Sentences with phrase «figures as surrogates»

I often see the figures as surrogates for people I have known... They are both alien -LSB-...]

I often see the figures as surrogates for people I have known... They are both alien and completely familiar.»

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Surprisingly limiting itself to a single passing prison - rape joke, the screenplay (written by Reynolds himself, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) starts to fill in the outlines of an actual moral arc here, as Randall looks to Deadpool as a surrogate father figure, while Deadpool rebuffs every opportunity to play the protector — at least until the arrival of Cable (Josh Brolin, finally giving this franchise an iron - sphinctered straight man), a bio-enhanced super-soldier from the future, who smashes his way into the Ice Box intent on killing Randall.

It goes without saying that Batman Begins is the best prequel of the summer, a film that allows Liam Neeson as Bruce Wayne's mentor / surrogate father figure to make amends for The Phantom Menace and offers a peek, along with Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, at the full grim panorama of what the Star Wars films have squandered.

There's always the hovering director, Anderson taking the role of surrogate father echoed in so many of his films (the paternal mentor being a key figure in all his features bar Punch - Drunk Love (2002)-RRB-, willing (as Hall says) a specific kind of performance and, like a stern parent, ensuring there'll be no skylarking among his actors by determinedly interposing himself and his camera between them.

Though it might seem at odds with the orchestral motif that figures Suzy and Sam as instruments waiting to play their part, this deferral of their meeting gives the film a welcome improvisatory spirit in its most important section, which details their coupling away from families biological and surrogate.

You play as Jodie Holmes, wonderfully acted by Ellen Page, as you follow her throughout various stages of her life, from a young child to adulthood, as she deals with possessing supernatural powers from being linked to an incorporeal entity named Aiden, who has been with her since birth, with Willem Dafoe co-starring as Nathan Dawkins, a researcher in the Department of Paranormal Activity and Jodie's surrogate - father - figure.

Although the keyhole operates as a flat shape — rather than a portal, or hole into another space — this motif, when it becomes a surrogate for the human figure, introduces spatial depth in Manister's paintings for the first time.

His constructions often rest on wooden legs and lean against the wall, asking us to consider them as painterly props that act like signs and surrogate figures.

Hard family situation and violence that he suffered from his stepfather, forced him to retreat to his own world that sometimes involved his teddy bear toy which he adopted as the surrogate father figure.

For this show, Rothenberg continues to use animals as surrogates for the human body, transforming the representation of the figure into a study of space and form.

Blake's «rabbit» has evolved into the artist's iconographic surrogate for gay men (playing off the stereotype of the promiscuous gay man) as well as a threshold figure for black / white and male / female.

Acting as surrogates for the human form, Rothenberg uses these disembodied puppet legs, heads and arms to demonstrate how the representation of the figure can be transformed into a study of space and form.

If, as Harry Gaugh first demonstrated, Nijinsky could reliably serve Kline as a surrogate in self - portraiture during the 1930s and 1940s, including in his breakthrough to abstraction, the historical and artistic figure of Charles Meryon could arguably fulfil a similar function in Meryon in 1960, albeit under different circumstances.41 Meryon was, like Nijinsky, celebrated as a virtuoso by his contemporaries and famously plagued by mental illness, dying in an asylum at Charenton in 1868 at only forty - seven years of age.

This beautifully engineered drawing in space appears to levitate, and lends a certain logic to the upended figures nearby — both in physical attitude and as a surrogate Edenic serpent.

Expanding on the rabbit and hare's traditional portrayal as symbols of lust and fecundity, Blake's «rabbit» has evolved into the artist's iconographic surrogate for gay men (playing off the stereotype of the promiscuous gay man) as well as a threshold figure for black / white and male / female.

Therefore I decided to use unrecognizable abstract forms as surrogate figures.

The shaded region denotes coupling at the p = 0.95 level as calculated from the surrogate data used for the confidence intervals in Figure 1 (top).