Sentences with phrase «highly idiosyncratic ways»

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The idea of the unequal glory of the blessed may run against our egalitarian instincts, but it is really a way of saying that individuals count, Saints are highly idiosyncratic.

Since Hill's feature debut, The Foot Fist Way, the Carolina hooligans have been crafting idiosyncratic comedies about highly capable buffoons that — despite being remarkable joke generators — are also three - dimensional human beings.

During the New Wave, however, Melville went his own way, making highly idiosyncratic crime films — classically mounted if daringly existential — that were beholden to no trend, including Le doulos, Le deuxième soufflé, and Le samouraï.

So you're dealing with a highly, highly specific property that's idiosyncratic to one persona and one person's point of view and the way in which they interpret sort of culture and Western culture and twist that back around into this super pure amazing property that has a tone that I think is unlike anything else that is out there.»

Alice Neel, a great American portraitist who died in 1984, fits this description to a T. Sixteen paintings from her estate, currently on display at LA Louver Gallery, provide a brief but satisfying introduction into her highly idiosyncratic art and - to put it mildly - into her unconventional way of life.

While the 1980s may have been idiosyncratic and highly specific in many ways, the revivification of works like Bender's, Bloom's and Wodiczko's proves that there's plenty in «Brand New» that's still timely, even over 30 years later.

Blurring the distinction between high and low, Platter's work appropriates, references, and filters, in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way, the enormous amounts of information available to us today.