Sentences with phrase «into alien objects»

She has long excelled at taking things we think we know — umbrellas, apples, rodents, statuary figures — and twisting them through scale and color into alien objects.

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However, although their being is rooted in God's apprehension of them, and only through mediation do they enter into our life and thought, Whitehead gives eternal objects a role as final causes somewhat alien to Santayana.

By the purity of an esthetic object one could mean its ideality, in the sense that no alien elements intrude into it, or one could mean its sincerity, in the sense that it reveals but one purpose.

Siegl also found that interpersonal relationships are less frequently mentioned by men (19.27 per cent), and even when they do venture into this alien territory, «the human element» is missing: women are, in both prose and graphic depictions, «reduced to sex objects».

The book's main character is a black marketeer who breaks into the zone and pilfers alien objects such as a metal ring that defies the laws of physics and batteries that provide seemingly endless energy.

Beguiling and beseeching by turns, Ava is as empathetic as she is utterly alien, and Vikander underplays these contradictions with all the insidiousness they require to avoid lapsing into yet another iteration of woman - as - object on screen.

The book is an experimental piece involving a group of friends who break into a walled - off garden, and find themselves in a vast and alien world, full of inexplicable objects and machinery.

It's never explained what the crystal is, why the alien wants it, why he chose to coerce Gomo into helping or why Gomo already seems to know exactly where the object in question is.

Upon reaching the meteorite, the two kids discover Giygas, a cosmic alien threat, that plagues the world with hatred, causing the fabric of all animals, humans, and even objects to form into monstrous entities.

The ability to warp into objects to avoid detection changed my whole experience of the game as I now had a strategy when facing a mob of aliens.

Katja Loher and Rohan Wealleans create other worlds or alternate universes, in which familiar objects are animated into strange and alien entities that have a life of their own.

But, true to form, the artist has transformed the space into a kind of alien disco replete with velvet walls, multicolored carpets, clusters of bright lights and strange scattered objects: a toy chicken atop a plastic tube, an open umbrella, a bench made of a broomstick and a pink neon light.

Bruce Nauman transforms everyday activities, speech, and objects into works that are both familiar and alien.

A domestic fan has been crudely inserted into the eponymous car cover bag to create an alien form that cradles in its soft, puffy creases a cheap ceramic figurine of an Alsatian dog, and a spherical object that could be a geode, or perhaps a coconut, or the abandoned egg of some sinister sci - fi organism.