Sentences with phrase «american lore»

The latter acted, while the former slept, but the two are equally well ensnared in American lore and might be taken, combined, for the two - faced gnome of our collective consciousness: our ego and id.

- Publishers Weekly «Lacking mystery and low on suspense, this installment reads more like a family in extremis soap opera larded with Native American lore.

He was also much in demand as a technical adviser on Native American lore and customs.

Not exact matches

Using as evidence its obvious parallels to their 19th century accounts tying the American Indian to Israel's lost tribes, its descriptions of situations, incidents and characters suspiciously like those within Joseph Smith's ken, its echoes of Masonic lore, its Isaiah passages and its bountiful supply of anachronisms, they conclude that the work is not only worthless but a fraud.

Jeff Foxworthy, well known as being the world's foremost authority on biblical lore, is hosting American Bible Challenge, a new series on The Game Show Network that pits competitors» biblical...

Lore suggests that this was how early Native Americans used maple - as opposed to in syrup form, because it lasts much longer and is easier to store.

In American Indian lore, chiles are soaked in vinegar, and a cloth steeped in the liquid is applied to the aching area.

Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.

Further, there is a significant gap in time in McIlhenny family lore where the Mexican - American War ended in 1848 and when Edmund McIlhenny planted his first tabasco chile crop.

My great - grandfather was Ellison Hatfield, copatriarch of the mighty and peace - loving Hatfield clan, so steeped in West Virginia feud lore as I am, I can rate the top American feuds (Blue Blood, March 8).

Talladega Superspeedway Local lore holds that the Alabama track — where huge wrecks are common — is built on a Native American burial ground.

As an American, most of us aren't born into footballing culture and lore.

November 17: Explore Native American legends and lore, make corn husk dolls, caw with the crow, enjoy food, and play games when Crow Brings the Corn at Drumlin Farm (Lincoln)

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Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Synopsis & Cast: A young, idealistic American missionary (Benjamin Walker, in a role originally rumored for Aaron Paul) gets caught up in Cold War intrigue when he tries to help a young woman («Lore» star Saskia Rosendahl) escape 1960s East Berlin.

I did appreciate the focus on Thomas Newman's exceptional score, however, a piece that is as integral to the success of American Beauty in Best Picture lore as Hans Zimmer's is for Rain Man.

Diane Venora and Gregory Hines make their respective feature film debuts as fellow investigators and Edward James Olmos is memorable as an American Indian activist who guides Finney through the lore of his people.

Wolfen is not a werewolf movie by strict definition but it delves into American Indian lore involving shapeshifters and ancient animal spirits as well as urban legends of an underground culture of wolves who hunt in the cities.

These traits of the Rissient lore are fairly effectively brought forth in Man of Cinema — Pierre Rissient (2007), a nearly two - hour long documentary made by American movie critic Todd McCarthy that I saw, in Rissient's company, at the Latin Quarter movie house Action Christine.

Slow, not terribly interested in lore or internal logic, and fatally hamstrung by the choice of actors like Billy Crystal and a zombified Emily Mortimer to voice its American dub, it's a regression for Miyazaki from his last two films (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away) in almost every sense, starting with his decision to have a lonely young woman as the central character in place of the prepubescent little girls front and centre in most of his masterpieces (the last two films, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and My Neighbor Totoro) and ending with a gross simplification of his usually complex themes of confidence and actualization into a colourless, flavourless drone about the hard - to - dispute badness of war.

International / North American Premieres: To The Wonder --(Terrence Malick) Anna Karenina --(Joe Wright) The Reluctant Fundamentalist --(Mira Nair) The Company You Keep --(Robert Redford) Jayne Mansfield's Car --(Billy Bob Thornton) A Royal Affair --(Nikolai Arcel) Dangerous Liasons --(Hur Ji - Ho) Thermae Romae --(Hideki Takeuchi) Caught IN THe Web --(Chen Kaige) Dormant Beauty --(Marco Belloccchio) Everybody Has A Plan --(Ana Piterbarg w / Viggo Mortensen) Kon - Tiki --(Espen Sandberg Reality --(Matteo Garrone) A Few Hours Of Spring --(Stephan Brize) The Hunt --(Thomas Vintenberg) The Iceman --(Ariel Vromen) Lore --(Cate Shortland) No --(Pablo Larrain) OUtrage Beyond --(Takeshi Kitano) Rust And Bone --(Jacques Audiard) The Sapphires --(Wayne Blair) Tai Chi O --(Stephen Fung)

When failed concert promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) asks down - on - his - luck folk singer Jack Fate (Dylan) about the importance of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to American rock - and - lore, the inanity of the answer (and the evasiveness of Dylan's demeanour — «Well, it matters to someone, I guess») isn't mysterious so much as inane and disingenuous; even the evocation of social phenomena as important and galvanizing to roots rock and the inner city as the myth of Stagger Lee is tossed off with a wry flick of the hand.

There are legions of maxims in the living lore of our common culture, and many, like the Golden Rule, bear a moral message: «Two wrongs don't make a right» (ancient Scots); «You are only as good as your word» (early American); «Honesty is the best policy» (Cervantes, Ben Franklin); «It's better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness» (old Chinese proverb).

Considered by many to be a landmark document, the report contributed heavily to the lore that American schools were failing; setting the stage for decades of local, state and federal experimental «reforms» that also embraced Friedman's ideals.

The Mustang is a pillar of American automotive lore that brought sporty and aggressive muscle car styling up to be just as well - known as any exotic car.

This fascinating collection of 50 essays, one per state, each penned by a different writer, is a tour de force of letters and lore, affirming both the rugged individuality and the common threads that personify the American Experience.

A rich and fascinating take on a re-invented American history steeped in Indian lore and filled w / magic.

Drs. Lore Haug and Jeannine Berger, who are also members of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists and co-authors, say that, «Jumping is never about a dog bidding to be dominant.»

The video shows the North American based team talking about the game's lore and features while showing off tons of beautiful in - game footage.

The game's art direction further strengthens this theme of American folk - lore.

The theme is found throughout the game, through the lore of Native American tribes that settled in the Blackwood Pines area, through various Totems found throughout the gameplay that show snippets of ominous events that may or may not occur, and even when you trigger such events during gameplay, you'll see a ripple of butterflies in the corner of the screen.

Don Van Vliet injects those legacies with his own unique vision, a kind of homespun surrealism born of the lore of the American desert and the artist's own inspired visions, alternately whimsical and nightmarish.

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These works indelibly link the North Star and the Little Dipper, symbols synonymous with freedom, to African American history and cultural lore.

That American painting abruptly turned modern with Abstract Expressionism, around 1950, is common lore.

Despite its prominence in American history and lore, the Pony Express (a speedy horse - based mail delivery service that linked California to the Midwest United States) operated for only a scant 18 months before it was superseded by the first transcontinental telegraph system.

As the «invisible ships» lore (or myth) goes: Native Americans could not perceive the fleet of ships about to invade their homeland because the armada was so alien to their collective experiences that they were unable to see their aggressors.

Lake Success derives its name from a kettle lake of the same name which according to village lore had a Native American name of «Sucut.»