Sentences with phrase «haunted by a sense»

We are haunted by a sense that what we do is somehow inadequate or pointless.

Yet the film is haunted by a sense of opportunities not taken, of an artist deliberately reining in his artistry.

Not exact matches

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

They determine our vital attitude as decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the habitual sense, by which each is haunted, of the other being in the world.

Like all positive affections of consciousness, the sense of reality has its negative counterpart in the shape of a feeling of unreality by which persons may be haunted, and of which one sometimes hears complaint: --

Haunted by her parents» harrowing experiences in Nazi concentration camps in World War II, she was troubled as a child by images of piles of skeletons and barbed wire, and, in her words, «a floating sense of danger and incipient harm.»

It's magical realism mixed with kitchen - sink drama, seasoned by a haunting sense of history as a sentient entity.

It's also haunted by the most contrived progression of events (I could never call it «plot»), and characters» behavior which makes no sense whatsoever.

Haunted by the ever - present stench of his own mortality, Marcus begins to question his sense of right and wrong.

The gloomy setting of their New England town in the 1960s contributes perfectly to an overwhelming sense of isolation and abandonment, accompanied by a haunting score from Alexandre Desplat.

Besides her physical ailments, the poor girl has unfortunately been haunted mentally by a nagging sense of feeling unwanted, despite being raised by a couple of very loving parents (John Schneider and Jennifer Price).

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

With a haunting theme that's often accompanied by female voice, Del Mar's flowing orchestral melody captures a lyricism that's worthy of Debussy's «La Mer» in communicating the literally transformative effect of nature on man, his lovely themes for aching violin capturing despair and acceptance, playful pizzicatos embodying a renewed sense of hope (as well as endearingly comic crabs) and exotic percussion hearing the mystery of an island and its outlying sea.

One might say his melodically lush, often orchestral soundtracks are joined by a sense of irony and wistfulness, no matter if he's playing inside of John Malkovich's head, gloriously riding a gritty old west or haunting a woeful Hollywood director.

Variety's Justin Chang says about it, «A superb performance by Casey Affleck and a haunting sense of place give flesh and blood to Kenneth Lonergan's emotionally overwhelming third feature.

Haunted by deja - vus, Cliff will have to make sense of it all throughout the entire game

All the male characters who features in Ghost Stories are haunted by terrible misfortune that has morphed into an acute sense of panic and self - loathing.

After a strange sexual encounter, a teenager finds herself haunted by nightmarish visions and the inescapable sense that something is after her.

Logan / Wolverine (the ever - charismatic Hugh Jackman), heightened senses, healing factor and animalistic rages, continues to be haunted by the missing memories of his past — in particular the mystery of how he received his metal - bonded claws and skeleton.

Undertow still has a haunting sense of place, notably when the young refugees arrive at a kind of hideout in the woods, a graffiti covered, half - demolished building by a serene lake.

Grady struggles to finish his senior year, haunted by the rape that destroyed his sense of security and self - worth.

Haunted by the long - unsolved mystery of a neighbor boy's disappearance, Emily Brisse tries to make sense of a terrible story that isn't... more

Past and present are not opposites but interdependent; the past persists in the frequent flashbacks and in Jim's sense of being haunted by his wartime actions and his wife's untimely death: «The last thing he needs is the past and its ghosts rising up, unbidden,» but might Cadillac be «a ghost from his past sent to free him?»

Lizzie is haunted by her first love (a revolutionary Irishman), burdened by a sense of duty to right past mistakes, and torn between a desire for independence and the pragmatic need to be cared for.

In a way, each of Gallace's paintings is somehow two paintings at once: rigorously abstract (not in the sense that an abstract painting is abstract, but in the sense that a syllogism is abstract — a form or template whose particular contents can be filled in) and generic, yet also haunted by feelings, memories, and reverberations that may be profoundly subjective and therefore private and in part incommunicable.

As in the medical sense of the term, a phantom limb may no longer be in evidence, but its owner still feels its presence, is haunted by it, and struggles with instinctive urges to use it.

They have a subtle sense of narrative, dream - like and haunting, influenced by the lives of her two daughters.

Bhimji is best - known for her beautiful but haunting films and photographs, described by the judges as «deeply romantic imagery with a strong sense of portent, of disquiet, of melancholy».

Karsten writes: «Weight's paintings are captivating for many reasons - his color sense is perfectly in tune with his mysterious imagery, his realism is modified by the emotions of fear and anguish, and his compositions reveal a deep understanding of 2 - d image structure... It isn't mastery over materials that keeps me looking at Weight's work though - it's his crazy, compelling, haunted voice, and how he gives us a frank look at the unknowable world of individual emotional lives.»

For many, the architecture remains impressive but with a haunting sense of disrepair; whilst others have been overrun completely by nature.

Here was a man who looked to be in the grip of a palpable sense of paranoia, his eyes rolling and haunted as he addressed the Turner Prize audience that clearly felt, like him, that it was trapped in a bunker surrounded by hostile forces.

«I like the idea that paintings can be haunted by the past, that they have the means to resurrect, to conjure, and to alter a sense of time or reality.

As a whole, Haunted by Objects is the grandiose attempt by an artist to use cultural objects and the narratives and worldviews preserved in them to give voice to his own sense of fascination.

Political and social commentary was a constant thread throughout Polke's oeuvre referencing Germany's Nazi era in his early career with a sense of badinage, and sly wit not matched by fellow artist Anselm Kiefer — through «abstract» swastika's and the haunting series of Watch Towers from the mid-80s which evoke the structures on the perimeters of concentration camps, with the juxtaposition of a drab Warhol-esque finish.

By installing motion - sensing camera traps in the forests, the Wildlife Conservation Society managed to capture this haunting scene of the gorillas in the wild — and though a bit grainy, it might be the most candid peek behind the veil of mystery that still surrounds them.