Sentences with phrase «epic grandeur»

The Palace's epic grandeur is echoed in dramatic modern shapes and divinely decadent styles.

The free ‐ standing works have an epic grandeur.

Similarly, their creations challenged conventional notions of scale with dimensions that ranged from minute intimacy to epic grandeur — dramatic innovations that the exhibition will highlight.

Besides, most of your time with XCX will be spent enjoying its epic grandeur.

The new Shadow of the Colossus retains the epic grandeur and unforgettable sadness of the original, and reasserts the original's impact upon games as a medium.

At Gamers With Jobs, Alex Martinez talks about Halo: Reach, noting: «As much as I hate to acknowledge it, as much as it pains me to commit to electronic paper, my takeaway from Reach is a sense of epic grandeur.

Guild Wars2 is a visually stunning MMO that offers players the epic grandeur of a massive role playing environment combined with innovative combat mechanics, dynamic events, and customised personal storytelling.

Guild Wars 2 is a visually stunning online game that offers players the epic grandeur of a massive role playing environment combined with action combat, large - scale dynamic events that players tackle together, plus both team - based and World vs. World competitive battles.

From the epic grandeur of Big Sur to the Mediterranean - style stretch of Santa Barbara coastline nicknamed «the American Riviera,» this region of picturesque hamlets,...

From the epic grandeur of Big Sur to the Mediterranean style stretch of Santa Barbara coastline, nicknamed «the American Riviera,» this region of picturesque hamlets, jagged sea cliffs and rolling wine country has long attracted, not surprisingly, writers and artists mesmerised by its dreamlike beauty.

Guild Wars 2 is a visually stunning MMO that offers players the epic grandeur of a massive role playing environment combined with the challenge of world - class player vs.

Will movie producers shy away from projects that aim for epic grandeur and high budgets, because Watchmen suggests that that kind of thing scares people away?

It aims for epic grandeur, ethical clarity and also a measure of historical credibility.

Herzog naturally plays up the enigma at hand with epic grandeur, occasionally overdoing it but usually hitting the mark.

California may have a reputation as a sun - kissed paradise with some of the world's most photographed real estate — Southern California's sparkling white beaches, the celebrated rocky coastline along Big Sur and the epic grandeur of Yosemite and the Sierras.

Not exact matches

For all the grandeur of the epic Tam o» Shanter, the verse opera Jolly Beggars, and the major unscored lyrics, nothing equals the simple lyrics he set to the auld hieland airts.

Though Ariosto's poem introduces undeniably tragic themes into the story, and though Pulci retells the story of Roncesvalles, none of these poems is tragic in the classical sense; and they certainly display little of the grave grandeur of classical epic.

This cover might be Lord of the Rings «grandeur», over-the-top epic.

That being said, The Dark Knight Rises has an intelligence, epic thrust and visual grandeur far beyond its present box - office rival, Joss Whedon's Avengers Assemble.

It's a throwback to romantic war epics stretching as far back as Casablanca but despite its grandeur can't help but feel tired and rote.

Essentially the Nolan Batman films have been epic and yet rather humble, despite the opulence and grandeur the films have been staged on.

Like that earlier film — a thunderous historical epic about the American West and greed that deepens and darkens considerably with Day - Lewis's performance as Daniel Plainview, an oil - prospecting Mephistopheles — Phantom Thread continually torques its own British midcentury grandeur.

Despite good production values, the film has a «primed for a TV series» feel to it, rather than the grandeur of a big screen epic.

Some authors have pointed to a distinct house style in the 1930s (see Thomas Schatz and Paul Grainge), when MGM's Leo the Lion symbolized the opulence and grandeur of musicals (The Brodway Melody of 1938) and epics (Mutiny on the Bounty); Warner Bros. distributed «gritty,» social dramas and gangster films; Universal produced low - budget horror films (Dracula); and Paramount's distinctly «European» flavor, employing emigree directors such as Josef von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch.

The ever - popular «Monster Hunter» franchise is a series of action games centered on epic battles with giant monsters set in the grandeur of the great outdoors.

It's imaginative stuff that wows in its grandeur and its sweeping soundtrack filled with nostalgic cues and epic new pieces.

The first half of this final battle is a tonally unstoppable creature, blessed with a startling sense of stamina and grandeur to support the epic tale of a boy wizard facing a dire journey towards manhood.

Jackie pummels you with grandeur, with its epic visions of the funeral and that terrible moment in the convertible (all of it rendered in pitch - perfect detail and a subtle 16 - millimeter shudder).

Where better to debut an epic Western than amid the mountainous grandeur of Telluride?

However you decide to spend your time in Jamaica, the sheer grandeur and variety of landscapes at Rio Chico will have you feeling like an epic character from a romance novel in no time.

Not to mention suddenly switching from a third - person to first - person perspective would diminish the grandeur of some of the series» more epic encounters.

With so many of these pictures filling up my PS4's hard drive, it I would be a disservice to the Lightgun Galaxy community — and to the grandeur of this epic game — to not share some of them.

With the hedonistic grandeur of the World Cup (that month - long international festival of soccer) upon us, as well as the Basel Art Fair attracting art world consumers, the month in London seems more about the ephemeral than the epic.

Picking a one - or two - foot section of the hull of a boat in drydock (a pun is deployed for the series title, «Dry Documentaries»), Farrell closes in on a passage that suddenly blows up into a beach - long epic of Turneresque grandeur.