Juliet Rylance

Producing is a wonderful foil to being an actor: acting being largely about getting out of my head, being present, a little irresponsible, whilst producing is the polar opposite. You need other players to act; you can't act in a void, but producing is about making something out of nothing - conjuring a thought or an idea into reality.

English Actress

Vivek Oberoi

In 'Road,' my character is linear and uni-dimensional. It was more of a reacting character. I am a foil to the other characters in the film. It is the most normal character in the most abnormal, extraordinary film.

Indian Actor

Jim Lee

If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.

South Korean Artist

Fredrick Brennan

Even though Q is at the moment based on Donald Trump, it is certainly possible for a significant faction to rise up that believes he was in the deep state all along and foiled the plan.

Jessalyn Gilsig

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Canadian Actress

Forrest Bird

In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

American Inventor

Josh Tillman

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

American Musician

William Congreve

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

English Poet

Rick James

I don't have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

Kevin Costner

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

American Actor

Often used in cooking contexts to describe material for wrapping or covering food.

Kitchen Essential

Foil is mentioned in contexts where heat reflection or preservation is needed.

Heat Conductor

Foil is often referred to as a means of preserving food's freshness.

Preservation

Foil as a verb often appears in crime or competition scenarios.

Thwarting Plans

It implies successfully stopping someone or something against the odds.

Unexpected Success

In literature, a foil may highlight certain traits of the main character.

Literary Device

Foil characters are often opposites to showcase differences.

Contrast

In sports, foil refers to a specific type of weapon for fencing.

Fencing Gear

Foil is the flexible and safe choice for beginner fencers.

Safety Design

 are setting up the piano stairs, and how cool that is? Well, I think it's cool, but we should be doing that stuff ourselves. It shouldn't be a set of experts engineering the way the world works. We should all be participating in changing the way the world works together. Aluminum foil. Everybody has a cat.

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 by shooting small, positively charged alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil. Under Thompson's model, the atom's thinly dispersed positive charge would not be enough to deflect the particles in any one place. The effect would have been like a bunch of tennis balls punching through a thin paper screen.

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 or sorry a cereal box is actually really because it's right side and so what you're gonna do is you're increase your box yes you need a screwdriver foil is helpful and a pair of scissors and also some white paper because I think this is the important part so you'll trace the bottom of the cereal

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 Here, the roofs are not designed to bear additionally heavy loads. They aren't designed for snow in winter, for instance, so heavy silicon solar cells cannot be used for light harvesting, but these lightweight solar foils are very well suited. The bendability is important

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 after we tested many different versions and observed the average stride length of a person. Otherwise, people might step over the sensor. We started with a proof of concept built in three days, made out of cardboard and aluminum foil. It worked, for real.

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 and balled-up aluminum foil, and a dead sneaker. And I was astonished, I was very angry, and I was deeply confused. The campers who were too lazy to take out what they had brought in, who did they think would clean up after them?

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 so far the brothers are winning ostriches have yet to find a way to foil such techniques a cat with a target inside you know the focus in the eyes just the look of that cat she just raises her shoulders up keeping

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 Devices that can measure quantum effects can produce an endless stream of random numbers at high speed. Foiling all those would-be casino criminals. A select group of universities and companies around the world

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 ostriches have yet to find a way to foil such things even the river normally a lifeline for the animals has almost disappeared yet the mud soup that remains could be concealing a free lunch

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 mountable I went to buku once on a research program and I met principal Ikki and I asked him he said tell me what I look in foil I was at the curator