Sentences with phrase «by mythic»

James, what's your sources for stating that a quarter of the WAR user base would be alienated by Mythic's actions?

Carrying the assemblage «torch» will be box constructions by Barry Cohen and Wayne Nowack, as well as a trio of sculptures by a mythic outsider, the Philadelphia Wireman.

Mir's paintings present a world populated by mythic figures, creatures, machines, and fragments of ambiguous forms that are at odds with their surroundings.

In Bloom consists of fifteen oil paintings whose style and process seem to reflect an ardently informed education in the history of post-war abstraction, also known as the New York School and Action Painting, heroically embodied by mythic rivals Jackson Pollack and Willem De Kooning.

No, not the new iOS version of Dungeon Keeper developed by Mythic Entertainment.

Not exact matches

Then Read Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill and see what all that Roman Mythic krap is really all about.

he was terminated by pushing his mythic belief on his co-workers.

Surrounding this were the «waters of chaos», the cosmic sea, home to mythic monsters defeated and slain by God (Exodus 20:4 warns against making an image «of anything that is in the waters under the earth»).

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.

We learn who we are through the stories we embrace as our own — the story of my life is structured by the larger stories (social, political, mythic) in which I understand my personal story to take place.

Shut off from the rest of the world, the leaders of Wakanda are united by their newly - throned king, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who rules as the mythic «Black Panther,» a warrior with supernaturally improved reflexes, strength, agility and a tech - powered vibranium suit.

Each is a mythic expression: that is, first, an attempt by a people to explain the unexplainable by using the legends handed down from generation to generation; and second, a rationalization of the status quo.

One way to begin is to consider the profoundly mythic meaning of «America» long before the founding of the United States, a meaning that was by no means obliterated but in some ways reinforced by the establishment of the new nation.

The problem that Mr. Bottum correctly identifies is that those such as Chomsky who do not believe in nonmaterial beings literally can not make sense of the kinds of things done by those who still speak and act in powerful mythic symbols.

The D'Aulaire books are also representative of another genre almost unmentioned by Mr. Bottum, that of the mythic, fairy, or folk tale.

I think that Mr. Bottum hears their tone and misses their point because he assumes that the United States represents the «Christian alternative to the sacrificial logic by which mythic cultures are founded.»

«People do not wish to know that the whole human culture is based on the mythic process of conjuring away man's violence by endlessly projecting it upon new victims» (Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 164).

Jesus and the mythic book created by the Romans was the answer for the Romans to control the masses.

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.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

But that does not strike me as a problem, because mythic roles are not necessary if those women who had their imaginations raised by Wonder Woman simply went out and did it... which they certainly did.

Such integrated mythic structures provide the continuity and stability among the different types of programs, a continuity and stability needed by television's advertisers, used by its creative writers and producers, and sought by its users in their search for relaxation and entertainment.

Redemption through love is the end of Wagner's mythic teaching» but as he holds the sacred to be of purely human invention, it is «redemption by our own devices and without the aid of a god.»

The horizon of mystery to which religious expression points discloses itself to the religious person or community by way of symbols (and their mythic and ritualistic embodiments).

Tom Troeger focuses on the mythic worlds created by metaphor, which he terms «landscapes of the heart,» and demonstrates how communal, poetic idiom can speak to an individualistic, technological culture.

Objection: But a literalistic interpretation of the resurrection ignores the profound dimensions of meaning found in the symbolic, spiritual and mythic realms that have been deeply explored by other religions.

Hand - knit in Peru by local artists, this mythic sea creature comes with a green outfit,...

She is the founder of Mythic Flow Yoga, a unique style of alignment - focused asana informed by ancient wisdom and myths.

Captured indelibly by cinematographers Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, Malick's film has a visual syntax so eloquent and graceful — its fields of gold cause its quiet characters to stand out like mythic figures — it would play powerfully as a silent film.

In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.

Set in the»70s and inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki, the movie re-imagines the origin of the mythic Kong and features Tom Hiddleston as Captain James Conrad, Samuel L. Jackson as Lt. Col Packard, Brie Larson as Mason Weaver,

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.

(By the time the great Wes Studi and Anjelica Huston pop up in quirky, weird - West mythic cameos, the ship has officially sailed.)

Re-teaming with Nick Cave, who was also behind the script for Hillcoat's debut «Ghosts... of the Civil Dead,» the story takes on the mythic qualities of some of Cave's best work, helped in no small part by his score with fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis — probably our favorite of the musician's film work.

I'm unsure how the film plays for those who know everything about the mythic beginnings of that enigmatic Swedish star, all the gossip surrounding her banishment from Hollywood (and her triumphant return), and who can trace the history of cinema by tracking the star's own move from small national markets to Hollywood to Europe and back again, all the while gracing the stage in Italy, France, the West End and Broadway.

The gorgeous nostalgia supplied by Sergio Leone's mythic 1968 summation work — in many ways a tombstone for a certain kind of Western hero, of an «ancient race,» as Charles Bronson says — packs a wallop.

The creative effort of The Elder Scrolls Online is backed by game director Matt Firor, who was the talent behind Mythic Studios» Dark Age of Camelot, and Firor is setting his goals high.

In Son of Paleface Frank Tashlin solved a similar problem for Bob Hope by fully committing the film's sight gags to the mythic grotesqueries and bouncing - back - therefrom of Road Runner — style animated cartoons, but like a ten - year - old kid perpetually yelling «Fake!»

Quite a bit of Nebraska takes place in the distance between Hawthorne and Lincoln, and there's no doubt that Payne's quiet ambition is to sketch the fate of certain American myths symbolized by those names — and by a third, still - active American of near - mythic status that the film's title can't help but evoke, Bruce Springsteen.

Best - case scenario: You're mesmerized by Hou's vision of a mysterious lost world of pure values — a mythic past rendered even more remote by stylized performances and painterly camerawork.

Great westerns, almost by definition, have a largeness of spirit, a fullness in which the quotidian morphs inexorably into the mythic.

The mythic tale begins in a kind of parallel universe, like a Victorian - era, proto - industrial and very chilly New York, where demons and flying horses are the norm, and thugs in collusion with evil forces have extraordinary powers facilitated by colored stones!?

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.

Directed by Stephen Frears and written by Lee Hall, this biopic look to what was almost a lost piece of recent history serves nicely to humanize the mythic Queen of England and give further insight as to what made her tick.

Set in the summer of 1983, in a land of leisurely alfresco lunches and spontaneous all - day bike rides under the northern Italian sun, the romantic idyll «Call Me by Your Name» is enough to make you move to the town of Crema, even if your rational self realizes the director Luca Guadagnino trades in a heightened, miragelike state of mythic yearning.

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.

Instead of making the guy a mythic figure «of superhuman strength who can not be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire,» as Nicholas Rogers described him in his 2003 book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, McBride thinks it's scarier to have him be some weird dude who likes to murder people.

Written by Meg LeFauve, with her, Sohn, and others credited on story, The Good Dinosaur features the most mundane narrative of any Pixar film — mundane because it so blatantly aspires to mythic resonance.

The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga» Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones.

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn and Andy Serkis Directed by: Matt Reeves Synopsis: After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.