Sentences with phrase «life of tangents»
A life of tangents is an appropriate description for Alfred Leslie, not only because his form of Abstract Expressionism was more geometric than his peers, but also because he was constantly reinventing his artistic practice.
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The Incarnate Lord who bears the life of Everyman seems to touch history at a tangent; but the tangent intersects with the realities of collective existence.
David's professional and love - life struggles take the movie down a series of tangents that may distract him from his mother's illness (while featuring and creating problems of their own), but they mainly end up distracting from the core of the story.
On Geena Davis (a rare tangent into the living, precipitated by his memories of Oliver Reed on Cutthroat Island): «Perhaps in a long laundry list of ludicrous events I have witnessed on film sets, the one I most treasure is watching my leading lady having her makeup and hair assiduously attended to between each take of one scene.
If the film is a shade too long — and goes off on an unfulfilling tangent about a secret from her early life — it still rises on the crooked back of the marvelous Sally Hawkins, in her most fulfilling role since Mike Leigh's «Happy Go Lucky.»
With the dumping continuing on Howard, their peripheral tangents to learn lessons and change their own lives reek of hollow pointlessness by comparison.
As these moments accumulate toward their final, inevitable endpoint, Roiphe takes many tangents to explore the writer's attitude toward death as communicated through his or her work, which, for all these writers, was the central and most transcendent aspect of their lives.
Michael is on cyberterrorist Kaine's trail, trying to stop him from recycling humans and Tangents (sentient computer programs) through an endless supply of stolen bodies (result: everyone will live forever).
Comment: Underwater to Get Out of the Rain is a gentle, amusing and informative read but it is a little misleading to call it autobiographical as the flow of the book is only loosely connected to the events in Norton's life, with significant life moments providing jumping off points for enjoyable tangents.
There's also a tangent about the games of New Hampshire's state fair, including the tale of one man who lost his life savings in a carnival game (although further research reveals that this debacle did not take place at the state fair).
Similarly, this exhibition is like a story made up of tangents that all coalesced at a certain moment in an artist's life.