Sentences with phrase «fugue state»

Thomas Micchelli: As I was thinking of ways to approach the works in Fugue State, I found that my questions addressed them as «these paintings» instead of «your paintings» — a false but telling distinction --

At more than two weeks into 2018, you may be running close to the deadline to return party outfit duds, the just - because gifts to yourself, and splurge items you bought in a holiday fugue state.

Like countless other single parents, I learned how to juggle it all, and as my son entered pre-K, I woke from my parental fugue state with the suspicion that I might still be a woman underneath my mom jeans.

Though the teen girls in my audience were scurrying around the theater in delirious fugue states before the start of Insurgent, the sequel to last year's Y.A. adaptation Divergent, I found it hard to muster much excitement.

In need of a new kidney and having learned that he has a long - lost daughter, dimwit Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) snaps his equally cretinous pal, Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey), out of an apparent fugue state to accompany him on a journey to find her.

As her fortunes have collapsed, Jasmine's very sense of reality has begun to fray: Kept afloat by booze and pills, she slips into occasional fugue states, replaying old memories and conversations aloud.

References and homages to the cherished memories of those of us who grew up on video games, comicbooks, blockbuster (and not so blockbusting) movies, abound and will keep many fandom obsessed viewers in a serotonin soaked fugue state of euphoria.

«That Ofili could cast painting into such a powerful somnambulant fugue state after doing what he'd done so vibrantly for ten years,» Jerry Saltz wrote in New York Magazine, «is a testament to his talent and control.»

Post-Superstorm Sandy, we've entered a kind of fugue state when it comes to natural disaster, forgetting that there has been a long history of extreme weather events that sometimes have nothing to do with how much carbon is in our atmosphere.

The film was apparently made with zero budget by UK - based Fugue State Films, and has since been shown at numerous film festivals to critical acclaim.

Coming down from Christmas always leaves us in a little bit of a fugue state.

Walking into a Whole Foods Market without a shopping plan is like willingly entering a fugue state and re-emerging very confused an hour later and $ 200 lighter, with a $ 20 bag of maca powder in one hand and a $ 6 kombucha in the other.

The commercials in the World Series are designed to root through your subconscious while you're in a fugue state.

Everyone's in a fugue state.

Fultz just returned to action after spending most of the season in a fugue state fixing his shooting mechanics.

The first time we read it we fell into a fugue state where we swear we became Kristen.

This can happen — it's called a fugue state, but it's very rare.

Indiewire's David Ehrlich describes it as a «portrait of grief... too hazy and anesthetized to add up,» but Nick Schager of Variety believes this «consistently surprising film slinks along with melancholic dreaminess, matching the fugue state that plagues its grief - stricken protagonist.»

This consistently surprising film slinks along with melancholic dreaminess, matching the fugue state that plagues its grief - stricken protagonist.

Suddenly, the latter falls into a fugue state, unreachable.

Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture.

I found myself in the fugue state I'd been in junking items in Fallout 4; I would strip the world clean of its valuable parts and use them someday, maybe, if I got around to it.

The narrator speaks of youth as if it existed and still exists in a near - fugue state.

«Daniel never went into a fugue state.

Aided by Christopher Blauvelt's sumptuous cinematography, this consistently surprising film slinks along with melancholic dreaminess, matching the fugue state that plagues its grief - stricken protagonist.

He functions as the opposite to Hunter's well - meaning and thoroughly optimistic Dawn who exists to drag Manglehorn up by his bootstraps and out of his fugue state into a better life.

He had existed his whole life in a fugue state, and the simmering tension of our society had only been half - apparent.

When Mary wakes up on a Hampton beach in a fugue state, all assumptions of her identity are thrown into doubt.

That makes it a very exciting car, and a significant one, too — one that could break the fugue state of the competition.

That fugue state where you're something larger than yourself is an amazing thing, to be cherished.

Recent exhibitions include «Overture,» Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY (2015); «Fugue States,» Revision Space Gallery, PA (2014); and «More Than a Place,» Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL (2014).

In this fugue state, the relationship between subject and object is particularly unstable: here, possession and possessor leave traces of themselves on one another, rendering their edges uncertain, shifting like the weather.

A person in a «fugue state» is prone to long term amnesia usually combined with a far - flung travel.

Roe Ethridge's practice is that of a restless maverick operating in a fugue state.

initially drawn to the idea as it referred to the medical condition of the «fugue state».

In Walker Percy's book The Last Gentleman the protagonist is constantly going into a «fugue state» and awaking from his amnesia to find he's no longer in New York City but on a historic Civil War battlefield in Virginia, hundreds of miles away.

Of his several volumes of poetry, recent ones are Fugue State and the Arion Press edition of Gloria, with etchings by Alex Katz.

The term also has psychiatry application, where the fugue state describes the return of memory after amnesia, and in German, fugue is a carpentry term for a joint that can never be flush.

Over the years our dialogue has continued unabated, and his current show, Fugue State, at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, offers an opportunity to take it in yet another direction.

«I was in a fugue state,» she recalls.