Sentences with phrase «just allegory»

Winkfield is a convincing writer, even when he dedicates time to subjects of quizzical merit — not just The Allegory of Faith, but Marcel Duchamp, Paul Signac, and Jasper Johns.

District 9 isnt» just an allegory though, it uses the allegory to explore something else: what if everything that everyone has ever used to justify oppression of the other actually was true?

If you choose the second option, and claim that it's all just an allegory for the tenacity of hope in the midst of a world gone mad, then what becomes of history's arc?

In fact, Jesus is just allegory for the sun.

Not exact matches

Does my allegory sound far - fetched — just some words strung together to make a speech?

The parables of Jesus are almost never provided with an application in the tradition; the one we have just discussed is an exception to the rule and the esoteric explanations of the parables in the tradition make the parables allegories and are certainly not from Jesus.

If I want a real dystopia allegory, I'll just re-read 1984 or maybe pick up Brave New World (because I've never read it and now I'll have to to understand Amusing Ourselves...).

If we didn't have the tools to understand the cosmos, would Chad or other christians insist that the Genesis account was just a model or allegory, or would they be screaming just as loudly that Genesis was absolutely correct - and they knew that by faith and trust in god's word?

If only we all could strive to see the order of things instead of just crying «I don't understand parable, allegory, mythology (in its true intent) and thus, since I don't understand, its couldn't possibly be my short coming, but someone elses.»

And if anyone thinks this is just a poetry written in allegory, it is the lie of the devil himself.

And if anyone thinks this is just a poetry written in allegory, it's the lie of the devil himself.

Good allegories never die; they just expand and contract to fit the times.

In what could well be the least subtle national allegory ever committed to film, an awkwardly placed, extended flashback reveals why protagonist Jacky (Schoenaerts) is obsessed with bulking up: just as he was beginning to develop sexually, his balls were irreparably smashed with a rock by a deranged French kid.

Aronofsky just drowns this beast in his giant allegory (which, yes, could also be an interpretation of the creative process, but isn't that essentially the same thing?

Arrival, with its handwringing worthiness and easy answers, certainly meets these criteria as escapist balm for the masses, but this analysis ignores the fact that M Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs is not just a superior film about alien invasion (funnier, darker, more cinematic), but also a stronger allegory for the apocalyptic fever that has gripped America and, by extension, the world.

Most reviews do a better job of explaining what the political allegories represented than the film did, which seem just political hammering in one direction or another.

On its surface, Refn's film is a horrific allegory about a young, beautiful model who's harassed by her marginally older, surgically enhanced, and less in - demand rivals, whose gnawing jealousy eventually drives them to — well, let's just say nothing good.

Even if it's just a movie and not some grand statement or allegory, the fact remains that «Buried» is one of the most effective and tense movies of the year.

Plato's chariot allegory is about the soul, but it works just as well for these aspects of personality.

Seems the translation team was completely oblivious to the source material, which this time around was jungian concepts like logos, eros, (or anima / animus) the collective unconcious, the shadow, transformation... And just completely butchered the underlying meaning of the game... You can see the visual allegories of the logos or eros (this is actually the player character... the avatar of humanities collective unconcious) the collective unconcious, the shadow of mankind... but none of it makes any sense with the dialog because of the butchered localization.

It seems to me that a Fourierist interpretation, in conjunction with Papety's drawing, while it in no sense completely «explains» Courbet's allegory, at least helps to elucidate some of its otherwise inexplicable aspects: for example, just why Courbet chose to include the figures he did in his vast composition.

It is time for women — and not just the semi-naked women who are sculpted as allegories for Justice or Peace — to become part of the grammar of our streets.»

i'm only a passenger — just like you (from an Egyptian tomb) As you round the corner of the entryway at Diane Rosenstein where this phrase is visible, the first works on view in Eleanor Antin's Passengers are two massive photographs from her 2004 series Roman Allegories.

It doesn't include Klee, but it's a catholic mix, ranging from modernist abstraction (including a lovely, lyrical 1950 Ad Reinhardt that makes you wonder how he ever turned into the implacable maker of nearly uncommunicative black paintings within just a decade) to Renaissance allegory (such as Albrecht Dürer's celebrated 1513 engraving The Knight, Death, and the Devil).

Just as we search for meaning in the continuous haze of this scene, so we seek some figurative allegory in the multitude of visual effects conjured up by Struktur (2).

Using symbolism and allegory, Devine's work reflects a fractured vision of the future, one in which death is just around the corner and hope has faded.

Confronted by an art scene dominated by the Abstract Expressionists, and having no truck with abstract painting, he just kept doing what he'd always done: painting narrative and acerbically observant scenes of life keyed to the human figure, often his own, sometimes as an element of remarkably assured and phlegmatically grotesque allegory.

Bob Ambrogi: I want to get more — talk more about Allegory, but let me just — just kind of back up a little bit to what were some of the problems that you were seeing and the way that you were managing litigation before you got this.

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?

Alma Asay: Allegory is a litigation knowledge management platform that I designed based on my experiences working at Gibson Dunn where I was an associate for six years and really frustrated that the focus of litigation technology seemed just to be on eDiscovery and we were left with email, Excel and shared drives to manage our litigations.

Just like smartphones have put the answers at our fingertips in our everyday lives, Allegory now puts the answers at your fingertips for your case (s).

An allegory to how the buyer's agent is currently typically paid in our industry, may I suggest just as food for thought, is this: it's sort of like negotiating a divorce wherein your own lawyer's fee is largely determined by your spouse's lawyer.