Sentences with phrase «by our nostalgia tinged»

We start off on rocky ground with a ridiculous flashback of the Fang clan faking a bank robbery for lollipops — though even by our nostalgia tinged standards of the 70s, bank robbery was no joke, setting up an immediate sense of cloying inauthenticity.

Not exact matches

The biggest draw here is Biehn himself, yesterdecade's star of James Cameron blockbusters The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss — and while there is no doubt that The Victim is something of a vanity project, there is also a strange, nostalgia - tinged melancholy to be found in the scene where young, buxom Annie (apparently no longer traumatised by her bff's very recent death) beds Biehn's Kyle every which way in a softcore - graphic manner harking straight back to Biehn's Eighties heyday (complete with rocking score).

You fight alongside up to three other players on a possible nine scenarios, some of which are inspired by stages from the original game, of which, if nothing else, could bring at least a tinge of nostalgia to fans of the earlier games, that's if they can put their anger aside for a moment anyway.

Undeniably, gentrification's rampant indifference to diversity, its fierce determination to regiment bland and lavish sameness, tinges these paintings with a nostalgia complicated by the pauperism many of Neel's subjects endured.

Such natural enthusiasms are proof of Marclay's achievement, even if they are tinged, perhaps, with nostalgia; that is, influenced by the memories and narratives we fabricate as a fortress against the passage of time.

He creates emotional images that brim with genuine exuberance, tinged by nostalgia for moments past.