Sentences with phrase «height of one's creative powers»

The sharp and beguiling Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) sees a brilliant director and a magnificent cast at the height of their creative powers.

The beauty of Leo's approach is his understanding that for all the popularity of the band, their story is essentially about the tragic fall of a genius («They say I got brains, but they ain't doing me no good»), who self - immolated above the torch of hubris and ambition at the height of his creative power.

And as with Barbara Jean, the snuffing - out of such a life at the height of creative power leaves the film audience feeling irreparably deprived.

Masterful and prescient, he is writing at the height of his creative powers, and Oliver Single, the central protagonist, is one of his most fascinating characters.

Masterful and prescient, Le Carré is writing at the height of his creative powers, and Oliver Single, the central protagonist, is one of his most fascinating characters.

Why would an artist at the height of his creative powers attempt to take his life... and then walk a mile to a doctor's house for help?

Stella frequented New York galleries as a student and was intrigued by the work of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, both of whom were at the height of their creative powers in the late 1950s.

When Jay DeFeo died in 1989, at age sixty, she was at the height of her creative powers.

Working at the height of his creative powers, Gorky painted a number of his greatest paintings, among them «The Plough and the Song,» «Pastoral,» «The Calendars» (destroyed by fire in 1961), «The Betrothal I and II,» «The Opaque,» and «Agony.»

In 1960, Hofmann was at the height of his creative powers, as he refined and distilled his painterly technique and its underlying principles.