Sentences with phrase «society portraits of»

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«And the idea that we didn't need that rich portrait of society down to the neighbourhood level for good decision - making, that didn't sit well with Canadians.»

The portrait of God as self - giving love, capable of sharing in our suffering, can have a very destabilizing effect on society and its history.

In the rosy portraits of assisted suicide drawn by the likes of the Hemlock Society, cool - headed patients put their affairs in order, make their peace with Heaven, and drift away peacefully to the dulcet strains of their favorite music, surrounded by loved ones and kindly, compassionate medical assistants.

Though Crossan says that «Jesus» Jewishness is particularly important in terms of the body / society interaction» (body as microcosm), there is virtually nothing particularly Jewish left in Crossan's portrait of this Mediterranean peasant.

Fuchs, 76, who has been commissioned to paint portraits of five U.S. presidents, was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1975, and last week the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art opened a retrospective of his career.

«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»

This creates a sort of awed detachment from the portraits — perhaps the truest reflection of society's attitude to fame.

Captain William Ranken, whose portrait adorns the clubhouse lounge, was elected as the first Captain of the Society, but among the other founding members was one Daniel Conolly, landlord of the Golf Inn, who clearly had an interest in making sure his fellow members made full use of his facilities.

The Art of Childhood through the Portrait collection of Rensselaer County Historical Society.

Packer wondered if the historical society could provide a home for a portrait of Nathan Miller.

Kane, director of the Cortland historical society, said Miller's portrait will be a centerpiece in a permanent exhibit of «political faces.»

After glancing up at the society's grand portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, Thomson told the assemblage, «Our conceptions of the fabric of the universe must be fundamentally altered.»

The threat to caribou is just one of many detailed in the 2008 - 2009 edition of the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans, which assesses «where we think we are and where we think we can be,» says Steven Sanderson, WCS president and CEO.

Researchers have long tried to paint a portrait of the relatively small group of people who invent the technologies and products, from new software to life - saving drugs, which mold economies and reshape societies.

In Meetings with Remarkable Trees, Irish Tree Society chairman Thomas Pakenham shared his photographic portraits of the majestic trees of Ireland and Britain.

The most comprehensive Aztec exhibition ever mounted provides a riveting portrait of a society obsessed with the natural cycle of life and death — a fiercely refined culture in which nobility and war, scholarship and human sacrifice went hand in severed hand.

The latest finding, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, shows sheep can be trained to recognize human faces from two - dimensional portraits, and can identify a picture of their handler without prior training.

The exhibition includes the portraits of Nobel Laureates associated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and is supported by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, Mars, Incorporated, and the Los Alamos Historical Society.

Bluntly edited, with no hand - holding transitional scenes, the film is an intimate portrait of an idealistic, understaffed, sometimes wrongheaded team battling youth prostitution, thievery rings and adult predators from every class of society.

Released in the Bicentennial year, after Vietnam, Watergate, and attention - getting attempts on President Ford's life, Taxi Driver's intense portrait of a man and a society unhinged spoke resonantly to the mid -»70s audience — too resonantly in the case of attempted Reagan assassin and Foster fan John W. Hinckley.

This intimate and entertaining portrait underlines the strength and vivacity of Richard Byron as he broke out of childhood neglect and into Sydney's red - carpet society as Carlotta, the must - see act of the day.

Wright's film is a beautiful and deeply empathetic depiction of this community, a portrait of Vanier and his philosophy of compassion as the source of true human connection, found and forged with those who have otherwise been cast out by society.

It is a portrait that has some of her society warbler Florence Foster Jenkins with a touch of her gimlet - eyed magazine editor Miranda Priestly, from The Devil Wears Prada.

It traces a sustained and moving portrait of the worldly Sam, whose despair as the society he embraced abandons him is both clear - eyed and devastating.

This story is both a deeply personal and introspective portrait of a modern family, as well as a probing cinematic essay examining one of society's major ailments.

At the other end of the spectrum, French directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar's «Ernest & Celestine,» the watercolored portrait of a mouse and bear who become friendly in spite of resistance from their respective societies, has a gentle, handcrafted look that suits the innocent quality of the material.

Hungry for Love / Adua e le compagne Antonio Pietrangeli, 1960, Italy, 35 mm, 106m Italian with English subtitles A trio of iconic European actresses — Simone Signoret, Emmanuelle Riva, and Sandra Milo — headline this potent, proto - feminist portrait of down - and - out women fighting to beat the odds in a patriarchal society.

«Lettres d'amour» (1942): A transporting period piece with ornate costumes by Christian Dior, «Lettres d'amour» paints a blithely pointed portrait of life in a highly stratified society.

While many have praised the «Spotlight's» important championing of old - fashioned journalism, I found it most powerful as a damning portrait of how rape culture is allowed to thrive when good men do nothing to protect the most defenseless members of society.

Fosse's attempt to give us Lenny Bruce as society's victim and a martyr to noble causes never quite works, and so the movie becomes just several good scenes and a fine Hoffman performance, not a persuasive portrait of a man.

Reminiscent of Cooper's previous effort, Out of the Furnace, is a brilliant, character - driven screenplay that paints a portrait of organized crime and corruption that has infiltrated all levels of society.

Any of these films would be worthy of an Oscar win, but I'm personally rooting for the race documentary «13th» (a must - see for anyone, the kind of film they should show in schools) and «O.J.: Made in America,» which is a marathon at nearly eight hours in length (it was shown in parts on ESPN earlier this year), but a completely fascinating look at race, media and society as it was in the 1990s and today, and just happens to be a tragic portrait of the worst fall from grace for a sports star in the history of our country.

From his early films Benny's Video (1992) and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) to his Palm D'Or and Academy Award winning Amour (2012), he has used cinema to paint a portrait of humankind alienated in modern society, lacking in compassion at best and utterly amoral at worst.

Writer Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro González Inarritu team up once again for another portrait of society's social ills, this one even longer and less enjoyable than Amores Perros or 21 Grams.

The first, by James Whale from 1936 is a nuanced portrait of a racially complex society, with dignified performances from its minority characters (including the electrifying Paul Robeson) which is turned into a much simplified musical starring Howard Keel and directed by George Sydney.

In setting up the rudiments of this situation, the film can't be faulted, at least on the level of its script (Rafael Yglesias adapting his own novel), direction (Peter Weir returning to a relatively serious mode after the claptrap of Dead Poets Society and Green Card), and performances (Bridges and Perez give uncharacteristic, highly arresting portraits of people in a sustained state of shock).

Regardless of location, Inarritu paints a bleak portrait of society, where remote villages can be infiltrated by foreigners, and at the same time, in the middle of a bustling city, someone can feel very isolated and alone.

More than just a portrait of contemporary black society, it's a story of cultural differences between parents and children of how individuals learn (or don't learn) from experience, and of how there should be no place for those who cause violence and strife.»

The film attempts to present a blackly comic portrait of a society which has leapt eagerly into this along the myriad routes opened by broadband.

Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society.

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In 1985, six years before the release of Slacker, Richard Linklater's iconic portrait of a generation, the Texan filmmaker founded the Austin Film Society.

From Jean Renoir (The Southerner) to Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas), from Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) to Antonio Mendez Esparza (the shattering recent festival hit Life and Nothing More), some of the most powerful portraits of the American Dream's scrappier, more fragmented reality have come from outsiders — their perspective perhaps inflected with their own sense of alienation, and their sympathies duly directed toward those US cultures and classes on society's fringes.

Mitnick's script also keeps changing the narrative, introducing new characters and subplots that broaden the scope of the story, giving us a portrait not just of Edison and Westinghouse but also the world and society they existed in.

In the same time they give an accurate portrait of the youngster America society in the 1960's - 70's.

«Each of those objects is a portrait of who we were as a society, and a promise of who we wanted to be.

With powerful prose and poetry, his narrative as student and then later, NYC teacher leader, loving father (and husband), and advocate for children paints a portrait of what public education can and must be for American society.

Through the mixing of these distinct voices, Laura Restrepo creates a searing portrait of a society battered by war and corruption as well as an intimate look at the daily lives of people struggling to stay sane in an unstable country.

Sharp, witty, kinetic, and utterly engrossing, Quicksand is a subversive portrait of twenty - first - century society in all its hypocrisy and absurdity.

It is at once a strikingly insightful portrait of a mysterious, complex, and sophisticated society, reminiscent of Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings in its wonderful detail and feel for the past, and a fast - paced detective story that reads like the best of twenty - first - century thrillers.