Sentences with phrase «because of its allusion»

For Abichandani, the theme of wilderness «resonates within my practice because of its allusion to an un-manicured, untamed and uncontrollable state of fecund existence.

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«That allusion was something Kevin Feige really wanted to put into this script, because it sort of embodies the internal struggle that Peter Parker is facing throughout, where he is his own greatest enemy in some ways, to have to accept himself before he can do anything helpful for the world.

This, of course, is an allusion to something C. S. Lewis wrote about in The Weight of Glory about us being content to make mud pies in the slum because we can not imagine what is meant by a holiday at the sea.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Luke (6.29) has changed the scene from a court of law to an act of robbery, probably because his readers would not understand the allusion to a Jewish legal principle.

One or two students in each of the four nine - week classes chose the course because they wanted to understand the allusions to the Bible made by their parents or other adults they respected.

Allusions to his own strangely skewed versions of Christianity, Judaism, gnosticism and alchemy abound, and he has acknowledged that he thinks a great deal about religion «because science provides no answers.»

my opinion: i do believe the Bible is up to interpretation because that is exactly what it is, interpretations of people who believed they heard the Word of God and stories with allusions... but think this, if someone today told you that they were speaking the Word of God and from this said that we needed to kill a babies born of mixed races, would you immediately go for it and believe him / her?

When you cut down Cars as to why it worked, it wasn't for the technical stuff, or the predictable plot, but because we enjoyed the characters the depiction of small town America represented by Radiator Springs, and some clever sight gags and jokey allusions to the world of automobiles themselves.

But the allusions ultimately backfire, because they only underscore a gaping lack of emotional connection among the characters in a romantic triangle that feels conspicuously unromantic.

But in Life Is Strange, some of my favorite moments are the literary allusions because they make the world feel richer and more authentic.

Usually it's students lacking in cultural knowledge who have trouble with engagement and understanding; they sometimes struggle to clear hurdles because they don't get some of the countless allusions many of us take for granted.

I wrote a book that I would like to read, and because I enjoy literary allusions and little winks at historical events and art objects, I put some of those in there.

No, I didn't just choose this because the title is a clear allusion to The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (joking).

Homages to classic novels and authors have become de rigueur in the world of cozy mysteries, but Murder Most Austen by Tracy Kiely is a winner — especially because the author is obviously so well - versed in Austen's body of work, packing Austen allusions into her novel.

I appreciated the allusion to «Colombo,» because purposely dumb questions can reveal the honesty of the one being interviewed, and may reveal details that could not be gotten through a smart question.

I'm just hoping that Mark's allusions are in a different class from yours, because «illusions of physicality» are a very different thing to «allusions to physicality».

My allusion to the three - body problem is because it is one of the most famous insoluble problems in physics.