Sentences with phrase «even allusion»

There is even an allusion to the Dracolord (Dragonlord) from Dragon Quest I present during the course of the game.

The world has that same random quality, too, as orcs and dwarves and men and elves and griffins and half - breeds and wizards and unnamed blue creatures and demons intermingle without any rhyme or reason (Just for fun, there's even an allusion to the story of Moses).

Even allusion presuming erudition is not all that rare.

Masculine, gruff and given to few words (in the English - dubbed version he's voiced by a monotone Michael Keaton), Porco Rosso is something like a swine Ernest Hemingway — there are even allusions to his womanizing past.

Not exact matches

An allusion would indicate that divisions between the sexes were removed going back even to creation.

I used to be catholic I believed in God as a kid but when I grew older I turned my back on God have not even been to church in 5 to 6 years now could this be a sign or is it a allusion I am making into a big deal which really ai nt that big of a deal maybe I gone insane I don't know I don't want to sound like I'm bragging to seek attention for this which I am not I am simply just looking for some insight on why this has occurred to me.

There were also charts for OT quotations and allusions, and even a chart of all the Hapax Legomena in Paul's letters (words or phrases that are used only 1x in the Bible).

It is even more true if the allusion is to Yahweh's antagonistic warfare against Yahweh's own people, which is now coming to its end: Yahweh is announcing peace at last.

There is no explicit reference to the virgin birth, or even any clear allusion to it.

Even if the Samaritan woman in John 4 makes a few allusions to Deuteronomy (mentioning the prophet to come and the right place to worship), this does not mean that this woman is following Tamar's example (Gen 38) in trying to raise offspring for her first husband in line with Deut 25.

When even a 3 - 3 draw with a team managed by Brendan Rodgers can come and go without muttered allusions to dark forces operating beyond the realm of the perceptible, you know something weird is happening.

He nodded firmly every time Brown made even the vaguest allusion to world affairs, in full international summit mode.

Even still, these days, a quick allusion to «dietary needs... mumble, mumble..

You even get herded through quiz - style sequences; thankfully, these don't serve as roadblocks as much as they do fun allusions to games like Banjo - Kazooie.

Even in terms of narrative structure and set - up, there are allusions to the first trilogy.

There's nothing groundbreaking about Anders Thomas Jensen's blessedly non-Dogme The Green Butchers, the latest movie to mine the consumption of human flesh for laughs (even the title suggests a cheeky allusion to Soylent Green)-- but for a comedy, that most culturally - specific of genres, the Danish production travels remarkably well.

Will the unfortunate adults in the audience for whom these allusions are no doubt intended even care?

Even the title of the film seems like a play on Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so it can't really be ignored as a coincidence, especially as the story paints the group as a class under fire from those who don't understand them, a strong allusion to the X-Men as an analogue for various persecuted races and classes throughout the history of the 20th century.

In addition to its regressive politics, the explicit allusions to director Josef von Sternberg's iconic 1930 «The Blue Angel,» starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings, make this retread look even more unimaginative.

I would overhear hushed conversations on the bus about Republican relatives who won't stop gloating; directors would introduce their films, even the most purportedly apolitical, with sly allusions to the new President; a woman even struck up a conversation with me before a screening to complain about the film industry's closed - minded attitude towards her particular brand of libertarianism (I didn't have much to add).

Even more problematic is that Marvel's tendency toward overblown, apocalyptic finales is in full effect, with a final act comprised of mass death and destruction and very few allusions to character development.

The movie feels quite a bit like Movie Star and is even less enjoyable, with the exception of a few semi-clever allusions to the Hollywood industry.

You'll find many allusions to these films, such as character names, quotes and even anagrams, in the book.

Though Wright is known for his elegant ruminations on nostalgia and the mysterious passing of time, this volume, with its plethora of seasonal allusions and insistent referencing of times and images past, has an even more elegiac cast than his earlier work.

The engineer and followers would later confirm that it was a direct allusion to Verizon, which has left its own Galaxy Nexus on an older version, although even unlocked HSPA + versions are sometimes stuck on 4.0.2.

Is this an allusion to later, to his intentions to reinvent Batman and once again become an urban myth, a shadow that many doubts even exists yet keep a wary eye out for?

Maybe if we complain the franchise is dead at every mention or allusion to F - Zero content to a point where even Buzzfeed would take a break from their normal repetoire to complain about it.

Without reverting to representation, the works on display use their palettes to suggest — indirectly, as if by allusion — perspective, distance, even motion.

She never returns to the present, not even as in the Met's rather indirect allusion to Katrina.

Even with the Möbius strip and the outline of a ladder, the third dimension appears as an allusion or illusion.

For «Melt to Earth,» Mr. Curry, who is based in Los Angeles, applied his typical sampling - like sweep of allusions: rudimentary World War I tanks, science fiction creatures, even Giacometti's unrealized commission for Chase Manhattan Plaza.

Like the fluctuating, expansive space suggested by her elegantly varied paint handling, surface inflections, and color relationships, this conceptual contradiction keeps us a little off balance, suggesting yet another layer of allusion even as the specificity of that allusion escapes us, like an imperfect memory or a rapidly disappearing dream image.»

Even the title of Hirst's publishing and merchandise company, Other Criteria, offers an oblique art historical reference — an allusion to the late great Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 book Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth - Century Art, which brilliantly and radically reconsidered the significance of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and other artists.

«Nigerian Smile» even insinuates a surreptitious image, like one of Picasso's sly allusions to the body, along with its staggered diagonals of blue, orange, and green.

KR I see the landscape starting to dominate the built environment in your paintings more and more, even though, in some, there are still allusions to automobiles, parking lots, and stuff like that.

In this regard, they fall well within the idiom of abstract expressionism while still being anti-reductionist, anti-essentialist, anti- «all - over», anti-truth to materials, and even anti-expressionist in the sense of avoiding any allusion to Jungian archetypes or existential angst.

Even at its most abstract and geometric there is usually an allusion to natural forms in Chadwick's work that underpins and gives vitality to it.

His intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami, New York, and the Middle East feature rectilinear overlays of strong, intensely moody colors that integrate multiple allusions to reason and its traditions — the ideal planned - city street grid; the Golden Ratio and its long history as a supposedly true and self - evident compositional principle; the sharp - edged, no - nonsense Bauhaus aesthetic — with subtle references to the small flashes of vitality and inspiration that lurk within even the most drab and desolate environments.

By restricting her allusions to the floor and ceiling of the Arena Chapel, Hall would seem to disavow the heroic paradigm of Western painting even as she channels its living tissues through the work of an artist like Agnes Martin.

Even in a culture that thrives on revivals, and an art world that loves nothing better than a contemporary work that incorporates a clever allusion to some past art, the cohort of Julian Schnabel, David Salle and Robert Longo, the «3 Cs» (Clemente, Enzo Cucchi and Sandro Chia) and the Neue Wilden remains perennially uncool.

Is there an allusion, perhaps, to the all - black abstract paintings of Ad Reinhardt or even the early abstractions of Malevich in the series of black rectangles to be seen in the painting called Barn Window with White Square (1991)?

Bell's balancing of the terms «abstraction» and «materials» is significant — especially with regard to the works from 1978 on display here — by differentiating the absolute thingness of these paintings from the allusions to the observational world that you find even in something as densely materialist as Richard Serra's black oil - stick drawings.

Allusions to past literature and even quotations are used to link the work to the body of traditions.