Sentences with phrase «labyrinthine the world of»

Rafsanjani was a skilled behind - the - scenes operator in the labyrinthine world of Iranian politics.

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.

Praising Donna Leon's international best - selling Commissario Guido Brunetti detective series as one of the top to savor, Time raved that «no one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice or the way favoritism and corruption shape Italian life like Leon's Brunetti... the thoughtful Venetian cop with a love of food, an outspoken wife, and a computer - hacker secretary who plays man Friday to his detective.»

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One wonders how Eliade will respond to this nonbook, for it attempts to unmask him as a historian of religions and to unveil him as a Christian homo religiosus immersed in a labyrinthine world in which God is dead.

Jan 04,2016... New Cast, New Critics After ten months of legalistic and labyrinthine procrastination, World Heavywe...

Somehow, our integrated image of the world emerges from this complex labyrinthine network of brain structures.

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.

There's a keen, biting edge to these crystalline recollections; by the third episode, «Some Hope,» which takes place in a labyrinthine mansion during a country aristocrat's party, Patrick Melrose is turning the refined and dazzling world of British peerage on its ear.

Perpetually gliding through the labyrinthine innards of the theater, often to a Punch - Drunk Love beat of percussive anxiety, he captures the hustle and bustle of the backstage world — the electricity in the air when a live performance is imminent.

And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.

In Fez, a guide leads you through the labyrinthine Medina - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - and Medersa Bou Inania, an architectural work of art built between 1350 and 1357.

Plumb the recesses of a labyrinthine world to learn its secrets and uncover your role within.

Its environments echo the sort of cleverly labyrinthine level design found in From Software's games, which are largely set in worlds without hard borders, but each explorable area is significantly smaller.

In an installation that literally transforms Ballroom's gallery spaces into a labyrinthine assemblage of rooms, hallways, closets and observation platforms, Hello Meth Lab in the Sun is a rumination on the theme of alchemy, uncovering of some of the sites of alchemical transformation in the modern world.

With his new book he continues the themes from his paintings and installations, and in a New Novel we continue into Melgaard labyrinthine layer - by - layer stories with exaggerated and destructive themes, expressive visuality and powerful use of words that we recognize from his visual world.

Her labyrinthine works, connecting odd objects in single sculptures, reveal the reverence she has for the material world, and show that — in the words of the Guardian art critic Adrian Searle — she «thinks differently from the rest of us».

As the gates of the Venice Biennale swung open yesterday to the world's press, assembled critics raced to a single destination: the British artist Mike Nelson's labyrinthine installation.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

Out of these currents and many others, Marshall has crafted his own world, which, dense with contradictory allusions, seems not so much impenetrable as labyrinthine, offering us a way in but no obvious way out.

I shudder to think of what a game like Metroid could be when it can have the labyrinthine, beautiful worlds of the Prime games coupled with the quick action of the 2D sidescrollers.