Sentences with phrase «cultural observations»

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When we try to insert Lewis» cultural observations into our culture today, we become like Indiana Jones — still fighting the Nazis through the 1980s.

But essentially, «Ctrl» is both personal autopsy and cultural observation about how we use technology to try and control our lives, and my concern that it could ultimately have more control of us.

Fellini appreciated Flajano's deft humor, wry cultural observations, and subtly and used the writer to help pen some of his best films including La Strada (1954) and La Dolce Vita (1960).

At this point, the setup loses whatever potential for cultural observations evaporates in favor of a string of increasingly off - color and crude humor.

Or maybe not, because while initially it struggles to establish a consistent tone, as soon as the plot kicks off in earnest, the film picks up speed and confidence, venting plumes of sight gags, bloody violence and deadpan, dead - on cultural observations like powdery snow from a thematically - appropriate metaphorical snowplow.

Receding Triangular Square, a collaboration between Hallberg and art historian / psychoanalyst Leon Tan, proves to be the highlight — with vivid images of Taiwanese individuals sporting red blindfolds in trancelike scenarios, Taiwan's countryside, appropriated political propaganda footage, keen elucidations of alternative rituals and traditions, and political and cultural observations stressing East - versus - West differences.

It may be nothing more than a cultural observation, but there is something to be said for the fact that CBC is in its fifth season of the Dragon's Den, a TV show where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts and products to a panel of Canadian business moguls.

Just as sort of a cultural observation, I feel like fear and worry and anxiety are really prevalent among a lot of millennials, probably for a variety of factors.

Maybe you are correct with your cultural observation in the U.S. on «No Homo» being innocuous.

My post covers a wide range of topics, from destination and travel tips, to highlights and cultural observations, or opinions all of them specifically geared towards travelers who love to travel in luxury and comfort.

But what stays in mind is the craft with which «Gook» leads to its denouement: the astonishing performances (especially by Baker and Cook), Chon's unshowy visual flair, his cultural observations, his meaty and compassionate ideas, and the mastery of the soundtrack.

What's at stake in the film, after all, is the cultural observation at the end of the»90s that the beginning of the»90s was a period of moral vacuity, confusion, and listlessness following twelve years of Reagan optimism.