Sentences with phrase «authoritative figure who»

A work central to the Serpentine exhibition is Vater Staat (Father State) 2011, a towering steel sculpture of an authoritative figure who, paradoxically, appears frail and isolated.

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The trouble is, a lot of people who are drawn to churches want some strong, powerful and authoritative figure to look up to.

Realistically, I prefer this to the alternative where Christianity has one central authoritative figure that dictates who is or is not a Christian (although in theory the Catholic church still follows that structure).

Although trying to figure out who, exactly, those players may be is basically like trying to find a needle in a haystack, the authoritative nature of the report should at least come as a relief to a fanbase that has been clamoring for some kind of transfer news.

The fact that he is only partially successful should not detract from this skilfully narrated, compelling and authoritative account of a figure who, with his rejection of a divine, rational order to human affairs, is frequently labelled the father of modernity.

Besides Sarris and by all means Corliss himself, the magazine regularly featured first - rate, challenging, authoritative figures such as Robin Wood (whose book Hitchcock's Films had revolutionized British and American thinking about that director's work), Joseph McBride, Molly Haskell, David Thomson (who came along a bit later, and ruled), Raymond Durgnat, Richard Roud, Brendan Gill, and Paul Schrader (whose 1972 «Notes on Film Noir» remains the definitive introduction to and disquisition on that cinematic darkbloom).

As the figure who keeps his squad together, Hedlund, too, commands his scenes with authoritative magnetism.

Students talked about how important it was to feel loved and cared for by adults in the school, how they needed teachers and staff who could relate to their cultural backgrounds and not just act as authoritative figures for four years.

But when these authoritative figures, who are supposed to make people feel safe, make people feel threatened instead, a line must be drawn.