Sentences with phrase «ciphers for»

Time stands still, yet the hilltop and lake serve as ciphers for a place of significance to be speculated about in both narrative and psychological terms.

For the artists, the natural and built environments are both a source of haptic pleasures and a playground for exploration and critical dissent in which landscape and architecture function as stage - like objects or ciphers for memory, social and political networks and Romantic artistic positions.

The slightest gesture: hands to the left or hands to right, knees bent or knees straight are ciphers for meaning in Mr. Bradley's crypto - narrative....»

Through the decades, Chicago's cats became muses and ciphers for the mystery of identity — roles commemorated in Kitty City, a series of drawings of cats eating, sleeping and making intense eye contact.

In many cases, the characters populating James's fiction are ciphers for his artist friends, whose demeanors and experiences inspired James to immortalize them on the page.

We remember Vaas and Pagan Min because when it comes to the Far Cry series, the central characters are really just ciphers for us as players, and lenses through whom we can come to view the games» explorations of their villains.

Overall, Don Jon has its problems — it doesn't explore its issues nearly as elegantly or evenhandedly as I'd like (the women get very little internal lives of their own, instead acting as ciphers for Jon to bounce his porn / mommy issues off), and many elements strike me as overly precious or derivative of other works.

But unlike the director's earlier films, Stone no longer starts with characters and shrouds them in issues of cultural significance, but has acquiesced to being a director who conceals his primary interest in issues with thinly - veiled stories and characters that are ciphers for, again, expository revelations or political screeds.

«If we just become ciphers for online referendums, we shall narrow debate and make our country ungovernable», he wrote in an article named: «On why MPs shouldn't always vote for what their constituents want.»

The former wartime Land Girl on Lloyd George's farm, and translator of German naval ciphers for the code - breakers at Bletchley Park, went out in suitable style, however: throwing a farewell lunch party for 50 friends including Sir John Major in the Palace of Westminster — where she regaled guests with a song — before a final, majestic, pearls and fur - clad appearance in the Lords chamber to take the oath one last time, to warm cheers from her peers.

She can explain the heart of each without ever mentioning Jesus, or by mentioning Jesus, but reducing him to a cipher for the one in whom Christians either do or do not find themselves.

Perhaps in a more unified Church my label, «one great theologian among many,» may prove in the end to be a cipher for that nobler title.

They can be a cipher for understanding gentrification, and sometimes predicting it — when the designer pups arrive, rising home prices may not be far behind.

Luckily, Chastain makes sure she doesn't devolve into a cipher for American vengeance, and her performance offers surprising depth and nuance, showing true growth and development from the ingénue crying in the corner of a CIA black site torture room to the woman who is comfortable and confident enough to lay her career on the line to make sure the CIA goes along with her plan.

Notionally, it's about an ageing Solid Snake coming to terms with his own mortality — an obvious cipher for what Kojima (falsely) claimed was his last MGS game — and a vainglorious attempt to tie up the series» themes of information control, genetic legacy and the relativity of virtue (plus Jonny Sasaki's irritable bowels).

And on a broader scale, Graham's character progression throughout the film is a cipher for confronting twisted, broken authority in many arenas — including, of course, scaring up the bravery to confront power - hungry leaders who want to turn the world against you.

But there's a major disadvantage here as well, as Xiao Hong herself remains something of a cipher for much too long in her own film, being talked about by others but not being allowed to simply be experienced without any direct filter, so the audience can make up its own mind about her.

Garance Marillier is extraordinary as Justine, proving a one - of - a-kind cipher for the familial rage the film explores so potently and deeply.

I do not need character development and thematic profundity, just being there in a sincere way as a cipher for these sentiments, is good enough; there is value in just being.

Denzel Washington's Troy acts almost as a cipher for the entire modern history of African Americans here.

Homages to the writers and friends at Tate St Ives and Turner Contemporary pay tribute to their affection for the sea as a cipher for the self

In Judd's case, this is felt in his constructions — conceived, built, failed, aborted, and then left to the elements — which in Shirreff's hands become a cipher for the onlooker watching them, equally subject to the passage of time.

At the Met Breuer's recent exhibition «Delirious: Art and the Limits of Reason», I was struck by evidence that the grid — often a structural cipher for rationality in Western art — could be used to demonstrate its opposite.

The resulting ambiguity, in both form and content, creates a cipher for interpretation.

Taking its title from the dark 80s teen cult comedy by the same name, Heathers takes a look at pop culture's (and pop cinema's) co-option of contemporary art and its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

Curated by New York's Alex Ross and crossing generations born before and beyond the 80s, the exhibition rides on the inescapable cycle of contemporary art co-option in popular culture via its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

If you attach the word «world» to anything, it sounds like money — the word has become a cipher for industry.

Drawing upon an art historical lineage, Roy recontextualizes Goya's colossus as a cipher for the insatiable search for ultimate knowledge.

Referencing the language, imagery, and iconography of advertising and product dis - plays, Product Recall is a cipher for the politics of commodifcation, consumption, marketing, and supply - demand economics.

Luminous Sphere (2010), a mysterious glowing orb installed on the roof of the Standard Hotel, lights up only when Golia is in Los Angeles, both acknowledging his own presence and appropriating what he calls «the sign language of L.A.,» such as the billboards of Sunset Boulevard and the Hollywood Sign, it acts as a mysterious cipher for the projection of meaning to the casual passerby — and thus a contemporary urban legend is born.

Suggesting the vastness of the cosmos and the infinitesimal forms of cells or atoms, the complex matrix of swirls and dots stands as the ultimate cipher for the incomprehensible dimensions of infinity.

It was also a cipher for her own body (interestingly she dabbled in performance as a student).

Attempts to be a cipher for popular opinion Blair dismissed as «governing by Twitter».

That's why I called the Urbane a cipher for Android Wear: it perfectly encapsulates how divisive wearable technology can be.

Not exact matches

If some nutcase claims your blog has hidden ciphers that command him to commit a crime, are you going to take responsibility for that?

The historically ecumenical churches have for the most part become ciphers in this respect, and uniting them is a matter of joining weakness to weakness, while the evangelicals and Pentecostals who do have political weight are un-ecumenical or anti-ecumenical.

H has always been interested in World War II plus he's fascinated by codes and ciphers, so this was a great place for us to explore.

The mathematical quantities are ciphers, proxies for the tangible objects of the real, physical world and their measurable properties.

Thanks to the increasing speed of computers, hackers have been able to crack the aging cipher, so NIST decided in 1997 to look for a replacement.

Of course the situation is only made worse when a couple introduce you to the only other single friend in the room — an accountant or acne - laden nerd who you get ciphered off with for the rest of the night.

It's like Tim says — online dating is about MEETING people — generally lots of them — and each person is a cipher that more or less fits your on - paper parameters, you really have no idea if you'll like them until you meet them, and generally for online dating to work well, the plan should be to meet many people.

The characters are little more than ciphers, so I wasn't inclined to root for them when they got into trouble.

There is an enjoyable cameo from John Goodman as film company boss Frank King — a baseball bat - wielding but honest hustler in Hollywood for the «money and the pussy» — but these characters are ciphers.

One of Heineman's best tricks here is stripping the audience of a cipher, making it difficult to figure out who to root for.

Joe is a cipher, and the precipitated flashbacks that ostensibly flesh him out and lend gravity to his sufferance for violence feel somehow reductive, unconsidered, rote in a trauma - by - the - numbers kind of way.

But other characters are complete ciphers, and Cotrona and Palacki are wan substitutes for any of a number of cast members from the first film, which offers up more punchy fun than this sequel.

Breaking In may do decent business in the US, where the sight of Union in the lead will satisfy those for whom cinema has to serve as a political cipher.

As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer.

It's the film's most meaningful relationship, consummated through a monotonous routine that's an inadvertent metaphor for watching the movie: Like this emotionless cipher, all viewers can do is stare joylessly at the degradation on display.

Students will use a cipher to determine the corresponding letters and clues for each puzzle.