Sentences with phrase «defining narrative of our lives»

The stories we consume in youth — whether through books, television, film or song — often become the defining narrative of our lives.

Not exact matches

Scripture no longer defined the world in which Christians lived in a normative way; rather, the Bible was turned into a source of support for modern narratives of progress or for other doctrinal norms.

As the waves pound, it's tough to decide what is more unsettling: the boat's incessant rocking or the mounting evidence that the arrow of time — the flow that defines the essential narrative of our lives — may be not just an illusion but a lie.

It's important to keep pushing for the types of characters people want to see on screen, and Black Panther has done great work in giving the world a cast of crucial black women whose lives are full and whose actions define the narrative.

It takes a good storyteller to hone in on the defining moments of one's life without descending to biographical collage narrative work.

Screencraft.org has a fabulous video interview with this writer extraordinaire and master of dialogue in which he talks about creating memorable characters («what a character wants, and how they go about getting it defines a character»), and how characters do not resemble real people («people don't speak in dialogue» and «their lives don't unfold in narrative arcs.»)

-LRB-...) Poignant narratives are hinted at by small objects scattered about the backside of the walls — ceramic replications of cigarette butts, bottle caps, toilet paper rolls and beer bottles seem remnants of lives that once inhabited the spaces that these walls no longer define» (Excerpt from Eleanor Heartney's essay, «Something there is that doesn't love a wall»).

Whilst the drawings are not narrative in the traditional sense, they succeed in creating an evocative slice of contemporary life, embodying what Brian O'Doherty defined as Rauschenberg's «vernacular glance.»

The artist, whose solo exhibition «Sanctuary,» is on view at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York through Aug. 12, says the narratives of African American life and history in Lawrence's paintings are so familiar to him and his experiences that what really draws his attention is how he constructs his images, a defining element Thomas also emphasized.

Defined ife with texture, color and organic forms, Nnenna Okore's abstract sculptural works are infused with narrative elements that draw on the landscapes and environs of Nigeria, where she was raised, and Chicago, where she lives, works and is a professor of art.