Sentences with phrase «as a memento in»

In the USA lockets, sadly, rose in popularity during the Civil War, when soldiers gave them to their sweethearts as a memento in case they didn't return home.

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While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.

He has a lovely scar in the top of his head today as a memento of his carelessness.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

We love to bring back some mementos in the way of a few pumpkins for decorations, as well as fresh - picked apples and other deliciously flavorful edibles to feast on and enjoy for the flavor of the season.

A man who crashed into a buffalo at night in the Northern Territory, killing the beast, is now looking for its head to mount as a memento.

In his office, Bandy keeps diplomas from the College of the Ozarks and Liberty International University as well as mementos from his pro ball days in EuropIn his office, Bandy keeps diplomas from the College of the Ozarks and Liberty International University as well as mementos from his pro ball days in Europin Europe.

Among his most prized mementos is a collection of tape cassettes, the broadcasts of Yates Center's basketball tournament games as they were beamed out last winter over KKOY in Chanute.

Our shaker boxes made in New Brunswick, and how dear it is for us to have the largest size as a memories box, one each for each of our children's precious baby items, and one for mementos and photos from our wedding.

Doing special things to remember your baby may help, like gathering and keeping mementos in a scrapbook such as ultrasound pictures (if you received some), sympathy cards or pressed flowers that people gave you and poems or letters you wrote to your baby.

Put one of the older kids in charge of getting everyone's hand prints on an inexpensive table runner, then pull it out each year as a memento of past Thanksgivings.

Keep and ask for any mementos and keepsakes of your child such as the I.D. bracelet, blanket, clothing they were dressed in, a lock of your child's hair, and any other items that were used in the care of your baby.

All babies go through this, and usually in no longer than a week to three weeks, the umbilical cord stump will fall off, letting you dispose of it or keep it as a memento.

So here's what I did, God save my soul: as soon as I got home from buying an iPhone, I used its camera to take portraits of the e.politics «staff» posed with outdated communications technology (as memento mori), then fired up Photoshop to add in Lolcats - inspired captions.

The lack of action at the Capitol this week has stood in stark contrast to most of Cuomo's tenure as governor, when he was able to orchestrate deals with lawmakers on the budget before the start of the new fiscal year, often championing the streak with mementos.

Even as recently as Victorian times, the book notes, the dead were laid out in the family parlor, their hair cut off and twisted to make decorative mementos to hang on the wall.

«So many people define themselves as «sick» or «fat» or «out of shape,» so I ask them to bring in a picture or memento from when they were doing something physical that they loved,» Williams says.

Thankfully Cameron was game to follow us to all our favorite spots on the island to shoot several rounds of engagement photos to make sure we had more than enough for our save - the - dates, the Style Me Pretty post, and of course to keep as a memento of this special time in our lives!

In 2000 alone, she could be seen in no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, MementIn 2000 alone, she could be seen in no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Mementin no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Mementin director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Memento.

In this way, Wendigo joins last year's crop of reality - and identity - testing films — such modern existentialist masterpieces as Memento and Mulholland Drive.

In fact, I'm in great haste to write what I can, like Guy Pierce in MEMENTO, as this film is so forgettable I fear all memory of it will be gone before I am finisheIn fact, I'm in great haste to write what I can, like Guy Pierce in MEMENTO, as this film is so forgettable I fear all memory of it will be gone before I am finishein great haste to write what I can, like Guy Pierce in MEMENTO, as this film is so forgettable I fear all memory of it will be gone before I am finishein MEMENTO, as this film is so forgettable I fear all memory of it will be gone before I am finished.

by Walter Chaw There's the seed of an interesting idea in Neil LaBute's Possession — something traceable to A.S. Byatt's melodramatic novel of the same name: the film's one clumsily extended trope that it is about keepsakes and the desire for memento mori and memento amor as it manifests amongst intellectuals.

HollywoodNews.com: Wally Pfister's ascent as a director of photography began when he shot Christopher Nolan's «Memento» in 1999.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

As previously announced, the inaugural LFF Connects will feature British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, internationally acclaimed for some of the most original, compelling and successful films in contemporary cinema (Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento), and Tacita Dean, lauded for her art work in film (and whose grand - scale Tate Modern exhibition FILM transfixed audiences).

Check out these sexy new promo posters featuring Anne Hathaway as Catwoman from the upcoming film «The Dark Knight Rises» by director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento) stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, Terminator Salvation, The 13 Women of Nanjing), Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Get Smart, Alice in Wonderland, The Silver Linings Playbook), Tom Hardy (Inception, RocknRolla, Bronson), Joseph Gordon - Levitt (Elektra Luxx, 3rd Rock from the Sun), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight, Se7en), Gary Oldman (The Professional, The Fifth Element) and Michael Caine (Cars 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inception, Harry Brown).

And not only did the late Heath Ledger turn in an Oscar - worthy performance in The Dark Knight as The Joker, but director Christopher Nolan (Memento) might have made the best superhero adaptation ever.

Details of Burstyn and Foy's roles are being kept as secretive as the twist in Nolan's «Memento.»

The events that transpire have a certain derivativeness to them that keep The Lookout limited in its freshness, though, as the man with mental difficulties who gets duped into becoming a patsy by opportunists has been used recently in the highly - memorable Memento.

The manipulation of illusion is arguably the auteur mark of Nolan, who played with the idea of the manipulation of fear as a weapon in Batman Begins, the practical purpose of dream sleep in his remake of Insomnia, and of course of identity as fluid, ephemeral, and dangerously malleable in Memento and Following.

His track record shows that a director with a distinctive style who's given leeway by the studio to deviate from the norm can make a crowd - pleaser that brings in the big bucks at the box office and also lands critical accolades — whether it's by reimagining comic book movies as political commentary (in the Dark Knight trilogy), sci - fi as quasi-post-apocalyptic family drama (Interstellar), or detective noir as psychological drama (Insomnia, Memento).

Nolan, who was born in London and holds both British and American citizenship, made his debut as a director 20 years ago, with Following, but his follow - up to that film, 2000's Memento, is what made people sit up and take notice.

If it's any consolation, its hero is as baffled as we are; it's not that he has memory loss, like the hero of «Memento,» but that in a certain sense he may have no real memory at all.

Its influence is apparent in movies as far - ranging as «Grosse Pointe Blank,» «Go» and «Memento.»

Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino are anchor investors in the fund along with New York - based private equity firm Raven Capital Management, leading to greenlighting «Memento» as its newest feature production.

Before leaving, Denise put her mother's manuscript in her suitcase as a memento.

The Cedar Gables Inn sign over the front door is a memento nearly a century old as it was originally put up by Ella after she planted two small cedar trees in the front yard hence the inn's appellation.

Good rhythm is rewarded with coins, which players can spend in the Café for additional methods to demonstrate their tempo - mastery with new rhythm games that aren't included in the story mode, as well as mementos from cleared challenges.

Often the hardest games to describe are puzzlers with simple concepts and I hope I have managed to make Quell Memento sound anything but boring, as it's a lot of fun and taxes your brain in similar ways to Sudoku and Chess.

I put the first «dollar» I made, in a silver frame and it sits on my night stand as a memento of my first sale and also for the Law of Attraction.

Their encounters have been immortalized as imprints of visual mementos, each vividly charged with the intensity of the moments that took place in the room or in their dreams while sleeping in it.

Brown's brooding pallete of black, grays, and flashes of pale skin, depicts a private moment as a memento mori, where a woman and her reflection are joined in the form of a loosely - painted skull.

Otero's complex process composes images backward, as if made while looking nervously in the mirror, like the lead character in the movie Memento.

Highly pixellated, shaky and soft coloured in hue, they act as a trace or memento of a significant individual experience of searching for the moon in the night sky.

Her installation in Lynden's dining room — the one room of the house that remains as it was when the Bradleys were in residence — is a kind of memento mori, re-animating the space with the relics of meals past.

In fact, Desiderio began his career as a sort of reluctant expressionist, fascinated with «fugitive» gestures, each temporally suggestive — the grandly bloody splotch pictured on the right panel of When I Last Saw Paris reads as a memento mori of this fascination.

In images when the body does not appear, objects such as dead flowers, a mirror, two clocks, soiled underwear, or a string of lights serve as a series of memento mori, reminding the viewer of the abject frailty and transience of life lived during the plague years of the AIDS crisis.

In Patrick Hough's proposal, on the other hand, forgotten artefacts from the Hollywood Dream Factory — props and décor from abandoned film sets — take on a new life as precious mementoes of cinema history: replicas and fakes that have acquired a strange kind of authenticity.

Legal waivers aside, the exhibit was fresh and created a storybook narrative, where it took little to imagine it as a memento of Dorothy's Kansas, transplanted in New York.

He is best known for a series of works (The Natural History series) in which dead animals are presented as memento mori in forms ironically appropriated from the museum of natural history rather than of art.