Sentences with phrase «like allegories»

Instead, these new works function like allegories of painting.

Often more like allegories than actual tales, the stories keep her alive through the somewhat cheap trick of cliff - hanger endings while also providing the foundation for the slowly developing trust between Shahrzad and the not - so - evil - after - all caliph.

This may sound like an allegory designed for know - nothing liberals: crazy fanatical monotheists (think Osama Bin Laden or Jerry Falwell) pitted against tolerant pagans (think Berkeley, California, or maybe Burlington, Vermont).

Still, it was a very effective movie, and was successful at making me think, so I still would give it a «thumbs up», though I think the critics are wetting themselves over it mainly because it's «allegorical» (which is probably a pleasant change from all the mindless explosions we've had to deal with this summer) but I don't really like allegory.

As well, through a messiah - like allegory, they come to understand and appreciate the power of love and sacrifice.

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

Let the Right One In feels like an allegory for the vulnerability of young men coming of age — a suggestion, brilliant, that there are wolves in the forest for boys in red hoods as well.

Honestly, I like the allegory he made about different types of stocks to include in a portfolio.

In Ultima II, on the other hand, it's like an allegory for the plight of the working poor.

Britton notes that «having mastery over the paint feels like an allegory to having mastery over the presentation of my body and the body of my paintings».

They are ruins; and in accordance with Walter Benjamin's theory of history they are to be assigned, like allegory, to the realm of the arbitrary.

Simultaneously the color pallet of the cast bronze — that ranges from dark black to sparkling gold — is like an allegory to the present reality with the hope of a brighter future shinning through the seeming dark present.

Transavanguardia not only reintroduced figurative painting into the predominantly Minimalist and Conceptual scene of the period, but proposed devices like allegory and mythology as valid strategies in contemporary art discourse, much to the chagrin of the art - world establishment at the time.

Firms like Novus Law, Seyfarth Shaw, Baker Donelson, Davis Wright Tremaine, in - house legal departments like Microsoft and 3M, and technology providers like Allegory Law, iManage, Neota Logic, and HighQ are all succeeding.

Like Allegory, ROSS also has the convince professionals that the time to accept and adapt to new technology is right now!

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The Irish poet Seamus Heaney finds in that scene an allegory for poetry: «The drawing of those characters [in the sand] is like poetry, a break with the usual life but not an absconding from it.

Like Bunyan, Lewis uses allegory to make his points.

In the case of creationism, for example, scientific evidence now exists which contradicts directly with the creation myth (unless one thinks of the creation story as being an allegory or something like that).

Allegory or not, passages like Ezekiel 23 certainly present some challenges to our social comfort levels.

Are the most important songs all spiritual allegories, how the love of God is like «a hurricane,» «a heat wave» or «oxygen»?

But, below the surface, they are — like all great sci - fi — sharp social allegories and metaphors for human nature and real anxieties.

So when Ed Underwood came out with an allegory about finding God's will, I was excited to read it, especially on a topic like finding God's will.

Haha Bill you act like these are historical events rather than parables and allegories.

(Inherit the Wind was supposed to be a bit like Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which also served as an allegory to McCarthy Trials.)

Lord of the Rings, like Narnia is to personal spiritual experiences, is an obvious (not to all) allegory of spiritual reality as is more literally spoken through the Bible, which also allegorizes spiritual experiences.

You and people like you rationalize it as an allegory in order to sidestep your cognative dissonance.

Like I said earlier, it's fine to treat it as an inspirational allegory.

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

Then there were diagrams explaining why your eyes may be blind but your consciousness can have inner vision, like the blind painter in front of his great allegory.

MovieMan, In Pan's Labyrinth it didn't bother me, because the Spanish Civil War was approached more like an atypical backdrop for a fantasy movie, unlike in District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the setting.

Like «The Zone» in Stalker, The Shimmer has been largely viewed as an allegory for different states of being.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

I would also argue that the shimmer is designed as an allegory for a disease that causes mental degeneration; the fact that the crew keep forgetting important events, and crew members keep disappearing without any conventional forewarning, puts us in the uncertain headspace of somebody suffering from an illness like Alzheimer's, for example.

MG: It has obvious limits, since it is like a remake of Funny Games, but it also presents a pretty relevant allegory for Europe today.

Looking and behaving like a Sci - Fi Channel original production, this sequel to the remake has a clueless National Guard unit sent to The Desert (political allegory alert!)

But as a comic allegory of what it's like to be an adolescent girl who comes into sexual and social power that she doesn't know what the heck to do with, it is a minor classic.

Looking at the Mimic series as a sort of allegory of the dangers of technology is a given; locating a man - child, his room encased in a plastic sheath and taking pictures of his neighbours for a collage on his wall, as the centre of a Mimic sequel is something like a stroke of (derivative) genius.

There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message of self - abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction of every single thing in his life that's pure, of everything that comes with the potential for a future.

It's well and good to work an allegory like this into something, but you have to actually have something there in the first place to work it into and Aronofsky missed the boat on that one.

But viewed through the Farrellys» lens, «Osmosis» is a semi-interesting interracial allegory in which Frank doubles for an urban zone under reconstruction like Detroit.

Painted on a larger canvas, The Bourne Ultimatum poses itself as an unavoidable political allegory (what with Greengrass fresh off the triumph of United 93), lending a lot of weight to its portrait of a completely broken world where one wrong word spoken on an open line can bring the whole weight of a rogue National Security Agency down on them like a concrete gargoyle.

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

Guy Lodge, Variety «Lanthimos's confounding setup emerge as a brilliant allegory for the increasingly superficial systems of contemporary courtship, including the like - for - like algorithms of online dating sites and the hot - or - not snap judgments of Tinder.

In a way, it's almost impressive — how the movie swings around its allegory like one of those big cartoon mallets yet fails to hit any of its barn - wall - sized targets.

Despite its action and revelations, its substantial political allegory and its strong performances from a tremendous cast, «The Hunger Games: Mockingkay — Part 1» still feels like one long -LSB-...]

In less assured hands, a movie called «Prisoners» with a plot like this would be an invitation to disaster, heavy on self - conscious allegory, symbolism and moral debate.

Although the aliens look more like fashion models than your typical Hollywood extraterrestrial, Mitchell's allegory of youthful rebellion captures a side of the early punk era that is often overlooked: Its optimism, not its nihilism.

-- Bob Turnbull [LIKED] Like many zombie films, The Cured is a film that can be viewed as a social allegory about fear of «the other.»

The movie doubles as a political and environmental allegory like so many horror classics but mocks student activists and makes victims out of those who attempt to halt the encroaching bulldozers.

It's an extended entry in hormonal - teen mood - swing theatre, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (hereafter Mockingjay 1), an allegory not for political corruption and the Orwellian influence of media, but for what it's like to be a teenage girl no one understands or ever could.