Sentences with phrase «layers of mystery to»

Through all of this, Langston begins to peel back the layers of mystery to explain what happened to drive his mother away so many years ago.

I have been wearing it constantly, and I feel like it adds ten layers of mystery to my look.

Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.

Her silence throughout the game adds a layer of mystery to her and makes her a classic folklore / video game hero (reminding me a lot of Link in this sense).

Not exact matches

It is possible to discover, beneath the inevitable layers of childish wishing and escapism that may at times form the upper crust of symbolic consciousness, a long and continuous straining after mystery on the part of the human race.

«This bill indicates a very common sense approach to this issue by adding additional layers of scrutiny and transparency to a process that, for too long, has been shrouded in mystery,» Serrano said in a statement.

MAVEN arrived at Mars in Sept. 2014 on a mission to investigate a planetary mystery: Billions of years ago, Mars was blanketed by layer of air massive enough to warm the planet and allow liquid water to flow on its surface.

Researchers looking to solve this mystery found that ocean heat content had remained high, so a sudden chill in ocean waters (which would have caused upper layers of the seas to shrink in volume) wasn't the answer.

On the whole, I was hardly interested in this snoozefest of a mystery «thriller», but there are moments in which I found myself genuinely invested in this layered and meditative drama, and for those moments, I give some credit to Refn for actually waking up, and even more credit to the real force behind this misguided character study.

There are layers of foreshadowing here, and much about Moll is to be revealed, but the most immediate mystery in Beast involves a series of murders.

• Picnic at Hanging Rock: Miranda (Anne Lambert) opens the gate to the picnic area, startles a flock of birds, and turns her head to follow their wheeling flight as the images overlap one another: the beginning of a ballet of mystery for Peter Weir's camera; layers of style as milestones of a hedonistic pilgrimage...

It's just part of why I think it works as well as it does, for as much as prequels have a tendency to take the fun out of their predecessor's central mystery, Prometheus adds layers to the universe that began with the classic Alien.

Fanning brings so many layers to her portrayl of Jessie that make the character welcoming but also retains some of her mystery throughout, leaving the audience in mass anticipation for what comes next.

He's brought to a group of survivors faced with a similar affliction, and tensions increase as layers of the mystery are pulled away.

But that doesn't mean there aren't darker edges to the character of Connie, and Rea, while always exhibiting a layer of vulnerability that is crucial to the film's success, also doesn't downplay the somewhat unsettling mystery about him.

That most of the characters have secrets adds a layer of intrigue to a musical mystery that strikes nary a false note.

In addition to his most recent work, A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer; and the children's novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery.

The fairly recent innovation of layered comics used by Thrillbent, Marvel Infinite and others is still a mystery to most, even though I'm convinced it's going to be a future if not the future of digital comics.

It adds a layer of unease to the game that, coupled with the obvious, yet painstakingly hidden mystery at the center of this strange little town, leaves you feeling like you are always a step behind, in the best way possible.

Exposition is still there, as that's how we learn about the world and narrative of Cave Story, but it's never inane, trite, or obtrusive to the game, as the story is layered and feels meaningful as it quickly puts forth a mystery of what's happening and why, and sets up a dark tone to the proceedings that contrast quite heavily with what many may see as cute visuals.

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The satisfaction comes not from high speed chases, but rather from patiently working the clues to uncover layers of mystery heaped upon one another hiding an evil curse.

Night School Studio's Oxenfree follows Alex and her friends trying to solve layers of mysteries across an abandoned island in the Pacific Northwest.

These skippable, sometimes useless places add a layer of color and mystery to Hyrule.

That palpable tension of a shadow lurking just out of sight remains taut for the entire campaign, and each encounter layers on more reasons to be fearful while poking around Talos I. Learning about the humans that may or may not have survived is just as worthwhile as investigating the alien presence, and the mystery comes to a startling, sudden conclusion that will change how you view certain events on subsequent playthroughs.

His work actively engages the viewer in an ongoing search for resolution as one attempts to reconcile the ongoing tension present among all aspects of his compositions: the colors, the ambiguous roles of the mallets, the concave / convex push and pull of the space; he very purposefully uses texture to give materiality to a surface, thereby adding more layers to the mystery, not illuminating it.

The thick and fluid layers of paint often obscure the face of the figure, adding a sense of mystery to the work.

From the psychedelically primordial My Forsaken Love, in which biomorphs traverse a black - fringed molten - pink ground, to the strata - like composition of Standing on the Riverbank of My Hometown I Shed Tears, a canvas filled with sedimentary layers of cell - like dots, eyes and extravagantly decorated lashes, the paintings generate new motifs and arrangements of forms while continuing a lifelong preoccupation with the mysteries of the physical and metaphysical, the tangible and ineffable - the space where seeing and feeling intersect.

Exploring the layers of American art from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibit continues to try and solve the mystery of American art's parameters.

Marion begins on a dark background and shows you how to build up your painting in layers so you get that right amount of mood and mystery whilst still staying true to your subject.

U.S. / Mexico - based multimedia artist Roberto Romero - Molina takes us deep into the world of perception, peeling back layers of cultural expectation to reveal the wonder and mystery of everyday sounds and images.

Picking up on de Chirico's vision of a «metaphysical interior», «Revolt of the Sage» gathers sixteen artists who use collage, juxtaposition, fragments, framing devices and layered imagery to explore ruptures in time and the alluring mysteries of the everyday.

I have always been interested in digging deeply to explore mystery, whether it is penetrating layers of space, geography, the human psyche, or the body.

Art in America described Mossé's layered surfaces as «seductive skin that shifts from the opaque to the lustrous and delicately transparent... As paint transubstantiates into light, it parallels the mystery that exists at the heart of matter, that is the heart of the matter.»