Sentences with phrase «fabulist in»

«The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth... despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.»

With Pearl Jam 20 he's a fabulist, and insofar as he continues the narrative that rock will save the world or yourself, he is a fabulist in a way that presents illusions that are untrue.

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Another woman, Flannery O'Connor, one of Hawthorne's chief imaginative disciples as a moral fabulist, blamed Emerson for the «vaporization of religion in America.»

But Dali was also a spectacular fabulist, and that was the only excuse Anderson needed to concoct a scenario that involved the following survivors of a shipwreck: a «sailor babe» (his words), a thuggy pirate, an ethnic pilgrim, an individual «in search of Namaste,» and a schoolboy.

Though a reasonable consensus points to the former, fabulists of any stripe are instant pariahs in the journalism world, whether they're first - time offenders or serial liars, so Finkel was staring at a steep incline on the road to redemption.

Animator / fabulist Hayao Miyazaki pays homage to Hollywood's wartime adventure films in this masterwork built around the adventures of a high - flying pig.

Michelle Williams plays Emily, the most outspoken (yet frequently ignored) woman in a wagon train of three settler families who have hired mountain man (and possible self - mythologizing fabulist) Steven Meek (a brilliant Bruce Greenwood) to guide them through the treacherous Midwest.

The Portuguese Gomes, fulfilling the promise of Our Beloved Month of August, follows in the fabulist tradition of his countryman Manoel de Oliveira, as well as directors such as Raúl Ruiz, while paying homage to silent cinema.

, the picture is mainly interesting because, after having sat on the shelf for a while, it's finally surfaced in tandem with Lasse Hallström's similarly - mothballed film about another fabulist, Clifford Irving.

Many more manifestations of the wondrous, weird, and inexplicable occur as a war of the worlds begins, stoked from beyond by none other than Ibn Rushd, still loved by Dunia, and his real - life archrival, the religious thinker Ghazali, who, in Rushdie's fabulist scenario, is aligned with the most terrifying jinn of them all.

In Office Girl (2012), The Great Perhaps (2009), and other works, he mines pop culture, art, and science in fabulist yet lacerating urban storieIn Office Girl (2012), The Great Perhaps (2009), and other works, he mines pop culture, art, and science in fabulist yet lacerating urban storiein fabulist yet lacerating urban stories.

With over 70 drawings, a dozen vitrines and the remnants of an in situ performance piece, Barney's Subliming Vessel offers a crash course in the artist's accretive, utterly fabulist cosmology.

The attention to detail and the development of fabulist narratives is apparent in rich and fecund works like Untitled (Spider's Web)(1969) and Drinking Water (1970s).