Sentences with phrase «eponymous city»

The phrase "eponymous city" refers to a city that is named after a person, usually the founding figure or a prominent individual associated with the city's history or development. Full definition
Yet for all the set - pieces he directs the hell out of — an opening hunt; a piranha attack — it's only in its elliptical final throes that the film eclipses its surface pleasures, as the eponymous city shifts from narrative goal to vaporous MacGuffin.
That is the key lesson of director Ava DuVernay's incredibly intelligent and resolutely patient Selma, which depicts the buildup to, the false starts of, and the eventual success of the 1965 protest march from the eponymous city to Montgomery, Alabama.
The setup is evacuation of the eponymous city in 1940.
That is the key lesson of Selma, director Ava DuVernay's incredibly intelligent and resolutely patient depiction of the buildup to the protest march from the eponymous city to Montgomery in 1965.
Set in the eponymous city Le Havre on the Normandy coast, the film focuses on a former writer who now gets by shining shoes, a step downward that many can relate to.
Set in the eponymous city of Antioch, players will assume the role of one of two detectives who are attempting to solve a murder that occurred within this dark city.
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