Sentences with phrase «interesting conceits»

Sufficed to say that for The One to win you over, you must have no expectations that it will carry through on an interesting conceit while also lacking the ability to reason and think logically.

It's an interesting conceit, placing this modern issue in perhaps the most appropriate period setting, and doing so avoids any sense of preaching by instead creating something of a «the more things change, the more they stay the same» message.

An interesting conceit as far as it goes, but a haunting early scene (the opening twenty minutes are expert), where a trainload of female Jewish «slaves» are shipped off to a «munitions factory,» gives lie to the comparison of rednecks and the Third Reich.

I felt it kept me at arms length from a story that was actually quite intimate and personal - an interesting conceit.

Make no mistake, AereA is an interesting take on dungeon crawlers that has an interesting conceit.

Not exact matches

It's long been a conceit of the Left that conservatives are dumb, and if not dumb, then deranged, or paranoid, or racist, or self - interested — take your pick.

Selfish ambition conceit, and preoccupation with their own interests to the exclusion of those of others, complement bad feelings toward one another (2:3 - 4, 14; 4:2 - 3) and ethical confusion (4:8 - 9).

The injunctions to «do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit» but rather «look to the interests of others,» are motivated by the example of Christ (2:1 - 5).

From this perspective one approaches life motivated, not by «selfish ambition or conceit,» but by a concern that «looks... to the interests of others.»

It is interesting to note that when a literary conceit is as tasteless as the one in By the Light of My Father's Smile, it is difficult to attain the suspension of disbelief necessary to lose oneself in the story.

If not a word about Christianity were heard, men would not be so conceited (as paganism never has been at any time); but by the help of the fact that Christian conceptions are unchristianly floating in the air they are employed in the interest of this most potentiated impertinence, in so far as they are not misused in another and equally shameless way.

The film is so beholden to the moods and manners of Malick that even its more estimable elements (the acting, the cinematography, the very conceit of making a movie about Abraham Lincoln that focuses exclusively on what's ostensibly the least interesting part of his life, sort of a Younger Mr. Lincoln) are diffused into the ether.

The show's central conceit — a social media disease — is a potentially interesting (if laboured) response to our technological age, but its introduction is ironically slow to spread, spending time getting to know our dancers and their personal problems — hello, sexual blackmail — not to mention Logan's own inevitable demons.

Also more interesting in concept is «A Golightly Gathering,» a reunion of various people who were involved in the film's famous party sequence; while there are some amusing remembrances of working with Hepburn, George Peppard, and director Blake Edwards, at 20 minutes it goes on too long, and the cocktail party conceit of the gathering is a bit too precious.

The bluebird device in the film, strangely enough, while an interesting evocative metaphoric element is perhaps the most unnecessary — a conceit convention you only see in the movies.

This is darkly comic stuff that's funny for a while, and it's interesting how the conceit eventually opens up an entirely new set of problems for Ig when he confronts the people to whom he believed he was closest.

One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the film.

That said, the film is by no means a failure — it held my interest throughout — and I was intrigued by the conceit.

The conceit of the film is that a climate scientist is interested in meeting her and talking about how global warming is destroying her subject matter.

Levels are smartly designed around the conceit that's kept Yoshi (and some of the recent Kirby) platformers interesting for some time: There are lots of hidden goodies to find, and all of them are actually fun to discover.

What is ultimately more interesting, however, is how the restraints of this formal conceit recede to the background as one experiences the incredibly rich and diverse range of ideas and concerns that each artist pushes to the fore.»

Mr. West's art has revolved around a familiar Modernist conceit: the willful violation of conventional good taste in the interest of liberating repressed, undeveloped psychic energies.

In this anxious context the emergence of the «solo» exhibition, as curator João Ribas has argued in recent lectures, risked the appearance of careerism, conceit, and self - interest.

Like some of the most interesting new figurative painters — notably John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, and Brenda Zlamany — Catherine Howe begins with an essentially formal conceit that soon lurches into discomfiting psychological or social territory.

As an organizing conceit, Excerpts beats Hodgepodge or Airing Out The Storage Racks, both of which are closer to the truth, but that's not to say the exhibition doesn't beg interesting questions.

(An example: Abstract Expressionism seems a false conceit at this late date — less a matter of shared stylistic interests than a convenient tag for a specific social subset.)

I would invite those interested in energy policy, particularly wind power, to read the posts at http://www.masterresource.org to find out why government picks losers, and why all - of - the - above policy is code for planning conceit, cronyism, and failure.