a truly blank slate to start off Season 7, whether you've read the books or not.
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For visitors, the park experience echoes the first generation of movie Westerns, which was in love with the mythical blank slate of a West in which heroic gunslingers tried to bring order to chaos.
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The creation — referred to as a "Prime" — is a software-driven blank slate that can take on the characteristics and nuances Marjorie remembers about her husband, even if some of them aren't exactly true.
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It's about okay, we're here, and we're in a very sort of scary time — but we also have the ability to make the things that we want to, and this is a blank slate.
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That simplicity works now, on a marketing level, because the new sonic and visual emphasis on Cabello's Latina identity and personal narrative has helped listeners and the media fill in a previously blank slate.
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Your nameless hero — a completely blank slate for you to customize — is one of the few survivors of the so-called "awesomepocalypse," and you're on a mission to figure out What The Hell Happened.
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We are for booing him, not just now as the heel but also when he was a blank slate of a wrestler; we never saw the potential, only the turban, only the skin color.
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"All things considered, if the FOMC was starting with a blank slate next week, we suspect that officials would vote to raise interest rates," Capital Economics said in a note to clients this week.
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"There's something special about this blank-slate, juicy and crisp wad of iceberg that's dripping with fat and crunch," Brooks Headley, the chef and owner of Superiority Burger in New York City, told me.
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In an exceptional moment of learning, an eleven-year old girl summed up what so few grasp in the face of New York City's conventional characterization as an open-access blank slate of opportunity.
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I wished Gurba had wrestled with, as Nelson does, what it means to use a dead woman, a stranger, in this way: as a blank slate on which to project her fantasies and fears.
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Pricing for their services sits between $69 and $99 depending on whether you're starting from a blank slate or just want some additional pieces recommended to you that you can buy through the platform.
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Sara is part of a snobby clique in the vein of Heathers or Mean Girls, but she's too much of a blank slate to establish what she's doing there, beyond generating convenient conflict with Hayley.
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Coming in from Frontierland or just outside Fantasyland, you're presented with 'laser cut' rock tunnel that creates a blank slate that then opens up into a cinematically framed vista that varies depending on your entrance.
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"Comparable in square miles and projected population to Tempe, Arizona, Belmont will transform a raw, blank slate into a purpose-built edge city built around a flexible infrastructure model," Belmont Properties said in a statement.
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There isn't really a plot, but they all orbit around Jamie, a blank slate of a 19793-year-old boy whose adolescent foibles and vague journey to "become a man" provide the film's forward motion.
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Black pepper is dark and viscous with sweet heat; bird's-eye chile ignites; mahogany-hued vanilla is mellow; and palm sugar has a caramelized richness: Blank Slate Kitchen Rich Simple Syrups, $11.99 to $14.99, blankslatekitchen.
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The vision Toyoda laid out was a compelling once, center around its new e-Palette vehicle, which is basically a flexible blank slate on wheels with an electric motor and a fully modular interior design.
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It believes its brand and blank slate give it an advantage in figuring out how to tailor — and make money from — loans and other financial services to people who previously wouldn't have been Goldman clients.
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Let's level the playing field — assume a blank slate, and let each candidate articulate clearly and concisely what they would each do as President to secure the liberty and well being of the American people.
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Anyone who's seen that Jony Ive Wallpaper cover, which is literally a blank slate of white, will readily associate its stark simplicity with one peculiar trend in modern consumer tech design, something I'd call maximalist minimalism.
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Though Priebus was a blank slate on policy, he was close to the Republican Party establishment and therefore seemed to be the more moderate choice compared to the other main contender, outsider bomb-thrower Steve Bannon.
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We started out with the premise that this impeachment trial was like a jury, that people walk in with a blank slate and see the evidence, decide whether there's a crime and decide whether to convict.
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But Mr. Vaz also sees a silver lining in the destruction wrought by Sandy: a blank slate that allows the town made famous by the drunken shenanigans of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to shed its boozy reputation.
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But here, they're not couched in bovine passivity but the active projections of narcissists eager to see their most flattering reflections in the enigmatic pronouncements of Gardener, played by Peter Sellers as a perfect blank slate.
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"The player arrives in the world, like Robinson Crusoe, into a terra nullius," a blank slate which they are then encouraged to improve and where the native inhabitants are often obstacles in the way of development.
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Despite his lofty goals, Platt's Hobart is kind of a blank slate: he's calculated and charismatic but he's insecure, rightly worrying that the only thing he truly cares about is his own ruthless drive for success.
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The two get to talking about Charley's need for perfection; Nova tells her, out of love, that her mother made her a control freak, and that now, she has a blank slate to color how she wishes.
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What's nice about these totally unnecessary adaptations is that they essentially start with a blank slate, and the film's creators are left to figure out any kind of tone, story, and universe that they want to explore.
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I didn't introduce myself to my peers with my pronouns until the second year at orientation, where a new batch of work-study students came in and I'd have a blank slate to tell everyone at once.
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Macron has cast himself as a blank slate, without a pre-existing relationship that might color his interactions with Trump (though Macron has met privately with Obama, and even secured Obama's endorsement during his campaign last spring).
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When I visited their house, a real-estate agent had removed all the family photographs and replaced them with catalogue art, to make it easier for prospective buyers to think of the house as a blank slate.
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RELATED: This is your daily reminder that all roads lead back to Donald Trump's tax returns In past administrations, such a blank slate would cause speculation among the press corps: Will the President convene a news conference?
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After all, one of the benefits of being in the dominant demographic and cultural group is that you are allowed to simply be a person, a blank slate upon which you can write your own individual story.
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Writing about the title poem, "Blackacre," on Harriet, the Poetry Foundation's online blog, Youn also describes her poetics: We never start with a blank slate—each acre has been previously tenanted, enriched and depleted, built up and demolished.
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"You have prosecutors and judges who just think it's wrong: 'You've caused trouble in this county, you're a wrongdoer and you shouldn't get a blank slate,'" said Bernice Corley, the executive director of the Indiana Public Defender Council.
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It is hopelessly shallow and naïve to think, as the Pelagians do, that we begin with a blank slate or that most of us are reasonably decent or that we have it in our power to choose good.
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But as Coop suckles at a coffee cup, and gets distracted by visions of innocence and chivalry, it seems that at least some of our hero is still buried deep within this blank slate of a human being.
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So whether you want to dress yours up with a few well-placed bedazzled hair clips or a dozen gold necklaces, there's an LBD in the mix ahead that'll make the perfect blank slate for your next holiday soiree.
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Watching Nanette destroy her bad guy from the inside of his self-created house of digital horrors is exactly what you need as we exit the existential crisis-inducing garbage fire of 2017 for the blank slate of 2018.
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But like many celebrity politicians before him, Zelenskiy has been criticized for being blank slate on policy—a serious concern in one of Europe's poorest countries, and the only one on the continent with a war on its territory.
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Es Devlin's excellent contemporary set — a rotating, glass-walled cubicle furnished largely by packing crates — will turn out to be both a time machine and a blank slate to be scrawled upon, filled in and erased by its inhabitants.
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Because of this loose affiliation with rules and instructions, the Fluxx games become a sort of happy blank slate, easily accommodating vibes as different as the chaos of Monty Python Fluxx and the dour detective work of Batman Fluxx.
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Starting from a blank slate, and armed with nothing more than a reinforcement learning algorithm, a neural net, and the pieces on the board for input, AlphaZero plays itself over and over again, refining its skills with each passing match.
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It will also increase the presidential term limit from five to seven years, and although a president can still only serve a maximum of two terms under the new constitution, the charter provides a blank slate for candidates seeking to run.
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He has evolved from "intensely private" and a "blank slate" to semi-vocal do-gooder, using his Twitter account (approaching 9 million followers) and increasing cadence of public appearances as a platform to promote equality, immigration, education and the environment.
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Dunkirk may seem like the odd film out here, but in some ways it's the most powerful example: We're given a set of essentially blank-slate characters who make decisions using only cold, hard reason in the face of extreme circumstances.
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This last time I watched The Usual Suspects I was high, and throughout was mostly just upset McQuarrie didn't use his blank slate, where the first hour and a half literally doesn't matter, to do something—anything—interesting or cool.
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"If a new administration came in, they'd have a blank slate for rethinking the standards entirely, and there are a lot of ideas out there for standards that would be even more effective" than the Obama-era rules, said Mr. Houser.
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When the brand introduces men's wear for the first time this season, with couture to follow next January, Slimane will showcase not only his sprawling powers of imagination but also what he is capable of when starting from a blank slate.
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Ms. Halo and her collaborators on the project, titled Still Be Here — the choreographer Darren Johnston, the virtual artist LaTurbo Avedon, the digital artist Martin Sulzer and the conceptual artist Mari Matsutoya — saw in Hatsune Miku a blank slate of sorts.
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In the hands of these recontextualizers, the logo, whether the stand-alone C or the full script rendering, is reborn as something of an ideological and aesthetic blank slate, an axis upon which to turn and a foundation for new ideas.
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The city's first new subway station in a quarter-century opened at Hudson Yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan in 2015, but that was only one stop and the formerly industrial neighborhood was largely a blank slate for developers.
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There's something sensible in this 19th-century way of treating an infant as something of a blank slate, not daddy's little girl or mommy's little hellraiser, but, you know, just potential — a beautiful, lovable human that could become almost anything.
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The potential force withdrawal is part of Esper's "blank slate" review of global operations to shift the deployment of approximately 200,000 American forces stationed abroad to focus on Russian and China aggression as defined in the 21625 National Defense Strategy.
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But Nguyen is also, for better or worse, a bit of a blank slate without that many major decisions on her record (with a possible exception being a First Amendment case where she and two Republican colleagues found a school uniform policy unconstitutional).
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The blank-slate passivity is partially due to the narrative sleight-of-hand Shyamalan employs; we learn about Casey's backstory through a series of escalating flashbacks, and the payoff is predicated upon her character remaining a cipher for as long as possible.
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Michael endures precisely because, like the new Halloween's sequel-free conception, he offers a blank slate: He's a "boogeyman" or a "shape," as he's also been called in the films, a monster that filmmakers and audiences can project their own fears onto.
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He came into office to an enormous suite of powers: to an imperial presidency whose powers of life and death have been expanded over the past couple of decades, and a total organizational blank slate as to how those powers would be channeled.
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In the eyes of Jorge Mañes Rubio, artist-in-residence at the European Space Agency (ESA), the Moon is a blank slate, and it's this neutrality that inspired Rubio's Peak of Eternal Light, a conceptual project to 3D print a lunar temple.
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People familiar with Trump's thinking say Merkel's well-established relationship with former President Barack Obama colored Trump's view of her; he was more eager to develop ties to Macron since he represented a "blank slate," without a preexisting relationship with Trump's predecessor.
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At a time when the public expects access to every bit of information, when the president and his Democratic opposition are talking all the time on Twitter and on cable news and everywhere else, Mueller is that rarest of things: a blank slate.
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"It's unfortunate that President Obama felt it was necessary to appoint a nominee to the Supreme Court whose record on issues pertaining to women's rights is more or less a blank slate," said Terry O'Neill, president of NOW (National Organization for Women).
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Republican candidate Donald Trump is a blank slate on the issue, but his running mate Mike Pence has been on a crusade againstpublic education funding even as he made use of $280,000 in federal Parent PLUS student loans to send his children to college.
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The automaker has shown off eight other vehicles, as well as assistive robotics, all under the mobility for all moniker, including the e-Palette vehicle, which is basically a flexible blank slate on wheels with an electric motor and a fully modular interior design.
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She's laidback, a blank slate of a character as she handles both this manager role and gets to know the band—and remember, this is all happening in real time, too, as the real actor Leah gets to know Wolf Alice at the same time.
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The main connection between these historic and contemporary projects is the lack of the camera as a framing device, as well as treating the photograph as a tactile medium, a light-sensitive blank slate on which to capture some ghostly, fleeting impression of the world.
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Last year, staring down a deep depression amid more personnel changes in a band plagued by them — and questioning herself under the hefty burdens of adulthood — Ms. Williams opted for "a blank slate," she said, her currently white-blond locks further minimized under a beanie.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump is a blank slate on the issue, but his running mate Mike Pence has been on a crusade against public education funding even as he made use of $280,000 in federal Parent PLUS student loans to send his children to college.
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We're barreling ever closer toward 2019 whether we like it or not — and for every person who views the new year as a totally clean (and therefore blank) slate, there's another who'd rather know ahead of time what the next 12 months may hold in store.
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The story's premise is outlandish, but its revelation is not: It turns out he was only in love with the idea of the girl, so long as she remained a blank slate on which he could project his fantasies, as long as she had nothing to say.
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"Muscle movements in the face sustain interactions between people, and if you take that out, you're working with a blank slate," said Jeffrey Cohn, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, who studies the link between the lack of facial expressiveness and depression.
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The general idea, however, comes from the belief among many designers that the model should not really distract from the clothes; her face should be a blank slate, on which the personality of the collection, as opposed to the personality of the girl, can be painted.
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Unlike Facebook's oft-mentioned algorithm, which shoves content into your feed based on an aggregation of your likes, browsing habits, and user histories, Instagram feed has been a blank slate you'd cultivate over the years with friends, strangers, and fellow photo-takers you've deemed worthy of following.
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The point seems to be that a civilizational blank slate contains liberatory potential (the press release ends with, "Water washes everything away"), but apocalyptic climate fatalism can also limit our ability to imagine and prepare for the future by pretending, resigned, that there won't be one.
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But for a service that involves providing a blank slate for the sole purpose of letting users write people recommendations, not having some basic, automated moderation system in place to at least block profanity and other keywords is either a glaring oversight or an intentional (and callous) decision.
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Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions are preparing to question DeVos on a broad scope of topics, honing in on the fact that, to date, DeVos has been largely a blank slate on college affordability, transgender issues in schools and for-profit colleges.
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The Economist noted that this is not a perfect study: It did not, for example, show that Google does not personalize search results in a politically biased manner for users it has collected a lot of data on, and "politically centrist" is not the same as a blank slate.
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Mainstream pop has never been so consumed with the cult of personality as it's been in the 2010s, but EDM and genre-adjacent artists like Bergling have largely represented the inverse of that trend, making music that's soundtracked millions of personal experiences while remaining a blank slate personality-wise.
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For all his oddities and eccentricities, he was a blank slate — a businessman to those who wanted a businessman, a culture warrior to those who wanted a culture warrior, a pragmatist to those who wanted a pragmatist, a conservative to those who wanted a conservative, and so on.
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Prada also sent several all-black looks down the runway, a color trend we've seen several times this Fashion Month (from Max Mara to No. 21 and more), which makes us wonder if some designers are ready to go dark for a second (or just in need of a blank slate)?
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"What we failed to do is tell his story and that left a blank slate that Tester could paint whatever he wanted on it," the senior White House official said, referring to the two week gap between the announcement of Jackson's nomination and Tester's move to go public with the allegations.
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Like you say, he was no blank slate to begin with, and actually I think The Witcher 3's greatest strength is how it doesn't let you run too wild with choices, and instead gives you a predefined character where certain options simply wouldn't feel natural for him to go with.
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The designer approached the house's four light-filled rooms in much the same way she does a piece of pottery, starting with a blank slate (in this case white plaster walls) and adding idiosyncratic scribbles and accents — in her usual sophisticated palette of rust, mustard, teal and pink — here and there.
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" Moore has also been critical of Trump, including a declaration in a 2015 interview on Kudlow's radio show newly unearthed by CNN's KFile that Trump would be one of the "two most arrogant people in America," alongside President Barack Obama, and calling Trump "a complete blank slate" that "doesn't have an underlying philosophy.
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While some experienced operatives were motivated by a sense of duty to consider serving the untested Trump at a time -- shortly after he won the election -- when his presidency was a blank slate, many Republican staffers are now discouraged after observing the reality of what working in his administration is really like.
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"The commonly accepted myth about babies who are adopted soon after birth is that they are a 'blank slate', a canvass on which the adoptive parents can imprint their family histories and personal values," says an Australian forced-adoptee and policy reform activist who blogs and tweets under the pseudonym Trauma Grrrl.
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The design of the Summer Olympics medals is fairly strict — they must always include an image of Nike, the goddess of Victory — but the Winter Olympic medals start from a blank slate, although the designer is usually expected to incorporate the spirit of both the Olympics and the host culture into the medals themselves.
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Outside it, however, the hosts are designable, malleable characters, and they sit in front of their designers when tested and reconfigured, just as a game designer might have a blank slate of a character on her screen that looks more like a nude clay model than the dressed character it will be in-game.
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Roll20 is free , and offers all the same functionality that Wizards is touting for Beyond—the main difference is that Beyond will feature official Dungeons and Dragons content and tools especially tuned for D&D 5E, whereas Roll20 is primarily a blank slate designed for use with a multitude of different tabletop engines, at least in its free form.
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Shakespeare's Caliban is charismatic and poetic, and it's easy for a reader to imagine that he might have his own compelling point of view on the play, but Shakespeare's Miranda is essentially a blank slate, a docile tool for her father to use in his fantastic plots; she doesn't have any inner life of her own.
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Hardly a blank-slate pied-a-terre for the Los Angeles–based mogul, the five-bed, five-bath condo offers distinctive design: Richly paneled walls, and colorful touches, including a leaf-green ceiling in the kitchen accented by floral fabric pendants, and a one-of-a-kind dining nook with a purple-wallpapered ceiling, are just a few standouts.
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The group says it had backed the approach initially proposed by Republican leaders on the House tax committee that would have started with a blank slate with all subsidies for energy and other industries — "where everything is out and then must be deliberately put back in and paid for," says Autumn Hanna, senior program director at the taxpayers group.
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Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge The Mandalorian is largely a blank slate; he's mostly silent, always masked, but very good at what he does: hunting down and sometimes killing bail-jumpers and smugglers for money… Pedro Pascal's Mandalorian is more of a quiet lone gunslinger in the vein of Clint Eastwood, speaking only when he needs to.
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"The most important idea in AlphaGo Zero is that it learns completely tabula rasa — that means it starts from a blank slate and figures out for itself, only from self-play, without any human knowledge, any human data, without any human examples or features or intervention from humans," said lead AlphaGo researcher David Silver in a Nature interview.
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His life is interrupted by two great catastrophes: a deadly avalanche and World War II. (Egger fights on the German side and spends several years as a P.O.W., but Mr. Seethaler, sticking to his plan to make his protagonist a blank slate, gives him no political thoughts.) Though Mr. Seethaler's style is generally straight-faced and occasionally sentimental, the novel has moments of dark humor.
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"I think the way we should all be looking at this is at its core we have a chance to pivot here with a new administration, whoever it is, because both are coming at this with much more of a blank-slate approach with a clean table of options without all of this mess in the front window related to a housing recession," he said.
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American Ronin, about highly trained corporate operatives; Fight Girls, about warriors vying to be queen of the galaxy; and Bad Mother, about a parent searching for her missing daughter: These are some of the stories that are coming from a new comics publisher, Artists, Writers & Artisans, one that is posing the question, what stories could we develop if we begin with a blank slate?
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This one, The Do-Over, stars David Space as a sad-sack suburban dad whose world is turned upside down when he reconnects with an old high school pal (Sandler) — who takes him to bumpin' clubs, introduces him to the wonder of threesomes with Luis Guzman, and, oh yeah, fakes both of their deaths so that they'll have a chance to "start over" and live their lives with a blank slate.
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