Sentences with phrase «like folktales»
Like the folktales that inspire it — hell, like America itself, the country that inspires it — it's not perfect and it's not great but it has moments of greatness within it.
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Like the folktales that we listened to as bedtime stories, the Taoism / Buddhism practice and values that were passed down from family.
Hi Amanda, I'm so glad you like this folktale roundup!
Not exact matches
The story of the Tower of Babel sounds like an ancient folktale to explain the origin of languages.
Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow - growing, slow - moving creature.
Like many folktales, the origins of this prophesy are often placed in the indefinite past, the «Once upon a time...» of fairy tales.
Behind each asana and its corresponding movements is an ancient story about a god, sage, or sacred animal, much like Aesop's fables or European folktales.
Colmar is so beautiful, almost folktale - like.
It's Kevin Costner - as - Robin Hood levels of comically - horrific, and, just like Costner's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Great Wall is an attempt to grit - up and culturally contextualize some ridiculous rural folktale.
One line from «Let It Rock» — «working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer» — led right into a mini-lesson on folktales and heroes like John Henry, and we compared working and living conditions from the past with today, which is California State Social Studies Standards 2.1
A folktale lesson about the «The Crane Maiden,» for example, should include vocabulary like crane, marsh, loom, and quilt.
There are so many folktales and legends from Mexico that I would like to write about them all and show them to the world.
Fans of folklore - based fiction like The Snow Child, The Great Glass Sea or Mr. Fox would enjoy Adrienne Celt's myth - steeped first novel, which wraps Polish folktales and a family curse over four generations of women.
Based on a folktale told by both Jews and Arabs, this tale of two brothers gives children hope for what the world might look like if people thought more about one another than themselves.
Her video and photographic works in the exhibition deal with charismatic Christian prayer warriors; folktales concerning Kuru, an intelligent yet treacherous tortoise; karikpo (antelope) masquerade figures asserting playful gymnastic parkour - like performances around decommissioned pipelines or areas where pipelines once existed; and the color red, which represents birth in the artist's native Ogoniland and symbolizes her own rebirth there.
«Works like Aerospace Folktales altered the way in which documentary photography was conceptualized and used in contemporary art, and the work continues to be an urgent model for representing the political and social realities of our world.»