Sentences with phrase «culture references like»

His work incorporates everything from pop culture references like Tony the Tiger and Scrooge McDuck to Americana elements like the Lincoln Memorial to the American Flag; to religious iconography including skulls, Buddhas and Ganeshas — all filtered through his own gaze.

Again... go look up some pop culture references like Night of the Living Dead or The Walking Dead.

Using pop culture references like Beyonce and Britney Spears, the class discusses different voices and explores ways to take chances with your writing.

Not exact matches

The Kevin Smith era (like it or not) started with this different kind of independent film that had countless pop - culture references and adolescent humor.

The production incorporated music and references that are common in black culture, especially at historically Black colleges and universities, like the one I attended.

It's bad because it embraces the worst parts of nerd culture, the parts that treat characters like objects and references like checklists.

It is Scripture, the Word of God itself, which addresses us»; but the ex-Abbot's own frame of reference reveals, alongside a profound regard for Scripture, a broad culture with homage paid in these pages to the likes of Rilke, Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn.

MacAuthur uses language like the following in describing the Charismatic movement: spiritual aids, false teachers, in it for the money, casual carnal culture, reference to Leviticus where God burns those that didn't make the right alter sacrifice (that's how he gets «Strange Fire» for his book title).

The studies referenced below the video talk about pickled vegetables, not cultured like sauerkraut.

As we've come to expect from these type films, the dialogue is loaded with numerous goofy puns and timely pop - culture references that always provide entertainment for the grown - ups, but I don't think we've ever had them thrown at us at such a machine - gun like pace.

The same ear for the super-specific that informs Cody's pop culture references (see: Julie describing Ricki as looking like «a hooker from Night Court») gives her an edge when it comes to questions of class, money, and race, even if the writing sometimes swings broad.

Like a British variation on Team America, this loudly hilarious wartime romp pushes its parallel - reality scenario in some very funny directions, although it perhaps relies too much on postmodern pop - culture references.

Such references more often than not feel like awkward pop culture plugs, in hopes of reaching out to a contemporary audience, or firmly dating this movie in 2013.

Cutscenes are portrayed in a humorous paper cutout style and often reference pop culture classics like 300.

Marketing aside, Ready Player One also has the disadvantage of being adapted from Ernest Cline's dreadful novel, which reads less like prose and more like a laundry list of pop culture references colliding into each other.

Helping someone create a new religion and deceiving cute animals may sound like an incredibly mean - spirited concept, but the excellent writing, entertaining characters, and surprising pop - culture references make this journey to find a higher calling one that I really enjoyed.

Leaning heavily on the same kind of pop culture references that made the early seasons of «Community» so enjoyable, «Rick and Morty» is like a vulgar love letter to science fiction, from its «Doctor Who» - inspired theme song, to its blatant similarities to «Back to the Future.»

Hosoda's vision of the internet's alternative universe was also populated with imaginative characters, whereas this one is mainly made up of pop culture references, like an incel version of Snow Crash.»

If you're the type of person who likes RPGs and tongue - in - cheek humor with references to popular gaming culture, then Cat Quest is definitely right up your alley.

Now there are so many ways this could have been a joke, disaster or train wreck with all the jokes, pop culture references and the like about one of the greatest thinkers and minds of all time.

It's not just the»80s being represented in the Oasis, but a number of great pop culture references, from beloved characters like the Iron Giant to King Kong and so much more.

Iv not read «Ready Player one» (yeh yeh I know, go do it) But I gather there are a lot of pop culture references, I wonder how that will work out, I mean like in a IP rights sense.

Ready Player One is a book that's full of pop culture references, and it looks like the upcoming movie adaptation is going to add even more.

Now a new Crashing trailer has debuted, showing off more of Pete's comedy struggles, trying to hand out flyers to shows, having odd gaps in his knowledge of pop culture while making obscure references to things like Will Smith rap albums and coming to terms with the fact that he's actually homeless.

Playing like a period piece today, Empire Records will be quite valuable as reference to future filmmakers looking to recreate»90s teen culture.

All the while, Tom is surrounded by supposedly backward locals who like watching The Notebook, hunting deer and making dated pop culture references to Ratatouille.

will find a lot to like here: bad taste gags and pop culture references abound, and some jokes — including a reference to one of cinema's more unconventional Westerns — rank among the funniest that MacFarlane has written in years.

Like Ready Player One, Armada is also filled to the brim with Easter eggs and and references to»80s and»90s pop culture.

Much like the first game, the plot runs fast and loose, pairing together NeocoreGames» rather light fiction with pop culture references.

Adding to tons of pop culture references (Star Wars, Aliens, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, celebrities like Reynolds himself and Hugh Jackman) and two cameos of Stan Lee and Rob Liefeld (the latter is at Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children), Tim Miller tied the knot with impressive fight choreography and a timely, mood - setting presence of Junkie XL's scores.

Some of the pop culture references are on screen and obvious, like the DeLorean from Back to the Future or the title robot from The Iron Giant.

The story is structured like an elaborate video game and is infused with»80s pop and game culture references, including allusions to arcade classics Space Invaders, Centipede, Joust, and Galaga.

On a personal note, I would have liked more than a passing reference to other cultures as Hindu astronomers had the sun at the centre of the universe thousands of years ago - and the Arab astronomers learned from them when the Mogul empire extended into India, but for what it sets out to cover it does a good job.

With powerful quotes like this in our pop culture references, honestly, I can't blame my fellow book aficiandos for being so passionate about books as physical objects.

- Booklist «The story is peppered with pop culture references to The Hunger Games, the Kindle Fire, and the X-Men, as well as comic relief in the form of characters like a talking horse that thinks it has a weight problem.

These include creative expressions such as idioms (up a creek); puns (references to an ill - fated cruise's «poop deck»); inside jokes (may the forest be with you); invented words (oyvaycation); pop culture memes (no vacation nation); similes (a hayfever sufferer in a garden is like a diabetic in a chocolate factory); and metaphors (down the black hole).

Why we like it: In a field that tends to elicit yawns and blank stares, The Reformed Broker gets its acclaim from pulling from many different themes and tools, including «statistics, satire, anecdotes, pop culture references, sarcasm, fact, fantasy, and any other device that I feel necessary to get my points across,» according to Brown.

The walls are lined with funky art that references Frankfurt's local culture, like a mural featuring Goethe lounging on a bench.

Much like the first game, the plot runs fast and loose, pairing together NeocoreGames» rather light fiction with pop culture references.

Some of the characters seem to have names referencing pop culture, like a massive heavy named Potemkin.

There are some games that people feel like they need to play for reference, be it a timeless classic like Earthbound, a continuously popular release like Skyrim, or a touchstone of gaming culture like BioShock.

Developed in Cameroon, it takes inspiration from its native culture, with dialogue referencing Swahili words and concepts like utamu, and Umoja.

Ready Player One is a book that's full of pop culture references, and it looks like the upcoming movie adaptation is going to add even more.

The writing and comedy are the game's strongest suit and it delights in playfully skewering popular culture, making references to or poking fun at such things like Twitter, Doctor Who, and Back to the Future.

Though not all of the pop culture references are particularly clever (there's a character literally called «Snake» who looks like Solid Snake, which, um, I don't think you're allowed to do, Apogee), I have to admit I laughed out loud when I found I could add the «Pre-teen GMO Karate Frogs» to my party.

I love all of the little details about the game too, like flipping over tables to create strategic cover; quick warp points so you can instantaneously teleport around the floors and lessen the amount of backtracking; achievements that actually require dedication and skill to complete; secret areas and side missions that are well thought out and integrated with the game mechanics; gear based around classic gaming and pop culture references (for example a light gun that shoots a Duck Hunt duck with the last bullet of every clip); and since the Supply Drop update, the all - important option to save and quit between floors.

Like many of her peers who established their reputations in the 1980s, Marrinon draws her references from both «high» and «low» culture, presenting a series of archetypes, intermingling soldiers, maids, matrons, ingénues, twins, travellers, intellectuals, performers, peasants and the privileged with a handful of identities ranging from Voltaire to Field Marshal Montgomery to Dame Joan Sutherland to MC Hammer.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

Ward overlays this contemporary monetary reference with cowry shells, an earlier form of currency found in many cultures, and gives the paintings a distinct patina by pouring and rubbing white rum flecked with gold and silver powder in a ritualistic fashion, producing an ethereal aura much like a Color Field painting.

With massive drawings, Jamal blends references from popular culture, religious iconography, and symbolism in an attempt to create a possible image of what our multilayered identities could look like.