Sentences with phrase «as labyrinthine»

Out of these currents and many others, Marshall has crafted his own world, which, dense with contradictory allusions, seems not so much impenetrable as labyrinthine, offering us a way in but no obvious way out.

It isn't as labyrinthine as ABMB, nor is it as much of a worldwide phenomenon.

Pusher more or less tracks with Refn's original movie, but also variously recalls Guy Ritchie's crime capers (though not as labyrinthine and outlandish), Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly (though not as steeped in sociopolitical statement) and many, many other similar works.

With the big, boxy cars that line the street, and the feeling of the city as a labyrinthine machine, these shots give Thief immediate kinship with the likes of William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971) and Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973).

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The name and glossy logo serve as the public face of a labyrinthine network of companies that have sold a bewildering array of products online, from colon cleanses to credit reports.

One wonders how Eliade will respond to this nonbook, for it attempts to unmask him as a historian of religions and to unveil him as a Christian homo religiosus immersed in a labyrinthine world in which God is dead.

Food - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scale.

Thanks to this person, the commissioner must enter a labyrinthine phone - tag maze, maintaining multiple circles of communication and serving as this individual's personal agent and spokesman.

As Planning Minister, he sees his task as being to get construction going, not to preserve the labyrinthine system in perpetuitAs Planning Minister, he sees his task as being to get construction going, not to preserve the labyrinthine system in perpetuitas being to get construction going, not to preserve the labyrinthine system in perpetuity.

Pigeon — who for decades has quietly assisted candidates, companies and sitting officials as they navigate the labyrinthine factions of Erie County politics — was arraigned the day after the judge, state Supreme Court Justice John Michalek, resigned from office and pleaded guilty to accepting bribes.

I'd be Hermione Granger, as she's good at exerting pressure behind the scenes and finding her way around ancient labyrinthine buildings — such as the House of Lords.

Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).

Observing these pale, blind and tiny animals in their natural habitat has been hard because they live in labyrinthine cave networks that are as difficult for divers to navigate as they are dangerous.

As I made my way through Genoa's labyrinthine medieval streets, I couldn't help becoming intimate with the city, from Via Garibaldi — the grand and colorful mansions of the city's Middle Age rulers — down to the harbor front that made them wealthy during Genoa's golden age.

Once thought of as mere packing peanuts whose job it was to keep neurons from jiggling when we jog, astrocytes are now understood to provide critical hands - on support and guidance to neurons, enhancing their survival and shaping the shared connections between them that define the brain's labyrinthine circuitry.

What I thought would be a simple equation led me down a rabbit hole of labyrinthine proportions, but I feel we've found the best estimation as a starting point for discussion.

Critics Consensus: Suspenseful, labyrinthine, and brilliantly cast, The Maltese Falcon is one of the most influential noirs — as well as a showcase for Humphrey Bogart at his finest.

Critic Consensus: Suspenseful, labyrinthine, and brilliantly cast, The Maltese Falcon is one of the most influential noirs — as well as a showcase for Humphrey Bogart at his finest.

Joaquin Phoenix will star in a role once earmarked for Robert Downey Jr., as a pot - smoking detective in 1960s Los Angeles who finds himself wrapped up in a labyrinthine crime plot.

Labyrinthine hospital hallways are navigated via Steadicam as everyone speaks with a clinical manner, whether they're talking about breakfast or more intimate matters.

We first meet McAvoy as Dennis, a cross-looking neat - freak who abducts three young women from the shopping mall and imprisons them in his labyrinthine underground lair.

Framed in flashback, as captive Los Angeles private investigator Ned Cruz (Banderas) gets grilled by a trio of possibly dirty cops (Thomas Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Delroy Lindo), the movie centers on the labyrinthine business inquiries Ned conducts on behalf of a just - paroled Russian boxer, Anton Protopov (Robert Maillet, of Sherlock Holmes).

The movie: David Robert Mitchell's follow - up to It Follows is an opaque, labyrinthine, Lynch - meets - Hitchcock LA noir as a disenchanted Andrew Garfield searches for his mysterious neighbour after she disappears.

As an increasingly labyrinthine unraveling of emotions and histories, Toni Erdmann is full of some of the greatest cinematic surprises of the year and I dare wouldn't spoil the experience for you.

The suspicious death of adult movie star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio) and the whereabouts of young Amelia Kuttner (Margaret Qualley) set plot wheels in motion, as March and Healy stumble into a labyrinthine web stretching from street - level anti-pollution activists to Kim Basinger's Department of Justice official Judith Kuttner (Amelia's mum) via catalytic converter conspiracies and giant talking bees.

as the cop searches for a pattern to the killings and as the Ripper continues to strike, killing one young woman on a boat in New York Harbor, another in her dressing room at a 42nd Street sex club, yet another in the labyrinthine halls of the kind of hotel where you rent rooms by the hour.

Whether playing alone, with friends in co-op, or competitively through Xbox LIVE, rolling around the labyrinthine environments as a little ball, toting high - powered weaponry, and turning foes into goo is a good deal of fun.

Whether playing alone, with friends in co-op, or competitively through Steam Matchmaking and Invites, rolling around the labyrinthine environments as a little ball, toting high - powered weaponry, and turning foes into goo is a good deal of fun.

With time as a buffer, it's now easier to see The Machinist for what it is: a labyrinthine leap down the rabbit hole into a nightmarish wonderland.

The fierce intelligence and labyrinthine wordplay of Tony Burgess» screenplay (radically reworked from his own novel), not to mention the mesmerising central performance from Stephen McHattie (as an increasingly addled shockjock), all make this one of the last decade's most memorable and multivalent horror films.

The surprise of Get Out is how genuinely unsettling, surreal, and labyrinthine the story becomes as it plays out, Peele forgoing easy laughs in order to convey the mounting discomfort of his hero, magnificently played by Daniel Kaluuya.

Clever doesn't begin to cover this hard - boiled send - up riddled with wise - guy wit, as Dalton Rev trods the mean streets of a high school's labyrinthine complex of cliques in search of a killer.

Challenged by deception and treachery on all sides, Gower struggles against his failing vision even as his inquiries take him from the City's labyrinthine slums to the port of Calais to the forests of Kent, where his friend Geoffrey Chaucer serves as justice of the peace.

Follow Evan as he continues his odyssey as Servant of the Gods in The Labyrinthine Journey.

But as she's drawn deeper into the overgrown grounds, half - buried memories of her mother begin to surface and Lorna soon finds herself ensnared within the manor's labyrinthine history, overcome with an insatiable need for answers about her own past and that of the once - happy family whose memory still haunts the estate.

Praising Donna Leon's international best - selling Commissario Guido Brunetti detective series as one of the top to savor, Time raved that «no one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice or the way favoritism and corruption shape Italian life like Leon's Brunetti... the thoughtful Venetian cop with a love of food, an outspoken wife, and a computer - hacker secretary who plays man Friday to his detective.»

With its lush settings, labyrinthine caves and crystal waters, this is a tour that is full of eco as well as geographical treasures.

Ghostly visions and paranormal encounters are not unheard of as visitors descend underground through dimly lit passageways and eerie, labyrinthine tunnels, sometimes never to be seen again... If you survive, treat yourself and stay the night at the four star Hotel de l'Abbaye, from $ 240 per night where you can spend All Hallows Eve sipping wine and enjoying a French gourmet twist on pumpkin soup.

Reality struck as our group was shepherded at speed along labyrinthine corridors and staircases until disorientated.

Experience the very essence of Italy as we discover stylish Milan, the Eternal City of Rome, the tiny yet powerful Vatican City, graceful Renaissance Florence, the labyrinthine port of grand Venice, and iconic Pisa with its unmistakable Leaning Tower, with comfortable rail travel and 4 - Star hotels throughout.

Drive 30 minutes east to explore some of the region's historic wineries, such as Seppelt Great Western, famous for its sparkling wines and labyrinthine cellars dug by gold miners, and Best's Great Western, one of Australia's oldest family - owned wineries, which specialises in old vine Shiraz.

Trapped in the famously labyrinthine Spencer Mansion, as Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine, ravenous zombies and dangerous mutations lie behind every corner in Resident Evil, often obscured or blocked by inventive environmental puzzles.

Bullets rattled and fuzzy explosions painted the tight, labyrinthine corridors red, as said beasties were churned and shredded by my mighty death - engine of flowing circle - strafes and hurtling, overhead bounds.

Far too arcane for the mainstream, Majora's Mask's labyrinthine temporal structure and impressionistic ending mark it out as a creative masterpiece, and it is not surprising that Miyamoto - san felt comfortable passing the franchise onto Aonuma - san, while remaining a stalking presence in the production of every Zelda game since.

Armed with little more than an oil lamp and your own fleeting grip on reality, you must descend in to the acrid bowels of a labyrinthine medieval mansion as Daniel, a man suffering from self - induced «Amnesia» (Hey...) in order to find and kill a man named Alexander, as you have instructed yourself to do in a letter written by your pre-amnesiac self.

As players navigate each labyrinthine maze, a map is automatically constructed and fast travel posts are unlocked across nearly every floor.

Successfully sneaking into the Neighbor's labyrinthine abode requires quick thinking, as he constantly adapts to your strategy.

Choices abound, but there's little time for strategic contemplation as the ambush endures, sending opponents with regenerating health into the bowels of my labyrinthine base.

As an action game, it's streamlined and not terribly deep, but the labyrinthine tower itself is an inspired setting and the premise of the game and its excellent execution are fresh enough to fill in the gaps when the combat starts to disappoint.

Better than most dungeon - crawls, Dark Revenant evokes a feeling of claustrophobia as players skulk its labyrinthine levels, an effect that's amplified once players tread through the Dark Zone, an area which restrains your visual reach.