Sentences with phrase «fascinating figure»

He liked to tell stories about himself, the most fascinating figure in his life.

In an effort to help make sense of it all — and all of the spectacle around it — we present this list of the 50 most fascinating figures of the postseason.

Look to literature, and reach back into history for fascinating figures.

A lot of loving care (but not much thought) went into this white elephant, and considering how fascinating a figure Chaplin is it's never exactly boring, but your time would be much better spent looking at any of Chaplin's pictures.

This unsurpassed shrine of 20th century art was home to one of the most fascinating figures of the recent art history — Peggy Guggenheim, woman who provided a sanctuary, stage and promise to most prominent artists of the avant - garde movement until her death in 1979.

«It's a crazy story and it's a true story, and he really is one of the more fascinating figures I've ever read about,» Rudd said of Berg, sitting down with Lewin yesterday at Deadline's Sundance Studio.

Why You Should Watch: Bout is a truly fascinating figure, at times just convincing enough in his good - natured naivete, nicely conveyed through the charmingly amateur video recordings he provides to the filmmakers.

Yet none of this detracts from how fascinating a figure Vitali himself is, or how vital he «s been in the preservation of Kubrick's legacy.

Indie Game: The Movie: This stirring documentary explores the history of independent video games and follows several fascinating figures as they attempt to finish (and release) their own efforts.

The actress effortlessly steps into her character's repressed shoes and transforms Nobbs into an undeniably fascinating figure, which is certainly no small feat given the relative paucity of dialogue that the character has been afforded.

No one sneers or snarls quite like Alan Rickman and, looking back on a cinematic decade of «Harry Potter,» his Severus Snape now stands as the franchise's most fascinating figure after being revealed in the eighth film as misunderstood double - agent motivated by long - lost love.

In Hornet's Nest, her page - turning novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real - life heroes to uncover flesh - and - blood characters who strode through her pages to reveal vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes doubting, always fascinating figures.

Biographies offer a wonderful opportunity to put fascinating figures into historical context.

MacArthur Gregory Peck portrays General Douglas MacArthur, one of the most controversial and fascinating figures in U.S. history, in this thrilling film that covers the remarkable career of a military legend.

In part, it's because of the subject matter: Brian Wilson has always been one of pop's most fascinating figures, and rather than attempting to span an entire life, the approach here seems to be focused on his sessions with a controversial therapist.

Sesno tells Fortune that «the media are between a rock and a hard place on this» due to the fact that Trump is a fascinating figure who has a lead in the polls that demands the public's attention.

Musk is a fascinating figure, driven less by money and more by a fierce determination to use technology to help save humanity.

Apollonius is a fascinating figure of Roman history.

To end on a non-political note, OTM also examined the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a televangelist before television and a fascinating figure in the development of both media stardom and the rise of Christian fundamentalism in America, as well as at Slate's recent slideshow on the history of racist product spokescharacters.

Spitzer was, as New York State attorney general, a terrifying and fascinating figure.

«It's an interesting question... He was a fascinating figure who observed a great deal and from whom we can learn a great deal.

Join us as we explore his life, work and greatest achievements and learn more about this fascinating figure in 20th century science.

The woman had of course, quite a fascinating figure.

While not quite as transcendent as its first outing, Jessica Jones season 2 continues to prove that its lead character is one of the most complex and fascinating figures in the MCU, both on film and television.

Harrington himself was a fascinating figure with connections to classical Hollywood, the Los Angeles underground (he photographed Kenneth Anger's «Puce Moment») and the occult leader Aleister Crowley — a connection underlined in «Night Tide» by the presence of the artist Marjorie Cameron, who believed herself to be a goddess conjured up by a Pasadena black - magic cult headed by her husband, Jack Parsons, and a pre-Scientology L. Ron Hubbard.

Granted, he's not a fascinating figure just because he died under creepy circumstances.

Simon Kinberg is a fascinating figure.

He's a fascinating figure, Wilder — a director of obvious genius who has defied easy auteur classification not because he didn't have his distinguishing characteristics (the outsider hero yearning for assimilation, for instance), but because his films are only queasily liked and then only at arm's length.

Hoffman offers an uncanny portrayal of Truman Capote, a fascinating figure of the 20th century who, behind a somewhat goofy public persona, possessed one of the most brilliant minds in America and a sometimes surprisingly sombre soul.

It seems a great shame to waste Emily Watson too, who plays Wilde's suffering wife Constance Lloyd, a fascinating figure in her own right perhaps overdue for a cinematic examination of her own.

As a man, Bernstein was a fascinating figure — full of genius and contradiction — and it will be an incredible honor to tell his story with a talent and friend like Cary.»

At the ends of their respective terms, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush were the two least popular presidents in the last half - century — but Nixon is an infinitely more complex and fascinating figure.

Pope Francis — the chill pope — is a fascinating figure, a progressive crusader who has not only helped modernize Catholicism but also released a prog rock record.

It's not because Harrelson is playing a scene - stealing kind of character, but it's the duality of his performance and Cook's writing that makes the detective such a fascinating figure.

In the other corner: Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer prize - winning biographer of Russia's royal family, confronting one of its most fascinating figures: Catherine the Great.

The cult leader is a fascinating figure, one that is frequently reproduced and reimagined in literature.

In Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian, Margarita Engle introduces young readers to the fascinating figure of Maria Merian, a 17th - century naturalist and illustrator who advanced knowledge about butterflies, moths and other...

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He is a fascinating figure who is increasingly placing science at the center of his practice.

Tavares Strachan is a fascinating figure who is increasingly placing science at the center of his practice.

Wols» oil and watercolor abstractions are both the epitome and the forerunner of Art Informel, but the complexity of his output, which also encompassed portrait and fashion photography and writing, makes him a more elusive and fascinating figure.