Sentences with phrase «into allegory»

Bob Ambrogi: So has it become sort of the — you talked earlier about eDiscovery software and how there was nothing equivalent for litigation, so has it just sort of become eDiscovery software for the litigation phase of the case, I mean do you transition from the eDiscovery stage into Allegory?

Allegory had already built an API that allowed documents to be moved from Relativity into Allegory with the click of a button.

Absence and presence, material and process, history and site, boundary and transition, and interaction and perspective expand the vocabulary of agrarian art, turning an elegy for the heroic agrarian into an allegory for our times.

Are these images of the real world or have they dissolved into allegory or metaphor?

Neshat transforms the story of his trial and execution into an allegory of spiritual overcoming.

The three animations on show are Light Switch, in which a figure endlessly flips a light switch on and off; Laundry, where Shrigley turns a surreal visit to the launderette into an allegory about authority and resistance; and Conveyor Belt, a depiction of characters and objects passing by eventually to fall into a skip marked «STUFF».

Robert Lazzarini sculpts a gun in anamorphic projection, Leslie Hewitt uses a shattered teacup into an allegory of entropy, Paul Pfieffer and Mario Ybarra, Jr., draw on sports figures for macho, and Patrick Lee sketches a tattooed hulk with a shaved head.

Zhao turns material that might have been treacly and simple - minded into an allegory of male identity — reminiscent of «Lonely Are the Brave» (1962) and «Brokeback Mountain» (2005)-- with the quality of myth.

While commentators of an earlier generation sought to save Shakespeare and the Christian characters from the charge of intolerance and anti-Semitism by turning the play into an allegory, more recent readings often maintain, to the contrary, that Shakespeare in fact lays the groundwork for the racialist anti-Semitism of a later era in the character of Shylock.

This parable has obviously been reworked by the early church into an allegory.

We can, of course name it but when we do so the mythcollapses into allegory.

Having the tradition of similes and analogies of Jesus, but lacking the vision to maintain or understand them, she transformed them into allegories expressive of a post-Easter faith and reflecting a post-Easter situation.

Most of the parables, however, have been considerably modified in the tradition; they were transformed into allegories, supplied with new conclusions, interpreted and reinterpreted, and always under the pressure of meeting the need of the Church in a changing situation.

These tactile impressions push the formaldehyde tableaux into allegories of the occlusion of a clear path to its object.

Not exact matches

The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.

With the emergence of historical criticism as the dominant form of biblical interpretation, allegory was discredited as a feckless style of medieval exegesis that twisted the words and phrases of Scripture into arbitrary symbols of hidden truths.

The customary term for this kind of exegesis is allegory, a word first introduced into Christian speech by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians: «It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

If you want to know, I started out very Darwinian and bought into the whole evolutionary schtick and the gospel that the Bible is myth & allegory... But I opened up the book and my mind, and have learned that it is the truth.

The dreadful Star Wars prequels were briefly eclipsed by The Matrix, whose blend of religious allegory, pop philosophy, and balletic violence aimed much higher than George Lucas ever did (though The Matrix descended into pretentious incoherence in the later installments).

Written with courage and poignancy, this allegory from First Things» poetry editor ambitiously tries to take a step back from our society in order to show how America has drifted into becoming a nation that now seems to be waffling, especially in the face of the upcoming presidential election.

Trigger - happy soldiers shoot Klaatu and whisk him away to a government facility from which he subsequently escapes and disappears into the city, blending in with common Earthlings and eventually taking up residence in the home of single mom Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) under the assumed name, Mr. Carpenter, (to reinforce the allegory lest anyone missed the biblical overtones).

And he goes on from there; he's built — I won't try to go into any more details than that, but I mean he's got this whole lengthy sort of allegory.

Unsurprisingly, allegory places significant constraints on the film actors, who are forced to put life into characters that are moral abstractions, not people, restricted in manner of behavior, expression and thought.

There are allegories in play here, but nothing as potent or easy to sink your teeth into as there was in Isaac's previous collaboration with writer / director Alex Garland, «Ex Machina.»

As an allegory of racial conflict and mass immigration, District 9 never really goes anywhere: The appealing premise fades into the background before 20 minutes have elapsed.

Distributor Sony Pictures Classics has pulled off a number of wins in this category, and, in Andrei Zvyagintsev's «Leviathan,» which took the screenplay award at Cannes, the studio has another strong contender, a movie that weaves naturalism, allegory and dark humor into a multi-layered masterpiece.

But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic.

While the malleable allegory of the film's events — a woman and her writer husband live in an Edenic country house that spirals into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction by her husband (Javier Bardem), his mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.

It's well and good to work an allegory like this into something, but you have to actually have something there in the first place to work it into and Aronofsky missed the boat on that one.

Gene Roddenberry often pushed his series to explore stories as allegories for modern life and politics; here «Trek» becomes a Cold War story in which the Federation and a nearly bankrupt Klingon Empire are dropped into the context of a political thriller.

eventually descends into insanity, it's quite understandable that Paramount took the step of hinging much of its promotion on the film's early scenes, which at first indicate a sinister home invasion thriller rather than a maddening biblical allegory.

And the arc of the movie, in which Luke is indoctrinated into an all - male world of regimentation, brutality, and the following of orders that can seem bafflingly pointless, marks it as one of the earliest American studio films to function as a sustained Vietnam War allegory.

A faith - based family comedy for folks who don't mind having a familiar Biblical scripture overhauled into a contemporary allegory about saving the environment.

He continued to make many more shorts after he won a Video 8 camera in a Comic Relief contest, awarded him for his film I Want to Get Into the Movies, which was an animated allegory about wheelchair access.

From a fairy tale mixing bestiality and social justice to a newspaper movie that idealizes power and class privilege to pseudo-folksy allegories about revenge and chaos, Hollywood has transformed once - entertaining genres into self - gratifying lectures.

Boyle's latest film, 28 Days Later, follows a similar pattern, getting off to a terrifying start before devolving into gory bloodshed and ham - fisted allegory.

Director Tim Burton (Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride) teams up with Disney scribe Linda Woolverton (The Lion King, Homeward Bound) in a visual tour - de-force telling of the classic story, which combines elements of the two Lewis Carroll allegories, «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» and its sequel, «Through the Looking Glass,» injected into what is ostensibly a semi-sequel to the story.

They've either grown more allegory - friendly or abstract (as in Fernando Mereilles's adaptation of the Jose Saramago novel Blindness or M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening) or into some souped - up form of undead rabies (as in 28 Days Later or Omega Man remake Blindness).

What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor - sharp study of human nature itself.

When Dr. Perry zens him out of his oral fixation, Justin finds himself in an allegory for matriculation — that is, for being pushed out of the nest and into the frying pan.

Worse, Vanderbilt seems to be referring to author Thomas Hardy in the naming of Travolta's character (and Barbarino's recent sour grapes concerning his passing over Chicago doesn't say all that much for the film he was shooting instead), pushing the connection by tying Hardy's hallmarks of personal archetype and use of forces of nature as allegory into what is essentially a stupid rip - off of any stupid David Mamet film.

Early teaser trailers used the film's unusual setting to bamboozle audiences into thinking that District 9 was an allegory for the failures of post-Apartheid South Africa, with added flashes of digitised carnage.

In fact, Staying Alive is an underdog sports movie that sees Tony hit it out of the park in the Big Game to the admiration of men and the lascivious attention of women, dancing badly in a ridiculous construction called «Satan's Alley» in which, in one of Stallone's dips into bad - allegory country, Tony literally and metaphorically battles his demons to ascend to Heaven.

Delving into the plot, allegories, and shocking ending of one of the most surprising Hollywood releases of the year

It takes a genuinely dull blade not to find allegory in an action scene involving kids taking a dip into a murky lake teeming with merfolk and the drowned bodies of friends.

Or perhaps forced to sort out which allegory is identifiable and purposeful at any given time: Aronofsky's ambitions here reveal a fairly coequal plunge into biblical prophecy (from Old Testament furor to New Testament evangelism), environmental metaphor, and, most explicitly, the labors of artistic creation.

Yorgos Lanthimos takes the piss out of the Michael Haneke - style allegory of bourgeois guilt with this demented dark fable about a heart surgeon (a bushy - bearded Colin Farrell) cursed into making an unconscionable decision by a teenage creep (Barry Keoghan) and his own unwillingness to take responsibility for his failings.

Horror has always had an easy relationship with allegory, so much so that zombies ambled off into their own cottage industry and have come to represent everything from unfettered capitalism to technological paralysis.

The filmmaker turned a coming - of - age action film («Hanna») into a fairy tale allegory complete with a wicked witch, and his version of «Anna Karenina» was an audaciously bold and visually striking adaptation of a classical piece of Russian literature.