Sentences with phrase «familiar cultural references»

On the love side: it's a light, airy pop confection, crammed with familiar cultural references, which Cline recontextualizes in surprising ways.

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In which case, his barrage of f - bombs and references to mothers named Martha feel a little too familiar, and just far enough behind the curve of what is being discussed in the cultural conversation that they don't land with the same merciless cruelty that made the previous film, well, if not better, then somehow more incisive.

Audiences familiar with Key and Peele's pop - cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «Point Break» (all of which figure into one of the movie's better visual gags).

Reading selections that have familiar topics, settings, concepts, references, and cultural contexts are easier for ELLs to understand.

One culture's physicality cross references another's societal failure, and familiar conventions of pose and gesture are recognizable, yet challenged by each subject's cultural physique.

Incorporating tools and other familiar objects, such as chains, locks, and ax heads, Edwards's Lynch Fragments are abstract yet evocative, summoning a range of artistic, cultural, and historical references.

Working primarily in welded steel, Edwards is perhaps best known for his Lynch Fragments, an ongoing series of abstract yet evocative reliefs that incorporate tools and other familiar objects to summon a range of artistic, social, and cultural references.

Familiar objects and more cultural references appear here, and again they seem to hold personal meaning to Rogers that are likely far from our own associations with these objects.

Using the surreal, familiar and the funny — a thing the press release describes as a quality that's «uniquely Californian» — Smith's layered temporal and cultural references continue her ongoing work dissecting «the motivations and anxieties that constitute everyday life in America».