Sentences with phrase «labyrinthine past»

For Kelley, the conceptual appeal lies in Kandor's embodiment of an alienating victim culture for our protagonist: the notion of a burdensome present dictated by a labyrinthine past.

Because there is such a complicated, polluted, labyrinthine past, both America's and this American's, and because none of it can be faced and corrected, this film does what is denied a whole nation: it pares down all troublesome memories, focuses the camera on Jack and occasionally on Clara and Jack, or Father Benedetto and Jack, or Mathide (Thekla Reuten) and Jack, and finds an untormented, easily digestible Hollywood «international underworld / intrigue» plot to house the whole.

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Series creator Hideo Kojima has been making Metal Gear games with publisher Konami for close to 30 years, creating sequels and prequels that bounce back and forth between the future and the past of a labyrinthine fictional world of spies, cold wars and walking nuclear weapons bearing the series» name.

Instead, he finds himself on a labyrinthine journey through fantastical places and even through past centuries in search of the one he thought to be the center and fulcrum of his whole existence.

But as she's drawn deeper into the overgrown grounds, half - buried memories of her mother begin to surface and Lorna soon finds herself ensnared within the manor's labyrinthine history, overcome with an insatiable need for answers about her own past and that of the once - happy family whose memory still haunts the estate.

Embark on a grand adventure through Europe to the charming Dutch city of Amsterdam, historic Prague and the labyrinthine canals of Venice - your highlight will be a Rhine river cruise past hilltop castles, fairytale villages and vineyard - clad hills.

I've spent sunny days getting lost in the labyrinthine streets of Granada's Albayzín and learning about the city's Moorish past inside the grounds of its majestic Alhambra, I've visited the beautiful city of Seville (the administrative capital of Andalusia and an easy three - hour train journey from Granada), and I've taken a road trip around Spain's pueblos blancos, starting in one of the country's oldest settlements — Ronda.

The changes are mostly visual alterations to the interface in order to make the privacy settings more accessible — Facebook has been criticised in the past for its labyrinthine privacy settings, hidden deep within the interface.