Sentences with phrase «by fragments of a past»

The narrator of The Visible World, the American - born son of Czech immigrants living in New York, grows up in an atmosphere haunted by fragments of a past he can not understand.

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A nexal set N is temporally fragmented by a duration D when the following three conditions hold: (1) Some members of N are in the past of D; (2) some members of N are in the future of D; and (3) but no members of N are in D. Thus D is a temporal hiatus in the becoming of N (see Whitehead, Process 322).

Lonergan uses a brilliant and unconventional structure to dole out these fragments of the past in a way that feels almost poetic, like the waves of the sea splashing up against the present day as Lee struggles to face all of these old memories and suffers the guilt and self - destructive anger that he's tried so hard to bury inside by running away all these years.

The story begins when Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.

Here is the synopsis: When Thomas (O'Brien) wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.

In a high - concept, cerebral film, the director, Denis Villeneuve, (of the forthcoming Blade Runner sequel) fragments plot and time in flashbacks and flash - forwards to present a moving meditation about loss: how else do you deal with the loss of a loved one except by rewinding in your mind to relive the best of the past, and fast - forwarding to imagine a better future.

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past was reviewed using a promotional copy on 3DS, as provided by the publisher.

By collecting fragments of tablets and putting them back together again, the intrepid heroes can travel to new places and past dungeons in order to restore the world in this truly massive adventure.

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Explore a Devastated, Darkly Beautiful Planet: Revion Prime is an alien world, with environments inspired by the work of macabre artists like H.R. Giger and H.P. Lovecraft, that challenges you to unearth its dark history by connecting fragments of the past.

However, he can only remember a few fragments of his past including the slaying of his father by the monstrous beings.

Where fragments of past and present merge together seeking answers by revealing an intimate glimpse in a layered landscape — both physically and metaphorically.»

Over the past two decades, Sze has challenged the static nature of sculpture, creating constellations of objects, activities, and cataclysmic moments that convey the essence of a new world overwhelmed by fragments of information.

Presenting fragments of the local (past and present) as pointers to a whole that is absent, Dion offers the balance exemplified by natural systems as the tool with which to dig our way out of the holes in which we are entrenched.

Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers.

Past and present historical events show up more obliquely: Melvin Edwards» 1988 Lynch Fragment sculptures allude to very specific past aspects of African American experience (experience amplified here by the proximity of Glenn Ligon's work incorporating a curator's naïve remark about Melvin EdwarPast and present historical events show up more obliquely: Melvin Edwards» 1988 Lynch Fragment sculptures allude to very specific past aspects of African American experience (experience amplified here by the proximity of Glenn Ligon's work incorporating a curator's naïve remark about Melvin Edwarpast aspects of African American experience (experience amplified here by the proximity of Glenn Ligon's work incorporating a curator's naïve remark about Melvin Edwards).

By weaving together fragments of the living with this murky, shadowed past, Ashcom's reality provides a prompt to mythicize one's own memories through the lens of Hoys Fork.

Commissioned by the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, The Past is a Foreign Country features site - specific installations of immersive wallpaper prints and a highly detailed network of more than 50 studies of buildings and architectural fragments.

In the past six decades the rainforest has been reduced by over 60 % and two - thirds of what remains is fragmented, which makes it even more liable to be cleared.

Following past recommendations by the council, the Fund does not invest in companies involved in the manufacture of landmines, cluster munitions, nuclear weapons, or weapons covered by the framework of Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) protocols on non-detectable fragments, incendiary weapons, and blinding laser weapons.