Sentences with phrase «faint echo»

It is possible in many of her paintings to find visual hints of compositions, forms or color palettes that suggest a natural landscape, or even to find faint echoes of horizon lines.

There's so much pirate - based distrust that you'll start to hear faint echoes of some of the more clever conversations of PotC — a concept which makes you chuckle when you realize that what you thought was clever in 2003 was more clever in 1995, we just didn't pay attention.

If we remove the Book of Galatians from our consideration, then the principles of equality become very faint echoes in the Bible.

The situation quickly develops into a hostage situation and media sandstorm (with faint echoes of Fraser's Airheads).

There's not even a cast of salty and memorable grunts, just faint echoes of archetypes who speak in clichés.

Following her 2011 relocation to the Caribbean faint echoes of voodoo spirituality began seeping in Kennedy's work.

It's a delightful story about the power of books, drawing on silent film, the Wizard of Oz, and many other influences you'll recognize, if only as faint echoes.

Talking to Dougco officials, you hear faint echoes of the «outcome - base education» theorists of 20 years ago, with their emphasis on «performance - based» assessments and their insistence that normed tests often fail to measure true intellectual strength.

Delicately intermixed in those white lines are filmy passages of blue, yellow, and green, staining these imaginary streets with faint echoes of a verdant landscape, abstracted vaguely and delicately in the manner of Helen Frankenthaler.

Your song, then, is ultimately less an anthem of sexual liberation and more a faint echo of St. Augustine's famously conflicted prayer in his Confessions: «Lord, grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.»

In this there is more than a faint echo of Paul's letter to the Corinthians (see chapter 13), of John's letters and their focus on loving one another, and indeed of Christ's own highlighting of the great commandment: ««Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.»

Of course, there may have been a faint echo of the voice of the earthly Jesus, for example, instructing his disciples to proclaim the Kingdom of God, but if this is the case, it is overlaid and almost drowned out by the voice of the risen Lord, so that fine tuning indeed will be needed to catch it.

His call to a fresh «innocence of becoming» and «newness of life» is at least a faint echo of the biblical prophets and St. Paul, only without the virtues of love and hope.

There is a not - very - faint echo of Jefferson in Lincoln's First Inaugural.

Faint echoes of Tony Blair?

Faint echoes of Tony Blair there, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.

When we started NYC Parents Choice, we had no idea of the faint echoes reverberating around the state.

This is a faint echo of what happens inside the body of someone developing diabetes: Their T cells are activated against cells in the pancreas much as they would be against a foreign invader, like a virus.

Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics noted that some forms of quantum gravity predict certain asymmetries — one direction of polarization might be favored over another — that could be imprinted in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a faint echo of radiation from the early universe.

It's taste is a faint echo of the flavor familiar to pancake breakfast aficionados,» reports Food Navigator.

It's a faint echo of the twisted humor of the first SHREK.

When you are struck by an elegant solution in the game, you not only get the thrill of your achievement, but you can also sense a faint echo of the larger epiphanies that have driven humanity forward.

But Ruffalo is an old pro whose dramatic and comedic gifts go well beyond what he's shown playing Dr. Bruce Banner and, to a lesser degree, the Hulk in the Avengers movies (a role there are faint echoes of here).

But Quaid's presence and the film's faint echoes of The Last Detail only underline how far the film falls short of its aspirations.

Then, a faint echo can be heard.

Don't let the faint echoes of Amélie dupe you: Hawkins and del Toro ensure her feelings run truer than any burped up in Jean - Pierre Jeunet's whimsical hit.

Visual effects aren't the only culprit to the film's artificiality, the mortal protagonist Bek is a faint echo of previous desert swashbuckler archetypes, the story is categoric in its predictability and the dramatic tone of the film is always drowned beneath blasting fanfares.

Seated in a third - floor conference room, with the sound of his school's mandatory daily exercises drifting through the window in faint echoes, Li Jianhua exudes serenity and confidence.

You may hear the faint echo of construction in the distance when opening a window, or you could see some construction when driving through nearby neighborhoods.

And while you sleep, you'll barely hear the faint echo of the island's thumping nightlife.

These ideas span the sense of lyricism in her use of copper and gold wire to the abstraction of noise captured in her serialized thinnam paintings, which retain the faint echo of the artist's tinkering with the metallic tools.

South's paper constructions have a faint echo of the stylistic rendering of objects and figures in Philip Guston's paintings from his «cartoon» phase, which is also brought to mind by Floor / Ceiling's illumination by bare, hanging light bulbs, with the naked bulb a frequent motif in many of Guston's works.

Upon reflection, one also feels the faint echo of her early years studying in Paris, the whisper of Picasso and Chagall, the heartbeat of the Paris of our dreams, made fresh by contemporary language and a finely honed vision.

It quite unexpectedly developed from a faint echo from half a century ago.

Thus, we might discern, just below the surface, the faint echo of the classical sculptures that once inspired the pioneers of modernism, the fluid linearity of early Chinese art, or the angular forms of ancient Egyptian funerary sculptures.

Viewing the works elicits a phantom experience — you see their scent, visualize their sticky texture, picture the taste of their innumerous drips and pools, all the while imagining the faint echo of the catastrophic incident that could have brought the compositions into existence.

There are faint echoes of Sandy in that model disagreement — the EC predicted landfall earlier than GFS did then too.

The comic was made with the iPad in mind, but — here comes the faint echo of a legal connection — Apple banned it from the iTunes Store because of a drawing in it portraying a naked woman.

However, the background pianos and faint echoes were lost in the sea of boom.

love that piece — faint echoes of Lowry and closer resonance with Mary Fedden.