Sentences with phrase «as cultural touchstones»

Films like Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous have deservedly lasted as cultural touchstones, but even then their conflicts seemed pretty inane in the grand scheme of things.

Never performed in the Bard's lifetime, though it seems to be enjoying a revival today, «Timon» functions for Drennen as a cultural touchstone that seems at once familiar and not really well known.

«The same ocean that carried the first settlers to Massachusetts endures as our cultural touchstone and economic engine.

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Indeed, even on this point Arendt's touchstone was not only the mission of the Congress for Cultural Freedom but also what she perceived as its bias against those thinkers of German liberal extraction, such as Paul Tillich and herself.

As Fifty Shades of Grey hits the cinema this weekend and becomes the cultural touchstone of 2015 thus far (yes, Fifty shades... More

One such cultural touchstone was Juba's emerging fashion industry, led by designers such as Akuja de Garang.

The restaurant's menu is diverse and flavor - forward, inspired by DaSilva and Coddington's upbringing as well as the various cultural touchstones that they find irresistible.

Ashley Hamilton, whose credits include such cultural touchstones as Beethoven's 2nd and Sunset Beach, has reportedly been cast in a minor villain role as Firepower, which has seen various incarnations in the comics but is essentially another guy in an experimental power suit.

While I have no experience with Catholic school myself, it's clear from the little moments and details that color Lady Bird's daily life that Gerwig has filled the film to the brim with the sorts of cultural touchstones that are universal to those with that shared experience, evidenced by the little audience chuckles as she endures the various rituals that come from attending a school like that.

Early in her career, Myers established herself as a great cultural and community resource for Native - content projects being produced by networks and studios including: Monsters of God (Plan B / TNT); Magnificent Seven (MGM / Columbia Pictures); Wind River (Weinstein Co.); The Lone Ranger (Walt Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer Films); And, Apocalypto (Icon Ent / Touchstone).

There is solipsism as well as grandeur in these doom - and - gloom spectacles, but there is also tremendous feeling — and in «Donnie Darko,» that feeling manifests itself most powerfully in an abiding reverence for the cultural touchstones of its moment.

The connecting thread between Empire Records, The Craft, and End of Days is of course Robin Tunney, who hit it big in the late «90s and has grown to show as much longevity in her career as the select films from her body of work — cult phenoms, if not cultural touchstones by some measure.

Sales swept past Lincoln, as the Escalade quickly became a cultural touchstone, and the brand's defining vehicle.

Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist Jefferson draws on cultural touchstones, from Ebony to James Baldwin to Ntozake Shange, as she traces her life during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, when radical race consciousness and feminism questioned all of the old assumptions.

Sauna is a cultural touchstone, a focal point for life, serving as a base for births and coming - of - age rituals - and is traditionally fully nude.

However you feel, the game was a massive critical and commercial success, selling more than 20 million copies and spawning cultural touchstones such as the «arrow to the knee» joke.

As a result, American audiences have been able to expand their understanding of 20th - century Italian art beyond Arte Povera — which has long been the art world's major postwar Italian cultural touchstone — and beyond Italy's fascist history, which, not surprisingly, creates a certain discomfort among American viewers.

Young's project, as well as the other three, emphasized architectural place as a touchstone for cultural memory; stressed community involvement in the construction and reception of the work; and reflected upon how a historically black neighborhood has consistently and creatively attended to its own needs despite meager resources and the continued trauma of structured inequality.

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Their unassuming original intentions afforded them the unaffected nature that ultimately allows for their endurance and autonomy — as both specific cultural record and universal touchstone.

You might forget that SNL is live, despite the fact that it's a third of its title, but that's only because it's been on the decline as far as being a cultural touchstone is concerned.