Sentences with phrase «heady ideas»

Curator Adrienne Edwards discusses the heady ideas animating her latest group show, which features 29 A-list artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Wangechi Mutu.

For a raunchy animated comedy that dealt with heady ideas of religion, that wouldn't be a tough sell.

It may not have quite stuck the landing, but Alex Garland's Ex Machina was still one of the more entertaining sci - fi films of recent years, full of heady ideas and indelible performances.

It's easy to fall into a state of hypnosis as he slips his heady ideas underneath your eyelids and into the back of your mind.

In GameSpot's A Way Out review, Oscar Dayus suggests some of its heady ideas were held back by cringe - worthy dialogue, tonal inconsistency, and a boring finale.

The trouble is that these sequences are at times a little too cartoony for their own good and while they may appeal to younger viewers who are not quite ready to grapple with the headier ideas regarding how dangerous mere words can be to the social order, older audience members will find themselves waiting impatiently for the next visual poem to begin.

Not exact matches

He offers sweeping statements about redefining the retail business and soaring visions of the digital future that take the listener into a heady atmosphere of Big Ideas only tenuously connected to the quotidian, earthbound business of selling $ 45 slim - fit gingham shirts.

Ask Scott D. Anthony, author of The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market, and he'll tell you that the heady early days — when an innovation moves from idea to market — are the toughest time for any startup.

I mean, I know the Freudian superstition has been largely discredited since those heady days — his results were falsified, his psychotherapeutic sorcery doesn't work, and so on — but that doesn't alter the extraordinary hold his model of human motives still has over people's imaginations, or the bibulous excitement his ideas once inspired.

Linked to the idea of English devolution as an answer to Scottish «home rule» this has become a heady brew.

For Annihilation is ultimately a cerebral work whose visual beauty, strangeness, heady sound design and sophisticated ideas prove Garland once more to be one of genre cinema's finest living practitioners.

Throw that in with remixed classic franchise music and excellent retreads of familiar levels, and you have a heady cocktail of nostalgia and new ideas wrapped in a traditional Sonic package.

You see, Swordfish thinks it's one heady affair flecked with nifty booms and stunts, but its ideas are as goofily slim as its action is often needless, and director Dominic Sena and writer Skip Woods seem blissfully blind to it all.

This is heady stuff, and it's been exhilarating, joyful ride to watch The Man Who Sent the SOS evolve from an idea Paul Amirault conceived to a set of proofs he unboxed, in front of the world, on video.

Czech students brought their own original ideas and progressive techniques into this heady atmosphere.

Half a decade before opening his eponymous gallery, Castelli — who was a member of the famous Club, the heady discussion group where the leading Abstract Expressionists of the day debated artistic ideas — concluded that the Ab Exers had not been sufficiently embraced by American collectors and institutions and decided to organize a show promoting their work.

Although Marcel Duchamp had subverted the idea of high or elevated taste with his ready - mades and dada had undermined the very idea that culture was worth the effort, both Duchamp and his dada peers were largely forgotten in post-war America, heady with having won the war with its culture intact and artistically dynamic like never before.

Broodthaers was a master at creatively parroting — both consciously and unconsciously — the tropes, images, and theory that may now seem a bit tame or even passé, but which during his decade or so working as an artist (1963 — 1976) were some of the most heady and cutting - edge ideas of the time: René Magritte's indexically challenged «Ceci n'est pas une pipe» as contemplated by Michel Foucault in 1968; Jacques Derrida's distinction between speech and writing; Jacques Lacan's string of metonymic associations, etc..

The ideas involved in this piece are as heady as the actual composition is fun.

Daignault, whose work ties together traditional figurative painting with heady conceptual ideas, planned it that way.