Sentences with phrase «allusions in»

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.

Scholl regularly incorporates literary allusions in to his work.

Here's a mini-guide to the cinematic, literary, and historical allusions in The Hunger Games.

Reinforcing the sense that Cincinnati teenagers are the target audience is Bertolucci and Adair's almost abject reliance on every American cliche about the French they can summon up — all the way down to the pseudotriumphant use of Edith Piaf's «Non, je ne regrette rien» (with its irrelevant lyrics) over the final credits — and their systematic elimination of all the atmospheric allusions in the novel to Left Bank locations.

At times, the overarching narrative seems to hint at an inter-connected origin for Kenton's main bot, Atom, but nothing comes of the veiled allusions in the current storyline.

Yet if academic scholars can keep writing papers on the evolution of Renaissance chamber - pot design or political allusions in Beowulf, it's likely that a few obsessives will always continue to fiddle with strings.

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.

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

They suggest that, apart from a parenthetical allusion in the Emmaus narrative, and a doubtfully authentic mention of Peter going to the tomb, the disciples themselves were not concerned about the tomb at all.

The adherents of John the Baptist had their special prayer, as we know from an allusion in Luke 11:1; similarly the early Christian community had its prayer, the Lord's prayer, which was attributed to Jesus, as the sect of John ascribed their prayer to their master.

But then in Mark 14.62 a there is also no parousia reference; only when we read the first Old Testament allusion in Mark 14.62 in the light of the second does it become a parousia reference, for the parousia first comes into Mark 14.62 with the second allusion `... coming with the clouds of heaven».

It's a wonderful allusion in the novel, and one that I hope will send teen readers to this poem about being face to face with our differences and loving that which we both agree to fight for.

Yield curve be nimble, yield curve be quick, yield curve go under limbo stick.Okay, no great allusion in the song there, but I sit watching the long end of the yield curve rally as the short end falls slightly.

Two years ago in the RealMoney Columnist Conversation, I wrote the following: Yield curve be nimble, yield curve be quick, yield curve go under limbo stick.Okay, no great allusion in the song there...

Cotts» imposes an architectural allusion in what read as building details and decoration.

While it is possible to appreciate his painterly interventions solely on the ocular level, the undercurrents of meaning and allusion in the works are what give them weight.

Carl Andre's observation from a 1968 interview reflects on the absence of image or allusion in advanced art of the period, but it remains pithily ironic: It is one hallmark of American art between roughly 1960 and 1975 that objects and installations were attended by massive quantities of artists» words, texts that fall across the artmaking landscape and settle like a heavy discursive drift.

Not exact matches

«That allusion was something Kevin Feige really wanted to put into this script, because it sort of embodies the internal struggle that Peter Parker is facing throughout, where he is his own greatest enemy in some ways, to have to accept himself before he can do anything helpful for the world.

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

Now, morale has sunk so low that some employees refer to Ms. Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, as «Evita» — an allusion to Eva Peron, the former first lady of Argentina whose outsize ego and climb to power and wealth were chronicled in the musical of that name.

Semitic languages are so rich with layers of metaphor and allusion that we can't possibly understand their picture of God by reading the scriptures in English.

Conversations in public often go over my family's head: since we don't watch sports or commercials, lots of allusions and topics of conversation are beyond us.

Do not be fooled by the bishop's ponderous allusions to John 10 in the phrase «life abundant.»

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

And Amnesty International, in a report released earlier this year, said «repeated calls by the Supreme Leader and other authorities to combat «false beliefs» - apparently an allusion to evangelical Christianity, Baha'ism and Sufism - appear to have led to an increase in religious persecution.»

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

In Eliot's poems, «the confusion of life will be reflected in the disorganized flux of images; its lack of clear meaning in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raquIn Eliot's poems, «the confusion of life will be reflected in the disorganized flux of images; its lack of clear meaning in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raquin the disorganized flux of images; its lack of clear meaning in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raquin the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raquin a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raquin the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.»

Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

[3][4] Reasons for this include its linguistic differences from 1 Peter, its apparent use of Jude, possible allusions to 2nd - century gnosticism, encouragement in the wake of a delayed parousia, and weak external support.

New Testament scholars are perhaps familiar with the fact that the term euangellion is also found in imperial propaganda at the time of the birth of Jesus or that Revelation 13 probably includes allusions to Nero and other emperors, but little beyond that.

This, of course, is an allusion to something C. S. Lewis wrote about in The Weight of Glory about us being content to make mud pies in the slum because we can not imagine what is meant by a holiday at the sea.

So many of these comments seem to make vague allusions to incidents that I know nothing about, and yet they are offered as examples in some larger narrative.

I used to be catholic I believed in God as a kid but when I grew older I turned my back on God have not even been to church in 5 to 6 years now could this be a sign or is it a allusion I am making into a big deal which really ai nt that big of a deal maybe I gone insane I don't know I don't want to sound like I'm bragging to seek attention for this which I am not I am simply just looking for some insight on why this has occurred to me.

When Noll speaks of Equiano's «immersion» in Scripture, he is not using that metaphor casually, as an extract from the Narrative makes clear with its «fusillade of scriptural quotations and allusions.»

A second allusion to Lewis's own story is found in The Pilgrim's Regress, when Lewis portrays John hearing these words near the Canyon: «For this end I made your senses and for this end your imagination that you might see My face and live.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

The allusion to the Messianic banquet introduces a parable reported by Matthew as a part of Jesus» teaching in the temple.

«Nimrod» was a mighty hunter in the Bible, but when Bugs Bunny used the term facetiously to describe Elmer Fudd, many people, not recognizing the allusion, came to view «Nimrod» as equivalent to «dimwit».

Further, the allusion to the practice of not fasting during a wedding is an allusion to a well - documented ancient Jewish practice of freeing wedding participants, including the guests, from religious obligations during the seven days of the wedding celebrations (References in Billerbeck, Kommentar I, p. 506.)

Hays offers some valuable suggestions (for example, to pay attention to the Septuagint and to understand the larger context of OT allusions), while others seem confusing in their implications (what to do with the fact that the evangelists operated «with a de facto canon within the canon»?)

Treating this saying as an interpretation of the exorcisms, we should note that it interprets them in terms of an Old Testament text, for the reference to «finger of God» is an allusion to Ex.

The word that the author uses in Hebrews 10:25 for «assembling together» is episunagōgē, which could possibly be an allusion to the Jewish Synagogue.

In the book of Revelation, as we would expect, we have the regular idioms of Jewish apocalyptic: 11.17 has God as the subject of the verb «to reign»; 11.15 is a summary allusion to the imagery of Dan.

Paying «careful attention to rhythm and sound,» Professor Fox «tries to mimic the particular rhetoric of the Hebrew whenever possible, preserving such devices as repetition, allusion, alliteration, and wordplay»» all essential to an accurate understanding of the text and well - nigh impossible to capture in a more fluent English rendering.

Equally sovereign at public lectures and in the pressure cooker of his advanced classroom, he taught and captivated thousands, including many a traditionalist who fidgeted uncomfortably at the occasional allusion to Plato, Kierkegaard, or Rudolf Otto.

Now imagine if the 90 % of the population also believed it was immoral or at least highly suspect not to believe in witches, that «In Wizards We Trust» was printed on your money, that community leaders made regular allusions to witches in their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thinin witches, that «In Wizards We Trust» was printed on your money, that community leaders made regular allusions to witches in their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thinIn Wizards We Trust» was printed on your money, that community leaders made regular allusions to witches in their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thinin their speeches and that you were regarded as «angry,» or «bitter» for being skeptical of the whole witchcraft thing.

But beyond a vague allusion to «getting things right on broader matters of culture,» he offers not a clue about what that something more might be, by what means we might know it, or how it would cure the defects he sees in natural rights reasoning.

The Episcopal church had too much money and power early in the twentieth century and, like the House of Hapsburg manifested in the person of Prince Charles of England (or I could make a bitter allusion to the Bush clan but will refrain), became dull - witted and boring without an infusion of mongrel ideas.

This interpretation concludes the episode by seeing allusion to a final retaliation by Canaanites upon Simeon and Levi in the Blessing of Jacob:

In verse 20 we have hurry, a word that sounds so similar to the dawn, that one can not help noticing both the structural play and the allusion of assonance.