Sentences with phrase «like archetypal»

His artistic vision for Prince of Persia, which has helped it to move into a Zelda - like archetypal story of good versus evil (with just the details changed each time) has been a good one.

A peninsula sticking out into Lake Michigan, during the first few days of visiting there it seems like the archetypal summer vacation spot.

Burbling at idle or at low revs it sounds like the archetypal American V8, only a few decibels louder.

I explained to students that people, like archetypal characters, are complex.

On the surface, The D Train looks like the archetypal Jack Black film as in previous outings like School Of Rock, he plays a small - town lummox who lies, cheats and alienates everybody around him but writer - directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul smartly play on the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversive.

It felt like an archetypal death - bed scene.

Again on 24 minutes it was another ball launched by De Gea and another header won by Lukaku, this time it fell to his feet and he pushed Emre Can away like the archetypal competitive father with a serious weight advantage.

I wet my hair so many times during the day in an attempt to cool down that it is now ratted up like some archetypal image of a tough girl from the 50s.

Not exact matches

From those archetypal startup perks, free food and a foosball table, to more outlandish experiments like company - wide international travel or unlimited vacation, tech companies often blaze the way for others, experimenting with ideas that later spread to larger, more established businesses.

Like J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the Harry Potter novels and C. S. Lewis's Narnia Chronicles, Pullman's novels contain archetypal themes: the loss of innocence, the journey - quest, loyalty and the struggle against evil.

You can clearly see that the likes of Neuer and Courtois have created one template for the archetypal modern GK but at 6» 0 ″ -6» 1 ″ many have made decent careers as GKs (Banks, Shilton, Clemence, Jennings, Wilson, Southall, Zoff, Valdes, Casillas, Bravo etc).

The difference between Wenger and other great managers like Mourinho, is that Wenger is the archetypal genius while Mourinho is the archetypal winner.

Some researchers suggest that the first archetypal dogs looked like Australian dingoes, Indian pariah dogs, and other modern, semidomesticated dogs.

This article explores how a relationship between an archetypal sugar daddy and a hot and bad girl would look like.

Writers Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons get the details right — like the alliterative names from Superman's history [Roxanne Ritchie for Lois Lane; Megamind for Lex Luthor — though he's really more like Brainiac; even giving the archetypal superhero the alliterative name Metro Man], or the idea that a superhero as invincible as Metro Man must have a weakness.

And like all variations on that archetypal story, Black Panther is a fantasy about black power.

Here, his score functions as something like the sieve of the page — watching a film with his soundtrack suggests an approximation of the literal detachment of reading a book; as Candyman unfurls, defenses fall away and the fable - like quality of the story gains a kind of archetypal weight.

Even with Max Von Sydow in the fold (Non ho sonno), the pictures post-Tenebre are cheap auto - knockoffs devoid of innovation and lacking the amazingly imaginative gore that marked Argento's early gialli, the archetypal resonance of his supernaturals, or the transcendent, sometimes sublime lawlessness of his hybrids (like Suspiria, for instance, still a towering achievement).

In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.

It is a cyclical film (beginning and ending with the founding of a town) with archetypal characters (father / son aggressions, mother / daughter deceptions), and it is told like Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, through image and an almost instinctual understanding of the stories inherently related by a time and a place.

Bresson, as many writers have noted, looked for spiritual grace in the most misbegotten places and creatures, but, for all its pleasant side trips, War Horse begins as an archetypal Spielberg film, and ends like one, too: the affirmation of a preordained connection between two kindred souls, and the cathartic relief produced by a last - moment rescue.

Awkward dramaturgy like this is often a hidden (dare I say, phantom) cause of audience dissatisfaction with stories and motion pictures, particularly in narrative modes like fantasy and adventure, where the archetypal structures are so well - worn and unconsciously familiar.

The older hands, including Miranda Richardson, Anna Chancellor, Joanna Scanlan, and Hayley Atwell, all make strong impressions in small roles, and while Watson and West both feel like slightly archetypal parental figures, both are given at least one powerful showcase.

«A dodgeball movie is uncharted film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film's writer / director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»

Compared to the previous generation car, the restyled sixth - generation 5 - Series is a bit on the conservative side, but maintains the archetypal BMW style of a long hood, short overhangs and coupe - like roofline.

This Messy Magnificent Life by Geneen Roth The pressure to be the archetypal «angel in the house» in Victorian America must have been intense, even for a woman like Meg, who truly did want to devote herself to domestic life.

Picture the archetypal perfect waterfall in your mind's eye, and chances are it will look something like Godafoss.

At the core of his work is an exploration of modernist design and the public realm - his installations recall archetypal 20th century landscapes, such as playgrounds, urban parks, the abandoned garden and the corporate lobby as well as modernist interior motifs and familiar objects like fireplaces and lamps presented in entirely new forms.

Here his subjects are friends, acquaintances and archetypal characters of that period, portrayed in relaxed and happy situations: people chatting on a sofa, lovers lying in bed or a man chilling in an armchair, like in Renato e Poltrona (1965).

She used the circle, like Kusama, but her use of the circle was not as personal, it was sort of archetypal.

In these paintings, McCarthy continues his career - long probing of what happens when human drives and desires meet archetypal American narratives like Snow White or the Western.

His views have the archetypal Impressionist quality of appearing in the gallery like windows on to a sunlit world, the purple hills warm and inviting in the distance.

In reproducing this archetypal facsimile of a god - like fetish, the artist has created a potent reflection on our pulp fiction desire for the primitive and supernatural.

Looking strikingly like hippies from the late 1960s and evocative of medieval jesters and holy fools, Francis Upritchard's figures are both archetypal and beautifully decorative.

Such traits, notable in figures like Blake (a major hero for Eilshemius), have become archetypal marks of the independent, innovative artist — initially misunderstood and derided, then recognised too late.

Like the piece of Belize mahogany brought up from the depths, Skaer has dredged the deepest archetypal layers.

Another theme the artist adopted in later works was the archetypal Hellenistic sculpture, Venus De Milo, which like the skull, served as an attribute of the artist's studio.

Martin Boyce is best known for his atmospheric installations recalling archetypal 20th - century landscapes, such as the urban park, the abandoned garden and the corporate lobby, as well as modernist interior motifs and objects like fireplaces and lamps.

Even people like Steve Mosher (who I pick as an archetypal lukewarmer) who doesn't question the basics of the science at all, but doesn't think there is much evidence for high CO2 sensitivity and that the catastrophe is overblown.