Sentences with phrase «almost mythic»

He has attained almost mythic stature in the new big - money world of presidential politics — a reclusive computer programmer, a hedge fund magnate and the biggest individual super-PAC donor so far of this campaign cycle.

The «almost mythic» story, as Menil Collection director Josef Helfenstein defines it, «stands as another testament to the (de Menils») depth of commitment to artists and their works.»

Over the past five decades, during which his explorations of race and urban experience have made him one of the most consistently provocative and influential of American artists, he's conducted only a handful of press interviews — this reticence of being merely one facet of a famed elusiveness that has reached almost mythic proportions.

The new photographic works explore these dynamics of motion and space inside the genre of abstraction and within filmic, almost mythic landscapes.

In these titles the themes, tropes, and icons of classic games take on an almost mythic quality.

- The Daily Telegraph (UK) «This concentration on isolating tiny fragments of experience and apprehension makes for an intense and immersive read, one in which brutal events are cast in a diffuse light that gives them an almost mythic quality.

What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact - both tragic and redemptive - will transcend the lives and imaginations of its characters and its readers.

An almost mythic story, excellent performances and a setting — the Missouri Ozarks — seldom seen on the silver screen combined to make this one of the best movies I've watched this year.

While the ATS matches the 3 Series» styling blow for blow, and emerges victorious when it comes to onboard safety and convenience tech, the real question for longtime BMW fans and buyers is whether or not Cadillac's ATS can surpass the 3 Series» almost mythic handling.

According to Jessica Kiang's review, his journey takes on «an almost mythic resonance,» the film walking «the line between realism and metaphor so well that the story feels utterly authentic to its claustrophobic setting, and yet broader, more sweeping, more universal too.»

The sleepy realism of the first act slowly falls away as Charley's journey becomes almost mythic in length.

Sam Elliot «s baritone has taken on an almost mythic quality.

It's a paean to middle American pastimes as only the Coens can imagine them, and for once, it succeeds in making everyday rituals seem almost mythic.

A dark, flinty little thriller, Winter's Bone is very specific about people and place, zeroing in on poverty in the Ozarks to tell an almost mythic tale of a hardscrabble family grappling with its demons.

While the film shows his evolution from young boy in a strict Bible belt household to Navy SEAL to celebrated, almost mythic, status among his brothers - in - arms, we also observe the seething tensions that develop below the surface when he's not in a war zone.

The rumors concern what's in a supposedly forthcoming story in The New York Times that has taken on almost mythic dimensions before it has even run.

First, since grandparents have come to occupy an almost mythic place in the grandchild's value system, proximity is not necessary for prominence.

A great, almost mythic Leader of His People (was it Hindenburg?)

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

Not exact matches

The D'Aulaire books are also representative of another genre almost unmentioned by Mr. Bottum, that of the mythic, fairy, or folk tale.

In either case, moreover, the result was rather curious, since neither figure in his final form was so much a mythic aggrandizement of the literary model as an almost total inversion.

It almost felt like this was some mythic property we'd never see.

Great westerns, almost by definition, have a largeness of spirit, a fullness in which the quotidian morphs inexorably into the mythic.

Directed by Stephen Frears and written by Lee Hall, this biopic look to what was almost a lost piece of recent history serves nicely to humanize the mythic Queen of England and give further insight as to what made her tick.

But with «Foxcatcher,» he has outdone himself, turning his uniquely meticulous eye to a tiny story in a totally rarefied, specific environment and through whatever alchemy he has perfected, created something so universal and resonant that it feels epic, sprawling, almost ancient in its mythic overtones.

Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker who has been weaving horror, gothic romance, comic books, demonic superheroes, mythic tales, and creatures into the DNA of his films since his debut, Cronos, which premiered almost exactly 25 years ago at the Cannes Film Festival.

Sometimes it's OK that our sports movies are over-the-top in an almost operatic way, so the frequent references to the ancient Spartans, Melville's monomaniacal and self - destructive Captain Ahab, or to the mythic Greek Olympian Theogenes seem not only expected, but typical — and a refrain of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 transcends its cheesiness and becomes cathartic.

A fully realized, almost Gothic setting breathes life into the mythic underpinnings of this coming - of - age novel.

His work is influenced by religious art and metaphysics, and he blends the imaginative and phantasy elements of his artistic process with with Western religion and European folk traditions, a combination that aims to give a mythic dimension and an almost archetypal significance.

Richard Pousette - Dart's «Mythic Heads and Forms,» abstract paintings which span the decade of the 1930s, with their elliptical organization of thick black lines that forcefully yet almost imperceptibly shift space, have an immediate impact, in the sense of both sureness and conviction.

But much as gamers claim to hate gold sellers, almost one in four patronize them — Mythic, therefore, is risking alienating a quarter of its user base.