Sentences with phrase «ghosts of history»

The transparent and weightless quality of silk evokes the ghosts of history that invisibly shape our present while starkly contrasting historical gravity.

Renowned choreographer and dancer Stephen Galloway (Ballet Frankfurt) and actor Vanessa Myrie (Baltimore) figure as «trickster / phantom» and «witness» in this carefully composed meditation on the denationalised, de-territorialised spaces born of the encounters between local and global cultures, where the ghosts of history linger amid the realities of the day.

The political nature of black hair has been addressed by observers from Malcolm X to Chris Rock, in his 2009 documentary, «Good Hair,» but Ms. Perry's work also suggests the vibrancy of spirit worlds, African dervishes and the lingering ghosts of history.

She summons the ghosts of history to the present.

In reacting to myriad traumas, the remarkably restrained Preer conveys a sense of deep despair, as if haunted by the ghosts of history.

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«The problem with real ghosts, as opposed to the elegant fictional creations of the likes of MR James and Susan Hill, is that their behaviour is so erratic and irritating,» write the Telegraph «s reviewer of a new book called A Natural History of Gghosts, as opposed to the elegant fictional creations of the likes of MR James and Susan Hill, is that their behaviour is so erratic and irritating,» write the Telegraph «s reviewer of a new book called A Natural History of GhostsGhosts.

Let me just ask one question: Can we PLEASE start the debate in the country about how «God», «Hell», «Heaven», «Satan», «Muhammad», «Jesus», «Angels» «Ghosts» «Demons» and «Spirits of the Dead and or / Nature / Mother Earth» do not exist in any rational form as the way they are presented throughout world history?

So if you have a triune god who is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the human manifestation of father / son god — then Mary is arguably the mother of god and in that way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history of the transformation of the triune god in heaven to the triune god on earth and of course the few days when the triune god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.

In an article first published in 1982, wonderfully titled «How Moral Agents Became Ghosts, or, Why the History of Ethics Diverged from That of the Philosophy of Mind,» MacIntyre writes, «At the beginning of modern moral philosophy — which I date in the 1780s — the moral agent as traditionally understood almost, if not quite, disappeared from view.

Flora Springs Winery in Napa has a lineup of Halloween wines, which ties into the winery's history, located where there had been an abandoned ghost mine.

And if that person is Jeremy Corbyn, with a YouGov poll for The Times finding that Corbyn would beat Andy Burnham, by 53 % per cent to 47 % the final round of voting, then the Labour party will descend into a civil war accompanied by a gleeful right wing press continually raising the ghosts of Michael Foot, Tony Benn and other more recent signifiers of Labour's «hard left» history.

Kwasi Kwarteng, Conservative MP for Spelthorne as been an active author with books such as Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World and War and Gold: A Five Hundred Year History of Empires, Adventure and Debt.

For the first time in the history of Ghana, the NDC had introduced ghost cocoa roads in Ghana.

The site encompasses 8000 years of human history, including a pioneer ghost town and caves with ancient Native American pottery.

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

I'm excited to get back to the Big Easy and enjoy some delicious cajun food, learn more about NOLA's history, and, of course, take a «boos and booze» ghost tour.

The Salem Smugglers» Tour is the best Salem walking tour and Salem Ghost Tour highlighting the history of the tunnels in the city.

Things fall flat, though, when Taylor emerges as the central character, interacting with Hill House's malignant history in an increasingly silly series of frightless escapades that have her chasing about the house's serpentine corridors after wispy kiddie ghosts and bloody footprints.

Though the history is correct, the disturbances Finn notices are not the work of a ghost, but of Sinclair (Malcolm McDowell), a criminal who is determined to find the priceless piece of art he believes is hidden in the house.

Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.

«Hoichi the Earless,» the longest of the chapters at more than an hour, begins with a stylized sea battle created in a studio tank and then resurrects the ghosts of battle to hear the epic song histories of a blind musician.

Complicating matters still further — or perhaps throwing them into clarifying relief — is the fact that «Ismael's Ghosts» was written and directed by Arnaud Desplechin, himself an unruly French filmmaker who, whatever his family history may be, can make the very notion of discipline seem offensive.

Both tracks perpetuate and consolidate the production lore that circulated at the time of The Innkeepers» release — West's history with the Yankee Pedlar, the Kelly McGillis Skype call, the revelation of Paxton's dorkiness, etc. — but the discussion in each case dilates to include a gamut of topics, from unconscious influences (no stranger to ghosts, Healy found his performance haunted by too many viewings of Fargoand Pee - Wee's Big Adventure) to Fessenden's cameo (maddeningly offscreen).

2:45 pm — TCM — Kwaidan Japanese ghost stories have a long and hallowed history, and this omnibus film is perhaps the most classic example of them on film.

Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost... and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance.

ESL has partnered with Ubisoft in both Europe and the United States to put together the largest ever eSports event in the history of the PC Multiplayer Shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online.

Boldly centered around the physical / emotional landscape of a widowed mother in her 70s (an elegant performance by veteran actress Lv Zhong), Red Amnesia is a ghost story of sorts, in which the return of repressed Chinese history asserts itself with a melancholic vengeance.

Three independent movies from this year deserve a special mention... Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, the socio - political history of a gold rush town, illustrated with film stock recovered from beneath an abandoned ice rink... Oxide Ghosts, director Michael Cumming's assemblage of VHS outtakes from the influential, more relevant than ever TV news satire Brass Eye... and Dispossession, a restrained documentary about the housing crisis that's provoked fiercely energetic audience discussions up and down the land, culminating in a panel discussion at Curzon Chelsea with director Paul Sng, author Anna Minton and Jeremy Corbyn MP.

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

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More recently, Aykroyd's father, Peter Aykroyd, published a book entitled A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters, and declares himself a firm believer in the supernatural.

GRAW 2 Co-op Collection 2 brings back some of the greatest maps in Ghost Recon history and let's you cooperate and compete in exciting new locales.

Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World aside, most comic book movies are centred on men and boys — and that's even looking beyond Hollywood's superhero franchises to films like A History of Violence, Oblivion and Old Boy.

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Now we know we're giving some comic book films, like Road to Perdition, American Splendor, Ghost World and a A History of Violence the short shrift here, but we wanted to focus in on the type of film we cover the most.

, the students will learn, review, discuss, investigate, and write about: 1) Brief Irish history 2) Health problems and diseases 3) Conditions on a trans - Atlantic ship 4) History and procedures at Ellis Island 5) Immigration then and now Other skills enhanced are: 1) Vocabulary improvement 2) Reading comprehension skills 3) Use and study of negative words All the stories in this collection capitalize on the students great interest in ghosts, and other weird phehistory 2) Health problems and diseases 3) Conditions on a trans - Atlantic ship 4) History and procedures at Ellis Island 5) Immigration then and now Other skills enhanced are: 1) Vocabulary improvement 2) Reading comprehension skills 3) Use and study of negative words All the stories in this collection capitalize on the students great interest in ghosts, and other weird pheHistory and procedures at Ellis Island 5) Immigration then and now Other skills enhanced are: 1) Vocabulary improvement 2) Reading comprehension skills 3) Use and study of negative words All the stories in this collection capitalize on the students great interest in ghosts, and other weird phenomena.

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

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From 1,500 rpm 800 Nm of torque is available (780 Nm for Ghost), while a wide rear track, shorter wheelbase and lower roof height further contribute to the most powerful, involving driving experience of any Rolls - Royce in history.

Here's what they had to say: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise takes us inside the Tower of London, a place so saturated with history that ghosts ooze out everywhere.

The Hundred - Year House By Rebecca Makkai Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143127444 Though this story features a Marxist scholar, an unemployed academic, an annoying mother - in - law and a ghost, the real star of the show is Laurelfield, the Chicago estate where 100 years of family history unfolds.

Its history of pirates, witches, ghosts and unearthly forces has been a magnet ever since to those seeking a closer commune with all of...

In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art - porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality.

Of course, the other novels include Childhood's End, Cradle, Dolphin Island, The Deep Range Earthlight, A Fall of Moondust, The Fountains of Paradise, Glide Path, The Ghost from the Grand Banks, The Hammer of God Imperial Earth, Islands in the Sky, Prelude to Space, Richter 10, The Sands of Mars, The Songs of Distant Earth, The Trigger Short Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (History Lesson, Volume I, The Sentinel, Volume II, The Star, Volume III, A Meeting with Medusa, Volume IV), Expedition to Earth, Reach for Tomorrow, Tales from the White HarOf course, the other novels include Childhood's End, Cradle, Dolphin Island, The Deep Range Earthlight, A Fall of Moondust, The Fountains of Paradise, Glide Path, The Ghost from the Grand Banks, The Hammer of God Imperial Earth, Islands in the Sky, Prelude to Space, Richter 10, The Sands of Mars, The Songs of Distant Earth, The Trigger Short Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (History Lesson, Volume I, The Sentinel, Volume II, The Star, Volume III, A Meeting with Medusa, Volume IV), Expedition to Earth, Reach for Tomorrow, Tales from the White Harof Moondust, The Fountains of Paradise, Glide Path, The Ghost from the Grand Banks, The Hammer of God Imperial Earth, Islands in the Sky, Prelude to Space, Richter 10, The Sands of Mars, The Songs of Distant Earth, The Trigger Short Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (History Lesson, Volume I, The Sentinel, Volume II, The Star, Volume III, A Meeting with Medusa, Volume IV), Expedition to Earth, Reach for Tomorrow, Tales from the White Harof Paradise, Glide Path, The Ghost from the Grand Banks, The Hammer of God Imperial Earth, Islands in the Sky, Prelude to Space, Richter 10, The Sands of Mars, The Songs of Distant Earth, The Trigger Short Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (History Lesson, Volume I, The Sentinel, Volume II, The Star, Volume III, A Meeting with Medusa, Volume IV), Expedition to Earth, Reach for Tomorrow, Tales from the White Harof God Imperial Earth, Islands in the Sky, Prelude to Space, Richter 10, The Sands of Mars, The Songs of Distant Earth, The Trigger Short Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (History Lesson, Volume I, The Sentinel, Volume II, The Star, Volume III, A Meeting with Medusa, Volume IV), Expedition to Earth, Reach for Tomorrow, Tales from the White Harof Mars, The Songs of Distant Earth, The Trigger Short Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (History Lesson, Volume I, The Sentinel, Volume II, The Star, Volume III, A Meeting with Medusa, Volume IV), Expedition to Earth, Reach for Tomorrow, Tales from the White Harof Distant Earth, The Trigger Short Stories: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (History Lesson, Volume I, The Sentinel, Volume II, The Star, Volume III, A Meeting with Medusa, Volume IV), Expedition to Earth, Reach for Tomorrow, Tales from the White Harof Arthur C. Clarke (History Lesson, Volume I, The Sentinel, Volume II, The Star, Volume III, A Meeting with Medusa, Volume IV), Expedition to Earth, Reach for Tomorrow, Tales from the White Hart.

Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the»70s, to the crack wars in»80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the»90s.

He has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for journalism and the other for his book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.

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Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of historical fantasy novels: Ghost Talkers, and The Glamourist Histories series.

As a ghost writer, I've helped many people tell their stories, and whether it was a personal triumph from tragedy, family history, a «behind the scenes» account of events, or even a creative work of fiction, the words and the voice of the author always remain recognizable as their own.

Langrish approaches her fantasies as «history with the beliefs put back in» — incorporating the beliefs of people of the past who took for granted the existence of trolls, ghosts, and other spirits.