Sentences with phrase «le noble savage»

The role in which the actor was regularly cast, an Islamic extremist, has become almost as familiar a Hollywood cliché as the noble savage or gold - hearted hooker.

Nor is it brought into existence by noble savages or by saints untainted by sin.

Early on, Luther took a «noble savage» approach to Europe's Jewish population.

This documentary, telling the true story of five American missionaries murdered on a remote sandbar in Ecuador half a century ago, explodes the myth of the noble savage.

I could see Gauguin and his «noble savage» being reduced to the horror of his painting «What?

As long as women remain the gender most responsible for children, we are the ones who have the most to lose by accepting the «noble savage» view of parenting, with its ideals of attachment and naturalness.

Apparently our buy - in to the ««noble savage» view of parenting» removes us from rights and opportunities her generation of feminists worked hard to secure.

I agree with Noble Savage.

Voltair's «noble savages» idea sounds attractive but doesn't match reality.

Read Pinker's lecture The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine, part of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values delivered at Yale University, April 1999: www.

We are a small band of noble savages.

The noble savage, as if we'd lost something valuable in our long evolution into civilized human beings.

In a future where corporations run pretty much everything and individualism is a big no - no, James Caan is our noble savage, curious as to why he is being asked to retire.

The little white kid, wearing a mask like the Lone Ranger's, enters a Wild West attraction — but instead of excitement, he finds Johnny Depp in old - man makeup, pretending to be a stuffed figure in a diorama labeled «The Noble Savage.»

MONDELLO: Armie Hammer plays this Ranger - to - be as a fresh out of law school noble do - gooder while Johnny Depp's Tonto is a face - painting noble savage - that's the movie's phrase - who's forever feeding the dead crow he wears on his head.

by Walter Chaw There is a moment in the middle of John Frankenheimer's relentlessly campy (and prophecy - free) Prophecy when noble savage John Hawks (essayed by Irish - Italian Armand Assante), eluding the fuzz, runs through a forest clearing, into a cabin, and out a closed window.

The loginess commences with a framing device that finds Depp's elderly Tonto as «The Noble Savage» in a circus - tent exhibit in 1930s San Francisco, relaying the story of his life to a little boy who fancies himself a masked bandit.

He's found it worthwhile to wonder that the broadest strokes of Noble Savage Syndrome reflect a natural human tendency to revert to the natural to valorize cultures (objects) that are ambiguous by their nature.

As it starts, we find him playing the part of «The Noble Savage» in a 1933 carnival sideshow (and wearing impressive age makeup reminiscent of that worn by Dustin Hoffman at the beginning of 1970's «Little Big Man»).

He's no victim and nor is he the noble savage, instead he's a judicious, even shrewd, survivor.

The year is 1933, months after the radio series began its popular run (Tonto did not appear until the 11th episode), and the «noble savage» (Depp, virtually unrecognizable beneath heavy «Little Big Man» - style makeup) offers to set the record straight about John Reid's legendary exploits some six decades earlier.

We first meet an aging Tonto as the «Noble Savage» in a 1933 Old West traveling museum.

Dragonfly's characters are stock, its scares are telegraphed (the script by committee mistakes «eye - rolling» for «tight»), and before it's done, it dips into a shocking Mead - era noble savage syndrome complicated by more conventional exploitations of race and illness.

I understand that he's trying to make The Terminal — inspired loosely by a true story — a post-modern fairy tale (Lost in Translation for the emotionally neutered), but monumentalizing all of its unionized labour, focused in a scene where whimsical and wise Indian fugitive Gupta (Kumar Pallana, better in the superior post-modern fairy tale The Royal Tenenbaums) tells the tale of Viktor to a rapt audience of food - service workers, is trite verging on Noble Savage Syndrome.

The film opens in a fair in 1933 San Francisco, where a masked young boy is startled to find museum exhibit The Noble Savage alive (Depp, heavily aged to look frail but have a paunch) and wanting to tell a story.

The child is a Noble Savage, needing only to be let alone in order to insure his intellectual salvation... Twaddle.

By contrast with his fellow noble savage, this Newman has had the benefit of reading Clement Greenberg and working through Surrealism.

Brunias painted plantation owners as well as noble savages, not to mention soldiers intent on «pacification,» as a very different ideal, and El Museo del Barrio continues with a brutal taste of the slave trade's real gold.

Written by Kyla Ryman, each page of this unusual seek - and - find book reveals a small part of Mutu's artwork Le Noble Savage (2006), allowing readers to explore each part of the collage work closely.

Wangechi Mutu, Le Noble Savage, 2006.

Now the pair are reunited in a knockout Venice show that busts all the myths about America's noblest savage

In «Kindred Spirits,» a series from 2015, the artist turned her archeological eye to the American Plains and Southwest, finding subtle resonances between two periods of American art history, one highly triumphant (the trademark forms of Ab - Ex and Minimalism), the other, belittled and largely extinguished (the academic portrait of the «noble savage»).

This will be a long, tedious series of pesky compromises over decades, not a glorious revolution where we rejoin some imaginary noble savage past of low energy consumption.

This is no reference to the idea of «the Noble Savage» vs. the «Mindless Europeans.»

He argues convincingly that their numbers were far higher than previously thought; that, contrary to the Rousseauian picture of the isolated «noble savage» roaming the virgin forests with bow and arrow, the Indians practiced a great deal of intensive land and forest management, both in the temperate forests of North America, and in the tropical ones of Central America and Amazonia; and that, the genetic homogeneity of the Indians made them almost universally vulnerable to European diseases, particularly those that originated with the livestock that the Europeans brought with them (and to which the Europeans had relative immunity).

Steven Pinker debunked the noble savage and all this other PC social science nonsense years ago in his book The Blank Slate.

These tribes are not portrayed as noble savages living in harmony with nature, whose livelihoods or very existence is under threat from encroaching western civilisation or climate change, but as fellow humans whom it might be interesting to get to know.

Rosales was suspended and sanctioned because he falsified email and said opposing counsel «treats Hispanics like servants and noble savages that need his superlative help and guidance.»

He was also accused of making inflammatory comments about the opposing lawyer, including that he «treats Hispanics like servants and noble savages that need his superlative help and guidance.»

Not exact matches

Yet everything in the text of the play tells us that while Othello is certainly noble, he is not in the least savage.

Avram Grant's side were savaged by Manchester United last weekend, the Hammers relinquishing a 2 - 0 lead courtesy of two successful Mark Noble spot - kicks to lose 4 - 2 at Upton Park, shipping all four goals in the second half, as their previously encouraging four - match unbeaten streak in the league came crashing to an end.

So even after the Challenger disaster, Feynman's savaging of the program, its long slide into lameness, and its embarrassing hogging of the spaceflight spotlight, why couldn't anyone stand up to the shuttle and admit it was a noble effort that just didn't work out?

A noble knight, or a savage barbarian?

S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk is an unassuming genre hybrid, and the impact of its finale is magnified by the fact that, for most of its 132 - minute runtime, it plays out like a lackadaisical The Searchers - inspired Western throwback about a group of noble frontiersmen (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins) on a mission to rescue a maiden kidnapped by unholy savages.

A chase through an abandoned cafeteria kitchen is an obvious ape of the previous year's Jurassic Park, while a visit with a band of twinkly - eyed monks underscores everything that's wrong with the particular noble - savage stereotype to which Miyagi belongs.

He has the technology and knows he only has to use it to build a better jungle world of noble alien savages.

Adopting, tongue - in - cheek, the style of early silent films, Monkman places Hollywood under scrutiny as another perpetrator of inaccurate and damaging stereotypes: the heroic, macho cowboy, pitted against the blood - thirsty Red Indian, or «noble» savage.

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