"He becomes a foil to everyone, but primarily Diane and Will, " co-creator Robert King says.
His comments provide a comic foil to the anxiety investment bankers have caused these last few years.
And Bracken has proved an effective foil to the opening pair of Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee.
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He was fortunate to find in David Radler the perfect foil to help him realise his ambitions.
Much of Chianti can be drunk young and is a perfect foil to wash down a simple supper.
Remove the scallops from the pan, place them on a platter, and cover loosely with foil to keep warm.
Ever loyal and self-effacing, Folz was the perfect foil to the larger-than-life Calvet.
Yet the commitments, for all their weakness, serve a crucial function: They prevent each side from using the other as a foil to justify inaction.
Her breakout role was as Edith Bunker, the conscience of "All in the Family" as the kindhearted foil to husband Archie, played by the late Carroll O'Connor.
Aluminum foil as a funnel: Fashion a funnel of foil to neatly transfer salad dressings or condiments from tacky plastic bottles to pretty carafes or back again.
Thanks to the elegant understatement of Mr. Hill's portrayal, the unworldly Pete provides a wonderful foil to Mr. Pitt's eccentric, flamboyant Billy in just about every scene they share.
Largely unknown to the rest of the world -- and semi-forgotten in Iran -- when he announced his bid for president in March, Moussavi campaigned as a foil to Ahmadinejad.
Warwick converted from the touchline and Munster closed out the half with another try from Howlett, who used Johne Murphy as a foil to nip between two covering players and make the line.
Many Arab governments, including Egypt's, had come to regard Salafism, with its focus on Sunni orthodoxy and punctilious personal piety, as a useful foil to the more politically engaged pan-Islamism of groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The two salad recipes show what a versatile ingredient it can be, standing up to tart citrus and salty olives in one and providing a spicy foil to toasted walnuts and sweet, slow-roasted cauliflower in the other.
Aluminum foil as a piecrust protector: To prevent a piecrust from burning while the filling cooks, make a foil collar to deflect heat.
Then he switched on an electric current to heat up the foil instantly to 600 degrees Fahrenheit.
At no time were Americans in danger as a result of this, and, as you know, we were able to foil the attempt to use this device.
But Albertson says in a presidential contest, in particular, race may still be one of the many dynamics that conspired to foil the pollsters trying to track yesterday's vote.
The foil molds to the shape of whatever it's covering and stays firmly in place until the job is complete.
This X-ray laser was aimed at a piece of aluminum foil, and in less than a trillionth of a second, the laser heated the foil up to 2 million degrees celsius (3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit).
Sledge described the operation generously: the rooms teeming to the scrolled plaster ceilings with bud-heavy green stalks, the floor cabled with sprinklers, the walls lined with foil reflectors to maximize the ripening effects of the solar-spectrum lamps, the stereo chattering NPR talk radio to cover the drone of the daytime light banks, and classical music to give the plants a cultural heritage through the cool damp night.
Try to foil the emotional trigger that often causes individual investors to buy in the euphoria of the bubble and sell low in the depression of the crash.
It's one way to recycle those used but perfectly good pieces of foil you hate to throw out.
To foil the deal, this coalition would need the majority of shareholders, excluding Michael Dell, to vote against the deal.
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Don't let the sequester foil your trip to a national park or other site this summer.
They just want a constant foil, someone to blame when students flounder and the schools underperform.
Its amazing powers, in the hands of entrepreneurs, began to foil command-and-control monoliths of any kind.
Farooq can choose to ride in any one, a security strategy employed to foil assassins.
Once Hollywood figures out how to pull off the economics, it will have to foil the hackers.
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