Sentences with phrase «holy fool»

But it's a company of holy fools, spreading like yeast.

This may seem a strange claim, for Francis of Assisi is the one Christian saint whom all Westerners profess to love, even if most quietly continue to view him as a kind of holy fool who somehow wandered off the pages of Dostoevsky.

The film can't quite make up its mind about Franco's Holy Fool character, either; we're meant to laugh at his naïveté and his malapropisms at one moment, then we find out he's a resident in a group home so we can admire his can - do attitude, and later it's revealed that he has made valuable and intelligent contributions to the sales report even though he never indicates in conversation that he understands anything about the deal.

Enduring Love flirts with homophobia, dances with a European intolerance for holy fools (and foolish holiness — see again: The Idiot), and in the end resolves itself with some brilliant Brad Anderson - like panoramas of its characters dwarfed not by a sheltering sky, but by a crushing, claustrophobic one.

The film's best moments come when they're forced to interact with their fellow suburbanites, particularly a pair of scenes involving nosy realtor Kathy Bates» institutionalized son, played with unsettling intensity as a truth - telling holy fool by Michael Shannon.

So far, Martinelli has encountered a female Rembrandt, a modern - day Holy Fool, two difficult teenagers and a manifestation of the goddess Kali.

On the other hand, I wrote the first draft of Holy Fools just before I wrote Chocolat and some of the same ideas emerge in both plots.

On another level, Holy Fools gave me the opportunity to explore and to articulate a number of feelings and ideas that I have had about the nature of religion and the organizations concerned, as well as to express what it feels like to perform.

In what ways do you consider Holy Fools to be a prequel to Chocolat?

Holy Fools brims with suspense, murder, romance, and mystery.

Does Holy Fools have any personal significance to you?

They may look a little scarier than usual, but they continue to be the not - at - all - foolish Holy Fools of contemporary art, bitter, buttonholing and unembarrassed.

They are using the role of holy fools and I'm not sure Sophia has been in that role yet.

In his second offering, freshly translated into elegant and unwrinkled English by Lisa C. Hayden, Vodolazkin recounts the mystical itinerary of a medieval man who passes from healer to holy fool, from monastic to hermit.

The Christic irony of his name betrays that of his station: «[A Russian] knows a holy fool should endure suffering so he goes ahead and sins to supply him with that suffering.»

Dostoevsky's holy fool; Francis now lives in common memory as something like the lost eighth member of Walt Disney's seven dwarfs, somewhere between Happy and Bashful.

The mythic Quixote — the paladin of the impossible, the heroic dreamer, the holy fool whom Unamuno regarded as a kind of «saint» and «Christ» — is not really the Quixote of Miguel de Cervantes.

A holy fool in strained black jeans, the young man shook his head in disgust and leaned into a pole for balance, mumbling to himself.

Affleck's character is the movie's moral center, a holy fool who wouldn't, and probably couldn't, hurt a flea.

Juno Temple is his holy fool of a winsome sister who catches Joe's fancy, Gina Gerhson is the wicked step - mother in blue - eye shadow and no panties, and Thomas Haden Church is the hapless husband whose greatest aspiration is beer money and watching a monster truck rally on television.

Casting like a kid in a candy store (what in God's name is Benedict Cumberbatch doing here — as the holy fool, no less) and shooting in a functional non-style that «opens up» the play by going in for the kinds of close - ups you couldn't get without opera glasses, Wells is a producer - turned - director through and through.

There is always a child or a holy fool as you say.

The eponymous character, Ned (Paul Rudd), is not so much the hero of the piece as the Holy Fool, a hippie... Read More»

Two men promise to carry the body of an elder known only as the Sheikh to a proper burial ground across the mountains and are soon joined by a holy fool played by Shakib Ben Omar, a disruptive presence on par with Bruno S., the star of Werner Herzog's Stroszek and The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser.

Since then she has written Sleep, Pale Sister (1993); Chocolat (1999); Blackberry Wine (2000); Five Quarters of the Orange (2001), Coastliners (2002), Holy Fools (2003), Jigs and Reels (2004), Gentlemen and Players (2005), The French Market (2005), The Lollipop Shoes (2007), Runemarks (2008), Blueeyedboy (2010), and a cookbook - memoir My French Kitchen (2002).

Upritchard describes these figures as «holy fools» as they seem to take part in actions with deep personal attention that are completely devoid of meaning.

Looking strikingly like hippies from the late 1960s and evocative of medieval jesters and holy fools, Francis Upritchard's figures are both archetypal and beautifully decorative.