Sentences with phrase «at mythic»

That, however, is likely to be the consequence of an extreme anti-gold selling policy at Mythic Entertainment, the studio that developed Electronic Arts» new MMORPG Warhammer Online, which is widely seen as World of Warcraft's best competitor.

«Fresh, original voices in L.A.: A deceptive look at a mythic figures,» Los Angeles Times, October 28 Ammirati, Dominic.

Shipped Dungeon Keeper mobile as an engineer at Mythic Entertainment.

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He secures the throne in trial - by - combat at a mythic waterfall, defeating M'Baku (Winston Duke), the chief of the Jabaris, the only tribe in the kingdom that shunned the use of vibranium.

These sequels trade directly on the emotional legacy of the originals (The Last Jedi makes some leaps into sentimental hyperspace, particularly in the way that it handles Fisher on - screen), and the more of the aged Luke and Leia we see, the more we chip away at the mythic power of characters as Lucas left them: Young, strong, immortal.

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Whoever wants to replace the Creator's realization of this plan by a totally autonomous evolution, inevitably either ascribes some mythic creative power to evolution, or else abandons any attempt at rational understanding and explains everything as the blind play of arbitrary chance.

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

Choosing as his subject the biblical account of the marriage at Cana, he takes the Scripture's «sustaining myth» and transforms it (in the style of the 15th - century Old Masters) into a mythic self - portrait.

And yet those datable acts of beginning, radical though they were, and archetypal for all later reflection about America, were themselves mythic gestures which could not but stir up, at the beginning and later, the images and symbols of earlier myths and mythically interpreted histories.

In fact, experience is inchoate even to the subject until it is captured first at the level of mythic expression, much of which is nonverbal, then in mythologies which cast myth into the form of narrative, then in fully conceptualized systems.

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the role in our lives of television «s mythic world — the world of «Gilligan «s Island» and hundreds of other «places» and «people» who exist, to some degree at least, in the minds of America «s viewers.

Is he trying to say that Islam is, or at least gives rise to, «a mythic culture» that «needs violence for its foundation»?

They can both be considered versions of the same mythic archetype: the quest for paradise; one for an earthy paradise in which impulses are gratified here and now, one for a heavenly paradise at some future time.

In the end, modernity would achieve its inevitable revision of our understanding of ourselves and our world, and the mythic Juan — personifying the irresoluble tension between what was passing away and what was coming into being — would at the last quietly melt away.

Rationalism and scientism (belief in the epistemological supremacy of reason and especially of scientific method) produced the conjecture, in some quarters at least, that the symbolic / mythic / poetic / narrative modes of expression employed by all the religions are perhaps nothing more than our own subjective projections or constructs, and not representations of an independent sacral reality.

Romantic modernism is a complex phenomenon — a philosophy, an aesthetic, an ethic, and even a mythic ideal all at the same time.

In other words, the description of parish ethos and its mythic «genius» should be analogous at the following points: (a) the characteristic response to the crisis; (b) the style of behavior characteristically deemed most effective; (c) the pervasive mood; and (d) the characteristic expectation and hope.

it was created as a way to control the masses using a Jewish mythic base that was needed to control the Jewish population at the time who were violent and anti Roman threat to Roman rule.

To discover that a local church's most intimate and intense activities do not at their base reflect a withdrawal from the world but rather a participation in public, mythic structures can be a liberating perception about the symbolic depth and breadth of church activity.

At its heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game born in crowded cities, an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating, and has excluded as many as it has included.

While the human brain might not have the mythic 100 billion neurons as long suspected, 86 billion is still nothing to sneeze at.

It is probable that the juxtaposition of the excessively serious and excessively frivolous, which is the basis for the rhetoric of Fashion, merely reproduces, on the level of clothing, the mythic situation of Women in Western civilization, at once sublime and childlike.

While clearly not as enticing as the family bond at the center of «The Broken Circle Breakdown,» «Belgica's» sibling dynamic seeks to find the mythic in what might otherwise be a gossipy smear job.

Now liberated from financial problems, Refn has been turning out sharp, violent, innovative genre fare at a prolific clip, including the 2008 biopic Bronson, about the world's most notorious inmate, and 2009's Valhalla Rising, which follows the mythic adventures of a one - eyed mute warrior during The Crusades.

Click for showtimes and tickets — JR Byzantium Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) shows there's plenty of life left in the undead - bloodsucker genre: His Irish - seaside horror story features a brilliantly brooding performance by Saoirse Ronan as an adolescent vamp, and the kind of mythic, adult - fairy - tale imagery — a mountain waterfall running crimson red — at which this incomparable film fantasist excels.

The landscape becomes mythic, the actors heroic, and the gods have little else to do but look on in wonder at the small pleasures of human life.

Not too surprisingly, then, Corman's (and Carver's) Capone is loosely related to Coppola's Don Corleone (Gazzara even stuffs his jowls with padding), but he might, in conception at least, bear a closer resemblance to Scorsese's Johnny Boy in Mean Streets — a «gangster» story that shares the traditionally mythic elements inherent in the genre while managing its own very personal working - out of the meanings of both violence and friendship.

Cheekily accepting at face value the government's demotivational horror stories about LSD usage, writer - director Jeff Lieberman effectively interrogates the counterculture's mythic appraisal of its own legacy, while at the same time sticking it to middle - class conformism, suburban anomie, and political opportunism.

Tim Grierson at Screen International: «In some ways, The Good Dinosaur is one of Pixar's most conventional films... But that template sets the stage for a mythic, visually resplendent treatment of familiar material, as first - time feature director Peter Sohn wrings considerable emotion from a tale that's part Western, part Incredible Journey - style adventure.»

Guy Lodge gave «Beast» a strong review for Variety at Toronto: «Upgrading a sleeping - with - the - enemy premise familiar from countless B - thrillers with a faintly mythic aura and cool psychosexual shading, «Beast» also sustains a fresh, frank feminine perspective through Jessie Buckley's remarkable lead performance.»

My Darling Clementine (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), John Ford's sublime reinterpretation of the Wyatt Earp story and the Gunfight at OK Corral, rewrites history to become a mythic frontier legend and one of the most classically perfect westerns ever made.

by Walter Chaw The images in Niki Caro's second film, Whale Rider, are so heartbreakingly beautiful that at times the narrative diminishes its mythic gravity.

Set in the mythic Eastern European country of Zumbrowka, The Grand Budapest Hotel is a multi-bracketed story moving from contemporary time at the grave of a famous author, back twenty years to a documentary featuring an interview with that same author (Tom Wilkinson).

Gomez - Rejon's style reminded me a little of Paolo Sorrentino at times, striving for something mythic or operatic.

Lee instead aims for something mythic, along the lines of Titanic, and fails to get at the basic, ground level human element.

Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker who has been weaving horror, gothic romance, comic books, demonic superheroes, mythic tales, and creatures into the DNA of his films since his debut, Cronos, which premiered almost exactly 25 years ago at the Cannes Film Festival.

While the ATS matches the 3 Series» styling blow for blow, and emerges victorious when it comes to onboard safety and convenience tech, the real question for longtime BMW fans and buyers is whether or not Cadillac's ATS can surpass the 3 Series» almost mythic handling.

Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape - shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh - and - blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles.

This monumental, fictionalized version of the life of the mythic abolitionist John Brown is told by his son Owen, who survives the raid at Harpers Ferry with equal measures of anger and guilt.

These stories take many forms, from driving narrative to lyrical reverie, at times evoking mythic overtones, and this variety, along with an unflinching confrontation with the conditions and consequences of childhood abuse, creates its own form of suspense - in what direction will this book take us next?

His personal quest for meaning and faith becomes a mythic journey that is at the same time quintessentially contemporary — and American.

The cameraman's distinctive style, shooting at an upward angle against a solid background, emphasizes the slugger's mythic strength and grace.

In a third - person plural narrative voice that perfectly embodies the brutal and wistful communities he portrays, Lee tells the mythic story of young, small, yet mighty Fan, a breath - held diver preternaturally at home among the farmed fish she tends to.

Still it rose to an improbable height, the antlers seven feet beyond the eight - foot crossbar of the truck's pole rack — fifteen feet of animal stretched vertically, climbing into the heavens, and the humans working below, so tiny — but as they continued to carve away at it, it slowly came to seem less mythic and more steerlike; and the two old men working steadily upon it began to seem closer to its equal.

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To be fair, Mythic was a well - known developer at the time they took on the Warhammer project, at least in the MMO world.

At its best, its worldbuilding combined mythic power with believable societies, while Suikoden III (PS2) still stands out as one of the few video games to make interesting use of multiple perspectives.