Sentences with phrase «as autobiographical»

In general the type of memory we are concerned with here is known as autobiographical memory (3.25).

She views each painting as an autobiographical, psychological self portrait: each individual Myers paints has helped to shape her personality, define a little bit of who she is.

Hockney's version translates the story as an autobiographical telling of his arrival in New York City in the 1960s and his subsequent psychological adaptation to the American metropolis.

Continually collecting little things everywhere she goes, her works can be thought of as autobiographical records of where she's been.

Often referred to as an autobiographical or confessional artist, her paintings are both narratives of personal and communal experiences.

If viewed as an autobiographical account of Kline's breakthrough, Meryon differed in its emphasis on the continued importance of illustration to his abstraction and offered in place of Willem de Kooning another figure of inspiration for his breakthrough.

She has written two collections of poems, The Lost Notebook (2005) and Swift (2012), and translated Jacques Réda's poetry, Treading Lightly: Selected Poems 1961 — 1975 (2005), as well as his autobiographical work, The Mirabelle Pickers (Aller aux mirabelles)(2012).

In an interview with BookPage, King cautions that Lisey's Story should not be read as autobiographical — for instance, the Kings have three children, the Landons are childless — but he admits that his own thoughts on mortality permeate the pages.

It's just a mishmash of absurd horror tropes with a gush of blood and a vampire that may, as another autobiographical element, harken back to Coppola's days making movies for Roger Corman.

Vega took three days before deciding to commit to playing Marina, who shouldn't be read as an autobiographical portrait of the actress.

But as his autobiographical Almost Famous made clear, he has a deep connection to rock music, and he passionately hopes that it can help to usher the audience into his inner world.

Reviewing the pictures may be a form of brain calisthenics for enhancing the mental process known as autobiographical memory, recalling the time and place of past events.

Such an attempt as that of the late Professor Turner mentioned above to view the Gospel as autobiographical, at least from 1:14 to 14:72, with the exception of the doublets in 7:24 - 8:10 (or 12), we can not follow.

While his authorial modesty might elicit our admiration, we should not attribute it entirely to Shakespeare's personality, even if we accept the sonnets as autobiographical, where the persona of the poet can at times seem to grovel, even to the point of self «contempt.

Not exact matches

Or I could have taken a more autobiographical tack, relating some of my own teenage experiences as a preacher's son in the 1950s.

There were some influential neo-paganists in the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg, but they were a minority and their views had little influence on Nazi ideology and Hitler denounced Germanic paganism in his autobiographical «Mein Kampf» and condemned Rosenberg's and Himmler's paganism as «nonsense».

In addressing British scientists Baillie (1951 pp. 11 - 15) told them he had long been in the habit of regarding as the most important single passage in the whole literature of Western Philosophy Plato's report in the Phaedo of Socrates» autobiographical reminiscences as he sat in prison awaiting death in 399 BC.

There may well be good autobiographical reasons as to why one or more of these options appeal to one, but such reasons are not to be mistaken for metaphysical principles.

Fables, didactic poetry, songs, proverbs, riddles, autobiographical narratives (or confessions), onomastica, etc. are part and parcel of instruction at home as well as at school in India.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

As fans of the show know, the series was autobiographical, and featured Gaffigan balancing his career as a comedy star, his Christian faith and family life in New York CitAs fans of the show know, the series was autobiographical, and featured Gaffigan balancing his career as a comedy star, his Christian faith and family life in New York Citas a comedy star, his Christian faith and family life in New York City.

Indeed, reading Homage to Catalonia alongside 1984 is instructive, as in the autobiographical work Orwell clearly charts his growing distrust of the Communist forces and his growing admiration for the anarchists who were of course betrayed and in many cases murdered by their Stalinist «allies».

His Speaking Out Lessons in Life and Politics (Hutchinson # 20) combines autobiographical details as well as reflections on the use and abuse of power and why politics matter.

A radio announcer named Brad Williams, 51, has an autobiographical memory that goes as far back as age 4.

Instead of relying on interviews with adults, as previous studies of childhood amnesia have done, the Emory researchers wanted to document early autobiographical memory formation, as well as the age of forgetting these memories.

Persons with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM, also known as hyperthymesia)-- which was first identified in 2006 by scientists at UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distant past.

A crucial building block of selfhood is the autobiographical self, which allows us to recall the past, project into the future and view ourselves as unbroken entities across time.

As a result, our early years tend to be relatively overrepresented in our autobiographical memory and, on reflection, seem to have lasted longer.

«Knowing how autobiographical memory develops is critically important to understanding ourselves as psychic beings,» Bauer says.

Canadian and U.K. researchers found that two patients who had lost their autobiographical memory (not to mention the ability to view themselves in future situations — such as dreaming about their wedding day) were able to pick up emotional cues and figure out the intentions of others.

Autobiographical tracts from terrorists such as Sean MacStiofain, the first chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, Palestine Liberation Organization activist Leila Khaled and the Brazilian guerrilla fighter Carlos Marighella support this view, according to terrorism expert Martha Crenshaw of Wesleyan University.

Whether other types of learning and memory (such as verbal or autobiographical) can be similarly enhanced awaits future study, as does the determination of the existence of laterality effects.

«Furthermore, the psychedelic nature of ibogaine tends to induce a dream - like state in which many report autobiographical subjective experiences, like watching their life as a movie from the vantage point of an observer,» Malcolm continued.

The role of mental attitude and mood as a risk factor of Alzheimer's was proved by David A. Snowdon, professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky who reviewed autobiographical essays that had been written by the young nuns.

With a site that is more philosophical than autobiographical, his viewpoint will make you think as much as they will make you laugh.

As a singer she remains as wayward as ever, her velvety voice, so urgent and melancholy in its expression, rendering even the most nakedly autobiographical lyrics here impenetrably opaquAs a singer she remains as wayward as ever, her velvety voice, so urgent and melancholy in its expression, rendering even the most nakedly autobiographical lyrics here impenetrably opaquas wayward as ever, her velvety voice, so urgent and melancholy in its expression, rendering even the most nakedly autobiographical lyrics here impenetrably opaquas ever, her velvety voice, so urgent and melancholy in its expression, rendering even the most nakedly autobiographical lyrics here impenetrably opaque.

Long a pariah, Hopper was suddenly hailed as a major new filmmaker, and his success became so great that in 1971 he appeared in an autobiographical documentary, American Dreamer, exploring his life and times.The true follow - up to Easy Rider, however, was 1971's The Last Movie, an excessive, self - indulgent mess that, while acclaimed by jurors at the Venice Film Festival, was otherwise savaged by critics and snubbed by audiences.

James Franco brought the autobiographical work to the screen in last year's «The Disaster Artist,» which earned Franco a Golden Globe Award for his performance as Wiseau.

This film is based on a true story and uses Benjamin Mee «s autobiographical book as the basic source material.

Described as his «most autobiographical» film, it tells the story of celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon), charting her life from her strong - willed schooldays to her tragically isolated adulthood.

The Piano Teacher, based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (apparently largely autobiographical, which is disturbing news in itself), is much more classical in style, though as before it demands considerable input from the viewer: Haneke deliberately avoids making any comments on the film's action, letting the audience judge for themselves.

LMD: In the press notes you make a point of saying this story is not autobiographical, but why then did you make Jayne's husband, Jackson the son of a famous artist as you are the son of a famous artist -LCB- Pop Art icon, Roy Lichtenstein -RCB-?

Steven Spielberg finally hits his stride as a mature filmmaker with the autobiographical (and sharply auto - critical) Catch Me If You Can while new directors Sam Jones and Todd Louiso offer, respectively, a magnificent music documentary (I Am Trying to Break Your Heart) and a story of grief and loss (Love Liza) just to the south of true.

With This Is 40, Apatow gets closer to making his quintessential dramedy — one which may not deftly express the universal experience of midlife (as if there even is one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real truth.

Individually, the men recall Fox passing on Williamson's outline for episodes one through six, the audition period (almost 500 actors tried out for Dawson), Joey's real - life counterpart «Fanny,» other elements of the show autobiographical to Williamson, and the hype leading up to the series» launch; as you may surmise, this is a breathless and edifying eight minutes.

Reitman said that the three movies are autobiographical, not just pulling from Cody's life but from his as well, since they're about the same age.

«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high - schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional band Stillwater), falling in love, and coming of age.

The news comes as the film from producer Scott Rudin, and his IACF partner Barry Diller, earned rave reviews at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, such as Scott Foundas» comments in Variety: «Rock has finally found a big - screen vehicle for himself that comes close to capturing the electric wit, shrewd social observations and deeply autobiographical vein of his standup comedy.»

In this Will Smith helmed autobiographical drama, Newton plays Linda, Christopher Garner's (Smith) bitter and increasingly alienated wife who works as a hotel maid.

SynopsisLynn Shelton's debut feature draws on her past as a stage actress but WE GO WAY BACK is no autobiographical drama.