Sentences with phrase «historical figures like»

Robinson says their real estate careers involve «serious fun and good business» and she easily identifies with historical figures like Mahatma Gandhi who believed that «happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do is in harmony.»

The 17 projects in this sector featured a wide array of artists, ranging from young artists such as William Cordova (Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Zurich) and Tomasz Kowalski (carlier gebauer, Berlin) to historical figures like Meret Oppenheim (Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna), Francis Picabia (Haas & Fuchs, Berlin), Robert Smithson and Marcel Duchamp.

His spray - painted text «drawings» are thin, his installations sometimes uneven, and his Civil Rights All Stars and Uncle Tom All Stars series (jerseys for Black historical figures like Angela Davis or Clarence Thomas) are just plain funny.

Her portraits of historical figures like Napoleon, rock stars like David Bowie, and her own friends and lovers are linked...

Her portraits of historical figures like Napoleon, rock stars like David Bowie, and her own friends and lovers are linked through their depiction of celebrity and the artist's distinctive style of the idealized, feminized, androgynous male.

This piece is from a popular and highly coveted series of doctored images that the artist made by taking interior settings — from banal living rooms to entire movie theaters — and wrapping them in 3 - D «skins» made from paintings by art - historical figures like Mondrian and, in this case, Georgia O'Keeffe.

Portraiture is also the focus of Californian artist Henry Taylor, whose crude though ravenously observed paintings are populated by African - American subjects, from historical figures like Eldridge Cleaver to people living in his Los Angeles neighborhood.

It features key examples of the technique by artists from various periods and regions, from historical figures like the Czech surrealists Jindřich Štýrský and Toyen, to post — World War II artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Roy Lichtenstein, to contemporary artists of different generations, including Anna Barriball, Jennifer Bornstein, Morgan Fisher, Simryn Gill, Matt Mullican, Ruben Ochoa, Gabriel Orozco, and Jack Whitten.

So while you engage in a variety of missions, you get to meet a handful of historical figures like Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale in order to «help» shape London to what it has become today by ferreting out the nefarious Templars who have imbedded themselves into the architecture of London itself.

Players also got to interact with historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci.

You'll have allies as well, some of which are historical figures like Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale, and Karl Marx (among others).

And while I only got a snippet of one story mission, I'm sure some gamers will get a huge kick out of getting to interact with legendary historical figures like Cleopatra.

It has its historical setting, its real events, but no one in the book — besides the peripheral historical figures like Oppenheimer and Reverend Tanimoto — is real.

And a bonus for history buffs — The Lacuna includes real - life historical figures like Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky — a first for Kingsolver's fiction.

To learn more out other historical figures like «Charles Carroll», try searching the Internet.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed a commission to review monuments dedicated to controversial historical figures like Columbus.

If you look at literature like Shakespeare, and at some historical figures like Sir William Johnson (a prominent pre-revolutionary leader in New York), you get the impression that it used to be normal for men, even much older men, to be interested in teenage girls.»

Meanwhile, Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed a commission to review monuments dedicated to controversial historical figures like Columbus.

Ranging from legendary former players like Gary Payton to relatively unknown (but similarly important) historical figures like Dr. E.B. Henderson, the 2013 HOF class reflects the wide range of people who contributed to making basketball a beloved international sport.

«This book wholly represents the culinary traditions and passions of important historical figures like Thomas Jefferson — a true scholar and gastronome.

Speaking of stereotypes, when I think about explorers, historical figures like Columbus come to mind.

Extolling the trailblazing, renegade spirit of iconic historical figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Wright brothers, ethnographer Simon Sinek dares people be rebels, to «think, act and communicate» in ways that are «the complete opposite of everyone else.»

Not exact matches

And it's fun to watch a host of great, familiar actors playing historical figures — like Bruce Greenwood as Robert McNamara, Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield, Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Stuhlbarg as Abe Rosenthal, and Zach Woods at one of the Washington Post's lawyers.

Similarly, photos of celebrities who look like historical figures is certainly a curiosity, but hardly mind - expanding.

Same can be said of the bible, which also includes some real historical figures (possibly) and more likely mix in fantasy characters in order to drive the point home, like angels, demons and the like.

It's like we have, he's a historical figure; that's a verifiable fact.

Like Chopra's novels on Jesus and Buddha, Muhammad succeeds in offering a millennial narrative to a gigantic religious historical figure that lived a long time ago and who may not be readily accessible us in the 21st century.

Thinking of himself as a grand world - historical figure, attuned to the latest intellectual trend (preferably one with a tinge of futurism and science, like global warming), demonstrating his own incomparable depth and farsightedness.

He may be like Arthur, a legend based on a historical figure.

Yes, there are historical proofs that Jesus, a historical figure, like Buddha, also a historical figure did exist.

If you set about measuring a complicated structure like the pyramid of Cheops, he says, you will soon have dozens of measurements to play with; and if you have the patience to juggle them about in various ways, you are bound to come out with many figures that coincide with important historical dates or with scientific calculations.

U idiot bigot she brought up jesus in a discussion about santa and said «I mean jesus was a white man too but you know its like we have he was a historical figure I mean thats a verifiable fact...» I watched the whole interview too if u like her so much why did nt u listen to her «just because it makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean you can just change it...» she did say those words so edited or not she proposed a lie as the truth jesus was as white as any middle eastern person is

For those of you who don't like the timing of the writings, here's a look at the time gap between the original and first surviving copies of some very important books that give us information on important historical figures... Bible: 25 years Homer: 500 Demosthenes: 1400 Herodotus: 1400 Plato: 1200 Tacitus: 1000 Caesar: 1000 Pliny: 750 Now, here's a look at how many of those manuscript copies we have....

Like a lot of historical, «spiritual» figures.

The Bible contains all sorts of linguistic conventions like poetry, historical narrative, figures of speech, hyperbole, metaphor, etc..

It is not only a speculative scholarly construction, but an unattractive image of what Jesus was like as a historical figure.

Then, secondly, there are those aspects of this knowledge which, like aspects of historical knowledge of any figure from the past, can become significant to us in our present in various ways.

It also has to be distinguished from the historical Jesus because the results of historical research are not a determining factor in the constituence of this figure; like the Christ of the gospels, the Jesus of one's faith - image is a mixture of historical reminiscence, at a somewhat distant remove, and myth, legend and idealism.

«So we kind of quash all the analytics for stuff like this, and all of a sudden we're on TMZ and Twitter just trying to figure out — any whispers, any kind of rehearsal information, historical performances.»

Using CBO's baseline assumptions for spending growth, and assuming defense and nondefense R&D maintain their recent historical performance as a share of appropriations, the picture might look like the «baseline» scenario in figure 2.

Famous historical figures were redheads, like Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Many historical figures in the past like Chinese President, Chiang Ching - kuo and Mongolian leader, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal were all married to Russian women.

Visually stunning, like its predecessor, this game boasts an extensive character creation mode, a multitude of new and returning weapon types, each of which can be forged and upgraded to the player's preferences, while it also features 300 characters based on both fictional and historical Japanese figures, whose souls help players strengthen their team and defeat their enemies.

Much like «Inglourious Basterds» in that it's another revenge tale based somewhat in historical fact (although there are no real - life figures this time around), «Django Unchained» also reveals itself to be somewhat of a buddy comedy, at least in the first hour when Django and Dr. Schultz travel around the country collecting bounties.

From his direct stare into the camera, to his stance, to even the shape of the throne - like chair on which he sits, Chadwick Boseman seems to be evoking a historical figure in the new poster for Marvel's «Black Panther»: Huey P. Newton.

It occasionally feels like the sort of worthy impersonation of a historical figure that garners awards but for the most part Portman eschews these pitfalls.

Throughout, the M15 chief, Harry Patterson (John Hurt), who's rigged the van with a hidden camera and a microphone and is overseeing the ride, makes observations about the two figures» psychologies that are already plainly evident through the actors» gestures, as well as offers explanations about the political and historical importance of this discussion that feel more like classroom lectures.

If you can accept critically - acclaimed, but mostly historically inaccurate and somewhat anachronistic, films like Jesus Christ Superstar, Gladiator, and Braveheart, perhaps you might be able to cut Marie Antoinette the slack necessary, allowing the artistic license to properly engage you as a story about a young girl struggling to find herself, leaving everything she was behind her and uncertain of just what to be, only to finally emerge to the rest of the world as a historical figure larger than life.

There are a number of real historical figures portrayed in the film, including William Randolph Hearst, Nelson Rockerfeller, Orson Welles, Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, and lesser knowns like Hazel Huffman, Hallie Flanagan and others that all interact with the fictional characters in the movie.

Wolfe structures the story a bit like Citizen Kane, in which the plot - quest of an investigative reporter serves primarily as the vehicle to tell the broader story of a historical figure's life — but this time with all sorts of racial complications and resonances.