Sentences with phrase «historical travesty»

But by participating in this historical travesty everyone associated with it — the director, the programmers, the designers and the actors — will have to accept their little share of the blame for the world that's coming.

Nie yin niang (The Assassin, Hou Hsiao - hsien, 2015) The aesthetics of a music video, the pretension of a school student, a historical travesty.

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This triangle appears to be inspired less by any historical evidence than by «The Virgin Queen,» a 1955 Hollywood travesty wherein Liz, Walt and Bess were played by the more - age appropriate Bette Davis, Richard Todd and Joan Collins.

To overcome the resistance that many young and old blacks have of looking deeply into our past I have come up with a creation: A historical novel that uses the tools of mythology and science fiction to create a scenario that allows the reader to identify with a main character who will rise above all others; a character who will be a triumphant hero amidst the travesty of slavery.

The [Koons] exhibition's historical position as the last to fill the Breuer building is a travesty, an abdication of the museum's responsibility to balance aesthetic discernment with the forces of the marketplace.