Sentences with phrase «alien form from»

The building was designed by Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel, who says he took inspiration for the startlingly alien form from the qubba, one of Islamic architecture's signature forms, and the interwoven palm fronds native to the Arabian Peninsula.

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If these aliens came form a planet of similar size, chemical composition, and distance from its star it stands to reason that they could be very similar to us in many ways up to and including our penchant for religions.
It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world god).
Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.
Moreover, I regard the Incarnation as a historical movement and process; it does not reveal the illusory opposition between God and the world, but rather effects an actual reconciliation between estranged and alienated opposites, between an alien and transcendent form of God that is estranged from the world and a fallen and broken form of the world that is estranged from God.
Barkun devotes several chapters to the recent evolution of this hybrid superconspiracy theory, which includes a variant — derived from 1920s pulp fiction with an assist from Tolkien — in which the conspirators are not space aliens but reptilian creatures from Inner Earth who take on human form.
To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.
Explaining this and purifying the traditions from elements introduced by earlier and more alien forms of metaphysics is the task of process theology.
Here's the majors, so plan accordingly for your place in this life or the next: 1) there is not a single fossil to evidence mankind's evolution from some so - called earlier form (see missing link) however we do however have mountains of DNA evidence showing we have common ancestors with primates — so you either believe in a Creator, or Aliens, or actual evolution or a mix of any of the three.
That it loomed so large and continued to be characteristic of Orthodox monasticism was evidence of a retreat from the world and emphasis upon a special form of mysticism which was alien to the West and which widened the gulf between the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics.
My husband liked it but my 17 year old said it looked like an alien life form from Star Trek.
The man lost radio contact with planet earth about a decade ago and has been drifting aimlessly through an 8 million quid hazy cosmic jive of his glory years with a rag tag collection of space junkies in tow believing that his fossilized form is some kind of relic from an alien master footballing race which he will eventually call back to north london in a kind of soccer inspired rapture in which Sam and Johnny and Krish and Pat and Mr Admin will finally see all their bizarro football predictions come to fruition..
Tiny carbon nuggets in meteorites from Mars were formed by cooling magma, not left by ancient alien microbes.
On the other hand, he believes that Earth is not ready to receive anything from Mars that could harbor alien life - forms.
A tale of horror and suspense cut from the same jump - scare cloth as «Alien,» with a dash of «Arrival» thrown in — with its subtext of a woman mourning an unspoken loss — «Annihilation» initially exudes a form of magnetism every bit as somber and determined as Portman's tersely self - possessed protagonist.
Annihilation follows the familiar form of science fiction horror found in films from Alien to The Cloverfield Paradox, with a cast of characters in isolation, slowly being picked off by a force they don't understand.
The fantastic narrative structure jumps from a pre-historic era, when apes first discovered using bones as tools and as weapons, to a futuristic space - age when man discovers proof of intelligent alien life in the form of a gigantic black monolith on the moon.
Yet there is no doubt that «Prometheus,» set about a hundred years from now and starring Noomi Rapace («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») as an archaeologist leading a space mission to capital - T Trouble, is an «Alien» - derived life form.
The History of Future Folk (Unrated) Sci - fi comedy about a couple of aliens (Nils D'Aulaire and Jay Klaitz) sent to earth from a faraway planet who ignore their orders to wipe out humanity and instead form a band after falling in love with bluegrass music.
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The Sony Pictures film has a script from Oren Uziel which follows a group of teens who form an unlikely alliance with vampires and zombies when an alien invasion threatens our planet.
It's of the «ignorant scientists foolishly unleash something that they don't understand» school and takes its cues most obviously from Alien, but also the «disaster movie in space» formula of Gravity and even a hint of Predator in its handling of the hostile alien life Alien, but also the «disaster movie in space» formula of Gravity and even a hint of Predator in its handling of the hostile alien life alien life form.
Beyond also benefits from looking more like Star Trek as it uses more galactic species and creatures in various animal, alien, and human forms than the other two films.
Cowboys & Aliens (PG - 13 for violence, brief nudity and a crude reference) Sci - fi adventure set in 1875 in the Wild, Wild West where a mysterious gunslinger (Daniel Craig) forms a posse to defend a desolate, desert town after a spaceship from outer space starts abducting people one by one.
From the trailer's first lines «There was an idea...» to several moments like Captain America leading the army in Wakanda against the alien attack, Vision's human form and he being ripped off his yellow stone, to Thanos arriving on Earth and flaunting his two Infinity Stone, the trailer has numerous hair - raising moments, just like the Spider sense!
From Academy Award winning director James Cameron (Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic) comes AVATAR, the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms.
Who: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje What: When an alien life form begins wreaking havoc at an Antarctic research site, a graduate student teams up with a helicopter pilot to prevent it from escaping.
Written by Dan Simmons, this tale imagines a future in which St Peter's basilica is moved from the Vatican to another planet, and the Catholic Church becomes a universal religion across the galaxy, thanks to an alien life form that causes a form of reincarnation.
Three inner - city Bronx teens form an unlikely friendship in this moving urban story: 15 - year - old hearing - impaired Tamika; 16 - year - old illegal alien Fatima, who fled the violence and poverty of her African country; and Jimmy, an 18 - year - old street poet and junkie who has just been discharged from the army.
In her latest picture book, Antoinette Portis expertly captures the dynamics of human toddler play in the form of two aliens from planet Boborp.
Whilst the Motorola Xoom 2 is visibly more attractive than its predecessor with angular cornering giving it a unique appearance, the 10.1 - inch device still lacks that added spark that would see it become as eye catching as rivals such as the Sony Tablet S. Despite dropping more than 100 grams in weight from its original form the Xoom 2 still manages to feel heavy and slightly alien within the hand.
Phillips, a novelist who draws deeply from history's well, fictionalizes the lives of three black men in England to form an indelible triptych depicting the suffering of individuals condemned to the status of aliens and undesirables.
You are a nonresident alien, but you can file Form 1040NR - EZ instead of Form 1040NR if your U.S. income only comes from the following sources:
You must also use this form if you were a nonresident alien who did not engage in US business, but received income from US sources that are reportable on Schedule NEC.
Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life - forms to save their building from demolition.
And then things started to go to hell as a mid-game event occured to try to shake things up, taking the form of an alien species from outside of the galaxy suddenly invading by landing squarely at the edges of my empire, edges I hadn't bothered to protect because as far as I was aware there was no possible threat from that direction.
Industry veterans Andrew Marquis and John Lawrence have banded together to form the indie studio Dead Alien Cult, and from the looks of their debut game they are coming out swinging.
Now, players are fighting to retake Earth's Last City from a hostile alien force and defend the game's iconic Traveler, a sentient life form that protects Earth in the far future.
When it was initially announced as XCOM in 2010, The Bureau raised the ire of long time fans of the strategy series for daring to deviate from its tried and true formula and instead focusing, in its earliest forms at least, on researching and uncovering evidence of alien existence against a 1950's backdrop.
Ben 10 offers players a chance to discover unique combat moves from each alien form, including Four Arms, Grey Matter, Heatblast and more, to fight Ben's foes, push puzzle - solving skills to their limit, and save the galaxy.
The Alien franchise has a robust fanbase across all forms of media, from video games to comics and novels, and some great stories have emerged from these spinoffs.
With the aliens from XCOM: Enemy Unknown now shedding their former selves to reveal more monstrous forms, the sense of peril is always around the corner.
Eventually, it does get better as players progress through the game, with explanations behind why the other alien life forms are attacking and on how players can stop them, but too little is told too slowly from the beginning, leaving players in the dark for quite some time.
The tower defense game will release on mobile devices ahead of the film's release this summer, and sees players helping the Arcaders protect Earth from aliens that have taken the forms of iconic video game characters from the 1980s.
Missions in Destiny - even those that ostensibly formed the core of the story mode - felt disconnected from one another, with only the bored ramblings of Peter Dinklage telling players why this particular alien threat was related to others.
Dancer (1943), is made from bone and plaster and has been painted, its form is smooth and curvaceous, slightly alien but painted in an organic nature.
In 2016, Mutu opened a second studio in Nairobi, and this return to her «alien mother,» as the artist has referred to it, has catalyzed a transformation in her work.4 Fresh materials and methods referencing the Kenyan landscape — such as the distinctive rust - colored clay of Nairobi's volcanic soil and a dark, coal - like paper pulp — evidence a shift in the artist's focus from primarily two - dimensional works to the earthy, the organic, and the spiritual, with an emphasis on three - dimensional forms and performance - based installations, as well as the playful and imaginative opportunities of video animation.
Garofalo's forms appropriate characteristics from both flora and fauna, fusing qualities that result in physiognomies both beautiful and alien.
The artists dislocate the materials already detached from everyday life and create a new aesthetic form that is awkward, alien and uncanny within the exhibition space.
Harrison, who is known for her bulbously weird sculptures made from Styrofoam and cement, all studded with bits of human detritus, has a new show at Regen that employs both the concept of the selfie (the framing of oneself, hence the title of the show) and the sticks (her alien forms bear selfie sticks as if they were some robotic prostheses).
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