Sentences with phrase «central figure remains»

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

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Even if steps are taken to avoid psychologizing, to give due emphasis to the eschatology, etc., the fundamental weakness remains the fact that the deliberate elevation of a historically reconstructed figure to the central concern of faith must inevitably lead to the confusion of two quite separate functions: the reconstruction of a historical figure and what we shall call the construction of a faith - image.

Gayle, 27, remains one of Newcastle's central figures but recent reports suggest that the Toon are still on the lookout for a new striker, with loanee Islam Slimani making just one Newcastle appearance since joining on loan in January.

He gave the breakdown of the figures saying 52 out of the candidates that emerged through election were elected from Osun East Senatorial district, 13 from the West, and the remaining six came from the Central Senatorial district.

Five years ago, Calagione and McGovern collaborated on Midas Touch, a beverage informed by the 2,700 - year - old remains of a funerary feast discovered in central Turkey and believed to have been that of King Mita, the historical figure behind the Midas legend.

While no singleplayer DLC besides the Extended Cut has been confirmed, he did state that Commander Shepard would remain the central (playable) figure.

Midler's scenery - chewing turn as the brassy central character remains virtually the only worthwhile element within Stella's overlong running time, as the movie suffers from a fairly stale narrative that's compounded by an absence of compelling supporting figures and an often unreasonably deliberate pace.

That's up to individual viewers to answer; at the end of the day, the film remains its own entity and still transcends the sins of its central figure.

Although Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 — 1986) has long been celebrated as a central figure in twentieth - century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained overlooked by critics and the public in favor of her representational subjects.

He was a central figure in the San Francisco Beat scene of the 1950s and remained an active proponent of the counter-cultural movement, at large through his death in San Francisco in 2008.

These major works remain an essential part of the New Image movement of the 1980s that heralded a return to subject and imagery in contemporary painting - a movement in which Jennifer Bartlett was a central figure.

Whether she's creating a sound installation based on figure skating champion Dorthoy Hamil, revisiting the scandalous fake memoirs of silent actress Joan Lowell, or juxtaposing photographs of flowers with newspaper clippings, feminism remains one of Albee's central commitments.

Painting has remained central in his pursuit to construct a deceptively simple visual world where figures often seem to elude the passage of time.

The most recent G - Cloud figures on the CCS website show total spending through the framework to date to be just under # 1.7 bn as of November 2016, 77 per cent of which was spent by central government and the remaining 23 per cent by the wider public sector.