Sentences with phrase «emblematic of»

The Victorian Labor opposition's recent promise to change the state's licence plates to «Victoria: the education state» is emblematic of the way both Labor and the Napthine Coalition government have made...

Green's story is emblematic of the hopelessness that used to mark New Orleans» schools.

Perhaps it's my old English major background surfacing, but I can't help but see the firing / rehiring and test score episodes — and the very creation of the public Michelle Rhee herself — as emblematic of the weaknesses of current school reform.

But what transpired there, or rather what did not transpire there, is emblematic of the intrinsic failures of a public school monopoly that does not demand market accountability.

But in its swirl of jargon and personal acrimony — a parent at a meeting once asked Ms. Anderson, the white mother of a biracial child, why she did not want the same for Newark's «brown babies» as she did for her own — the fight over her tenure is emblematic of the bitter national debate about how to educate American students for a more competitive world.

Demanding promises for waivers is typical of the Obama administration's tactics — and is emblematic of why its reform efforts have dissappointed.

Pearl's words are emblematic of the kind of encouragement students are offered at her school.

In recent years, Chicago has become emblematic of a national crisis concerning the fates and futures of Black boys, and nowhere are the depths of the crisis more frighteningly clear than within our big cities» public schools.

In contrast, Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf elevate the term with a more robust definition: «By adding the word engaged, we mean to distinguish between the skilled but rote and unsophisticated kind of academic literacy that many «successful» students master, and the more analytic, critical, and discipline - specific ways of making meaning emblematic of engaged learners.»

Emblematic of its current orientation, Head Start rests comfortably within the Department of Health and Human Services rather than the Department of Education.

This request is emblematic of the frequent questions I am asked about what claims are really supported by valid neuroscience research.

«She's a very special person — but she's also emblematic of so many of our students in her passionate commitment to improving the lives of others.»

Heather's work is emblematic of what we at HGSE mean when we say that a faculty member works» at the nexus of practice, policy and research,»» said Dean Kathleen McCartney.

The set - up is the kind we've seen many times before, but while the hilarity of the moment initially seems indicative of just what Bayer is about to bring to the table, it eventually reveals itself to be emblematic of the film itself: familiar trappings, gussied up with a fresh script from screenwriter Lauryn Kahn.

It's emblematic of their initial relationship: Oliver is always glimpsed from a distance, Elio judging for fear of being judged, unaware that his vantage point offers him power over Oliver.

Many of the characteristics of Los Angeles in the 1950s — a police department in turmoil, a runaway population explosion, the glorification of Hollywood and the pleasure - seeking California lifestyle through television and movies — are still emblematic of the city today.

Downey and Clarkson's characters were married secretly in violation of CBS policy; they're the only characters ever shown intimately, and their fears are depicted as emblematic of the cold - war atmosphere.

It's cinema as titillation, and Barbarella is emblematic of that era in which movie ratings were just being introduced, opening the doors for ostensibly adult content in the mainstream.

Solo series or not, to this day the Silver Surfer remains one of the most identifiable characters in comics and emblematic of the genre's cosmic stories.

«Detropia»: The woes of Detroit are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.

Emblematic of their talent, all have been nominated before.

Emblematic of the festival's initiative to spotlight films on a global scale is its «Global Visions» section, which boasts an array of narrative and documentary films from Japan (Wonderful World End), Brazil (The Second Mother), Germany (Stations of the Cross), China (Red Amnesia), the United Kingdom (Luna), South Korea (A Hard Day), France (Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey), New Zealand (The Dark Horse), and many more countries with exciting, emerging filmmakers and films worthy of our undivided attention.

Emma Watson eventually shows up and has a misunderstanding that seems emblematic of current discourse, but then the movie stops trying to grow and change.

Taking place just as the long - essential studio system was undergoing massive changes, the film positions Johansson's gravelly - voiced synchronized swimming star as emblematic of a system still woefully stuck in the past.

«We chose Robert Altman as our inaugural director, who really crystallizes and illustrates what we're all about here: talking about film history, about filmmakers who were independent and sort of pushed the medium further, and Altman is emblematic of all that stuff that we love.

20th Century Fox's attempts to get a Fantastic Four movie right are emblematic of everything that's wrong with the cinematic superhero culture.

Fargo is often targeted as emblematic of the Coens» superiority to their characters, and that perception isn't off - base.

What makes it emblematic of the year?

Rock shouldn't have to bear the burden of screen comedy with his current film, but it is emblematic of our national failure to just make a funny movie.

Also arriving to stir the pot is younger vixen Sammy Jo Dean (Heather Locklear), niece of Blake's current wife Krystle (Linda Evans); Sammy Jo's storyline is probably the most emblematic of Dynasty's change in direction — she seduces into marriage no less than... Blake's gay son Steven (Al Corley).

Rajinikanth's sleeker, slicker second act avatar is emblematic of how and why Ashwin and the film completely find their footing in the back half of the film.

That so vibrant a «civilian» as Pepper has been for years reduced to cameos (or, worse, temporarily infused with superpowers) is emblematic of why the small - screen approach doesn't scale well to the big screen.

Galling, certainly, but tellingly emblematic of a film that doesn't pause to think — or particularly want its audience to, either — about underpinnings it's previously labored to establish.

There are few courses larger, more tangled, and emblematic of the best and worst of comic book narratives than Cable's.

But few have been more emblematic of the reality that film festivals have become their own competitive sport — a kind of cinephile Grand Slam.

This line, said mockingly by Robert Downey Jr, is a nod to a drunk - driving PSA, but it's emblematic of the thriller's ongoing paranoia.

This emblematic of the culture of overkill marketing, and it makes us wonder if we're just days away from of character posters seeing 25 different posters for the movie too.

Whether viewed as awful or otherwise, the insight has become emblematic of a certain kind of observational humanistic cinema, and the proposition has rarely been explored so assiduously or at such calm length as in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 316 - minute Happy Hour.

The film's dull beige palette, wonderfully emblematic of»80s film technique (read: bland and suffocating), is rendered with an organic fidelity that only becomes problematic in optical shots and a handful of nighttime sequences that exhibit worrisome levels of grain.

The DLC being released for GTA Online is hardly enough to get a good profile on where Rockstar's future is heading, but the upcoming Western title will be emblematic of what kind of a developer they want to be from this point on.

-- so her decision to ultimately attend university anyway feels emblematic of that era's feminist victories.

The US Documentary Editing Award was presented to Detropia, co-directed by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady — The woes of Detroit are emblematic of the collapse of the US manufacturing base.

According to Godwin, the visual effects in the series are very faithful to the novel, and are emblematic of the company's commitment to «only do exceptional television.»

But Slide is a lively character who gets to say funny things, and his presence is emblematic of the thought process behind Tower Heist: It doesn't matter if things don't make sense as long as the audience is happy with the end result.

That wicked waltz becomes quite literal in one memorable scene that is emblematic of Akhtar's savvy, narrative - focused use of Indian popular cinema tropes.

Ines exhausting and demanding job is emblematic of women in the workforce writ large, and Ade's many pointed barbs at corporate culture makes for studious social satire with a thirst - quenching feminist tilt to it.

Interwoven with the complex anti-heroes Viggo Mortensen has portrayed in genre pieces such as Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma, 1993), A Perfect Murder (Andrew Davis, 1998), Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007), and The Two Faces of January (Hossein Amini, 2014), this year's Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross, 2016) is emblematic of another thread that runs throughout his work.

This being a «driller,» there is, of course, a twist at the end, and it is emblematic of this movie's on - the - nose construction that said twist is delivered via an actual corkscrew (the train, ultimately, is a mere passenger in its own tale).

Jeff Bridges has created original and memorable characters in notable films, emblematic of every generation and genre.

When it hit theaters in November, a month after The New York Times and The New Yorker first wrote about Harvey Weinstein, it also became emblematic of the post-Weinstein rage rippling through society.