Sentences with phrase «ciphers through»

The combination of imaginative sadistic cruelty, satire and empathy communicates something about the use of individuals and groups as ciphers through which unwanted fears and anxieties are projected.

Each school offers something a bit unique, but your choice is only as good as how knowledgeable you are about the schools — it takes a lot of legwork, a lot of trying to cipher through, a lot of understanding.

Without school ratings, however, parents, educators, and all others are left to cipher through pages and pages of numbers with no guidance about whether their schools» results are up to par.

Not exact matches

Through Moore we get a vivid sense of housewife Laura Brown's desperation, but the character remains a cipher beyond her need to escape and interest in the book Mrs. Dalloway.

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.

Deprived of the privilege to joystick this little featureless cipher boy around, it's reasonable to expect some kind of compelling characterization in its place, but it's quickly apparent that Abreu intends primarily to use his character, who's technically on a mission to reconnect with an absent father, as a vehicle to shuttle the viewer through a generic exposé on the state of the world.

This is a huge tactical mistake, because Hans is a cipher, a man absent to himself and who should therefore properly be the vehicle through whom we come to understand the alternately entertaining and threatening Chuck.

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.

Sony Santa Monica has done an astounding job of adding emotional depth to Kratos, often through the cipher of his son, Atreus.

Of the works themselves it leaves only fragments behind, and communicates itself, like a cipher, only through the blank spaces from which it has disengaged itself.

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.

His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on «the residual space of the American / Vietnam War» (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay on the site / non-site dialectic instigated by Robert Smithson's reception of Edgar Allan Poe (with a little help from Yvonne Rainer); a reconsideration of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre as an discourse in ethics (as seen through Étant donnés); and «squatting projects» in various cities (Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), where the squatting body, as a heuristic cipher, is conjugated by an interpretation generated by the conditions of each location.

McClelland's constellations of ciphers evoke the sounds of speech and, through the repetition of a single word, she poetically suggests the shifting, often elusive nature of its meaning.