Sentences with phrase «allegorical take»

With this, the artists offer an allegorical take on the transformation and upheaval of the urban environment, and more broadly, our contemporary era.

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If a Bible verse (or discovery) is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical or metaphorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.

In Submission, Houellebecq takes an allegorical tack, naming his narrator François (Frenchman) and duly making him a caricature of the deconstructionist dream.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

But why should Muslims care if Catholics wanted them to be a bit more «Sufi,» keener on allegorical interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith, and cooler on taking words like «jihad» literally?

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernable by humans; or is just magic.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.)

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernable by humans; or is just plain magic.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.»

I see God as the Patron, and the issue of talents as an allegorical way of expressing activity for the Kingdom of God using familiar social realities (but in keeping with Mark 4:10 - 12, 24 and Matthew 13:11 - 16, the peasants may have taken it too literally and thus missed the whole point — thinking that the unprofitable servant is the hero when he's really not).

Fine for allegorical reference, but useless when taken literally.

It can not come from an obscurantist who behaves as though nothing had happened and is content to repeat the shibboleths of a short - circuited dogmatism, or to take over the exegesis of Luther naïvely and uncritically, to say nothing of the allegorical interpretations of the Rabbis.

- If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.

In 2001, U2 had one of the top albums of the year (All That You Can't Leave Behind) with an allegorical, 11 - song tribute to a lover (or, more likely, mother figure) identified as «Grace»: «She takes the blame, she covers the shame, she travels outside of karma.»

No doubt I've not read all your posts so I don't know to which sect you adhere, but how do you * know * which parts of the Bible are allegorical, and which parts should be taken literally?

Though written too broadly to serve as the powerful allegorical tale writer / director Christina Yao intends, this historical epic is just compelling enough to be taken on its own terms.

No film this year, however, addresses the matter with more thematic exactitude and near - scientific scrutiny than Michael Haneke's grimly riveting «The White Ribbon,» a film which differs from the ones previously mentioned by taking an entire community, as opposed to a solitary family, as its allegorical subject.

His script for Dredd took a maligned comic book property and yanked it back to its nakedly allegorical origins as a satire of police brutality and post-industrial sprawl.

It's sadistically unnerving, makes no sense if taken literally and even if audiences got the allegorical meaning, there's still a lot there that could be offensive.

Aside from that, somewhere down the road from today, we may look back and wonder about the sudden proliferation late in this decade of films centred on Robin Hoods literal and allegorical, robbing from a broken system of fiscal governance to give to (or, at least, not directly take from) the common guy.

by Walter Chaw I believe the title is meant to indicate the arrested protagonist more than it is the baby he tries to sell on the black market, thus The Child (L'Enfant)-- another of Belgian filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne's mild, allegorical subversions of Robert Bresson and incrementally more violent subversions of the French New Wave — takes on Pickpocket via Breathless.

With its Klansman caricatures and awkward, cartoonishly allegorical imagery, BioShock Infinite is a game that so earnestly wanted to say something about the social issues it brought up but didn't quite know what to say once it took the opportunity.

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

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We, too, can't seem to get enough of her fresh take on classical technique, her experimentation with self - portraiture, her inclusion of mystical wildlife, flora, and fauna and her allegorical underpinnings.

The gray is lush, like the color of thought itself, and both artists take on the studio as their subject matter — Johns with an allegorical approach, and Guston more obliquely through dreamy translation and material play.

Renowned Chinese political artist Ai WeiWei whose allegorical work is usually focused on social & political injustice took a vacation from the usual heaviness this month with a massive paper kite installation Er Xi («Child's Play») commissioned by historic Paris department store Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche.

Although Velasquez drew a lot as a child, he did not consider becoming a professional artist until he took a painting class at Palo Alto College taught by Lloyd Walsh, one of San Antonio's most respected artists who is known for oddball allegorical paintings of weird animals or quirky still life subjects.

Taking up key, allegorical imagery in Wilding's work, the exhibition focuses on themes of «becoming,» both the transformative event itself and the threshold to transfiguration.

Far more allegorical is Blood Stained Auction (2014), which takes a depiction of peasants bringing a cruel landlord to justice from Wang Shikuo's 1959 painting Blood Stained Shirt and updates it as a scene of a contemporary art auction.

Now here's my broader take on what I've begun calling the «knowosphere» — a word intentionally echoing the more allegorical «noosphere,» the «planet of the mind» of Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.