Sentences with phrase «also allegorical»

Character names are also allegorical, some villainous examples being Bellatrix (war woman), Malfoy (bad faith) and Voldemort (flight of death).

(Of course Jesus himself is also an allegorical character, equally fictional.

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We also frequently speak in terms of finding four levels of meaning in Torah: the simple / surface meaning, the hinted - at or allegorical meaning, the midrashic meaning, and the deepest secrets of the text at its root.

Several of the allegorical stories are from the my own life, but I also poke fun at some of the popular evangelistic techniques and strategies endorsed and practiced by many Christians in today's churches.

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

A high - end commercials director making his feature debut, Blomkamp (who also co-wrote the script with Terri Tatchell) milks his ostensibly fantastic scenario for all its allegorical worth.

The allegorical stories that comprise the movie's fantasy world are also laid on a bit thick, and it doesn't do enough with its characters to maximize the emotional payoff.

On the surface, Anton Corbijn's film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith - for - hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli's allegorical reading the film also has its finger on the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated nation.

This is borne out by the film's relative lack of interest in anything that happens after Grant dies — the compelling story of the cell phone footage, the trial, the controversial verdict, and the unrest and memorialization that followed is told mostly through curt, pre-credit-roll titles.Yet the film also tries hard for a verite style, as opposed to something more allegorical, and so we have to conclude that we're supposed to accept its less believable moments at face value.

One is free to contemplate the allegorical and satirical implications, but also free to enjoy the spectacle of self - imposed insecurity that plays out among these characters.

Adapting mostly from the first of 11 novels in Burroughs» Barsoom series that was written over three decades, Stanton (who co-wrote the script with Pixar co-worker Mark Andrews, with revisions by novelist Michael Chabon) does try to make Carter as adventurous as Burroughs» books were, while also attempting to include allegorical complexity.

The director's best - known and most - loved movie (at least until now) may be 2006's Pan's Labyrinth, a dark allegorical fairy tale also set in Spain during the Civil War.

Jake is right to commend the allegorical power of these techniques, and I would also make mention of the Super-8 childhood flashbacks he uses to underscore a character's death, which is a welcome moment of Davies - like poignance amid such a brutal narrative.

There's a transparency to the performances that transcends naturalism: you sense that the actors are not only playing themselves (more so than usual), but also that they're playing themselves as allegorical figures in a metaphor for their lives.

This allegorical portrait of the Algerian resistance was inspired by the real - life story of the Papin sisters, two maids who brutally murdered their employers in 1930s France — also the basis for Jean Genet's influential 1947 play The Maids and Claude Chabrol's 1995 psychological thriller La Cérémonie.

He also uses the allegorical device of Tarot cards to show Hollywood's illusions and delusions.

Fran O'Neill, visiting artist faculty and abstract painter, and Katie Ruiz, painter, also guided us through the marathon, with one - on - one comments and provocations that counterbalanced Graham broader historical references and allegorical statements.

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.

Modeling her CG animations on the allegorical paintings of Casper David Fredrich, Fu continues her aspirations in the sublime from her painting background into experimental digital media, exploring the nature of physical and metaphysical limits, as the work also mirrors the fundamental aspect of Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting, which often presents a type of virtual space where the significance of the individual and linear perspective is blurred into a voluminous landscape.

She emphasizes their unique characteristics while also suggesting an allegorical dimension beyond their individual identity.

Jones and Roa seek to advance these dialogues into the future, yet they are also keenly aware of art historical precedents, including allegorical painting, gestural painting, anti-art and performance art.

Also in the Neue Galerie are paintings and drawings by Arnold Bode, the founder of Documenta; a painting of Bode by Gerhard Richter; and a drawing of Athens by Theodor Heuss, the first president of West Germany; an 18th - century copy of Le code noir, which formalized the laws of slavery in the French Empire; academic allegorical sculptures representing Western nations by Carl Friedrich Echtermeier; and remarkable bronze sculptures from Benin, a society that British colonial conquest ravaged in 1897.

It also stars artist Richard Serra who plays allegorical Freemason Hiram Abiff.

His practice also includes text - based paintings, posters, and books that explore allegorical themes including technology, spirituality, war, and death.

His placement and presentation of the bulbs also reduces them to signify, at once, their own objecthood, the effect they produce and the corporations that produced them, while attempting to remove them from the «symbolic» «transcendental» and allegorical impulses traditionally associated with artistic creation.

When fused together, these two stories become an allegorical cycle of waste; waste of emotions, of obsession, and as Aly attempts to tell it through a precise choreography (using 4 performers and herself), it also translates into a poetic waste of movement.