Sentences with phrase «emotional tenor»

Unlike such soulful adventures as Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Breath of the Wild isn't unduly interested in ordinary people and their stories, and it musters neither the poignant little vignettes nor the strong emotional tenor of those games.

A gritty and raw emotional tenor in some scenes jars against others where songs by Ace Frehley, Cream, Tommy James and The Crystals try to unsuccessfully evoke a Martin Scorsese - style cool.

The vivid tones further the individual images» strong emotional tenors, earnest and heart - felt, but never melodramatic.

Spoiler alert: Scientists can gauge a film's emotional tenor from the gasps of its audience.

The disconnect between the film's liberated shooting and editing style and the social entrapment actually experienced by its characters gives The Florida Project its indeterminate emotional tenor and ungainly shape.

I quote this 1957 poem to provide a whimsical counterpoint to the austere if not grimly resigned emotional tenor of Giacometti's work, but also because it introduces the issue of experiential scale that is essential both to Ferlinghetti's conceit and to Giacometti's view of the world.

Although seemingly rendered through mostly mechanical means, the paintings evoke a surprisingly multifaceted emotional tenor.

Works in the collection exemplify photography's intrinsic ability to document, whether by recording the social changes of a particular region or capturing moments of high emotional tenor.

My real aim is to complicate one sensory moment by depicting it with two different emotional tenors.

Rejecting the individualistic, emotional tenor of the then dominant German and Austrian Expressionism, the style harnessed the power of the «mutual relation of forms,» which could express a spiritual, even transcendental harmony.

As entrepreneurs, we set the emotional tenor for our business.

Anxious individuals remember facts and details better, but they also tend to get the emotional tenor of the situation wrong more often.

The color change — from soothing green to a straight - up blood red — is no doubt calculated to raise the emotional tenor, as is the file - folder nav menu and the ragged, runaway - note feel to the heading graphic in the middle of the page.

The dispute has many similarities with that over the Falklands Islands, but the emotional tenor of the Gibraltar issue is generally much lower on both the British and Spanish side.

Acknowledging your emotional tenor only takes a moment but can ground you long enough to assess your hunger.

Though it tries too hard to evoke the journey aspect of the Lord of the Rings DVDs» appendices, failing to earn the emotional tenor of a conclusion in which the ramshackle postproduction facility is dismantled and crewmembers speak of starting families in the time it took to complete the film, it's a piece blessedly light on promotional affectations.

The subtleties of their expressions carry the emotional tenor of the text, and the displaced, poetic language makes audible the inherent theatricality of political speech and public protest.

Each segment reveals a new spin on the assassin's story and uses a primary color to emphasize that section's emotional tenor.

The emotional tenor remains as soul - crushing and painfully insightful as any of Ware's work, but it's really insufficient to talk about what happens in anything he does.

Saville, whose work investigates mortality, applies up to forty layers of paint to achieve this extraordinary effect, erasing any suggestion of her own mark - making in spite of the emotional tenor of the works.

They were too melodramatic — that's never been the emotional tenor that I've been interested in.

Wylie works from observation and memory, internalizing her subjects, tirelessly reworking a given motif in drawing and collage until the image is suffused with the artist's idiosyncratic style and emotional tenor.

In terms of their emotional tenor, his large paintings resonate with the drama of Paul Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling With the Angel)(1888).

An inclination towards sensation is already out front, yet his brush speed, brushstroke, and composition are elbowing in the rear, oscillating between the emotional tenor of the times and the artist's temperament.

Both men work with an unmistakably American iconography and allow the irregularities and smears of spray paint which occur as part of the production to add an emotional tenor to their works.

Nason's work hinges together the blunt physicality of a yard sale with the emotional tenor of an unrequited love song.

Mekas displays the perserverance of human spirit and the emotional tenor of the time through haunting light and shadow combined with deceptively simple compositions.

The tonal range and use of grey as a thematic color sets the emotional tenor of these works.

Mother nature's relationship with fear and the sublime is evident; Slappey wanted to explore the challenge of recreating this emotional tenor within an interior, man - made space.

Praised by renowned American art historian and critic Jack Flam as, «a brilliantly attentive and original reading of Jasper Johns» work,» this volume not only makes many aspects of the artist's work accessible for the first time, but also reveals an emotional tenor to the man whom so many critics have characterized, wrongly, according to Yau, as aloof or hermetic.

Each of these elicits different qualities from Katz's artistic vocabulary: woodcut, for example, yields an emotional tenor not commonly seen elsewhere in his oeuvre, as the traces left by chisel and burn are left legible and accepted by the artist.

In the lines of his best drawings, one can read movement, volume, weight, the emotional tenor of the artist and subject, the scientific knowledge of the time, and the artist's philosophy.

Exploring the subtle movements of light and sky and the color, shape and emotional tenor of a particular place has informed and deepened her studio work.

I take in the emotional tenor of the moment without becoming part of it.

The new survey, based on the first nationally representative sample of young adults, highlights the many ways that divorce shapes the emotional tenor of childhood.