Sentences with phrase «by surreal»

The city's Ward 9, made famous by surreal images on TV, remains a vacant wasteland, with local lawmakers and other government officials still debating how much of it to rebuild.

They're probably not going to reel you into Spaces if you weren't already interested in the concept, but they might help if you were mostly put off by the surreal look or lack of representation.

Botanical Theatre (all works 2013), the largest painting on view, depicts a ghostly couple surrounded by surreal catuslike forms and watched by a group of menacing bearded men.

Often the work pokes fun of culture through surreal and minimalist still lifes; and other times landscapes which are wrapped by surreal knot forms.

We first came across Chris Agnew's work in a group show at Nancy Victor gallery where we were impressed by his surreal M.C. Escher-esque finely detailed drawings.

His paintings and drawings are informed by a surreal, ongoing narrative of epic proportions, in an exuberant style inspired by his love for comics, superheroes, pulp fiction and pop culture.

Seems like every up - and - coming artist these days has gone full digital, and they all seem to be intensely occupied by a surreal, dystopian, post-human future landscape.

Gilbert & George appear in THE BEARD PICTURES as looming, otherworldly figures masked by surreal and symbolic beards; referencing beards not only as an emblem of millennial youth, but also as a mark of religious faith and social status.

Oppositions play out within the work which mocks the hybridized mindless ritual and being deeply mystified by the surreal esoteric.

I'm also keen to see what Heather Phillipson comes up with for her exhibition at Gateshead's BALTIC in October — I'm intrigued by the surreal, humorous, haphazard worlds she creates (19 October through spring 2019; exact closing date to be confirmed).

Dominating the space, Gilbert & George appear in The Beard Pictures as looming, otherworldly figures masked by surreal and symbolic beards; referencing beards not only as an emblem of millennial youth, but also as a mark of religious faith and social status.

Cuphead, a seven - year labour of love for two Canadian brothers, doesn't make itself easy to like after you've been seduced by its surreal storyline and artfully retro visuals.

This has prestigious director Werner Herzog; the go - to - man for troubled souls Michael Shannon; a host of talented supporting roles including the always reliable Willem Dafoe and it's executive - produced by surreal transcendentalist David Lynch.

For the Colombian author is closely associated with magical realism, a style of prose popular with Latin American writers, and marked by plotlines grounded in reality offset by surreal flights of fancy.

Instead, we get some decent set pieces followed by surreal bits of narrative that seem to serve no real purpose other than to suck time.

Not exact matches

Welcome to the business of cleaning up a town laid to waste by forest fire, a surreal, risky and potentially profitable endeavour for experienced workers.

By the time my dinner was finished, I was able to stick around to have that surreal experience of walking through the castle to an empty park.

During a surreal exchange, anchor David Muir grilled Trump over his continued spreading of the falsehood that millions of illegal ballots were cast in the 2016 election, which Trump had previously said was the reason for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beating him in the popular vote by 3 million ballots.

Don't feel too bad: The hashtag — #ProgressIs, a take on the carmaker's line «Luxury has progressed» — flashed on the screen for just a second, near the end of a surreal and entertaining ad that featured millionaires trying to escape from a minimum - security prison, and a cameo by, who else, sax man and Lite - FM staple Kenny G.

Rather than being frightened by the terrors of a Darwinian universe, they embrace its abiding otherness by way of fantasy, creating imaginative worlds that are altogether as surreal as the elephantine and hippopotamic products of the natural process itself.

You will be entertained by Spenser's surreal, imaginary world, yes, but beneath, above, and within the medieval fancy are extraordinary insights into virtue of temperance.

The title track» about the hedonistic exploits of its wild protagonist» was outdone only by Zevon's surreal and sensational hit, «Werewolves of London.»

Americans are know for being very obnoxious about other countries, but it still surreal to see wealthy people from free countries support someone like him while a lot of other countries all over the world are burning due to being tricked by the same kind of populism.

«It was definitely surreal, one by one these guys in army combat uniforms start showing up with rocket launchers and grenade launchers, they are totally tooled up to the max... and they hand me a guitar,» Boyd said.

The surreal comedy, written and directed by Della Sciucca and presented by Lindsay - Hogg, touches on ethical issues including meat eating and the harm done to the environment by the livestock industry.

It was fairly surreal seeing Frank Lampard lifted into the air by his Manchester City team - mates on the final day of the season.

There's nothing surreal about Ronaldinho toe - poking the ball against Chelsea from outside the box while being cornered by multiple defenders except that he, unlike almost every other player before and after him, had the presence of mind, vision, and audacity to try it.

Surreal Snap Number 2: On first - and - goal at the two, a scrambling Leinart was drilled shy of the goal line by middle linebacker Corey Mays, whose monstrous hit popped the pigskin from the quarterback's arms like a cork from a bottle of Mo √» t. Like revelers in Times Square, the Domer faithful counted down the remaining seconds — «Three!

CLEVELAND — The only thing this NBA Finals was missing, besides a victory by someone other than the Warriors, was a sense of the surreal that had shrouded the two previous meetings between these two teams.

«I remember when we were like 10 he got interviewed by CBC or TSN, and it was surreal for us.

My memories of that surreal afternoon resurfaced like old flotsam at a recent screening of Seabiscuit, directed by Gary Ross and based on the best - selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, and not just for the eerily similar themes that the Seabiscuit - War Admiral match race engendered but also for the even more haunting similarities in the two great matches.

Crawford, who once raced a giraffe and a zebra on television (beat the giraffe, lost to the zebra), had won the 200 - meter gold on a surreal Thursday night, when the start of his race was delayed four minutes by Greek fans chanting the name of Konstantinos Kenteris, the 2000 Olympic champion and national hero who withdrew from the Games after missing a drug test, and Hel - las!

During the TV timeout preceding that game - winning drive, Accorsi was approached by Saints coach Sean Payton, a former Giants assistant who in a surreal twist repeated the words of that scholarly old scout, Milt Davis.

There was something surreal yet magical about seeing Giggs as Man Utd manager, leading out the team in his perfectly fitting suit, accompanied by Scholes, Butt and Neville in the dugout.

«The surreal nature of the exercise is enhanced by the curious absence of a big argument as to why this continues to be a good idea.

This is surreal by Polish standards.

«Let me start by saying what a strange, almost ironic, surreal feeling this is.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

«We currently have a surreal situation which threatens to be the worst of both worlds by angering both MPs and the public alike.

However, I would add that New York is also a prudish and increasingly boring city in terms of nightlife and gay culture (the NYPD takes an almost surreal hard line with gay cruising, clubs / parties are closed down by the city, sex is generally illegalized and scandalized, etc., etc.).

Since another New York congressman by the name of Eric Massa introduced us to «tickle fights» a year ago, sex scandals have been multiplying like rabbits — leading to a surreal moment Monday night, when former New York governor Eliot Spitzer (D - Mayflower Hotel), now a CNN host, found himself moderating a roundtable discussion of sex scandals.

For the control condition, the game was Against the Wall, in which the player has to climb up an infinite wall by interacting with the bricks, in surreal but human - made surroundings.

Having arrived at what sounds like a surreal moral — an exhortation to remember the Sixth Commandment as part of the «Let's Whip Choriocarcinoma by the Year 3000» campaign — it's time to take a step back.

Those garbage - bag ball gowns are now married in my mind with a photo of a Laysan albatross whose belly, slashed open by biologists, was jammed with 306 pieces of plastic flotsam — a surreal bird version of a junkyard.

Conway and Kruskal each came up with a reasonable definition for surreal integers, definitions that turn out to be equivalent, and by those definitions, any real number times omega is a surreal integer.

He did it by developing a technique that produced every number you've ever imagined, plus untold zillions more — the surreal numbers.

Infrared mages created from data taken by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument look almost surreal, like cosmic artwork.

But pushing through their fears and experiencing the sheer joy of being propelled forward by a force greater than yourself is just surreal for them.»

I never thought I could write, so it feels really surreal to realize that I have actually authored a book that is being published by Hay House!

You can make beautiful purple frosting and cakes by using the ube yam which is brilliant in color, it's surreal.