Sentences with phrase «emotional sense of history»

But the movie survives it, leaving you with a dizzyingly emotional sense of history in the making.

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A visibly emotional French President François Hollande opened the final day of the conference, known as COP 21, by appealing to the delegates» sense of history.

«Django Unchained» is «Blazing Saddles» with a body count, a positively incendiary entertainment about America's greatest shame, the personal and social toll of slavery, and like Tarantino's last film, «Inglourious Basterds,» this is a case of history being remixed in a way that makes more emotional sense to Tarantino as a storyteller.

The Secret History is one of those books that I reject in certain ways — it's borderline pretentious, and it's totally devoid of a sense of humor — and yet respond to very powerfully on an emotional level.

Like archaeological relics, the works are imbued with a sense of history and emotional poignancy that speak as much to the earthly as to the divine.

Cosmo Whyte's work weaves personal history, secret ritual and the inflicted emotional and physical trauma from colonization into textured works that inform a sense of identity.

Although the riverside position of Tate Britain gives Dock a specific geographic history to evoke, there is no sense of a poetic connection with the past, no emotional evocation of London's ruined waterside or any atmosphere of entropy.

It can build a sense of community, elicit emotional response, or transport someone to a significant point in their personal history.