This acts as a sort of stock room when a species is plagued by the perils of natural selection.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

Willow acts as a sort of middle child between Xander's immaturity and Buffy's weighty responsibilities.

The methylation of native DNA acts as a sort of primitive immune system, allowing the bacteria to protect themselves from infection by bacteriophage.

::" Team Obama ’ s anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte.

Some aspects of the resistance to the act, particularly the activities of the Sons of Liberty and merchants in organizing opposition, provided a sort of rehearsal for similar acts of resistance to the 1767 Townshend Acts.

When a charge is first made, it is brought before an initial review committee ( similar to a grand jury in secular criminal law ) whose job is to determine when a case should be brought and to supervise the Church Attorney who acts as a sort of prosecutor.

* Aerial acts, of the sort usually seen at the Circus

The Tubes, who mixed progressive rock with wild theatricality, and Journey, formed from among some of Carlos Santana's sidemen and eventually experiencing a peak as one of the most popular AOR acts in the United States, were virtually the only acts from San Francisco to gain any sort of fame in the mid-1970s.

It acts as a sort of gravitational pull that keeps the ENTP in orbit around reality.

Prostitutes depicted in Roman erotic art have fleshy bodies and wide hips, and often have their breasts covered by a strophium ( a sort of strapless bra ) even when otherwise nude and performing sex acts.

The government, however, argued that " a mountain of evidence " indicated that these acts in the aggregate did have a substantial effect ; for this proposition it relied on Wickard v. Filburn ( 1942 ), which held that Congress could regulate an individual act that lacked a substantial effect on interstate commerce if, when aggregated, acts of that sort had the required relation to interstate commerce.

Rather than suggesting individual, although concerted, measures of this sort, Kentucky was content to ask its sisters to unite in declarations that the acts were " void and of no force ", and in " requesting their appeal " at the succeeding session of the Congress .” The key sentence, and the word " nullification " was used in supplementary Resolutions passed by Kentucky in 1799.

This phenomenon of Galois representations is related to the fact that the fundamental group of a topological space acts on the singular cohomology groups, because Grothendieck showed that the Galois group can be regarded as a sort of fundamental group.

She preached that sinfulness could be avoided by not only treating men and women equally, but also by keeping them separated so as to prevent any sort of temptation leading to impure acts.

... Anarchists who rebel against every sort of oppression and struggle for the integral liberty of each and who ought thus to shrink instinctively from all acts of violence which cease to be mere resistance to oppression and become oppressive in their turn are also liable to fall into the abyss of brutal force.

More importantly, however, the nose acts as a sort of rebreather, filled with cavities designed to reabsorb moisture from the animals ' exhalations

A girl resembling Carole Hersee as she appeared in the test card acts as a sort of spiritual guide in the series.

Seeking advice, Jerry turns to an aging struggling artist ( Allen ) who acts as his oracle — and that includes trying to help sort out Jerry ’ s romantic life.

For example, whether a public policy is morally good might indirectly depend on God's creative acts: the policy's goodness or badness might depend on its effects, and those effects would in turn depend on the sort of universe God has decided to create.

Locals of Moomy city on Socotra island use the Dracaena resin as a sort of cure-all, using it for such things as general wound healing, a coagulant ( though this is ill-advised with commercial products, as the Daemonorops species acts as an anti-coagulant and it is usually unknown what species the dragon's blood came from ), curing diarrhea, lowering fevers, dysentery diseases, taken internally for ulcers in the mouth, throat, intestines and stomach, as well as an antiviral for respiratory viruses, stomach viruses and for such skin disorders as eczema.

She acts as a sort of enabler to her husband, putting aside her morals and happiness so that her husband can get what he wants.

Lauretta acts as the narrator of this novella.

That is, no individual speaker is identified ; the narrator is a member of a group that acts as a unit.

He is one of the play's most important characters, as he often acts as a narrator.

The reporter, loosely based on the real reporter Ernie Pyle, acts as a narrator of stories, without being directly involved in them.

The fourth wall is frequently broken, with Wilson ( who also acts as the narrator ) frequently commenting on events directly to camera as they occur, at one point declaring that he is " being postmodern, before it's fashionable ".

; Big Pete Wrigley ( Mike Maronna ): The show's primary narrator, Big Pete often acts as a voice of reason in contrast to the strange occurrences and people around him.

It also features characters and scenarios from many other Seuss books, including the Butter Side Uppers / Downers from The Butter Battle Book, Gertrude McFuzz, and, in addition to a music number based on its original story, The Cat in the Hat also acts as " your host and MC " – sometimes being an outside observer, a narrator and devil's advocate throughout the show, briefly leaping into the action on several occasions to create conflict and keep the story moving.

‘’ I have called a narrator reliable when he speaks for or acts in accordance with the norms of the work ( which is to say the implied author's norms ), unreliable when he does not .”

He acts as the narrator in Marvel's What If?

Several types of music are used to express what is not being said ; music acts as the narrator.

The second part of the book is called " Àpropos of the Wet Snow ," and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator.

The cast included Eden Espinosa as Brooklyn, Karen Olivo as Faith, Kevin Anderson as Taylor, Ramona Keller as Paradice, and Cleavant Derricks as a street singer who acts as the narrator.

Michael also acts as a narrator, not only dictating the action as it goes on, but revealing the futures of the other characters in the play.

He acts as a narrator and is privy to the secrets of Antonio ’ s marriage and children.

The police officer who writes the ticket acts particularly cruel, threatening the narrator with a long prison sentence and a huge fine ; he even spits on the car before leaving.

In this special, Father Time acts as the narrator and has some interaction with Rudolph.

Eddy ( who acts as the film's narrator ) eventually finds a boyfriend, Stuart finds happiness in a monogamous relationship with a woman, and Alex remains single.

Although Martinů had asked Wurmser for a libretto including a singing cat, he compromised on Wurmser's suggestion of a singing portrait, which acts as narrator to a tale of bourgeois infidelity.

Takemoto is the main character and acts as the point-of-view of the series, and often as narrator of episodes.

As a member of a Boy Scout-like troop called the Comanche Club, the narrator comes into contact with a Scout leader called “ The Chief ”, a young law student at New York University who acts as a caretaker in his spare time.

Salinger ’ s narrator summarizes the Chief ’ s ever more fantastic installments of The Laughing Man ’ s escapades, presenting him as a sort of comic book hero crossing “ the Chinese-Paris border ” to commit acts of heroic larceny and tweaking his nose at his archenemy “ Marcel Dufarge, the internationally famous detective and witty consumptive ”.

He was often assisted by his friend and foil Christopher Jervis, who usually acts as narrator, and always by the resourceful Nathaniel Polton, his crinkly-faced lab technician.

Melvin Van Peebles acts as the film's narrator, introducing the film's main characters.