Sentences with phrase «by labyrinthine»

For Kelley, the conceptual appeal lies in Kandor's embodiment of an alienating victim culture for our protagonist: the notion of a burdensome present dictated by a labyrinthine past.

Thomas Demand has selected a wide variety of sculptures, photographs, and films for the exhibition, which will be installed in intimate spaces defined by labyrinthine walls based on a drawing by the artist Martin Boyce.

Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).

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From a swivel chair in one of the many identical 10 - by - 10 conference rooms at Lyft's labyrinthine offices, Zimmer declined to comment specifically on the rumors Lyft is entering merger and acquisition territory.

Eventually he was exonerated by DNA evidence, a fact readers discover in the first chapter — which colors one's journey through this labyrinthine account with incredulity.

But researchers have long complained about its labyrinthine application procedures and micromanagement by E.U. officials who are unfamiliar with how science operates.

The paper presents the results of National Geographic funded fieldwork by an Anglo - Puerto Rican team, who uncovered extensive and undocumented rock art deep inside the islands labyrinthine cave systems.

Another notably illustrated book is London Under London by Richard Trench and Ellis Hillman (John Murray, pp 240, # 15.99), chock - full of fascinating detail about the life and times of the labyrinthine city that exists below the pavements of the visible one.

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.

labyrinthine mansion lasted over 30 years (legend has it that she just kept adding rooms to confuse the ghosts of those hurt by her husband's profession).

The pet project of Sarah Winchester, the wealthy widow of a firearms magnate, construction on this labyrinthine mansion lasted over 30 years (legend has it that she just kept adding rooms to confuse the ghosts of those hurt by her husband's profession).

Anyone who's ever fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole — clicking on one article, then being distracted by another topic linked within, and then another topic linked within that topic, until it's hours later and you can no longer remember what you were curious about to begin with and it takes 37 clicks of the back arrow to escape — will feel a sense of déjà vu watching Guy Maddin's labyrinthine The Forbidden Room.

Both of these labyrinthine stories are mired in movie memories that the filmmakers try to reconcile with their visions of Los Angeles in the 90s, but Benton's references mainly run to the late westerns of Howard Hawks and to his own previous feature, Nobody's Fool (also starring Newman and coscripted by Russo), whereas the Coen brothers, characteristically, are all over the map, taking in Busby Berkeley, The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Cutter's Way, After Hours, and their own Barton Fink.

There's a keen, biting edge to these crystalline recollections; by the third episode, «Some Hope,» which takes place in a labyrinthine mansion during a country aristocrat's party, Patrick Melrose is turning the refined and dazzling world of British peerage on its ear.

Written and directed by Dee Rees from a labyrinthine novel by Hillary Jordan, it's the kind of movie they rarely make any more — heavy on plot and character development and more literary than cinematic — but so skillfully directed, photographed and acted that it sucks you into its powerful emotional storyline from the start and holds interest to the finish.

Framed in flashback, as captive Los Angeles private investigator Ned Cruz (Banderas) gets grilled by a trio of possibly dirty cops (Thomas Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Delroy Lindo), the movie centers on the labyrinthine business inquiries Ned conducts on behalf of a just - paroled Russian boxer, Anton Protopov (Robert Maillet, of Sherlock Holmes).

Written and directed with auteur - ish panache by Gideon Raff (who also exec - produced on Homeland), Prisoners of War - or Hatufim in Hebrew - is less the labyrinthine thriller, more a skilful and probing analysis of loss and separation.

Bandai Namco has confirmed two new games for Switch, one of which features labyrinthine levels, unpredictable enemy behaviours and a protagonist driven by an all - consuming hunger for the souls of the slain.

as the cop searches for a pattern to the killings and as the Ripper continues to strike, killing one young woman on a boat in New York Harbor, another in her dressing room at a 42nd Street sex club, yet another in the labyrinthine halls of the kind of hotel where you rent rooms by the hour.

Boasting a labyrinthine, impressionistic plot that you can either get hung up on the details of or allow wash over you in a haze of fragmentary images and evocative soundtrack details (we're more for the latter course, but both work out just fine), it's a prime example of a film that many will find frustrating in its opacity, but that brings a tenfold return on investment for those willing to let themselves be borne along by its currents.

But for those not bothered by that medium - crossing approach to a true story, this is probably a must - see; buzz is that Wormwood is the filmmaker's most exciting, ambitious movie in ages — a labyrinthine investigative epic, rich with conspiracy theory intrigue.

New to the Criterion Channel is Lukas Moodysson's Together (Sweden, 2000), set in a 1970s commune, and The Complete Mr. Arkadin (1955), featuring three different versions of the labyrinthine thriller directed by Orson Welles plus bonus radio plays and other supplements.

The action kicks off when Marlowe is hired by the elderly and wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to investigate a blackmail scheme; what the sleuth uncovers instead is a labyrinthine plot that involves murder and threatens to ensnare the millionaire's two daughters, the sultry Vivian Rutledge (Bogie's real - life squeeze Lauren Bacall) and the volatile Carmen (Martha Vickers).

The police chases were back, but hamstrung by the fact that the city map was so labyrinthine in its construction that it was nearly impossible to get a good chase going.

Robert Altman's «Gosford Park» is above all a celebration of styles — the distinct behavior produced by the British class system, the personal styles of a rich gallery of actors, and his own style of introducing a lot of characters and letting them weave their way through a labyrinthine plot.

But besides the broody performances from Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and the labyrinthine story by Nic Pizzolatto, what made the series work so well was its visual tone, crafted with deliberate skill by director Cary Fukunaga.

Kate finds getting out of the labyrinthine tunnels of the subway system, and later, the sewers, to be next to impossible, especially when the others, who are also in the same predicament, are getting picked off by the creature lurking below.

The surprise of Get Out is how genuinely unsettling, surreal, and labyrinthine the story becomes as it plays out, Peele forgoing easy laughs in order to convey the mounting discomfort of his hero, magnificently played by Daniel Kaluuya.

Sieranevada Directed by Cristi Puiu Romania, 2016, 173m Romanian with English subtitles U.S. Premiere A decade after jumpstarting the Romanian New Wave with The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Cristi Puiu returns with a virtuosic chamber drama set largely within a labyrinthine Bucharest apartment where a cantankerous extended family has gathered forty days after its patriarch's death (and three days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris).

The screenplay, by Anderson and Owen Wilson, is, to that end, a mellifluous, labyrinthine thing, indescribably delicious and ambitiously literate.

Between the labyrinthine plot following the complex and competing interests of various governmental agencies, and the handheld digital film aesthetic adopted by Liman and cinematographer Cesar Charlone — slightly grainy, cutting frequently to close ups that foreground and slightly fisheye the faces in focus — American Made occasionally felt like a through - the - looking glass version of the adventures of Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), a chronicle of semi-competence and good old fashioned greed.

Challenged by deception and treachery on all sides, Gower struggles against his failing vision even as his inquiries take him from the City's labyrinthine slums to the port of Calais to the forests of Kent, where his friend Geoffrey Chaucer serves as justice of the peace.

Tourism kicked off here back in the 1950s, helped by the area's microclimate, labyrinthine streets and beaches.

Drive 30 minutes east to explore some of the region's historic wineries, such as Seppelt Great Western, famous for its sparkling wines and labyrinthine cellars dug by gold miners, and Best's Great Western, one of Australia's oldest family - owned wineries, which specialises in old vine Shiraz.

Trapped in the famously labyrinthine Spencer Mansion, as Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine, ravenous zombies and dangerous mutations lie behind every corner in Resident Evil, often obscured or blocked by inventive environmental puzzles.

Bullets rattled and fuzzy explosions painted the tight, labyrinthine corridors red, as said beasties were churned and shredded by my mighty death - engine of flowing circle - strafes and hurtling, overhead bounds.

- dungeon maps are a 3D model - specific locations you need to pursue are marked - can't see a floor - by - floor layout - no compass - dungeons are smaller and less labyrinthine - dungeons have a friendly voice guiding you that offers general hints and warns you of the boss - this voice is not heard outside of the dungeon, and Nintendo has not mentioned who the voice belongs to - dungeons do not hide items that are required to complete the dungeon - bosses won't be based around a singular dungeon - focused item - when you find a dungeon, you need to make sure you have everything you need, and lots of it - one dungeon has pockets of a poisonous, sentient liquid that hurts to touch - this substance is called malice, and little eyeballs will sprout from these patches - attacking the eyeball will clear away the malice and sometimes constituted a small puzzle - diamond - shaped switches that can be activated with an attack are present, and still react to your sword, bombs or arrows - in one dungeon, after activating a switch with his Sheikah Slate, Link was able to control the dungeon slightly - when looking at the map, he could tilt the dungeon in order to open new paths or to make blocks and switches slide around

Armed with little more than an oil lamp and your own fleeting grip on reality, you must descend in to the acrid bowels of a labyrinthine medieval mansion as Daniel, a man suffering from self - induced «Amnesia» (Hey...) in order to find and kill a man named Alexander, as you have instructed yourself to do in a letter written by your pre-amnesiac self.

With the planet pretty much covered entirely by water, you are tasked with exploring its labyrinthine depths in order to ascertain what triggered such a calamitous change all the while naturally collecting a bunch of power - ups and defeating huge, screen - swallowing bosses in the process.

Originally released in 2016 for the Playstation Vita (notably absent for the western release) Labyrinth of Refrain revolves around the town of Refrain beneath which lays an labyrinthine dungeon ripe for exploration by you and an army of customizable puppet soldiers.

Dungeons follows the mis - adventures of the foremost of all Dungeon Lords, who spends his time luring heroes into his labyrinthine creations with the promise of treasure and a good fight - only to be trapped by his ingenious devices.

Its Doom-esque control scheme awakened my inner 90's kid, bringing back the joy of traversing a labyrinthine map purely by strafing or walking on a diagonal angle.

Level after level, you twist and turn through the labyrinthine strogg base — aided sometimes by NPC allies, but most oftentimes solo — gunning down hordes of monsters and encountering the occasional puzzle or two on the way to the next boss.

These playful fantasy realms are upon closer inspection macabre theaters of politics and war: watercolor paint bloodies the canvas, and sinister global machinations play out in abstracted landscapes populated by faceless figures and dominated by oil refineries and labyrinthine pipelines.

Arceneaux's recent work The Library of Black Lies (2016) constructs a labyrinthine, Borgesian book repository including various «variations» of books, including volumes by prominent African - American thinkers.

Elsewhere, the Philadelphia Magic Gardens, which features works by the renowned mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, cultivates a distinctly folk - art vibe in a labyrinthine setting.

Art Agenda: With its ludicrous mismatch of scale (83 artists in the main exhibition, 89 national pavilions, 37 collateral events) and logistics (crowds numbering thousands, endless slow - moving queues, and a labyrinthine city navigable only by foot or boat), the Venice Biennale is something like a theater of the absurd.

With his new book he continues the themes from his paintings and installations, and in a New Novel we continue into Melgaard labyrinthine layer - by - layer stories with exaggerated and destructive themes, expressive visuality and powerful use of words that we recognize from his visual world.

Displays of new acquisitions will be complemented by existing collection displays of contemporary art at Tate Britain which explore narrative and found objects including Mike Nelson's labyrinthine The Coral Reef 2000 and recent work by Cerith Wyn Evans, from which the title Has the film already started?

Louis Bourgeois's Labyrinthine Tower harks back to the blend of myth and psychology found in early works by the New York School.