Sentences with word «allusion»

The series Quint has in mind is the series of allusions in Milton's epic to the flight and fall of Icarus.

i find it amazing that they brush Dr Carlin off as if he were some office boy with allusions of grandure.

all that we then have is a series of historical allusions in some of the events recorded in the gospel, especially in the passion narrative, with little or no teaching material involved.

For the past few days now, Samsung's really been teasing its upcoming Unpacked event, and make allusions as to what we can expect from «the next Galaxy.»

If that basic setup sounds similar to countless classic and revisionist westerns, that's no accident, as allusions abound throughout Red Dead Redemption's lengthy campaign.

In his writing, he's less restrained, sprinkling his work with literary allusions to loosestrife from Hamlet and Wind in the Willows to remind readers that in other places and times it wasn't a public enemy.

In this photograph L'offre de fleur, the artist explores the interplay of race, female beauty and identity, punctuated by the intermingling of art historical allusions with a modern aesthetic.

Shakespeare makes many allusions to the Bible.

2, 30, 9); but this is the only clear allusion in his writings, and he speaks of the Christian «altar in the heavens» (4, 18, 6) in such a way as to show that he is not relying on what Hebrews has to say on the subject.

They have biblical allusions with themes of redemption.

Without reverting to representation, the works on display use their palettes to suggest — indirectly, as if by allusion — perspective, distance, even motion.

His work reflects on social issues and the plight of humanity in world history, but the thematic content is expressed in a web of subtle allusions that spontaneously follow the artist's irrational trains of thought.

The exhibition will feature eight new paintings, two new triptychs and nine works on paper, which evoke bodily landscapes and sacred iconography through allusions to the human form — women's bodies, in particular.

It's a loopy, carnage - fueled extravaganza that makes obvious allusions to everything from Apocalypse Now to Jurassic Park, Platoon to Dr. Strangelove, and does so without any potential clue as to why it is or what the point of doing so might actually be.

She then proceeds to compare herself to the trash barge that floated along the East Coast in the 1980s, a perfectly plucked pop - culture allusion from Cody.

Following the template of every animated Fox show, Napoleon Dynamite is laden with cultural allusions for a savvy audience used to devouring pop culture.

While all are primarily abstract, they also contain allusions to landscape, demonstrating how Frankenthaler's delicate balance between abstraction and a nuanced response to nature and place developed and shifted over time.

We were told of this first from leakster Evan Blass and now, it's finally real and we have no use for allusions to New York anymore.

Lucas has created a «stairway to heaven» out of pointedly banal, and ironically fleshly, matter: the religious allusion of the work's title is undercut by more earthly possibilities.

He concentrated on formal concerns in his monumental abstract compositions, which included allusions to the landscape.

- You give me an argument based on allusions, I give you an argument based on actual words.

The movie gets off to a somewhat sluggish start, at a party scene that's overstuffed with arch dialogue and almost as many pop - culture allusions as a Seth MacFarlane show, but the underlying humanism in Baumbach's worldview ultimately wins out, and we actually come to care about this quippy group of chums and their endlessly referential, often very amusing conversations.

Tones of green, gold and grey, some as bright as neon, give allusions to the context of the material, and the environment it is reflecting.

Thimbleweed Park continues to pile on more allusions to shows such as True Detective and novels by Stephen King.

Chalk drawings, wall carvings, and beautifully delicate works on paper intercede in time through sly allusions to overshadowed artists and writers, such as Sol Plaatje, the ANC organizer who translated Shakespeare into Tswana.

Work on canvas adds more direct allusions, including Asian calligraphy, while a plain blue painting provides a point of repose or of afterimages.

Art history and science often appear in Al - Hadid's works, either as visual allusions or as conceptual systems — like in Spun of the Limits of My Lonely Waltz, 2006, where she used the dance's steps to guide where she would eventually erect structural supports.

In the context of the heavy political allusions in the works leading up to these abstractions, Storr seems to be asserting that, in a secular culture, the rapt contemplation of material aesthetics is as close to salvation as we're going to get.

In the work of Pepo Salazar the iconoclastic aesthetics of movements such as punk, rebellious attitudes or teenage vandalism, merge into constant allusions to the history of art, to utopian avant - garde movements, such as Dada, Situationist proposals or contemporary philosophy.

Many of Gueorguieva's paintings bear suggestive titles that prompt possible allusions to their non-objective forms.

The Light & Dark series, which focuses on various interpretations of light and dark — naturalism in the first exhibition, and poetic allusion in the second — turns its attention to examine civil upheaval in two related exhib...

A few allusions along the way tie this history to the current scandal of priestly sexual abuse and its cover - up.

Like Jennifer Bartlett (MATRIX 73), who spent a soggy winter in the South of France, obsessively drawing and redrawing a garden scene in a multitude of modern art styles, Steir systematically explored line and color while making explicit allusions to admired artists in her intaglio prints, the Drawing Lesson series (1978).

While the first game featured multiple allusions and callbacks to the horror master's oeuvre, Alan Wake's American Nightmare cranks up the Stephen King quotient with an evil doppleganger named Mr. Scratch and the same Americana theme that King loves to explore.

Yet some Christians get angry and outraged when a scholar says the Bible contains numerous allusions to a male boner, but they won't blink an eye if a pastor uses Scripture to justify the bombing of our enemies.

What makes this a sensitive subject in education is that our most widely used allusions reflect the culture and history of the dominant «speech community.»

Even allusion presuming erudition is not all that rare.

Really, all it is is a cross between Antz (one bug in a colony finding his own path) and Shrek (constant pop culture allusions done in rapid tongue - in - cheek fashion), with perhaps a few dozen others sprinkled here and there.

The sculptures of César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, often combine allusions to the classical past with playful nods to the ephemeral values of the consumerist present.

Mark 14.62 as a whole will concern us later; for the moment we note only the first Old Testament allusion in that verse: `... the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power».

I wondered if Sillman's casual allusions say enough of anything, beyond art - world jokes for insiders.

The artist's early canvasses upended painterly abstraction by incorporating goofy personal allusions, doodles and common craft materials.

The irony played out in the superb Picasso - inspiring 1000BC Amiash zebu bull rhyton offered upstairs by London's Charles Ede gallery, and the seeming allusions of the Barbara Hepworth at London's Hazlitt Holland - Hibbert to the pristine Oceanic offerings at Galerie Meyer.

Certain of the Psalms also take on here special meaning and relevance; lengthy historical surveys such as Psalms 78, 105, and 106 and brief allusions as in Psalm 76 are evidently liturgies of some undeclared occasion when the victories of the Lord were celebrated.

The show's title, «Relief,» is a direct reference to the perilous flight of the refugee at sea while other allusions to the refugee's journey manifest in a variety of forms.