Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic voices»

Send us fiction with strong, idiosyncratic voices, creative nonfiction that honestly and eloquently strips all pretenses away, and poetry that uses language with power and precision.

featherproof books is an indie publisher based in Chicago, dedicated to the small - press ideals of finding fresh, idiosyncratic voices.

I enjoyed Shulock's ode to precocious young narrators defined by «idiosyncratic voices, unapologetic intelligence and bold curiosity» (à la Blue van Meer in Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics — which, as a side note, was probably my favorite book of 2006).

This ranks among Haynes» best work, confirming him yet again as one of the most valuable and idiosyncratic voices in the history of American cinema.

Another singular album from a truly idiosyncratic voice, Apple has once again invited us into her lushly conflicted inner monologue.

Produced by James L. Brooks, who knows a thing or two about character - driven comedy (The Simpsons, Broadcast News), The Edge of Seventeen screams with an idiosyncratic voice at a time when so many movies just want to fall in with the popular crowd.

It is a timely moment for Gerwig to emerge as a director and for her debut to have such an assured, idiosyncratic voice.

It's great that Allen has such a distinct and idiosyncratic voice, but how many times do we have to hear it?

And Bingo is a captivating protagonist who tells his story in his own idiosyncratic voice.

But Charlie is no dummy, and it's he who tells, in his sometimes idiosyncratic voice, the sad, sad story of what happens to his best friends, James and Sinead.

Of course, I've always been a fool for idiosyncratic voice, which is one reason why I so enjoyed Daniel Kraus» The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch and its protagonist narrator's use of what he calls his «flamboyant elocution,» a hallmark of which is the polysyllabic.

«The Art of Alice Neel,» a traveling exhibit organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and opening at the Whitney on June 29, stands to reveal the painter not just as an idiosyncratic voice but an influential one.

In the last two years he has become more and more prominent through large group exhibitions, and his recent show of new works (all from 1987) in a temporary gallery at Clayton State College in suburban Atlanta has consolidated his presence as an important and idiosyncratic voice

Not exact matches

Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003, South African novelist J. M. Coetzee has long been a fierce if idiosyncratic moral voice in contemporary literary circles.

These essays — on Fassbinder, the 1975 New York Film Festival, Taxi Driver, and Jeanne Dielman — found Farber at the peak of his powers, blessed with one of the most distinctive (and idiosyncratic) voices in English - language film criticism.

And it is one of the most tricky and idiosyncratic properties on the planet, where the creator's voice, Hideo Kojima, is a genius.

Like Ernest Hemingway, Chandler had an idiosyncratic prose «voice» that is often imitated but rarely duplicated.

The exhibition will provide a strong sense of discovery, a micro-universe in which two idiosyncratic artistic voices will re-examine Finland's past, and speculate on its possible futures,» Xander Karskens says.

Bakowski works in diverse media unleashing his idiosyncratic and poetic voice through drawing, sculpture, audio and animated video.