Sentences with phrase «by operatic»

What I mean by operatic is: big emotions, deeply felt.»

I was trained 2 times a week by an operatic music... read more

He was, however, serenaded by an operatic restaurant manager.

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All that made it hard for them to relate to the inspirational video about Huajian circulated by mobile phone with its sweeping shots of a gleaming factory and a soundtrack that repeats in operatic Mandarin: «Huajian has come, Huajian has come... holding the torch of hope.»

It may thus be that Castro's battle fatigues, Reagan's World War II bomber jacket and cowboy boots, and the operatic uniforms favored by Latin American dictators tell us more about each man's political views than any number of speeches.

Still others said, «The operatic bits are good, but what a pity he had to spoil them by putting all of those silly commercial tunes in there.»

Her communication skills are expanding rapidly, too, as evidenced by her squeals, bubbling sounds, and operatic octave changes.

A survey by the New York Times of his four decades of wheeling and dealing reveals an operatic record of dissembling and deception.

She can up the ante — even check into the male's physiological fitness by challenging him in this operatic duetting.»

Great in parts, but flat and clumsy in others, Bellamy's bid to become more serious appears to have stunted what he does best, which is operatic excess fuelled by volcanic emotion.

But Jackson does a very good job, aided by Benedict Cumberbatch's sinister if operatic performance.

Pick through that mess, and even the biggest Daniels skeptic will find a fierce commitment to progressive social issues; a knack for writing showcases for actresses of color that are so often slighted by Hollywood; and a kind of Shakespeare - meets - camp delight for dialogue that is as operatic as it is silly — though only effective about as often as you'd expect with that kind of ambition.

In boldly operatic and unapologetically allegorical terms, The Conformist presents the story of Marcello Clerici (Jean - Louis Trintignant), a sexually indecisive and morally persuadable man who tries to get himself to focus by being a good fascist.

This season's earlier, recurring and grisly theme that life - is - cheap below the border has been replaced by the soap - operatic lightness displayed in the first seasons.

Unlike any other filmmaker, he worked in extremes — big, operatic moments and the smallest gestures, such as the lighting of a match — using huge, empty frames smashed together with shocking close - ups, dark frames punctured by squares of light, and silence broken by squeals of astonishing music.

by Walter Chaw Maybe it was the anticipation, maybe it's because it's too much like the first film, Pitch Black, but David Twohy's Riddick is merely fine for what it is, lacking the kind of loopy, operatic invention of the franchise's middle course and contenting itself with being a bug hunt in the James Cameron sense of the word instead of exploring more of this universe.

Populated by an eager groom (Alexander Skarsgård), eccentric parents (Charlotte Rampling and John Hurt) and arrogant brother - in - law (Kiefer Sutherland) in the first half, before making room for an intimate examination of the family dynamic in the second section, the cleverly compelling film captures attention from the operatic opening to the moving conclusion.

Famous for her operatic soprano, Lind is saddled here with «Never Enough,» an emo power ballad that never suggests opera or anything more than the reject pile left by contestants on The Voice.

That's because while Clark's successful, seductive, and I guess unpremeditated iteration of the giallo formula (whodunit structure, operatic set - pieces, abundance of shots from the killer's P.O.V.) as established by Mario Bava and his peers sparked a genre unto itself in America, the more pioneering copycats, lacking Clark's flair for interpersonal dynamics, so grotesquely oversimplified Black Christmas as to discard its most distinguishing feature: its empathy.

With its crazily choreographed camera movements, striking operatic visuals and knowing nods to Hollywood classics, Suspiria is steeped in psychoanalytical themes and made beautifully bitter by relentless and mounting terror.

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968): Director Sergio Leone cast Henry Fonda — stalked by harmonica - playing Charles Bronson — as an icy villain in a classic spaghetti western that reaches operatic levels of drama.

«Though not part of the noir writers series, it «s adapted from another Cain novel, directed by noir master Mann, and it boasts an operatic background.

Jolie has certainly developed as a feature filmmaker, from In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) to Unbroken (2014) to By the Sea (2015), steadily progressing from intense drama to operatic excess to languorous romance.

Yet instead of keeping this a tightly wound yarn of imprisonment and escape, Verbinski — working from a script by Justin Haythe («The Lone Ranger,» «Revolutionary Road»)-- opts for something bigger, grander and more operatic, sending the film wildly off the rails over the course of its far - too - long 146 - minute running time.

Emboldened by a studio hungry for the next Batman (after that 1989 film's smash success), Raimi invites to the playground Batman composer Danny Elfman, whose pop - operatic score compliments the film's gleefully over-the-top macho profanity and cartoon violence.

Without a true evocation of place, an insightful sculpting of character, or an appropriate level of respect for its audience, all attempts at crafting a fable of deconstruction are doomed to Caton - Jones's tired operatic pretensions and City by the Sea's dreadfully misplayed moments.

Incendies is a mystery, a family drama, a gritty, realistic period piece, and by the end, an almost operatic tragedy.

Gleeson is incredible as the realistically flawed and straightforward priest, dispensing sage wisdom and sneering condemnation in equal measure, and he is bolstered by a supporting cast of great Irish actors (Chris O'Dowd, Brendan Gleeson's son Domhnall) who flesh out this operatic drama with aplomb.

Intent on making definitive, album - length statements, spurred on by his obsessive competitiveness with The Beatles («Rubber Soul» predates «Pet Sounds», and though Paul McCartney cited «Pet Sounds» as a primary influence on «Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band», the release of that album is often blamed for Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown), and sensing the opportunity in 1966 of being at the vanguard of the psychedelic movement with a follow - up album (the never - completed «Smile»), the story of The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson is as operatic and tinged with ironic destiny as an Aeschylean tragedy.

Played for romantic comedy yuks rather than gravid melo - operatic contortions (and distinguishing itself from other products of the UK comedy mill by not featuring any old men and women or young boys naked), the picture follows the plight of shiftless loser, small - time criminal Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) as he steals a lot of money from three circus clowns and returns to his small Scottish burg to reclaim his lost love Shirley (the insufferable, simpering Shirley Henderson) and their daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins) from the clutches of mild - mannered simp Dek (Rhys Ifans).

Kurosawa's being one of the essential masters is best represented by these, his most operatic, pessimistic, and visually spectacular films.

Despite the XKR's age, its roof - down operatics are pretty much unmatched by anything below # 100,000.

Aside from the operatics of Scarlett and Rhett, the novel is a sociological study of the before and after of the Civil War, and the irrevocable transformation of the South by opportunistic industrialists from the North.

By turns operatic and everyday, surreal and sensational, the novel teems with extraordinary, larger - than - life characters.

During my few hours of fun in the lobby (with pretty ample seating), I met many show dogs, watched a woman sing some sort of operatic song with her bedazzled dog by her side, and my pooch, Dexter, was wished good luck in the show ring.

The Aperto had a pinballish configuration: you could zip round, say, a slew of Wang Jin's extraordinary plastic operatic costumes by sashaying through Doug Aitken's syncopated four room video, or bypass Chris Burden's Meccano bridges by swinging through Simone Aaberg Kaern's almost taxonomic chronicle of WWII aviatrices.

Recommended reading In the London Review of Books, T.J. Clark visits Tate Britain's Paul Nash retrospective, observing that «surrealism, if an artist is to be influenced by it, is best taken in operatic overdoses for a very short time».

Join us for a performance by Ayesha Tan Jones, combining poetry, trash - instruments and operatics for an apocalyptic post-anthropocene landscape.

Sadie Coles is showing sculpture by Matthew Barney — he of the immense operatic films such as the Cremaster Cycle and, more recently, River of Fundament, which was seen at English National Opera earlier this year.

For her latest show at David Zwirner, «Science Fiction,» Thater — who will be receiving a survey at LACMA this fall — is presenting her most enveloping environment to date: «involving an enclosed video projection, ceiling screen, and light, as well as two new video walls,» the installation will be an operatic examination of the internal navigation system of the dung beetle, the only animal that guides itself by its relative position to the Milky Way.

That could be a lush infrared photograph by Richard Mosse (with Jack Shainman), or an operatic racial history in black and white by Kara Walker (with Sikkema - Jenkins).

Her work DOUG was a one - off operatic performance commissioned by the Common Guild Glasgow and performed in the city's Mitchell Library.

Wedding Loop (2017) sees the artist recounting a turbulent series of events at an operatic family gathering, while interspersing notes on auto - fiction, family portraiture, and the legacy of Julia Margaret Cameron alongside responses to writings by authors including Simone Weil, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.

Organized by Silvia Karman Cubiñá, director of The Moore Space, Soap - Operatic will be on view through March 31, 2005.

Based on a found collection of love letters and phone messages, «Mocktalk» by Austrian conceptual artist Nin Brudermann (a collaboration with Arfus Greenwood) is a perverse operatic duet of desperate intentions played on a cracked iphone.

Kerbel's operatic work Doug chronicled nine catastrophic events endured by a single individual.

In fact, lying within the tunnels are four singers, performing in operatic style fragments of speeches by key actors in the global theatre of recent political history: from Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.

Kerbel's musical suite consists of nine operatic tales for six voices, sung in the opening days of the exhibition by Scottish Opera.

Julian Rosefeldt: MANIFESTO Feature film starring Cate Blanchett Opens at the NuArt May 26th and keep an eye out for more dates in June Review by Shana Nys Dambrot Visual artist Julian Rosefeldt is an acclaimed and ambitious fine art photographer and video artist with a distinctly Romantic, operatic sensibility even at his most...

The Former World, an operatic performance by John Hastings, music incorporating texts by Robert Smithson, Augustine, and others