Sentences with phrase «endless referencing as»

But a film which relies on endless referencing as its main draw had better be in the same league as all the films it references, and to me, Ready Player One is not.

Not exact matches

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

Director Tim Miller keeps the pace brisk as Reynolds, clearly having a blast, delivers an endless succession of meta references, knowing in - jokes and super-crude innuendo, often breaking the fourth wall.

No doubt in another lame attempt at shock, The Cottage is also needlessly misogynistic, as the women in it have no function beyond the role of one - dimensional ball - breaking shrew: endless references to pussified Peter's nagging «fat pig» of a wife are bandied about while Tracey screams obscenities at the top of her lungs and emasculates our hapless anti-heroes at every turn.

Haynes possesses an amazing amount of information on the production and the endless references he inserted into the film, going so far as to directly quote Bowie in multiple instances to expand the vision of the film.

Fresh from their time on The LEGO Movie, directors Chris Lord and Phil Miller are as sharp and anarchic as ever, precisely piecing things together before blowing them up — and still finding time to shoehorn in Benny Hill references and endless sight gags, not to mention violent squids.

I'll give you a few other common ones too, COMIC BOOKS, OTHER STUDY BOOKS, ART BOOKS (many people use these as a reference for copying out of and practising they're drawing skills), COOK BOOKS, CRAFT BOOKS, MAGAZINES, PHOTOS, ETC... The list is endless as you see, and the need for colour e ink is more real than it might appear.

but then «oh shit, the devs ran out of creativity, now they're trying to hold the whole thing up with dated jokes and endless imitation and references disguised as «parody», aren't they».

The reference to mythology as a source of inspiration; using abstract composition as a way to evoke literary and lyrical stories; the control of the design so as to achieve a delicate balance between the freshness of gestural strokes and the clearness of drawing; the reference to the tradition of art history as an endless process of acknowledgment of the meaning of artistic practice; the attention paid to the sign itself as a multi-linguistic mark of the artist's expression; these are all constant features of Twombly's work, and have been since the very beginning of his career in the late 1940s.

The wary art maven will recognize them as moves in an endless game of cultural references and conceptual strategy.

Although each awning could cover up to nine square meters at full extension, they are displayed with the material completely rolled up and compactly displayed as vertical, columnar shapes, recalling Wermers earlier Kusine series and referencing the Modernist legacy of Brancusi's Endless Column.

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn - out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, «Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which