Sentences with phrase «century nadirs»

Expectations were low for this because the golden age of North American indie horror has been comprehensively remade as 21st century nadirs of the genre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween and the rest all looking too clean and healthy, as if the grubby originals were digitally disinfected.

Not exact matches

In the closing decades of the fifteenth century the Papacy sank to a nadir from which it did not recover until the next century.

A kind of nadir was reached a few months ago when Deane Ferm roasted me in the pages of The Christian Century as an exponent of secularism and a contributor to the God - is - dead movement.

After the death of Charlemagne darkness again descended, and by the middle of the tenth century Christianity had sunk to a lower nadir than, to the date when these lines were written, it was ever to know.

The results with this year's «Rock The Kasbah,» penned by Glazer and directed by Barry Levinson, are marginally better, but not by all that much: It's an utterly forgettable and ineffectual «comedy» that's more reminiscent of Murray's mid -»90s nadir («Larger Than Life,» «The Man Who Knew Too Little,» et al) than the more critically adored stuff he's been making this century.

The ancient species had numbered more than a million a century ago and — in a crash similar to that of the American bison in the 19th century — was reduced to a few tens of thousands of animals at its nadir.