Sentences with phrase «for allegorical»

The bracketed letters in the work's title correspond to the initials of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774 — 1840), known for his allegorical landscapes and interest in spiritualism, to whom Balka has dedicated the installation.

Czechoslovakian artist Klara Kristalova is known for her allegorical ceramic sculptures of intimate scale.

Hyperallergic introduces five women who were the muses for allegorical monuments around New York City.

Known for her allegorical portrayal of sexual and comedic scenes, the Brooklyn - based artist often references art history in her caricatures of contemporary life.

Hugh Steers (1962 — 1995) was celebrated for his allegorical painting that captured the emotional and political tenor of New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the impact of queer identity and the AIDS crisis.

Teeming with struggle, conflict, faith, sexuality, and power, his works afford the viewer a ringside seat for allegorical spectacle as the spheres of fantasy and reality collide.

The Shape of Water, a tale of a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an amphibious being trapped in a government lab, has been praised for its allegorical import by critics and is positioned as a potential frontrunner at the upcoming Oscars.

Fine for allegorical reference, but useless when taken literally.

Not exact matches

For example, the perceived traitor Judas is an allegorical character.

There is therefore a sound basis for the use of the allegorical method in interpreting the Scriptures.

It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

MacLeish's changes between the manuscript and published form of J. B. move the play from specifics to the universal, from the allegorical to the human, from mediated to unmitigated suffering, from imposed rationalizations to the dramatic action which is left to speak for itself.

As Calvin Seerveld notes,»... allegorical exegesis of The Greatest Song originated as a defense against the complaint, «How can such worldly love poetry be holy and a norm for the faith?»

[22] The Catechism of the Catholic Church provides a magisterial endorsement for this call: «According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral, and anagogical senses.

I see God as the Patron, and the issue of talents as an allegorical way of expressing activity for the Kingdom of God using familiar social realities (but in keeping with Mark 4:10 - 12, 24 and Matthew 13:11 - 16, the peasants may have taken it too literally and thus missed the whole point — thinking that the unprofitable servant is the hero when he's really not).

The Song of Solomon made the canon on the merits of the oldest orthodox view: these poems (which are in reality songs of erotic love) are allegorical of the love of God for the congregation of Judaism.

With the allegorical principle once set aside, much of the support for the supposed Paulinism of Mark disappears.

Using irony, satire, and humor, Jeremy Myers writes Adventures in Fishing (for Men) as an allegorical story about a man's quest to become a successful and world - famous fisherman — without ever catching any fish.

The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

Now among the «four meanings» of Scripture, the Middle Ages made a place for the «moral meaning,» which marks the application of the allegorical meaning to ourselves and our morals.

From Ambrose in the fourth century A.D. to Thomas Hayne and John Milton in the seventeenth century, there have been repeated attempts to maintain a proper «biblicity» for Samson by means of allegorical interpretation.

We do not for a moment mean to suggest that Gen. 12 - 50 was created out of whole cloth as an allegorical, fictional, personalized «history» of Israel....

Such allegorizing is, of course, out of the question for us; and beyond this kind of literary - allegorical pursuit of the Samson saga we are able to find nothing.

For the better part of nineteen centuries, the historic churches, wittingly or unwittingly, have contributed greatly to the global spread of anti-Semitism by their excessively allegorical interpretation of most if not all favorable scriptural references to the Jews.

What honest reader of Paul's avowedly allegorical argument in Galatians 3:21 - 31 can avoid the conclusion that, for Paul, the Christian Church was heir of the promises to Abraham?

If, for example, time is caused by increasing entropy or disorder, this raises the same problem as does the approach in quantum mechanics that «Time... just is» — in which an allegorical clock is required outside of the system in question, even if that system is the entire universe.

This was a derivative fantasy story based on allegorical and heroic formulas that conveniently foreordained a person to be a «legend» and «destined» things for him.

For others, it's allegorical space - faring material like Star Trek.

A high - end commercials director making his feature debut, Blomkamp (who also co-wrote the script with Terri Tatchell) milks his ostensibly fantastic scenario for all its allegorical worth.

And as for Jackson's novel being an allegorical criticism of society, I'll refer you to Nelson Gidding who wrote the screenplay adaptation for the original Robert Wise film.

-- which is currently busy dividing critical opinion with its deranged, allegorical depiction of a woman under increasingly heavy siege from within her own life — has been far less polarizing for regular movie - goers, who gifted it with a rare «F» grade via audience polling service CinemaScore.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

Luckily, there's plenty of allegorical beef for everyone, as Grau paints a vivid picture of Mod Madness in steady, deteriorating orbit around the entropy and hedonism of the time — sprinkling it liberally with a disdain for dictatorships Grau no doubt nursed whilst working under the heel of Francisco Franco's regime.

On the surface, Anton Corbijn's film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith - for - hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli's allegorical reading the film also has its finger on the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated nation.

The brilliant Ettore Scola is to be credited for his feminist critique of women under fascism, his modern understated treatment of homosexuality, and his successful examination of fascist politics — through the lens of a seemingly simple, human story that turns into an allegorical tale of immense significance.

This is borne out by the film's relative lack of interest in anything that happens after Grant dies — the compelling story of the cell phone footage, the trial, the controversial verdict, and the unrest and memorialization that followed is told mostly through curt, pre-credit-roll titles.Yet the film also tries hard for a verite style, as opposed to something more allegorical, and so we have to conclude that we're supposed to accept its less believable moments at face value.

Genre played a welcome role in the Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).

His script for Dredd took a maligned comic book property and yanked it back to its nakedly allegorical origins as a satire of police brutality and post-industrial sprawl.

Shyamalan understands too well his own formula and with Signs, his third overtly supernatural film after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he displays an unbecoming self - consciousness that renders his ostensible subject allegorical subtext, with his own favourite issues (the father / son dynamic, the comic book spirituality) the only reason for the film's existence.

Save for one particular sequence, Querelle does little to shock and its allegorical pursuits no longer hold weight.

His best scripts — The Verdict, Vanya on 42nd Street, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Untouchables — were all for directors who understood that Mamet's peculiar vocal cadences and stylized narratives are best treated as slightly allegorical, anachronistic, and absurdist parables.

As for the year freshly put to rest, readers put it in their hurt lockers, but allegorical aliens, wild things, public enemies, and idle teens shuffled the rest of the lineup, and many looked skyward for bittersweet tidings (Up # 7, Up in the Air # 8, Bright Star # 11).

Douro, Faina Fluvial was followed by more documentary shorts, from 1932 to 1941, until he made his feature debut with the aforementioned Aniki - Bóbó in 1942, an allegorical tale shot in a spare, direct manner, with a cast composed for the most part of children.

The film feels it was made specifically for Greek viewers, as all of the allegorical elements feel poignant and intentional, but not knowing anything about contemporary Greek society leaves you with the feeling of «this means something; I just don't know what it is.»

Telling the story of a boy's search for his missing dog, this allegorical tale revisits the stop - motion techniques that made Fantastic Mr. Fox such a huge success.

There's a transparency to the performances that transcends naturalism: you sense that the actors are not only playing themselves (more so than usual), but also that they're playing themselves as allegorical figures in a metaphor for their lives.

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.

A good cast of character actors and a refreshing, almost allegorical setting makes for a film that's worth watching more than once.

Its vigor and openness to multiple allegorical readings will endure for years to come.

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical anglFor what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical anglfor political and allegorical angles.