Sentences with phrase «like archetypes»

Like archetypes capable of embodying shifting meanings, the blank figures become a mold for the human condition, at once satirical, tragic, humorous, and above all, contradictory.

According to James Putnam, the exhibition curator: «Their [the group's] art is characterized by a sophisticated provocation juxtaposing incompatible subjects like archetypes and classical forms with contemporary cultural icons.

«This includes ease - of - use stuff like archetypes and searchable property lists, nuts and bolts components like the packaging system, as well as major features.

Journeyman actors, we all got handed like these archetypes, these things that the audience really responds to us doing.

Elizabeth Olsen makes the most of her artistic - minded, self - centered character, but seems a bit too much like an archetype: girls who can attract men, but not obtain them.

Born in a region of Austria / Hungary that is now part of Poland, Wilder's story feels like an archetype of the émigré - to - Hollywood experience that shaped so much of the early studio system, and by extension, narrative cinema as we know it.

In the Mini world, the Countryman looks least like the archetype 2 - door Hardtop.

I think of the characters that appear in each painting as sort of like an archetype of the queer black male — this shamanistic character that sort of travels between dimensions or portals and things like that and explores different tiny moments.

Not exact matches

«With respect to diversity, we can focus on numbers, which are important, but equally important is changing the archetype of what people believe an engineer looks like,» she said.

One day, an archetype of a gym rat — shaved head, cutoff shirt, veins in his arms like ropes — was doing side - to - side pull - ups: hands close together, looking along the bar rather than facing it, pulling up and alternating bringing his head above the bar on the right side and then the left.

While I could make this as complicated as you'd like, I've identified four distinctly different sales development approaches or archetypes.

Based on your comments, it sounds like the crossover is the design archetype for the future.

Well, at the primal level maybe we have something like a set of archetypes (in a Jungian sense)... and we provide the stories (Z - theory)?

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the archetype of this, waxing poetic with liturgical statements like «Your days are numbered» and «The universe called me.»

Like Dugin, Heidegger identified America as the archetype of the technological mentality that blinds us to Being.

But her chief contradiction is this: she comes across like a British archetype, but would rule like a continental authoritarian.

He is the archetype of the conservative providential hero (for example Richard Nixon was a great gaullophile); authoritarian democrats like Putin and Erdogan are sometimes compared to de Gaulle.

Or maybe the archetype of Juliet always returns, like the sun — a good metaphor breeds itself into a growing community of interacting ideas.)

Just like your physical body has an individualized DNA makeup, your soul is a unique combination of archetypes.

Now I'm not saying like go round and immediately judge people based on their Archetype but it adds a tool to your tool shed for perception and for intuition and for awareness and all these things help you become your highest self because to become your higher self you must be in tune with the world and people around you.

The mystical Third eye — is the organ of inner perception, it is like a movie with an internal screen where fantasy, memory, archetypes and intuition weave together with imagination.

I find a lot of people who are this archetype try to resist it, because of it's quirkiness, or they feel like you need to be really short and waifish when that is more soft gamine.

There's also the priest, who had an affair years ago and fathered a bastard child whom Jack meets, but the secret really serves no purpose save for making the priest a man who understands the psychological trauma in harboring dark secrets — a clichéd archetype in better films such as Odd Man Out (1947), or rendered more interminable in clunkers like Prayer for the Dying (1987).

Some of them have accents, one of them is a woman, one of them likes to smoke pot, but really they're all slight variations on the same excitable, profane, and shallow archetype, the kind of character that gets their own poster in marketing with a nickname like «The Kid» or something cool - sounding like that, but it's all posturing.

In addition to Mr. Tarantino's trademark dialogue - heavy, suspense - filled set pieces, there are moments of pure silliness, like a gathering of hooded night riders (led by Don Johnson), and a late escapade (featuring Mr. Tarantino speaking in an Australian accent) that perhaps owes more to Bugs Bunny than to any other cultural archetype.

It is an innovative game like few others, with gameplay away from the archetypes of FPS ever.

by Walter Chaw Larry Fessenden's Wendigo plays like a chthonic rite: it's terrifying in its brutal purity and delicious in its ability to pull domestic trauma into the well of archetype where it festers.

Enemy designs feel like a greatest hits of well worn archetypes: fast minion zombies, fat exploding zombies, heavily armored elite zombies.

Strikingly silhouetted against the movement of streets and tunnels, central couple Murphy and Electra for once look exactly like the monumental archetypes the movie is trying to make them out to be, and as their squabbling reaches new lows of viciousness and abuse, they become riveting — proof of how much drama can depend on an effective backdrop.

The Austrian actor brings his familiar streak of fruity menace to the role, though like much else in «Spectre,» he's working to match comforting series archetypes rather than transcend them.

Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back), Miyagi becomes something like an albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.

And instead of the lost - weekend framework (contra Whedon, kids don't road - trip to creaky old isolated cabins quite like they used to), Alvarez sets his crew of good - looking archetypes escaping in the woods in order to monitor the detox of Mia (Jane Levy), a recovering junkie with a family history of mental illness.

Although the gaming formula is a classic archetype, it is a little repetitive as you feel like you are engaging in the same activity all the time as you move through the environment.

I think it's possible that studios believe a lot of male viewers actually like the boychild - slacker archetype that seems so prevalent now.

They could create new creatures and amaze with effects, be they practical or elaborate CGI, and they could give us new versions of beloved archetypes, but after The Force Awakens re-hashed Episode IV and Rogue One couldn't stop winking at what came before, it felt like maybe Star Wars had gone as far as it could, and we would spend the rest of forever treading over the same ground.

The film's nadir is a scene in which Curtis recites a poetic «song» to a group around a campfire and which becomes the occasion for a montage devoted to the beauties of a kitschy soundstage version of «nature,» followed by glimpses of other salt - of - the - earth slaves at rest who register like warmed - over Depression archetypes.

Johnny Depp is fine in the lead role of John Dillinger — but it seems that his initial chameleon - like abilities have been honed down to three or four archetypes in his recent flicks (though he's still the youngest - looking 46 year old).

Cooper and Turshen don't play it broadly like the Horny Teen Boy and Pretty Popular Girl archetypes we so often see, finding subtlety in the stereotypes.

Like Highsmith's remarkable novel (the rare lesbian love story of its time with an optimistic coda), it neither unduly ennobles its key characters nor confines them to butch / femme sexual archetypes.

Likewise, Anne's sister isn't simply an amorous siren, nor is the college friend a late -»80s Christian Grey — they look like soft - core archetypes, but they become something else entirely: dysfunctional individuals in search of real intimacy.

The «manic pixie» archetype has also materialized in a number of classic movies as well, with the original line - up including Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's, Marilyn Monroe's Sugar from Some Like It Hot, and even Ruth Gordon's eighty - year old Maude from Harold and Maude.

Much like his roles in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Prisoners, he plays the perfect Disney - friendly, young adult archetype.

Automatons pump and steam billows in the background while archetypes walk deserted streets, footsteps echoing like those of cowboys heading towards pistols at dawn.

Public Enemies, for instance, takes the public conflict between Dillinger and Purvis — archetypes of American popular imagination — and connects it to the rise of surveillance, telecommunications, modern banking, and fascism, producing something that often feels like a creation myth for the latter part of the 20th century.

It's funny and beautiful, for sure, but also borrows liberally from the likes of Ratatouille and Spirited Away and uses the exact same villain archetype as every other non-Incredibles Pixar movie with a villain.

As for the rest of the cast, it's pretty much all one - note, no nuance the entire way, falling neatly into their predetermined archetypes — romantic interest, comic relief, pure - heart, crafty rival, or seething wolf - like antagonist.

Unfolding like a classic Seventies disaster flick, San Andreas serves up a smorgasbord ofreadily - identifiable archetypes: the musclebound hero, the effete coward, the damsel in distress, the terminally - nerdy professor, and so on, each played with perfect aplomb by a talented cast.

(If you're wondering whether or not you should attach a kind of symbolism to names like «Kingdom Come» and «Hope,» recall that Hardy believed character to be tied to archetype, and archetype attached to place.)

The rest are just archetypes — a fellow loser who likes Riley, a nerdy kid named after a computer manufacturer, and a guy in a hooded sweatshirt who's been in detention for almost two decades.

It's just that, despite being based on fact, at times, the movie feels and plays like a formulaic disaster flick, with Banderas as the dynamic hero archetype.