Sentences with phrase «as bullfighting»

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Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro Carambula, the director of the Rome office of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews «that the banning of bullfighting in Spain... even as [the government promotes] abortion, represents a triumph of newly invented moral values based on arbitrary «progressive» whims and social fads.»

On Friday, LifeSiteNews.com made note of the fact that this regional bullfight ban was passed into law just as Spain's new, more liberal abortion law is coming into effect, and that «the irony has not been lost on pro-life observers.»

As Smith pointed out, bullfighting «is like dog fighting....

Before, questioning bullfighting as a cultural tradition had been taboo in Spain — to do so was to be seen as a traitor, unpatriotic.

I left the ring after Tomás had finished with his two bulls, both entirely revolted by bullfighting and completely convinced that in that half hour I had learned as much about Spain as if I had spent a lifetime examining the paintings in the Prado.

Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist.

We get the basics of Ferdinand's (voiced with genuine gentleness by John Cena) story, with his youth surrounded by other bulls who look forward to the «glory» of the bullfighting ring and his escape to an idyllic farm, where a young girl takes him in as her pet, and his winding up back where he started.

Now he's competing with his childhood cohorts (Bobby Cannavale, Anthony Anderson and Peyton Manning, plus David Tennant as a Scottish Highland bull) for a spot in a big upcoming Madrid bullfight.

Parents should know that this movie has peril and violence, including low - key depictions of a slaughterhouse and a bullfight, as well as some schoolyard language and potty humor.

Based on the classic children's book «The Story of Ferdinand» by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, the film stars John Cena as the titular Spanish Fighting Bull who yearns to live a pacifist life but is forced into bullfighting in order to earn his freedom.

The Lamborghini Aventador LP700 - 4 was unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Auto Show to replace the aging Murciélago, the Aventador was a totally new Raging Bull, designed around a new engine it would become an instant success for Automobili Lamborghini SpA, and just as tradition dictates the Aventador name was taken from bullfighting.

As to bullfighting, the resolution bans «any action that causes the mutilation or death of a non-human resident.»

Valencia - born fashion designer Francis Montesinos (25 Carrer Conde de Salvatierra; 34/96-391 -2844), whose own collections draw on everything from bullfighting costumes to camouflage, carries designs that are as vivid and flamboyant as an Almodóvar film.

On a holiday by rail to Bilbao you should ensure you have plenty of time to appreciate this world - famous museum, as well as some of the other well - known museums in Bilbao, including the Museum of Fine Arts (Museo de BellasArtes), the Basque Museum (EuskalMuseo) and the Bullfighting Museum (MuseoTaurino).

Although considered a «blood sport» most enthusiasts, like Zapata, view bullfighting as a fine art.

By the 1950s, the ethos of bullfighting, as described by Ernest Hemingway inDeath in the Afternoon (1932), enjoyed new popularity among artists and intellectuals attuned to the sensibility of Existentialism, which made every brushstroke or word into a life - or - death decision.

Defined as one of the most representative artists in the Spanish art scene at the moment, Albarracín explores in an ironic and intelligent way the social stereotypes linked to her Andalusian origin and identity, the flamenco and the bullfighting.

Though there may be a physical referent or memory on which an abstract painting is based — as for instance with Elaine de Kooning's Bullfight (1959), which is inspired by bullfights the artist saw in Mexico — the gestural and corporeal nature of abstraction ensures that the image is inextricably tied to the artist's hand, body, and mind.

The decorator used his art world connections to help secure a total of 85 works, including a number of special commissions and loans, such as a series of Catherine Opie photographs that replaced some yellowed bullfighting posters in an upstairs hallway.

Motherwell's description of the bullfight in the quote above can subsequently be read as being analogous to the struggle of war.

Elaine de Kooning was a skilled draughtswoman and abstract painter as shown in her monumental canvas Bullfight (1959).