Sentences with phrase «as riffing»

Using cut - outs from celebrity magazines, this image, which forms part of a recent series, is based on the theme of «demon possession» explored in popular TV series, as well as riffing on the tag line «stars in her eyes», often used to describe Jessica Voorsanger's work.

I created this recipe as a riff off my Pecan Drop Cookies after Whole Foods Market asked if I'd create something special to celebrate the release of Golden State Cider «s new Radical Paradise pineapple cider.

so when I thought about what kind of cookie to make, I decided to adapt my classic lace cookie recipe to include pecans as a riff on pecan pie.

Donald Trump on Tuesday unloaded on House Speaker Paul Ryan, calling him out on Twitter as weak and ineffective as the riff in the Republican Party deepens.

Admirably, writer - director Alex Garland doesn't so much adapt Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 sci - fi bestseller Annihilation for the screen so much as he riffs on the novel's trippy happenings, creating something almost entirely his own.

Keen - eared viewers will note that the name of Robert Englund's strip - club owner sounds a lot like «Ionesco,» and the Blu - ray extras reveal that the movie was conceived in part as a riff on the late Eugene Ionesco's play Rhinocéros.

If it appeared at the very beginning, it could possibly pass itself off as a riff on the Cecil B. DeMille - hosted prologue of The Ten Commandments, or even Dr. Frank Baxter's intro to The Mole People.

My favorite addition to the set is the Q&A at the Museum of TV and Radio in 2000, a 70 - minute featurette with Feig, Apatow, director Jake Kasdan and half a dozen cast members (worth it just to see Seth Rogen giggle like a goof as he riffs on stage).

Even the Oscar winning «Fargo and «No Country For Old Men» could be seen as riffs on «Blood Simple ``, itself.

I didn't adhere to The Scarlet Letter as much as riff on it.

And so, the franchise that started out as a riff on concepts like Test Drive Unlimited or Need for Speed: World is soon to be overtaken by an experience that places equal priority on vehicles other than cars.

Expanded online multiplayer modes allow axe - shredders worldwide to compete head - to - head for true rock status as they riff through a star - studded soundtrack including master tracks by legendary artists such as Aerosmith, Guns «N» Roses, The Rolling Stones, Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine and Pearl Jam, as well as original songs by guitar icons Slash and Tom Morello.

This piece, made when Mr. Hammons was just 26 years old, is a scarily efficient distillation of Mr. Baldessari's language games (such as his riffs on art «How to» books) and Mr. Burden's bodily investigations (such as when he was shot in the arm as an artwork, for instance).

During the dinner, before a smattering of Colen's dealers — Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy, Massimo de Carlo, Sam Orlofsky from Gagosian — and artist friends — Jonas Wood, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman — the curator Francesco Bonami got up to give a speech, which began as a riff on the essay he wrote for the show's catalogue, and became something more wild.

Focusing on the themes of that exhibition such as the city as a riff, urban identities in transition, and colonial residues, Butcher raises the political significance of exhibition histories and with that the urgency of the archive (s) of today and its marginalia.

Perhaps he intended the work as a riff on process art, or an attempt to pun action painting's grand gesture with miniature flicks of his wrist, but ultimately, the sloppiness of the piece is annoying.

However, he is also influenced by Matisse, the framing in some of his works could be interpreted as a riff on those celebrated windows.

I mentioned chocolate as a riff on the Chocolate teapot idea, probably because I spent the weekend in Leeds at a historical fencing conference, where I did some fencing and also got to handle a bronze sword and a medieval poleaxe.

Not exact matches

As a college student, Kaling illustrated a daily comic for the school paper called «Badly Drawn Girl,» which «riffed on day - to - day campus life and took a witty stab at everything from fraternity life to alumni.»

Keen's primary frame for the work is Utopia, Thomas More's celebrated 1516 work that was written in an age that experienced some of the same turmoil and dread as our own (there are extended riffs on Moore's Law versus More's Law).

As he embarked on his second five - year term as China's President last week, Xi Jinping pledged to «Make the Skies Blue Again»: a riff on President Trump's «#MAGA» mantra that nodded to China's acute urban pollution probleAs he embarked on his second five - year term as China's President last week, Xi Jinping pledged to «Make the Skies Blue Again»: a riff on President Trump's «#MAGA» mantra that nodded to China's acute urban pollution probleas China's President last week, Xi Jinping pledged to «Make the Skies Blue Again»: a riff on President Trump's «#MAGA» mantra that nodded to China's acute urban pollution problem.

That year, Litle explained to Inc. the decision to keep riffing off the same idea as a technical challenge.

While still nowhere near as popular as Oreo's famous «dunk in the dark» tweet, Charmin's Uranus quip is a textbook example of how brands can riff on popular culture and delight consumers.

As a result, we organized our first - ever Tuna Tank, a riff on Shark Tank, which allowed teams of employees to pitch their business idea to executive leadership, get feedback, insight and the experience of presenting in front of the management team.

It is a riff on the problems I've seen in people in leadership roles that I have no other way to interpret but as them demonstrating sociopathological behaviors — no apparent conscience touched by issues of right / wrong, no apparent compassion and empathy for others who are suffering or how their own abusive actions induce suffering.

You get pretty much the same theology as the Emergents, but you have a church structure filtering out riff raff like these before it gets to a leadership position in the church.

The myth of historical progress and ideological schemes such as Marxism were secularized riffs on the biblical story.

By seeing them in action, riffing with each other and figuring out how in the heck you even use a lightsaber, they become as real as Luke, Leia and the rest in no time.

Hawthorne noted as much in his short riff on Bunyan, «The Celestial Railroad,» a modern conveyance that promises to bypass the unpleasant parts of the journey, but» woe to the ticket - holders» takes them straight to perdition.

, and then we get a shot of one of the groupies twirling half - nude in one of the rocker's rooms, as we hear riffs from one of Bowies» more obviously sexed - out songs.

This function of an idealistic ethical symbol, this affirmation that the moral act is an expression of the love and the will of the universal Spirit, is characteristic of the religious and Christian Ethic, the Ethic of love and of the anxious search for the divine presence, which, as a result of narrow partisanship or lack of insight, is spurned and vilified today by vulgar rationalists and intellectualists, by so - called free - thinkers and similar riff - raff who frequent Masonic lodges.

By riffing on familiar and comforting desserts such as banana cream pie, s» mores bars and cannoli — as well as by whipping up her own inventions like Butterfinger - flavored cake or her famous Inception cookie (which for the uninitiated is an Oreo - stuffed chocolate chip cookie)-- Clara Cakes is a great option for couples who favor fun over fancy.

The riff on his Toasty Arbol Chile Salsa (baking it with chicken thighs) stood out to me immediately because, as you know, I am a big, big fan of the chicken thigh.

I am genuinely excited to have this technique in my back pocket, as one of my favorite snacks is a riff on Faith's recipe for Four - Ingredient Banana Oat Bars, which uses overripe bananas.

As I went through the recipe, I realized I had a lot of similar ingredients on hand, so I did a riff on the original recipe: chopped dates in place of currants, cucumbers in place of zucchini, goat cheese (with sundried tomatoes and chili flakes, from the local farmer's market) in place of feta, a basil / thyme / chive combo from my window box in place of the dill and green onions.

It came together as I was riffing off one of Lora Zarubin's recipes from I Am Almost Always Hungry - her Potatoes with Tomato Curry.

I love love love rhubarb pie, and this one is a riff on Anne Dimock's Straight - Up Rhubarb Pie as seen on Food52 — which is a damn good rhubarb pie and needs no embellishment — but when I made this one, the very first strawberries of the season were also hitting the grocery store and I couldn't resist.

as always, the recipe is a riff on my basic french macaron recipe.

As for the giant summer salad - oh wow here comes that evolution theme again - it's inspired by a Tofu Brown Rice Salad I've been riffing on for about 25 years.

This sauce is a riff on my chimichurri recipe, and it's every bit as amazing as the Argentinian version.

Since I was riffing off a pork dish to begin with, I wanted to keep as close as possible to the fatty / flavor element of a pork butt.

As for today's recipe, it's a riff on my basic chicken soup (the recipe for which can be found Lauren's book).

We have a super easy base recipe, and then four more that riff on it with fun way - beyond - the - grocery - store flavors that will impress your friends and make your haters insanely jealous as they scroll through your feeds, lurking but not liking anything.

This is an unabashedly enthusiastic riff on the food - as - medicine approach to cooking and eating.

Cormier cooks with soul, and his love of the South is just as evident in the standards as it is in his more chef - y numbers, like a «Surf & Turf» combo of sloppy braised beef and fried gulf oysters drizzled with fiery horseradish sauce, or the «HOT HOT,» a seriously spicy riff on Nashville - style fried chicken, offset with green - onion buttermilk «ranch.»

The beverage program features refreshing riffs on classic Mexican cocktails such as the Paloma del Rey with Banhez mezcal, Combier Pamplemousse Rose, and lime, with a chili mango rim, and the Royal Sangrita with Codigo Blanco, Dustos pineapple sangria, and lime.

It's a riff on Brazilian cheese bread that is just as good as the crazy - expensive Against The Grain tapioca rolls that you can buy frozen in the grocery store.

I decided on doing a riff on Angela's Fresh Veggie Pizza Wonton Cups, as well as her Buffalo Chicken Wonton Cups.

The AP story was picked up so widely that over a week later, my Google alerts continue to link to reprints of it around the country, along with riffs on the same theme by other news organizations, such as this piece from Time magazine.

Obama should have gotten into the Moses act — riffing how Republicans, as repped by Bush and McCain, are like unto a plague of locusts.