Sentences with phrase «central figure»

Our salaries should reflect our value as central figures in the education of our next generation.

But the study suggests that principals are also central figures in the effort.

He also pulls off an incredibly difficult feat, by enabling the audience to care about a markedly unpleasant central figure.

Intervention needs to involve central figures in the child's life such as families and schools.

These characters are supposed to be central figures in the narrative but are remarkably absent from the proceedings and as such, you end up having little to no connection with them whatsoever.

Our gaze wanders over to the output of central figures of twentieth - century art history caught by Picasso's Stalin portrait in the Communist cultural journal Les Lettres françaises from 1953, Andy Warhol's poster promoting the German Green Party from 1978 (at the suggestion of Joseph Beuys, who also appears in the exhibition), or Robert Rauschenberg's poster for the United Nations» International Conference on Population and Development in 1994.

Dissatisfied with her role as central figure in insurgent propaganda (one of the most interesting elements of these final two films), Katniss sneaks onto the front lines, determined to personally deliver justice to the cruel President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

A number of Yoshishige's students became central figures of Mono - ha, including Sekine Nobuo, Suga Kishio and Koshimizu Susumu.

The government does not produce central figures for how much it spends on press cuttings services.

In the 1990s, Vigas furthered developed his primitivist style with a focus on central figures from his personal mythology including demons, beasts, birds, women and witches.

Both pieces present central figures whose body and surroundings are composed of smaller images that Akunliyi has xylene transferred onto the paper through a printing process.

Neither the label «fiction» nor the First Amendment gives Universal the right to libel, slander and ridicule the most central figure in world history...» The Rev. Donald Wildmon charged: «The script... is the most perverted, distorted account of the historical and biblical Jesus I have ever read.»

Abiding by Islam's firm ban on pictorialization (which forbids depicting not only the Prophet's likeness but also his voice), Akkad was forced to devise a way of telling the story of Mohammed, after his revelation, without the audience ever seeing or hearing him — or, for that matter, any of the other central figures of the Faith such as his wives or his trusted cousin and son - in - law Ali.

Meanwhile, the Red Devils could make the Bundesliga ace a far more central figure, perhaps as the main man in their midfield.

The only current United players that look like central figures for the future are De Gea, Jones, Januzaj, Rooney, Mata and possibly RVP.

State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has subpoenaed central figures in George D. Maziarz's political orbit in a probe of the former state senator and his campaign finances, according to four sources familiar with the situation.

Musician and riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna — formerly of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, now with The Julie Ruin — is the fascinating central figure in the biographical documentary The Punk Singer.

Still, RoboCop has one of the most iconic central figures in cinematic history.

It's a beautiful - looking film filled with action and dominated by a lordly, charismatic central figure.

With their gold - leaf backgrounds and single central figures, Kaphar's portraits visually parallel Byzantine holy portraits, specifically those depicting Saint Jerome, the patron saint of librarians and scholars.

In some works, central figures preside over mounting chaos below; infinitesimal creatures, soldiers, and machinery collide with their larger counterparts, and forge a wars cape void of time and place.

On the outside wall, a painted tile mural inspired by a historic Iznik panel from the Topkapi Museum presents central figures that resemble Art Nouveau water nymphs.

Coalition makes clear just how central a figure former Cabinet Secretary Lord O'Donnell had been during those hectic five days in May.

There's hope still for Adnan Syed — the mysterious central figure in the Serial podcast.

If you look at what Christianity and Islam SAY — not what their followers say, not taking quotes out of line from their books, nor later additions, just what the supposed central figures said — Christ and Mohammed — they're ridiculously peaceful, filled with prohibitions against violence even against those who wronged you, even against captured enemy soldiers who would have killed you (Islam), against any type of war other than of pure defense (Islam), etc..

The most secret layer harbors the confidences of a few central figures whose circle often does not include the ordained minister.

The Transfiguration gradually reveals itself to be a coming - of - age tale, one whose central figure reaches a point at which he's forced to reckon with the evil lurking within himself.

It's a small - budget drama that developed a cult status for its stilted acting, nonsensical plotting and indefinable central figure Tommy Wiseau.

But the film's central figure remains a cipher, the subject of a colorful scrapbook rather than a revealing portrait.

Steve James» documentary The Interrupters takes a strong subject, features compelling central figures, and is completely destroyed by its unwieldy runtime.

In Mudbound, a bold, narratively complex post-WWII drama, every character is literally given a voice: the swirling first - person narration switches between the interior monologues of its repressed central figures and results in something novel — and novelistic.

Although without a clear central figure, the film feels rather diffuse.Viv (Driver)...

Aside from the giant central figure, Godzilla also features Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor - Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, David Strathairn, Sally Hawkins and Juliette Binoche.

Like Soderbergh, Assayas seems to have decided that the only honest way to approach his enigmatic central figure is to focus obsessively on historical verisimilitude, stand back, and allow us to draw our own conclusions.

EDWARD YANG By John Anderson A central figure in modern Taiwanese cinema, Edward Yang's time has come.

A dynamic, dominating personality, he became one of surfing's central figures despite refusing to compete professionally and he revolutionized the nature of the sport not once but twice by going in directions few people much cared about.

Though everything around this resilient central figure is wan sitcom, «Joy the Doer» provides a rooting interest potent enough to justify the film.

With one memorable scene set on a night set country road Dom Hemingway is devoid of any true originality and seemingly thought that the fact it had such a vile central figure and such seedy dialogue it would resonate with the ever willing audience of such ventures.

Ronnie — previously convicted of indecently exposing himself to minors — is released and at first our glimpses of the man simply set the tone for the film (the swimming pool scene finding inspiration in the most unlikely of sources), but halfway through he becomes a significant central figure.

Although I really don't like the choice of font, if I needed to follow the same directions (central figure inside drop of water?)

Though since it was thrust on the front page of Windows Central i figured I'd add my two cents.

In concentrating on a condensed, elongated central figure, Shepherd recalls the «zip paintings» of Barnett Newman.

In 1975, he began creating a series of works that referenced classic Western art but recast central figures as black.

Faced with Robert Smithson's geological conundrums, one recognizes that his work must be accounted for ---- not only for its own imperatives ---- but because Smithson is so central a figure to a wide spectrum of current production, the most recent example of the genre being the photographically recorded snow shovelings of Dennis Oppenheim surveyed at the John Gibson Gallery.

The figure of the muse, Robert Graves's «Mother of all Living, the ancient power of fright and lust», became less burdensome as manifested in The Giantess (c. 1950), whose colossal central figure towers over the scene like a Madonna della Misericordia.

Combining the shifting marks of sheet music with a dark central figure, Motherwell's bold shape is softened by the textural quality of the ink.

David Rios Ferreira's A Shared Religion Proved a New Lesson conveys a repeated central figure taking flight, amongst nostalgic images pulled from a Walt Disney past.

Sherpa's works Twinkle Twinkle... Who You Are (Blue) and Contemplation (2015) both feature a prominent central figure.