Sentences with phrase «framing device»

Rather than come up with a dumb, new framing device for the remaining five of these, I'm just going use the same words as last time.

Instead of telling the story of the conflict in a straightforward manner, a narrative framing device is used to dig into the morality of the war.

Because we said this is a metal frame device, don't expect the entire smartphone to be rock solid.

A Roman chair is a simple steel framed device that allows you to extend and stretch the abdominal and lower back muscles.

Yet the style, unique framing device and top - shelf execution are what ultimately help sell this mash - up of classic genre filmmaking with new - school tropes.

The front of the tablet features an edge - to - edge glass design, with chunky black bezels framing the device's 8 - inch display.

Despite the interesting drama of the America segments, the Life of Pi-esque framing device of the film (in which Schreiber listens to Changez's life story in Pakistan to get possible information on a missing professor) actually comprise the film's biggest stumbling block.

The framework set forth in the NAEYC and Fred Rogers Center joint position statement (2012) and Fred Rogers» indicators of learning readiness (Rogers & Head, 1983) served as framing devices for this study and provided a core set of terms that served as a springboard for the methodology.

He keeps returning to the present - day, less - than - inspired framing device in which an old woman, dying in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina approaches, listens to her daughter (Julia Ormond) read Benjamin's journals.

Speaking of tenuous links, there is a particular framing device used throughout the game where you are interrogated whenever you make a significant step forward in the plot or forge a bond with a new Confidant.

It joins works by Jason Middlebrook and Matthew Ritchie that play with framing devices and the relationships between abstraction and representation.

«Considered one of Britain's greatest modern painters, Francis Bacon often painted an architectural, ghost like framing device around his subjects that structure many of his iconic paintings.

The latter issue could have been remedied if director Gore Verbinski had removed the pointless framing device featuring an elderly Tonto narrating the tale, but the overindulgent script is beyond repair.

There's a case to be made that the success of a biopic depends almost entirely on the director having studied Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story like a road map of cliché pitfalls to be avoided: Don't lean so hard on formative childhood traumas, watch out for unnecessary framing devices, etc..

A staunch believer in the power of storytelling, Howard this time surprisingly foregoes establishing memorable characters — don't expect any Niki Lauda «s or John Nash «s here — in order to make room for a familiar but powerful framing device involving Brendan Gleeson's aged Tom Nickerson, the last living survivor of that crew.

Past a pair of confusing framing devices at its start, you play as an individual who's just won a lucrative publishing contract.

That could have been easily remedied if Verbinski had just removed the pointless framing device that features an elderly Tonto recounting the story to a young boy at the San Francisco fair.

A Brechtian framing device sees the couple enact a retrospective therapy, as episodes from the past (the film?)

Is it that difficult to come up with a different framing device for a narrative?

Many of his iconic works feature an architectural, ghost - like framing device around his subjects.

The present - day framing device does provide a reason to flash back to the past, and connects the sins of different eras; but the structure of Painless also makes the movie feel heavier and more portentous than it needs to be.

Also informed by studies in visual literacy at New York University and cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago, the simultaneous viewpoints presented in his grids of photo imagery - sourced from the environment, movies, Internet and print media - point to insights beyond any given framing device.

Discounting the hokey framing device of host Robert Mitchum wandering through an attic full of Huston memorabilia, this two - hour plus film is a remarkable chronicle of a remarkable man.

He gets off on the wrong foot from the get - go by opting for a faux - documentary framing device that has his characters» present - day incarnations speaking directly to the camera.

In the movie's inspired framing device, music - hall phenomenon Dan Leno (Douglas Booth), Lizzie's mentor and best friend, stages his own re-creation of her trial with upsetting results.

It seems like Depp was never told «no» to any of his ideas, and the film has to indulge the actor's notion that audiences wouldn't be able to get enough of his character, so we're also forced to endure him in the useless framing device.

In the game on which the manga is based, the enemy the player must engage most frequently is the environment itself, and the artist's translation of this element into menacing backgrounds and elaborate framing devices is beautiful to behold.

All of these take place across the «Gravel Channel» in - game TV show, which is as cheesy as it sounds but acts as a good framing device.

(# 17) Back on the warm reds and oranges color palette, but with an added background detail of the Millennium Falcon front window framing device.

inAPPropriate Comedy takes its awful title from its equally idiotic framing device, which finds Offer and his creepy, wolfish grin punching buttons on a computer, each of which activates a separate sketch, each more jaw - droppingly awful than the last.

The editing is so smart, in fact, that it even pulls off the film's awkward framing device, which sees a young Burroughs writing the novel at his uncle's house.

Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce have tried to enliven Carraway's narration by using a clumsy framing device, set in a sanitarium in 1929, where Nick is instructed to write down his memories of Gatsby as some sort of therapy.

It's not really an issue though, as it's merely a simple framing device for the overall game, and you'll also be having too much of a crazy time to really care.

Given how continuity works in this case, we suppose that the white - frame device right behind that human paw holding the rear of the device would be another color option for the Pixel 2, if not the next Pixel XL model.

Maybe this is a clever framing device.

But the computer - animated portions that function as a real - world framing device are more tedious than fanciful.

And to be fair, that is an interesting framing device, but when everything that follows has been done several times before, the device loses its charm rather quickly.

The installation is an effective framing device for the overtly narrative and conversational videos.

Balls» Budget response showed an improved ability on the Labour benches to deploy damaging framing devices against the coalition, with the shadow chancellor branding yesterday's housing policy a «spare home subsidy».

Arabian Nights locks ordinary struggles and scrubby Portuguese country sides into Byzantine framing devices, faithful to the credo that any story can be interesting if it's told in an interesting way.

I'm not convinced that the central framing device, with orange - suited Arthur being interviewed by a court - appointed psychologist (Sandra Oh), was the best way to get at Arthur's troubled back story.

Consider the Greek tragedy framing device of Mighty Aphrodite, the trip to Hell in Deconstructing Harry or the musical sequences of Everyone Says I Love You (which features a brave Julia Roberts churning out a song in a voice only a mother could appreciate).

Though Nickerson is the one recounting the tale of the Essex's demise, the movie includes moments from Chase and Pollard's perspectives that Nickerson's 14 - year - old self (played by Tom Holland) simply wouldn't be privy to, which makes the whole framing device pointless.

Early word has praised the gorgeous framing device, and it should be fun to take it all in when the pic hits theaters later this month.

I guess this pretentious framing device, and its supposedly poetic resonance, qualifies 9 Songs as an art movie rather than something more experimental and underground, but it feels tacked on.