Sentences with phrase «grand themes»

From grand themes to the smallest detail, every aspect is taken care of for you with expertise, dedication and passionate style.

The days of a persistent, grand theme running at all times over the game are done.

Alice and Simon represent different interactions teachers can have with their pupils, highlighting a major story current running beneath the film's grander themes of loss and immigration, modern teaching.

In Charlotte Gray, Armstrong was trying to make a movie dealing with grand themes like love and loss, but fails to achieve these lofty goals.

For his recent solo debut, Brooklyn - based painter Barnaby Furnas tackled life's grand themes head - on.

As in his budget address last month, Mr. de Blasio made no attempt to offer new grand themes for the coming year.

He taunts Tony Stark by constantly playing «I Got No Strings on Me» and gives the illusion of grand themes as he goes on about AI and the folly of man.

The seventh instalment in one of Japan's best - loved RPG series centres around grand themes, but unfortunately this handheld remake of the 2000 PlayStation original shows its age.

Liu Jianhua: «While most people express certain grand themes by narrative approaches or a system of symbols, I want the opposite; to get rid of those so - called meanings and put more emphasis on the spiritual and perceptual experiences my works deliver.»

A rant against religion and society, a historical detective story set in the far future, and a tribute to the sometimes fraught relations between father and son, The Book of Dave take on grand themes in a grand manner and clearly positions Will Self in the pantheon of Britain's contemporary greats.

Where Cimino (over) reached for grand themes on an even grander canvas, Cooper delivers what essentially amounts to a character driven genre piece, albeit one wrapped in the ubiquitous state - of - the - nation accoutrements of its 2008 setting.

They wasted the only life they'll ever have, in favor of a promised life in god's grand theme park in the sky.

Fritz Lang's 1921 silent Weimar masterpiece Der Müde Tod («Destiny») was also re-released, exploring love, death and human frailty a century ago, grand themes which still preoccupy the filmmakers on my list today.

So, for a variety of events, whether they be smaller intimate functions or grander themed events, Daydream can tailor a tropical Whitsunday experience never to be forgotten.

Missed opportunities like Medal of Honor and Fable 3 reinforce this sentiment in me but then games like Brotherhood (and let's be honest, BioShock 2 and Red Dead Redemption, which may not have discussed modern politics specifically but did tackle other grand themes deserving of the same respect) prove that this medium really is capable of more sophisticated speech.

Neo-Expressionist artist Anselm Kiefer's paintings and sculptures take on such grand themes as national identity, societal trauma, and humanity's place in the cosmos.

Embracing grand themes, he created paintings that were idiosyncratic and compelling.

Instead of addressing grand themes, Dupuy - Spencer's small - scale paintings and drawings depict everyday scenes from a cross-section of American life.

Bearden transforms Homer's Odyssey into vibrant, graphic images that adeptly communicate the familiar epic, reveal his own personal and cultural history, and evoke grand themes that concern the human condition.

And in her expansive and ambitious storytelling and in her preoccupation with grand themes, Murdoch joins herself to a tradition of fiction that regards the writing and reading of novels as an irreplaceable means of clarifying moral choices and sustaining spiritual life.

MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY For his recent solo debut, Brooklyn - based painter Barnaby Furnas tackled life's grand themes head - on.

Working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and best - selling novelist Kevin J. Anderson bring us Dune: House Atreides, the prequel, which captures all the complexity and grand themes of the original work while weaving a new tapestry of great passion and momentous destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than thirty years ago.

This exhibition brings to light a certain Grand Theme — an aspect of introspection and perceived reality when looking at works of art that explores the rich inner landscape of one's consciousness.

The grand theme of The Satanic Verses is the transition from the individual as the representative of a collective heritage to the individual as an autonomous, psychic entity.

But contradictions of this theme also appear, as they are likely to when exploring the grand themes of American religious life.

This grand theme, which runs throughout the Bible and binds it into a unity, is the activity of the living God.

As an experiment in genre mixing, an art - house curiosity, a new way of handling the grand theme of adolescence, and an example of the inherent powers a film score can possess; yes, it's really great.

This theme — «life matters» — is hard to see not because it's complicated or unfathomable, but because it's easy to assume that a filmmaker as austere as Kubrick would close his crowning achievement with a grander theme, one less quaint.

«Climax» marks the French - Argentine Gaspar Noé's return to his grand theme — the imperatives, joy and hell of physical experience.

It has the grand themes one would expect from these adventures.

Its grander themes, the culture of global capitalism and the relationship between parents and adult children, are excellent stuffing for oddly shaped poolside chaises and hideous hotel sofas.

A grand theme of his era in the Bond canon is that the enemies in the shadows have slowly been building unstoppable pieces of technology (an allegory for nuclear weapons, one presumes), and 007 has to really push himself to save the day.

While no casting or release date has been announced, Vogt - Roberts has met with series mastermind Hideo Kojima multiple times, assuring fans that this film will be a labor of love, and not a corporate product intended to reduce the grand themes of the game into a generic action movie.

With Dickens as source material, it ensures the inclusion of all sorts of grand themes and unrevealed secrets.

is how effectively it manages its small scope in relation to its grander themes.

What is arguably most impressive about Anomalisa is how effectively it manages its small scope in relation to its grander themes.

There's no grand theme here, just a handful of links I promised.

All literature's grand themes have already been tackled in brilliant books, by gifted authors.

Now, if Tadas can do this on a daily basis, let's call him the Chief Synthesizer of the economics / finance / investment blogosphere — then, what happens if he decides to take several steps back, and synthesize the grand themes he has seen in six years of writing his blog.

While no casting or release date has been announced, Vogt - Roberts has met with series mastermind Hideo Kojima multiple times, assuring fans that this film will be a labor of love, and not a corporate product intended to reduce the grand themes of the game into a generic action movie.

I mean, there's certainly no twist in the tale, no grand theme I'm laying the groundwork for.

The show's grand theme, that subtitle about freedom and discipline, suggests exclusions too.

Like the curator's 2007 exhibition The Painting of Modern Life, at the Hayward Gallery, the London institution he directs, and after Baudelaire, this is an exhibition that spans from the grand themes to the intimacies of the everyday (in 2007 these were represented by — two examples from many — Gerhard Richter's portrait of the grieving Jacqueline Kennedy, Woman with Umbrella, 1964, and Malcolm Moreley's monumental painting of chatting cruise - liner passengers, On Deck, 1966).

There is no grand theme to this show, or links forced between the artists» works.

Broken plates, Kabuki theater backdrops, tarpaulins and boxing mats; thickly applied oil paint, collage, viscous resin, and flat digital reproduction; fragments of text in different languages: these are just some of the diverse materials with which Schnabel engages life's grand themes — sexuality, obsession, suffering, redemption, death, and belief.

Not a biennial — that is, an international show organized around some grand theme or recent tendency — but simply a very, very big group exhibition.»

Reclaiming some of art's grand themes and spotlighting the degree of role - play that necessarily accompanies any new interpretation, Bas invites us to revel in a liberating sense of flux that, as much as it applies to the nascent identity of the youths he paints, alludes to the creative act itself.