Sentences with phrase «great white whale»

All this has something to do with «Leviathan,» somehow identified with everyone's favorite Great White Whale.

The great white whale lies waiting on the horizon.

Ahab's own fixation was on the great white whale as the mask of some «inscrutable malice,» sinewing the whole.

The great white whale is the Captain's Promised Land.

Dr. Altizer has a highly original interpretation of the meaning of Captain Ahab's quest for the great white whale in Moby Dick.

But my great white whale is Roger Federer.

Asked about the timing of the SEC action during an interview Monday on CNBC, Spitzer, who prosecuted securities fraud as the state's attorney general, said that «there's no question the SEC is desperate to prove that it can enforce the law, desperate to bring in the great white whale.»

The great white whale of games remains the Asian pastime Go.

For lo these many years, Ahab has been engaged in an obsessive pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale to whom he lost his leg.

Screenwriter Ray Bradbury masterfully captures the allegorical elements in the Herman Melville original without sacrificing any of the film's entertainment value (Bradbury suffered his own «great white whale» in the form of director Huston, who sadistically ran roughshod over the sensitive author throughout the film).

This saga of The Essex is actually told to Moby - Dick author Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) by an adult Thomas (played by Whishaw's «Suffragette» co-star, Brendan Gleeson) 30 years later, and it becomes the inspiration for Melville's fictitious tale of the great White Whale.

But with the exception of a well - staged whale - hunting sequence and the Essex crew's first meeting with the great white whale, the movie isn't terribly exciting.

Early deaths in the campaign include flying warp speed into a fiery sun and pissing off a great white whale enough that he will ram and destroy a lighthouse.

Gregory Peck plays the obsessed Captain Ahab, who lost his leg to «the great white whale» and is determined to hunt it down, and Richard Basehart is Ishmael, the young deck hand who narrates the tale.

Of course I can't write a review on this movie and not mention the great white whale.

Young novelist Herman Melville visits ageing Thomas Nickerson, the only survivor of the Essex, a whaling ship sunk decades earlier by a great white whale.

Based on the 1820 event that would inspire Herman Melville's tale Moby Dick (Ben Whishaw), an aged Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) recounts his story of the great white whale that would hunt down Captain George Pollard (Benjamin Walker) and First Mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) along with the rest of the whaling ship Essex, stranding the crew thousands of miles from home.

The other is for literary value, though 19th century readers who enjoy the story of revenge against a Great White Whale might be nonplussed by the post-modern language of Infinite Jest.

For the Pirelli World Challenge, Toyota has been something of a great white whale, constantly out of reach but always sought after by the touring - car series.

Publishers today are totally invested in chasing the great white whale — unpublished writers whose first work will become monster best sellers.

With both frogs immersed in the Moby - Dick saga, a bit of literary magic occurs, as readers and frogs alike get caught up in two concurrent dramas: Bro and Dude heading to the beach to surf, and Bro and Dude imagining themselves trying to catch the great white whale.

Director Ryan Little has transformed the 19th - century search for the great white whale into a medieval search for the great white dragon.

Antarctica, Nepal, Indonesia, New Zealand and travelling overland from Nairobi to Cape Town would be some of my great white whales.

Judging by the titles of his work, Stella had long been chasing the Great White Whale, but his delight in broad curves and the textures of paint and metal had me thinking more of flight.

I begged for associations with the sea, as when Frank Stella invokes the Great White Whale.

Besides, if an artist has to take himself this seriously, he may as well chase the great white whale.

But, in being dazzled by the brilliance of its surface, the chance to pull the viewer down through Welles and Mellvile, into the stomach of the great white whale (and whatever metaphorical possibilities that particular image may contain) has been missed.

Bill Viola creates romantic theater, Gary Hill writes philosophy texts, and Matthew Barney churns out epic cycles of male initiation and the great white whale.

The great white male is mocking himself as the Great White Whale.

Alongside the Turners, Hokanson has included: tools of the trade (a harpoon and oil lamps); brisk and all - but - abstract watercolor studies; an 1839 edition of The Natural History of the Sperm Whale by Thomas Beale (a book Turner was conversant with); and, yes, a copy of Moby Dick, from which is displayed an illustration of the great white whale by Rockwell Kent.

He seems to concede that his chase for the great white whale has become an impossible obsession.

Moby Dick, Ahab's doomed pursuit of the mystical image of the great white whale, was a touchstone for the abstract expressionist painters.

Thus the title «Moby Dick» should not suggest that this painting is a literal portrayal of the Great White Whale of Herman Melville's novel.

Artist Statement «Obsessed with taking revenge on the great white whale for the loss of his leg, Ahab is entangled by the harpoon rope as Moby Dick drags him down to...

Envisat is the long - term goal of the space harpoon project — its great white whale, as it were — but test missions in the next few years will focus on smaller targets.