Despite exploring "the blot" on society caused by underpaying educators and clergy, The Blot finds time for humor, primarily through snarky intertitles.
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You won't really know if you've met your match until lunchtime the next day, when you have to answer one important question: To blot or not to blot?
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I have combination skin and usually have to blot excess oil off my face at least once, even when I wear matte foundations, but I don't have to blot when I wear this.
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Thoroughly blot dry, removing as much moisture as possible. 7.
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The campaign is another blot on China's human rights record.
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To get the same soft edges, another classic trick: gently blot.
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Choose your bag based on how often you'll need to blot.
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It's got to be a big blot on the horizon potentially.
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Like an ink blot, it became whatever anyone wanted to see.
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And Powell later acknowledged it was a blot on his record.
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He is a Rorschach blot upon which to project fears or hopes.
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Using a paper towel, gently blot any condensation from top of custard.
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Blot with a tissue and apply a final coat of both hues.
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Just draw your line, blot with a tissue and prepare for color.
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Blot the salmon with a paper towel to remove any excess moisture.
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That episode remains a blot on the conscience of the United States.
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In 2012, Herbert was hospitalized for 40 days after suffering multiple blot clots.
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Vlogger Jordan Liberty suggested we blot away facial shine with toilet-seat covers.
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" And he called the Guantanamo Bay prison a "blot on our national honor.
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Failure to do so would be a blot on an otherwise admirable record.
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Once you're ready to start on the lips, blot off the excess balm.
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Democrats say they have tried to blot out the noise from the trial.
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Just blot dry with a face cloth, which can be laundered for reuse.
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Swipe on one coat, blot, and apply a second coat for the most payoff.
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And then a blot on Katherine's past resurfaces and threatens to tank it all.
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Only the aesthetic impersonality of the blot could reveal the personality of its viewer.
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It worries that shanty towns may breed social instability and blot the cities' image.
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In a world that preferred to blot it out, his motto had become Zachor!
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They do not constitute a singular blot on his character; they certify his identity.
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Blot the area dry with paper towels and then vacuum to lift any fibers.
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But in a perhaps unfair way, it's become a blot on Gillibrand, as well.
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Unlike on Earth, the moons of Mars do not completely blot out the sun.
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Either way, he will also leave another historic blot: normalizing trade tactics as punishment.
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Second, blot sauces, oils and dressings with paper towels while no one was looking.
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The Dust absorbed just enough light to blot it out, even in the darkest places.
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I started drinking copiously and taking drugs to blot out the seriousness of my situation.
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A track started to grow and swell like an ink-blot running from the speakers.
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"If you're using a creamy product, blot between applications and blend, blend, blend," says Smith.
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But it's easy to blot that out when you're rocking as hard as I was.
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Trump called the leak a "tremendous blot" on U.S. intelligence ... IF it came from them.
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Even a short-circuiting electric toothbrush could blot out the whisper of the Big Bang.
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The room's a blur and she's desperate to go to sleep, blot out the day.
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"It would be a tremendous blot on their record," Trump said of the intelligence agencies.
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So you could blot out "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from existence for half a decade.
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One legislator recently kicked up a national storm when he labelled the tomb "a blot".
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Any such move by the agencies would be a "tremendous blot on their record," he said.
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An Anglican bishop, Pete Broadbent, once dismissed UKIP has "a vacuous...blot on the political landscape".
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But letting them moulder in jail will be seen abroad as a blot on Spain's democracy.
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"In 30 minutes, as a show of power, @taylorswift13 will blot out the sun," he wrote.
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" The critic for The Los Angeles Times called it "a blot on the American film industry.
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It was more than enough to blot out two home runs by the Orioles' Manny Machado.
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As I see it, Syria has been his worst mistake, a huge blot on his legacy.
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We want to blot it out The paranoia that sits in the back of your head.
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Ours is a poetic dilemma: We want silence, but we also want to blot it out.
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It's a time for costumes and levity, for shaking noisemakers to blot out the evildoer's name.
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The issue that reveals the origin of Rorschach is laid out symmetrically — like a Rorschach blot.
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He began to cry, plucking a tissue out of his chest pocket to blot the tears.
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Despite the court's ruling, the disaster was the biggest blot on Ms. Park's record as president.
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Clouds will blot out most of the sky and rain showers are expected throughout the workday.
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To rinse, apply plain water using a spray bottle and blot until the carpet is dry.
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As part of this process, clumps of paint build up in spots and blot certain areas.
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At the most, I'll use eye drops on him, or, if he's sweating, I'll blot his skin.
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Given only 30 minutes, you'll have to blot off that excess moisture off with a paper towel.
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Plus, because of that first blot on my record, I never felt I could raise my rates.
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As a lawyer, he called slavery "a blot on our national character," while defending an abolitionist minister.
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It is time to challenge the idea that by removing a storyteller, we blot out the story.
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Meanwhile, a group of nihilists at r/BlackVoid prepared to blot out whatever the other groups created.
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Trump topped off his attack on Comey by dismissing him as a blot on the FBI's history.
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Franken's resignation will always be a blot on his political career, as well as its likely end.
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It's a satisfying psychological tool, like a Rorschach blot, a Myers-Briggs test, or a BuzzFeed quiz.
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Sometimes you want to blot out the news by picking up the latest thriller or romance novel.
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The web has put too much information at our fingertips, threatening to blot out the narrative altogether.
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Kenya Dispatch At first, villagers thought the dark, dense blot in the sky was a harmless cloud.
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For ancient Persia, eclipses happened if the trickster pari decided to blot out the sun for fun.
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Put a tissue between your lips and blot once or twice before layering on another coat of lipstick.
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I never reapply powder in humidity — I'll just use blue shop towels to blot and absorb the sweat.
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They seek refuge from anguish in heroin, blot out anxiety with Xanax, and boost their confidence with cocaine.
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Answer: "The key is to always blot before applying touch-up powder," celebrity makeup artist Nick Barose says.
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MAKE's Blot Pot in Rouge can be used on both cheeks and lips for a ruddy, glowing finish.
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Allow the solution to work for 10 to 15 minutes and then blot away with a paper towel.
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But for some natives, the plants are an alien blot on the landscape that need to be eliminated.
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Sadly, he is deceased, and this blot upon his memory will outlast his distinguished teaching career at Choate.
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I tried to blot my eyes dry, until I realized the young woman beside me was crying, too.
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He told me the only violent blot on his ten-year institutional record was that alleged assault on staff.
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That behavior, especially his White House affair with a 22-year-old intern, is a blot on his career.
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True, whiffs of corruption hung over him, and the bankruptcies of two state firms he championed were a blot.
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The abuse of migrants being held against their will in squalid, inhumane conditions is a blot on our conscience.
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With that blot on his record, however, he was barred from graduate schools and from pursuing his chosen career.
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With each page, we feel Ethan's tension growing, his father's anxieties looming larger and larger, like Inkling's growing blot.
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The power of food — of cooking, of cooking together — is its ability to briefly blot out almost any pain.
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No, nepotism would be a blot on Payton's Master Plan, which has only one final destination: The White House.
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This music can be more beautiful than anyone's, but it refuses to blot out the ugliness of the world.
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The acquittal of Kate Steinle's killer on second degree murder charges is a blot on the legacy of America.
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But too often social networks have turned out to be toxic environments where the fumes blot out the light instead.
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But maybe the intelligence agencies which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they in fact did that.
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Follow the pro's lead: Either line and fill lips with a pencil, or apply, blot and layer a traditional tube.
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He researches the fallen officer before rendering a blot that aims to capture each story of bravery in every image.
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The document was redacted to blot out Lin's name and did not identify what foreign country or countries were involved.
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Visitors will see an android-like Rorschach blot and a robot pointer hand in the project from Galleryske of Bangalore.
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This is a blot on that image and highlights the pressing need in France for an open debate on racism.
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Journalists and politicians across party lines offered condolences and said the attack was a blot on India's human rights record.
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For liberals, the driving ban was a blot on the national brand that was hampering modernization and weakening the economy.
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Kennedy was particularly critical of Pritzker, accusing him of using his wealth to blot out the message of his competitors.
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The first concern is over Mr Ouattara, who may blot his copybook by trying to run for a third term.
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FYI, Serena's catsuit was custom-designed to increase blood circulation in the wake of health issues caused by blot clots.
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He climbed atop Balerion, a dragon so large it could blot out the sun, and burned down the Sept of Remembrance.
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Remove from pan once cooked through and blot out excess oil with paper towel before slicing into thin-long strips. 2.
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All you need to do is blot some of your favorite colors on your lids, blink a few times, and voila!
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" When statues come down, it does not mark an end to what Taney himself called "a blot on our national character.
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Those off-the-cuff remarks -- wait for it -- often lead the news and blot out his chosen message of the day.
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But thanks to the moon's changing orbit, in about 2000 million years, it will no longer blot out the sun perfectly.
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The best bet is censure; it's a blot on his career, of course, but better than impeachment or a criminal trial.
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Blot them well with paper towels to remove the liquid and the excess salt, and you will be good to go.
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Two exhaustive reports establish that the Russian government engaged in state-sponsored doping, and that is a blot on world sport.
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Let a thick layer sit for 10 minutes, and blot off any excess — what's been absorbed will yield hours of results.
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It's about understanding the psyche, so the conversations are more like looking at a Rorschach blot: like, what did you see?
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Unhappy residents in neighboring buildings argue that the scaffolds block views, blot out the sun and limit access to outdoor space.
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One of Perret's large-scale carpets with acrylic paint, in the form of a Rorschach blot hangs on the back wall.
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This was a misuse of resources, a failure that would have been a blot on the record of a summer intern.
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It is not a blot that's susceptible to the kind of scrubbing and tidying of which Charlotte Walker is a master.
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They were good looking and graced with curly halos and dazzling smiles that seemed bright enough to blot out every worry.
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But persistent poverty in its mountain villages has been a blot on Mr. Xi's promise to end rural poverty by 2020.
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In his 2002 memoir, written after his loss to George W. Bush, he was still lamenting that blot on his escutcheon.
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Because they looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they, in fact, did that, a tremendous blot, because a thing like that should never have been written, it should never have been had, and it should certainly never have been released.
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Only recently, at our last photoshoot, did he let me tame a stray flyaway and blot away shine in between his eyes.
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The problem, though, is that their overreach will allow Trump to blot out the legitimate reporting done by CNN (and other outlets).
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" An editorial in The South China Morning Post, a newspaper in Hong Kong, criticized the decision as a "blot on Taiwan's image.
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While posing minimal risk to humans, the uncontrolled re-entry of the space lab is a blot on China's ambitious space program.
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Blot out hotel noises and lights with comfy ear plugs and eye masks, so you can avoid those unwanted too-early mornings.
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Who knows, but maybe the intelligence agencies which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they in fact did that.
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"Persistent Resistance" consists of a central speckled, decorative column that looks like a Rorschach ink blot that's been stretched into a pillar.
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Pumping sulphate aerosols into the Arctic stratosphere from high-flying aircraft could be one way to blot out a bit of the sun.
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Her speculation was set against a backdrop of rearview creepshots, with a few barely there scribbles added to blot out actual facial features.
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Either way, the fact that it's basically a Rorschach ink blot makes it fit better with the film's aesthetic than the last dude.
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His candidacy is a blot on our nation, and I for one applaud the PGA for taking away his golf event in Florida.
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Shortly after his parents' divorce, Ohiri's mother reportedly started to blot out the father's image from family photos after escaping her abusive marriage.
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Unlike its better-known relative the total solar eclipse, an annular eclipse occurs when the moon does not completely blot out the sun.
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Researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion Univerisity warn that current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations make it feasible to blot out 22019 emergency service.
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" As General Dawlatzai put it: "Saying things are getting better in Helmand is like trying to blot out the sun with two fingers.
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The fact remains that Bryant was once party to a rape investigation that, irrespective of outcome, remains too significant to ever blot out.
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The people of Megaton are building something that isn't the old world, and it's a blot on the landscape of the landed rich.
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To me that is the biggest disgrace of his presidency, the blot staining his legacy and the utter ignominy that history will record.
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Those who lived through hell, as Russians of an older generation did, may prefer to blot out the horrors they endured or inflicted.
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How much of his sudden zest reflects a possible presidential bid and the need to pretty up an ugly blot on his record?
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The uncontrolled re-entry of the space lab has been a blot on China's space program, as it goes against international best practice.
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The confusion marks the latest blot in the federal government's response to Maria, which was widely criticized as too small and too slow.
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"I must say that I want to thank a lot of the news organizations here today because they looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe the intelligence agencies – who knows, but maybe the intelligence agencies, which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they did do that, a tremendous blot," Trump said from Trump Tower on Wednesday.
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And sure, it is uncanny and cool that the moon sits at just the right distance from the Earth to blot out the sun.
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Finally, a blot on his "escutcheon," he blurted out during a recent Dodger game when Kershaw gave up a hit for the first time.
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Far from a success on any score, it was a blot on America's reputation, a program that turned immigration control into a refugee crisis.
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In case you value celebrity endorsements, Sarah Jessica Parker loves to blot with toilet seat covers, reportedly just sticking her whole face on there.
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With forests and scores of cities set ablaze, enough dust and smoke would be hurled into the upper atmosphere to blot out the sun.
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If clouds of debris or ash were to blot out the sun and lead the climate to cool rapidly, trillions of trees would die.
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Mr. Powell, a former general and the first African-American to hold the post, later described the speech as a "blot" on his record.
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DAVID D. TURNER, NEW YORK To the Editor: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is retiring with a blot on his long and often distinguished career.
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I fear that the blot on the reputation of our country will be as hard to eradicate as the trauma to these poor children.
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Yet Inkling has roared to life with a purpose, "a whole storm of feelings" congealed into a Rorschach blot, straight from Ethan's father's unconscious.
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Such venues effectively blot out a part of the neighborhood when not in use, reducing foot traffic and fraying the fabric of the community.
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Of course, there's a point at which practice and conditioning and scheduling can blot out all other components of the highly scheduled teen's life.
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" ■ Mr. Trump said that the document "was released by maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, which would be a tremendous blot on their record.
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A colonial-era law that criminalizes homosexual sex is viewed by many as a blot on the idea of India as a liberal democracy.
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We should acknowledge every injustice we have committed because to do any less would be to blot the memory of those who we have wronged.
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Diemut Strebe, a German artist, has spent her career mixing science and art, always at the risk of having one discipline blot out the other.
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Ugg still tells customers to blot away any moisture immediately after spillage, and recommends that its care kit be reapplied every six to eight months.
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THE BLOT CHAIN IS A TECHNOLOGY, WHICH WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING, AS OF – I'M SURE YOU'VE HAD OTHER PEOPLE UP HERE — AND YES, IT'S REAL.
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"At the end of that week, while my labmates were at the deli drinking beer, I developed the blot from the Drurys' DNA," Pollack writes.
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For Eovaldi, two wild pitches in the fifth were the lone blot on his record, as they helped Baltimore (45-53) to its first run.
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Trump has used it to blot out Obama's legacy (one of his few discernible policy goals), and to solidify his base of white, male voters.
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That is enormous in human terms, but smallish for a defensive tackle, whose function in a 3-4 defense is to blot out the sun.
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For example, where we have the EYES in the first square of 39A, the answer to the clue "Blot on a landscape" is [EYES]ORE.
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For an even more subtle appearance, you can blot the product with a tissue or paper towel before it dries to sheer the color out.
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If that's not enough, winds whip around the planet at tornado-like speeds, and during the day thick clouds of sulphuric acid blot out the sun.
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In yet another adversarial moment with the U.S. intelligence community, Trump cast the report and memo as a "tremendous blot" on the record of intelligence agencies.
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Since their first meeting in 2012, Azarenka had become the blemish on Kerber's record that she could not blot out, no matter how valiantly she tried.
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Psychologists having been used the ink blot test, also known as the Rorschach test, to study patients' personalities, emotional functioning, and thought disorders since the 1940s.
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The Voting Rights Act has been leveraged by the Obama DOJ and activist groups to pack racial minorities into ink blot jurisdictions to distribute partisan advantage.
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There's a mix of rage and sadness in watching the media and MLB powers that be blot out his actions with euphemisms, stats, and manufactured narratives.
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The Department of Defense also indicated that those who engage in such conduct online or in the workplace face a permanent blot on their service record.
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The fallout was a rare but highly visible blot on Brin's career, although his holdings in the company would have prevented any attempt to oust him.
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With these new laws in place, we can prevent harmful and unnecessary regulations and use government to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit, instead of blot it out.
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The other day I attempted to blot out the world by playing an online game called Two Dots, which is exactly as profound as it sounds.
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A tremendous blot, because a thing like that should have never been written, it should never have been had and it should certainly never been released.
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In the 21st-century media ecosystem, "alternative facts" — as Kellyanne Conway's famous formulation goes — can reign supreme, or at the very least blot out the truth.
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Beijing, meanwhile, is not shy about using its political and economic heft to blot out dissent beyond China's borders, employing tactics that blend politics and commerce.
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Dab a light moisturizer across your face, but then wait for it to dry and blot away any excess product to avoid any greasiness throughout the day.
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Drizzy, in this sense, is all of us, caught in a moment of unplanned broadcast, before we've had a chance to blot the oil off our face.
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But it's an effective Rorschach blot of a film, more likely to confirm viewers' prejudices than challenge their beliefs, or try to inform them about the controversies.
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Gazing down on the city from the Getty Centre, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, haze can blot out the view of the Pacific Ocean.
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Is it enormous, its tusks the size of mountains and the span of its great cloven hooves vast enough to blot the very sun from the sky?
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Jason did things while he was on drugs, or trying to get drugs, that filled him with shame; to blot out those feelings, he'd get high again.
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The White House seems braced for the result and does not interpret the likely outcome as a repudiation of the president or a blot on his legacy.
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Surely I can say what I want my daughter and imminent son-in-law to hear without having to blow my nose and blot around my eyes.
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I'd like a quarter of the confidence of the woman three houses down who carries a gigantic black umbrella to blot out the sun everywhere she goes.
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But the rice rolls, a point of pride for the chain, are white bogs of starch that blot out the underseasoned fillings of beef, pork or shrimp.
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Alaska demonstrates that when you start giving people money, the act may very well eclipse every other political concern and blot out all other missions of government.
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He brushed aside the constitutional confrontation as a "hoax" based on unfounded charges, even as he conceded that it would be a permanent blot on his presidency.
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The Blot (1921) deals with income inequality as a rich student and a poor minister vie for the affections of the daughter of an impoverished college professor.
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There had hitherto been little acknowledgement at Mount Vernon of this dreadful blot on Washington's reputation, or of the hundreds of black slaves who lived and worked there.
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And though my awareness of this was a dark blot on what had been, up to then, a pure joy, I didn't know what to do with it.
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Resolving the crisis would remove "a blot upon the fair name and high honor of our nation in the world," and would restore the image of American democracy.
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At the cafe was Patricia Blot, a onetime nurse, who had fallen ill and stopped leaving her house, but was roused by the cause of the Yellow Vests.
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Blot what you can, and then test a little to see how it reacts to water, and if it rinses off cleanly then rinse your face and hands.
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I tried going to the bathroom in the dark or sealing my eyes shut to blot everything out, but I was too clumsy for that to last long.
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This week's film is "The Blot" (Sunday), about a librarian sought by two men — rich and poor — and about her mother, who strains to appear well-to-do.
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As the rosy glow brightened to blot out the stars, campers in the Rocky Mountains awakened and, supposing it was dawn, groggily argued over whether to make coffee.
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"This is another blot on the Indian exports resume," said an analyst at a local brokerage, who asked not to be named as it would violate his firm's policies.
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It's too late to stop now, though, and I just blot my streaming eyes and keep going, my mouth empathizing with the residents of King's Landing more and more.
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It is even possible to read his book, of real-life grief and recovery, as a political allegory for the erasing of the Trump blot that Democrats dream of.
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Quickly blot out your private info on packages and shipments so you can put junk mail in the trash and feel good knowing your name and address isn't showing.
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According to a 1991 article in Chess Life and Review, the censors would blot out the chess board on the playing card for any US servicemen playing postal chess.
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Yet the forms in these paintings can't seem to leave one another alone: they penetrate, glide, rub, reach, displace, encroach, agitate, slice, blot, lean, dissolve, wedge, bridge, drape, embed.
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In 21941, after years of trying to remove the blot on his record, Mr. Dwork, supported by advocates for gay and lesbian military personnel and veterans, won his point.
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But Gillibrand wants to make sure a holistic focus on Kavanaugh's history as federal judge doesn't blot out his anti-choice record, or diminish what's at stake for women.
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Trilobites On Wednesday, the moon will blot out the sun, creating a total solar eclipse that will darken the sky over parts of the western Pacific and Southeast Asia.
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But whether viewers see a gender-fluid likeness of Duchamp in the ethereal Rorschach blot — or just a mirage — may depend on their taste for a good ghost story.
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A murder case would have been a blot on their caste, and by brokering the cover-up, he had performed a particularly valuable service to a key vote bank.
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Astronomers&apos worst fear about Starlink is that the mega-constellation of bright satellites could completely blot out the stars, rendering researchers unable to observe the universe from Earth.
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"When analysts are preparing their assessments, they can't blot out of their mind their awareness of what will be welcome and what will be not welcome," Mr. Pillar said.
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What's abundantly clear is that this impeachment fight -- both during the investigation and after the near-inevitable House vote and Senate trial -- will blot out the sun in Washington.
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The boarding school era and its erasure of language is a blot on the nation's record, and one that too few non-Natives have been forced to reckon with.
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The campina stands in contrast to other parts of the forest with imposing, fast-growing trees that quickly blot out the light above and thin out the vegetation below.
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Take an inorganic substrate—in this case an epoxy known as SU-8 that's useful for building tiny machine components—and blot it with bacteria swarming on an agar plate.
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The killings — nearly one a month for the past eight years — are a "serious blot" on Indonesia&aposs human rights record, said Usman Hamid, executive director of Amnesty International Indonesia.
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In order to blot out racism, sexism and other hate speech, Tay will have to be better than, not equal to, many of the human beings engaged in Internet conversation.
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The ride-hailing startup ditched its plain U-logo on Tuesday in favor of a curious design for its current apps, which looks like an ink blot for corporate ambitions.
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A cosmic interlude The country deserved a respite, and it soon received one, if for only the 3 minutes or so that the moon managed to blot out the sun.
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His death was ruled as "natural" due to a pulmonary embolism resulting from a blot clot that traveled from his leg to one of his lungs, according to The Tribune.
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" Kabaservice doesn't see it that way: "Buckley's endorsement of Southern segregation," he writes, "was a moral blot on the conservative movement, and he later acknowledged it as his gravest error.
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A Shakespeare play is not a political statement, it's a mosh pit of subjectivities, and here the audience was expected to sit back and rationally parse a theatrical Rorschach blot.
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She also claims the drug was banned in the United State in 2012 because it causes blot clots, and worries that it will cause her to lose strength and aggression.
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This was the trade-off for coming to America:you became as small as the country you came from,a speck on an ocean I could blot out with my thumb.
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Post-bath, blot with a towel lather on a moisturizer like physician Dr. Barbara Sturm's Anti-Aging Body Cream ($105), with healing vitamins C and E, and softening lactic acid.
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But perhaps the biggest blot on Tillerson's copybook with Trump -- which he has yet to deny -- was the reports that he had called Trump a "moron" at a private dinner.
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The last time Jacobs failed to knock out an opponent was July 333, 2010, when he was stopped by Dmitry Pirog, the only blot on his 33-fight professional record.
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This is a blot on corporate Japan to rival the stain from Toshiba, which is being demoted from the first section of the bourse and frantically selling its best business.
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Radiating out of a corner of the gallery, "Persistent Resistance" consists of a central speckled, decorative column that looks like a Rorschach ink blot that's been stretched into a pillar.
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"If you were standing on the moon in this eclipse, you would see the sun and then the earth would come in the way and blot out the sun," said Fabian.
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Turn the entire lamp, watching the red of its body blot out the yellow of the shade—and then the other way around until all the red disappears, drowned in yellow.
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But Palin has done us a favor by proving that a woman can stumble, babble incoherently on stage and spew snide garbage, and it isn't a blot on the female copybook.
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It was one of the biggest frauds ever carried out against the City of New York, and a blot on former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's reputation for managerial and technological savvy.
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This concerted effort to blot out memory of a 30-year-old event is not unprecedented, and there are parallels in the handling of an earlier massacre across the Taiwan strait.
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I've learned so many tricks, but if you're on the go and you're a little greasy, you can always grab those toilet seat covers and use them to blot your skin.
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While nothing can blot out the grief families experience when they lose a child to police brutality, Turner encourages them to develop strong ties to positive aspects of black American culture.
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"The storm's atmospheric opacity â€" the veil of dust blowing around, which can blot out sunlight â€" is now much worse than a 2007 storm that Opportunity weathered," NASA said.
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"Young people are taught that Muslims are a blot on this nation — do what you want with them," said J. Devika, a historian at the Center for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Alyssa Farah, a spokeswoman for Vice President Pence, who is leading the U.S. delegation to the Olympics, also accused the article of appearing to blot out the North Korean government's record.
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It is here where the 20th century version of the ideology now espoused by Bannon and like-minded politicians had its day in the sun, and proceeded to blot it out.
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Though most politicians do not want to touch Section 377, it is viewed by many across the ideological spectrum as a blot on India's idea of itself as a liberal democracy.
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Sometimes traveling for months by camel, anthropologists recorded and collected whatever they could think of—genealogical charts, children's drawings, sound recordings on wax cylinder, standardized tests, Rorschach blot responses, and hair samples.
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The #MeToo moment has been one of seismic, desperately needed change, but it shouldn't blot out the memory of what business as usual was like right up until the past few months.
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It's a beautiful type of mayhem—just make sure you remove that flask—as bears blot out the sun lights and stadium workers corral them so they can be donated to charity.
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Unbeaten in the 100 at major championships in the last five years, the only blot on his resume over that period is a 50m silver at last year's Commonwealth Games in Australia.
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One click of the pen deposits enough color to evenly coat lips — blot it with a tissue for a softer, diffused look, or layer it on thick for bolder, longer-lasting color.
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Opinion: Abuse of migrants in Libya is a blot on world's conscience While many of his friends from Nigeria have made it to Europe, Victory is resigned to returning home empty-handed.
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Etched lines on the left side waver and blot — the result of what is called, in printmakers' patois, "foul biting," the effect of acid leaching through the wax resist on the plate.
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Now when he stuck the large needles into the right side of my sack, I closed my eyes and tried to wrap my arm around my face to blot it all out.
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The influences which may be impressed on your personality from the sign preceding or following Gemini will never blot out your Gemini characteristics enough to turn you into a Taurus or a Cancerian.
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But it is not undeserved, and really, if you want to blot that bad, go to the deli, buy a few packs of hemp rolling papers, and call it a good-skin day.
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Amazon: The Hill's Jordan Fabian reports that Trump on Friday received an as-yet-unseen government report recommending ways to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service and blot up some of its red ink.
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This type of eclipse — called an annular eclipse — occurs when the moon is centered on the sun but doesn't totally blot out the light of the star, which happens during a total eclipse.
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She winces and frowns a lot, and the camera conspires with the lighting and makeup to catch every twitch of distress, and the sweaty, oily sheen she never seems able to blot away.
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While Bloomberg spent a ton of money with positive messaging about himself in advertising, it wasn't enough to blot out the parts of his record that Democratic primary voters might be bothered by.
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She is eclipsed by the person of Trump, who heaves into the center of the frame like one of those giant cruise ships that arrive in the harbor to blot out the sun.
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Many Americans will drive farther than that, or fly, to situate themselves in the "path of totality," the strip of the country where the moon is predicted to blot out the sun entirely.
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To blot, you use it the same way you would blotting paper: Just take the included makeup sponge, then gently dab it into the pan and over your makeup whenever you need a refresh.
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Dunlap said the company was inspired to create the test because they saw how dissatisfied the general public was with the current two-tiered testing for Lyme disease, the ELISA and western blot methods.
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So an elected leader gets all the flak from those who oppose this white elephant/blot on the landscape but none of the praise for the reduced traffic jams or cheaper power that ensue.
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Like the famous psychological ink blot test, Us is a movie that invites you to make your own meaning out of its evocative imagery and themes — acting like a reflection of your own thoughts.
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Today, I write that the aggressive and unwarranted intervention in the presidential election by FBI Director James Comey will be viewed by historians as an equally shameful blot on his legacy at the bureau.
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But whatever the cause, they've given us the perfect illustration for the huge, confusing mess that is 2016: a landscape so full of dumpster fires that their ominous black labels blot out the sun.
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"Brazen insider trading continues to be a blot in our securities markets, and so the integrity of our markets continues to be a priority for this office," Mr. Bharara said at the news conference.
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While there have been no consequences for Mr. Blair himself, the political judgment of the British has been decisive, rendering the Iraq war as a defining blot on Mr. Blair's 10 years in office.
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Instead of building a persuasive case for its subject, it serves as a sort of Rorschach blot, in which you'll probably see confirmation of whatever theory about her and the 2016 election you espouse.
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After the French Tennis Federation banned her black cat suit – which Williams had chosen to help prevent blot clots after her pregnancy – she showed up in a black tutu with paired with fishnet stockings.
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But the hope soon turned to terror when the giant blot revealed itself as a swarm of fast-moving desert locusts, which have been cutting a path of devastation through Kenya since late December.
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Two younger scientists working with Dr. Croce admitted that they had improperly duplicated, mishandled and mislabeled a number of western blot figures and other data in the papers, emails obtained by The Times show.
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Bret: And his overall comportment continues to be a foul stain on the office of the presidency, a moral embarrassment to a majority of Americans, and a blot on the record of liberal democracy.
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Viking is a perfect ideological Rorschach blot of a villain: You could read him either as a preening liberal elitist or as a coldblooded Ayn Rand techno-capitalist, depending on what you hate most.
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" Listening to Be the Cowboy, I am reminded of a quote from George Eliot's 19th-century masterpiece Middlemarch: "Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world … ?
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Likewise, the Strange Fruit (Series), inspired by landscape architecture plans, uses repeating symbols of trees to blot out the canvases with the memory of thousands of known lynchings that took place from 235 to 25.
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Tuesday, I wrote that President Obama's failure to act to prevent or halt the massive bombing of civilians in Syria by Russian and Syrian military forces will be a shameful blot on his presidential legacy.
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Rose certainly does not try to blot out his past, even re-creating the shot for an Instagram post last week, and he says he would love to recapture some of the spirit of his debut.
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We should have known when Milk Makeup launched its Roll + Blot hemp papers that it was only a matter of time before the brand would bring us the next best development in 4/20-friendly beauty.
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While some people do deliberately take deadly mixes to blot out consciousness, many others appear to be doing so because they don't realize the danger, because they want to save money, or to counteract over-sedation.
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Long before that, the Moon will have wandered so far from our planet that it will no longer be able to blot out the full shape of the Sun when it passes in front of it.
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The total eclipse will cut across the contiguous United States from coast to coast, giving millions of people around the country a chance to see the moon pass in front of and blot out the sun.
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The more Avenatti, Daniels and Cohen blot out the Democratic message and the president is seen as making peace with North Korea, the latest polls show the Republicans are surging and Trump's image rising as well.
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"Womanizer" and "Piece Of Me" still stand up, but we're keen to blot out her sluggish dance moves, the twinkle-less eyes, and the lip-synching rumors that plagued her Circus tour from our collective memories.
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It's unsurprising, then, that amid more standard "historical" exhibitions, it has embarked on contemporary shows to varying degrees of success, with the disastrous display of Damien Hirst's paintings in 2009 an unfortunate blot on everyone's memory.
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The decision was greeted with joy by Democrats, and even some Republicans, in the Goofy district, which spreads like an ink blot for 50 miles from the Philadelphia suburbs all the way out to Amish country.
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After "The Final Problem," all of those actions finally make sense: they were never Sherlock's attempts to blot out his emotional core; they were his attempts to deal with his struggle and inability to access it.
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To get fresh perspective, we took some of the latest blending sponge launches for a blot — including a puffier, oversized version by Beautyblender, a multitasker with several angles, and a drugstore option that won't break the bank.
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In the early going, for instance, there are scenes where, say, three actors are onscreen, but Parker has blocked them so that two are standing in roughly the same spot, causing one to blot out the other.
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Another early work, "Rorschach Blot" (1995), encapsulated Yuskavage's psychosexual shtick in a single image: a cartoonish blonde, knees splayed, reveals the entirety of her nether regions, rendered by the painter as a sort of lewd exclamation point.
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With nearly 40 percent of under-25s still out of work, youth unemployment remains the biggest blot on four years of economic recovery that have earned Spain a spot as one of the euro zone's star performers.
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The month of August is usually lauded as one of the best times of year for skywatching, but this year the Moon will blot out our view of the Perseid meteor shower — typically one of the best.
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"Each is handmade so their sizes may vary a bit," Blot explains, knowing full well that what's really most important are the delicacies' fun, regularly rotating flavors, from popcorn and red-poppy-coconut-milk to cinnamon-blackberry.
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I can plug up my ears to blot out these offenses or I can continue trying to get the hang of combined focal and global attention and thus broaden my field, which is probably a better bet.
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The total share in all trading for the big five American investment banks rose to 3003 percent last year from 47.2 percent in 2010.. That is a major blot on an otherwise impressive copy book for Blankfein.
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Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the U.S. facility in Cuba had been a "serious blot on the human rights record, and reputation, of the United States for the past 14 years".
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Someone came up with a clever solution to this last problem—thanks to fixed camera angles: Now if only we had a post it note big enough to blot out all Yankees fans on our timelines today.
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Try convincing the Atlanta Falcons, who have to blot out the stinging memory of the biggest one that got away when they visit the New England Patriots on Sunday night for a rematch of last season's Super Bowl.
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Chips from Static Control, which function in the cartridges of several private-label firms and remanufacturers, were not blocked by HP. But the recent purchase by HP of Samsung's printer business, for $1.1 billion, does blot their prospects.
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I'd paint my lips and see there wasn't nothing Daddy could do – he couldn't rub that off then I would do that and I would blot it off and Daddy'd say, 'Come here get that lipstick off you.
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But the Republicans who controlled Congress then did move with alacrity to staunch what were effectively the efforts of the day to blot out the true history of the war, and to reverse almost everything it had accomplished.
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They also seek to blot out the details of the corruption drenching Manafort's previous work in the country—and lay the groundwork for eventually absolving Manafort's of the crimes for which he was convicted in the United States.
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The result has been legal limbo: People whose behavior would not now be considered illegal are sometimes unable to find work, get college loans, obtain professional licenses, or find decent housing because of the blot on their record.
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We paused by a sewing table where a woman was working on a garment in one of Mr. Williams's custom prints, an inky blot developed from a bloody napkin salvaged after one of his stick-and-poke tattoos.
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The ruling by the Seoul Administrative Court is a blot on the image of Nissan, which had hoped to be exonerated of the charges of emissions cheating in the only country where it has been accused of it.
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As much as the presence of costumed adventurers had changed history, handing the country a victory (and a 51st state) in Vietnam and extending Richard Nixon's term in office, it wasn't so transformed as to blot out racism.
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The Canadian techno mainstay opens the track with a fitting refrain—"With the joy that I'm feeling/I'm on Planet E"—but when UK duo Dense & Pika reworked the track, they made sure to blot out the sun.
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NP: The amount of 5G hype that exists in this world... I just read it yesterday, and a talk I gave is a fake idea that everyone gets to put their own emotions on, like, an ink blot test.
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But for a moment we are with her, looking up as she does, the camera pointed at Encinia's shadowy contour of intimidation, watching as she orients on the light behind him, even as he works to blot it out.
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Tomorrow, a solar eclipse will blot out the sun over Tanzania–an event that occurs only once every few decades here, and that Brydegaard and his team from Lund University in Sweden have travelled thousands of miles to see.
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Now, the lab is out of control and expected to crash-land on Earth by the end of March -- posing a minuscule risk to humans but inflicting a blot on the nation's bold push to become a space superpower.
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It was also a final bid to erase what has become a painful and persistent blot on his tenure: his inability to tackle an issue that animated his campaign in 2008 and in many ways encapsulates his approach to national security.
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The vague indictment and the unearthing of Hutchins' past creates a kind of Rorschach blot for observers: in the absence of more facts, it's just as easy to see Hutchins as a martyr as it is to see him as criminal.
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Clockwise from top left: Looped Ink Blot Pillow, West Elm; PS 2014 Mirror, IKEA; Three Hands Ceramic Vase, Walmart; Aurora Lamp, The Good Flock; Pom Pom Throw, Target; Round Knit Pouf, Land of Nod; 9 by Novogratz Palm Springs Futon, Walmart.
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As a new study published this month in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology revealed, cannabinoids might also play a surprising role in skin care — one that does not involve using rolling papers to blot your T-zone.
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The damage done to Turkey's relations with the Armenians and its NATO allies is the responsibility of that large majority of Turks who refuse to acknowledge a dark blot on their history, not those who seek to commemorate the tragedy.
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The next reporter using the term "pancake-sausage" in Article 1 on # trans2012 is summoned to make its pass #MERCI When not traveling through France in search of the best buvettes, Guillaume Blot swallows sausage patties by the dozen on Twitter.
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Lawrence Zezima, 25, a conservative gun shop owner in Broken Arrow, a Tulsa suburb, said on Saturday that many Oklahomans would consider Mr. Pruitt's problems with the Washington establishment a well-earned badge of honor — not a blot on his reputation.
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He objects to well-made movies that have cloudy or open-ended narratives; a film that can be read in many ways can be read in any way, like a Rorschach blot, he thinks, merely reflecting viewers' minds back at them.
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To Louise's infinite satisfaction, when she shows them a word—her species, or her name—on a whiteboard, they write back, not in script but in mottled black circles that they describe in elegant squirts, daring her to decipher every blot.
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They applied "bio-friendly paint remover" to a big black blot that had been splashed onto one of the steer's snouts — perhaps in a long-ago act of vandalism — and used brushes to gently scrub off the paint by hand.
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Talk of calories brings with it ideas about body image, dieting, weight loss, and soon enough, without warning, all of the anxieties of the real world have come rushing in—the very thing we hope to blot out by watching the show.
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Even milder winds can create whiteout conditions, when snow swirls and a polar fog can blot out the sky and whip the snow's surface into sastrugi: wavelike speed bumps that can extend for miles and make hauling a heavy sled slow going.
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But it was the epic level of corruption reached under Mr. Zuma's presidency, which ended when he was compelled to step down in February 2018, that is the biggest blot on the country's democracy and the major obstacle to tackling the economic problems.
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The combustion would have spewed soot and sulfur into the stratosphere in sufficient quantities to blot out the sun and change the climate, setting into motion the collapse of entire ecosystems and the extinction of three-quarters of all species on Earth.
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Complex journey to diagnosis and treatment Gus's pediatrician gave him two tests: the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test, which is commonly used to detect Lyme disease, and the Western blot test , which is often given to confirm Lyme if the ELISA test is positive.
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But I am arrogant enough to insist that chattel slavery is too huge a blot on humanity to exploit as a metaphor, and to observe that the political smarts my critical clan sensed in the most gifted artist of the rock era were a fantasy.
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They noted that it seemed to defend a blot on Catholic history that is inextricable from the anti-Semitism of the time and that still polarizes Italian Jews today (as late as 2000, Italian Jews were protesting the beatification of Pius IX over the case).
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My favorite part was when he dried my hair, his method not to blot and rub, as you normally would, but to hold each end of the smallish towel and whip the middle back and forth against my head to flick away the dampness.
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" Other buildings on the award's shortlist included London's "bland and boxy" Lewisham Gateway, a high-rise commercial and residential project; and an orange eco-house in South London that the judges described as "garish, blockish and a clumsy and alien blot on the streetscape.
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It might be said that this blot is localized to one small section of the island near the jetty, although it's the eye-level view as you arrive and the one that's spread out below as you climb down from one of the cliffs.
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Breakingviews Just five minutes before Monday's solar eclipse, hundreds of beachgoers along Cape Cod National Seashore were donning special glasses and positioning empty cereal boxes with pinholes in them, tittering with anticipation to see the moon begin to blot out much of the sun.
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Millions of Americans converged on a narrow corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the moon blot out the midday sun Monday for a wondrous couple of minutes in the first total solar eclipse to sweep coast to coast in 22 years.
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In a photo, Bono used a black marker to blot out the Nike swoosh on a pair of golf shoes, following the lead of angry Nike owners who burned and otherwise destroyed their Nike goods after Kaepernick appeared in a major ad campaign last month.
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Plague outbreaks are spread by things like trade and army movement, which is not exactly a novel mechanic for Empire Divided, but I'd welcome an effort to do more with ancient epidemics than portray them as a momentary blot on income and population levels.
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"It would be a blot on the reputation of the state of Texas, which many of us have been working to change," said Annise Parker, who as Houston's mayor from 2010 to 2016 was the first openly lesbian candidate elected to lead a major U.S. city.
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It was far too long, overflowing with periods of long-shot candidates talking in circles, but the extended format provided enough revealing moments that it nearly allowed me to blot out whatever was going on in President Donald Trump's caps-lock-ridden tweet thread accompanying the spectacle.
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Milestone Films will release both Weber's brilliant "Shoes" (1916), about an impoverished young woman led astray, and "The Dumb Girl of Portici" on DVD and Blu-ray in 2017; it also distributes "The Blot" (1921), a tale of desire and class inequity that is among her finest.
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In combination with a coronagraph the wavefront controller will, according to Supriya Chakrabarti of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, let the telescope blot out the light not only of Alpha Centauri A, but also of Alpha Centauri B, a companion even closer to it than Proxima Centauri is.
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For Sema4, reproductive genetic tests are the foundation of an even more grandiose undertaking—collecting a universe of biodata so big and so powerful that it will blot out the one-size-fits-all model of care that has for so long dictated how doctors treat their patients.
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In a moral blot on the legacy of President Obama, Democrats and Republicans in Washington and leaders of democratic nations throughout the world, estimates for the number of Syrians killed during the ongoing war there number as high as 470,85033 according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research.
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The town owes its mystique to the likes of Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau and the innumerable spirits haunting lantern-lit steamy French Quarter avenues; this is where Anne Rice put her ink blot on the map with her literary harem of lithe-bodied vampires and their devoted fans.
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This is perhaps why I will watch The Magicians until the sun goes out: it is better than any show, outside of the Real Housewives canon, at building out spectacularly messy characters with enough chaotic energy to blot out the sun and still have the audience care about them.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Just five minutes before Monday's solar eclipse, hundreds of beachgoers along the Cape Cod National Seashore were donning special glasses and positioning empty cereal boxes with pinholes in them, tittering with anticipation to see the moon begin to blot out much of the sun.
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This movie will leave you with no questions whatsoever, besides what kind of consequences face a production team that allows a project to be so savaged—by whatever powers, god knows their motivations—as to blot the resume of not one, but two contemporary women powerhouses of the arts.
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"We" the people in Trump's administration doesn't include democratic voters, journalists, members of the intelligence community, many Muslims, many Mexicans, many blacks, women who want to exercise the full range of their reproductive rights, refugees, or citizens that believe the Confederacy is a blot on our nation's history.
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It has already tried to blot out its Chinese roots at a user level by limiting the amount of China-made user content that appears on its app in the US, and in future the app's parent company ByteDance could decamp from Beijing to Singapore, sources also told the Journal.
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As she is taken away in an ambulance, he briefly puts his hand in front of his face, to occlude his final sight of her, much as Tom Hanks gazes up from Earth, in "Apollo 13" (1995), and uses his thumb to blot out the moon he will never reach.
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One of the works in the stack is a self-portrait created last summer during a residency hosted by the Milan gallery Martina Simeti that shows the artist reclining with flushed cheeks, her face clouded by a rosy blot of pink watercolor, and surrounded by floating gemlike cells rendered in vibrant azure blue.
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"For a long while, I've thought that what Moore and I had created was itself like a Rorschach blot: a sprawling, eccentric design of words and pictures that readers could interpret and add emphasis to in their own minds," Gibbons wrote in his foreword to the 2017 annotated version of the graphic novel.
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Effectively barring use of sexual orientation testing as an invasion of "the most intimate aspects" of life, the Court of Justice found that the unidentified man from Nigeria should not have been pressured into examinations that included drawing a picture of a person in the rain and the Rorschach ink-blot test.
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In particular, I liked HACKATHON, BABY BJÖRN (I was a baby sling person myself, but a lot of my friends used the front carriers), SLAM POETS, HERE GOES, ANTEATER, TONE LOC, INK BLOT, VICHYSSOISE, LEBRON JAMES, I LOVE L.A. LIE-A-BED and the new-to-me ESOTERY, which is a pretty word.
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As a consequence, for us, the American public — we who most deserve to understand the peril to which our democracy might have been exposed — the Mueller investigation has been a chaotic Rorschach blot, interpreted from a spectrum of unrecognizably different perspectives and filtered through the worst and wildest partisan and conspiratorial lenses.
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Much as Mr. Trump promised he would restore America to its lost greatness during his presidential campaign — a vow that, to many, clanged with sentimentality for a whiter, less tolerant nation — he is using symbols of the Confederacy to tell conservatives that he will not allow liberals to blot out their history and heritage.
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" Lisa says there was never a "grand reconciliation" before Steve's death at age 56 in 2011 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, writing in the Vanity Fair excerpt, "For him, I was a blot on a spectacular ascent, as our story did not fit with the narrative of greatness and virtue he might have wanted for himself.
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Oh, and while you're doing all this, remember to keep your elbows close to your sides, your knees and ankles together, your napkin perfectly placed on your lap (fold facing you, using only the inside to blot – not wipe – you mouth if needed) and holding your hands as far down your utensils and glassware as possible while eating.
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The show features paintings, drawings, and photographs by David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar, Christopher Wool (early blot works in enamel on metal), Jane Dickson, Richard Morrison, Zoe Leonard, Bill Rice, and Walter Robinson, among many others, with the inclusion of Wojnarowicz and Hujar invariably bringing to mind the devastation wrought by AIDS upon this community and countless others.
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While it's easy to sneer at the reviewer who wrote of the pharmacist-turned-poet, "Back to the shop Mr John, back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes," one also has to acknowledge that Percy Shelley, in calling the critic a "noteless blot on a remembered name", was also engaging in criticism, albeit of a more perceptive sort.
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There are also the other anti-Assad rebel forces who for years have fought a valiant rear-guard action against the joint forces of Syria and Russia, while at the same time seeking to blot out what has remained of ISIS enclaves and elements who have gone deep underground or into exile — across the Middle East.
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The MBTI's success is (to invoke another popular personality assessment device popular in the postwar period) something of a Rorschach blot: On one hand, you can see its enduring popularity as an inevitable end point of a deeply human urge to find comfort or purpose in a world often marked by injustice, failed relationships, and unsatisfying jobs.
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All decent men and women around the world, and Democrats and Republicans across America, should condemn the shameful refusal of President Obama to take action that would have saved desperate and dying Syrians whose bloodstained corpses will be viewed by historians as a moral blot on his legacy, as I wrote last August in a column in The Hill.
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"Through the years and all the final games that I've been in I've found that you tend to focus on the game that's being played, and you tend to blot out all the spectators, the cameras and even the consequences of the game to a certain extent; it's just you and your opponent playing Netrunner," he says.
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Although he was far from perfect — he did, for example, suggest in the early '90s that AIDS was a punishment from God (he later apologized), and anti-Semitic remarks he made in the company of Richard Nixon left an indelible blot on his reputation — he was, for the majority of his career, a religious figure who transcended and unified the political spectrum.
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The Democratic impeachment managers, led by Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, warned that Mr. Trump had tried to rig the 2020 election in his favor — by withholding military aid from Ukraine in an effort to pressure the country to investigate his political rivals — and had put a blot on the presidency that would stain those who failed to stand up to him.
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Lastly there was an intensely dark work of conté crayon on Ingres paper by Georges Seurat titled "La pluie" [The rain] (1882-83) which shows a figure holding an umbrella while the scene around her is filled with an inundation of cross-stitched markings that almost blot out all the light, except for a sliver coming through at the top of the composition.
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But I had already read many of those, and they had left me convinced that she has been quietly conducting, from that vexed and ever-expanding blot on the American fabric where white and black bleed into each other, one of the smartest, funniest and most profound interrogations of the racial madness that governs and stifles our national life that I had ever encountered.
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Until looking up at those towering stacks, I began scaling back my ambition,wanting to fit in, hoping he wouldn't comein the door and embarrass me,a girl on the lookout at the public library,waiting to blot him out with a lifted handhe'd mistake for a wave of hello as I hurried outpretending to spare him the trouble of coming in — or so I hope in the retrospect of memory,watching him grow ever smaller, a trickle of dustfunneling down the hourglass into nothing.
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When the proper level in the glass is reached, which varies depending on the size of the glass, the wine, the number of people at the table (not counting my mother, who wouldn't have any), and those likely not to want a second glass (a calculation the pourer must make afresh on every occasion), the right wrist rotates laterally, decanter neck spinning in the curved fingers of the left hand, so that the wine drips are held by centrifugal force, keeping any drops from falling onto the white tablecloth, while the napkin in the left hand slides up to blot the lip.
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