Sentences with phrase «like framing device»

Many of his iconic works feature an architectural, ghost - like framing device around his subjects.

Very little attention is called to this, but much like the framing device, MOTHER!

And so it felt like any framing device would take that away; we would lose that.

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Virtual Reality technology on the market today is continually increasing things like frame rates and screen resolutions in a constant quest to make their devices even more lifelike.

It seemed like a distraction, but as the movie progressed I understood that this framing device was its own sub-story and had its own complexity, namely the older Tom coming clean to the decisions that still haunt his soul.

It seems like Depp was never told «no» to any of his ideas, and the film has to indulge the actor's notion that audiences wouldn't be able to get enough of his character, so we're also forced to endure him in the useless framing device.

One thing I decidedly did not like was the framing device of Nick Carraway writing the story from a sanitarium, where he has gone to recuperate from the «morbid alcoholism» (I think those are the words we see on his diagnostic papers) brought on by the tragedy to which he was witness.

There's a case to be made that the success of a biopic depends almost entirely on the director having studied Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story like a road map of cliché pitfalls to be avoided: Don't lean so hard on formative childhood traumas, watch out for unnecessary framing devices, etc..

In key scenes (Sahmi's meeting with the General, the montage sequence showing Houshang's attempts to raise money using repetitive framing devices, and several of Parviz's key scenes, which often function like dramatic monologues) the performances appear often to be slightly stylized and theatrical, offering, I believe, a degree of distanciation (in the Brechtian sense), somewhat in the manner of, say, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

The idea of a Scientology - like «religion» is used only as a narrative framing device — the film itself poses much more thought - provoking questions.

It reminds me of routine wartime musicals — not special efforts like The Gang's All Here or Cabin in the Sky or Girl Crazy or The Sky's the Limit, but those wholly forgettable Betty Grable and Alice Faye vehicles, top - heavy with running gags, dopey character actors, corny subplots, and sentimental framing devices.

Rather than feeling like five shorts slapped together with a contrived framing device, the segments work as a group to inform a larger idea — together they help to define this particular and peculiar stretch of highway.

David Bordwell contends that Tarantino deliberately signals his sources to his audience, «in order to tease pop connoisseurs into a new level of engagement,» while Aaron C. Anderson writes that by using framing markers and calculatingly phony distancing devices (like, for example, the black - and - white process shots in Pulp Fiction), «Tarantino draws attention to his film's status as a film, as a constructed work of fiction, and as a «simulation.

This feeling is only heightened by the film's framing device, the conversation between FBI agent Wesley Doyle (the late Powers Boothe) and Fenton, the killer's son (played by Matthew McConaughey) who narrates much of the film, with it feeling like it's going to also double as a serial killer origin story, albeit one with a big twist that we think we can see coming a mile off.

Adapted from the memoir of the same name by the real Jordan Belfort, the script by Boardwalk Empire creator Terrence Winter uses voice - over narration as a framing device (like Goodfellas) in order to allow Belfort's story to unfold «in his own language,» so to speak.

The Reputation tour stage itself is a thing of wonder: a 110 - foot - tall structure resembling a skyscraper in progress, with six crane - like contraptions stretching up above a wedge - like screen that functions as video display and framing device.

I am fairly excited about this device and the company demonstrated some great new features like low frame rate video playing on e-ink and the best internet browser in the business.

As a device that is primarily glass and plastic, the S Tablet feels solid but lacks that premium feel and corresponding sense of sturdiness, one gets from metal framed tablets like the iPad or even the BlackBerry PlayBook.

This device looks like a refined version of Sony's previous full - size reader (the PRS - 700), with a 6 - inch, 8 - grayscale E Ink screen framed by a metallic case (available in silver, black, or red).

The Tab S2 has a more premium design though, with a metal frame similar to the one seen on devices like the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Alpha.

A lot of changes can happen when the devices are under development, and it looks like Samsung has made some changes to the frame of its upcoming high - end tablet.

St 63 Hostel offers immaculate, well - designed air - con dorms with solid wooden bed frames, and a lot of attention to often under - considered features like a shelf beside each bed, alongside a reading lamp, socket and somewhere to safely charge your mobile devices.

This is a small device at a mere 4.27 x 3.15 x 1.16 inches and has a metal frame, so it feels like quality when you hold it.

PASS N PLAY WITH FRIENDS OR FAMILY Play 10 pin bowling with your friends for a round of 3, 6 or 10 frames on a single device as you pass and bowl turn by turn — just like real arcade bowling alley.

Later films like Form Phrases IV, 1954, sees the artist incorporating found imagery into this mix of animated video.Later films such as Fuji, 1974, saw Breer use a rotoscope device which enabled him trace live movement with each frame.

Or any of a number of oblique nods to fellow Düsseldorfer Joseph Beuys, including a rolled felt blanket, Braunkreuz - like smears of paint in a set of drawings, the use of the vitrine as a framing device, and the application of the term «Block» to describe the complex of assembled works?

People in today's society are attached to their devices; we view the world through our phones, our TVs, our computers, and complete the gaps of the surrounding world through our unconscious mind, as if what we see now is framed by what the world looks like on screen.

Though Gates» wooden frames initially appear to isolate the hoses from their social and historical context, they also act as device for memorialization, casting them as museum - like exhibits that prompt us to recall the ongoing struggle for Civil Rights.

He notes that the Mi 4, for example, is quite different from the iPhone, though at first glance it does look like the iconic Apple device because of the chamfer (the finishing on the metal frame).

In a lot of ways, this device looks like a slightly smaller version of the Motorola - manufactured Nexus 6, with a solid metal frame, and heavily curved back and sides, and identical placements at the center of the headphone jack and SIM slot, and microUSB port, at the top and bottom respectively.

Just like those devices, there's a metal frame that runs through the tablet and is exposed around the edges, with a light powder coating on it matching the color of the rest of the device that's nicely chamfered on the top edges.

Just like the U11, the U11 + sports an edge - to - edge display and HTC Edge Sense, the squeezable frame technology that is also incorporated into the Google's latest Pixel devices.

More graphics intensive titles like Marvel Future Fight drop more frames than on older Exynos powered devices, but we expect future titles to perform better as games arrive with support for Vulkan APIs.

We already know that iOS 11.1 will arrive at the same time as Apple's flagship phone and with the device set to ship on November 3rd, that would definitely fit into the «later this year» time frame Apple so often likes to use.

Most people, even its past critics, liked the improved metal frame, trim and back panel, making it even a more premium looking device with a build quality that felt great in your hand.

The Z3 Compact uses a plastic frame in place of the Z1 Compact's metal, but the move from a cheap - feeling plastic back to glass means the newer Compact feels like the more premium device.

Even its past critics, liked the improved metal frame and trim along with faux leather back panel, making it even a more premium looking device with a build quality that feels great in your hand.

The device further includes a fastener (e.g., a spring - loaded clip, Velcro, or the like) to detachably connect the device # 1 to the eyeglasses frame.

The build quality is top - notch, as you'd expect from a vendor aiming to challenge the likes of Samsung, and the glass back and chamfered metal frame give the phone a premium look that wouldn't look out of place on a device that costs twice as much.

You can play graphics intensive games like Asphalt 8 without much frame drops and hiccups on both devices.

The device is expected to adopt a new form factor much like the iPad mini's, with thinner bezels and a smaller frame — and Apple will have to make a number of changes to its internals to enable that.

The pictures do not contradict this and, in fact, show a device that seems to have a textured plastic body with an aluminum frame on the sides to make it look like it has a bezel - free display, possibly to make room for all 5.8 inches of the very large display.

Like the similarly ambitious Sharp Aquos Crystal, another bezel-less phone a couple years ahead of the big mobile players, Microsoft planned on putting the front - facing camera into the bottom of the device, to ensure the top of the phone's frame remained slim and flush with the screen.

Both devices have it in the looks department — the MX4 Pro has a metal body with an LG G3 like metallic looking plastic back and the Mi Note Pro uses glass on the top and bottom and a metal frame to hold it all together.

Details like the frame, sensor placement and lock screen all match up with the @evleaks renders, and the device even includes the same Nokia logo at the top right.

The most exciting feature, and a trick competing devices like the iPhone 8 and Galaxy S8 won't have, is a squeezable frame similar to the one found on the HTC U11.

The smartphone comes with a crystal like pattern on the back plate with a metal frame built around the device.

The Nexus 6P looks quite like other Huawei devices with a metal back and a square frame.

Clad in a color - matched metal frame, the device feels both airy and robust, though like all glass phones it is extremely slippery.

Design-wise, the devices look very much like a Galaxy S6 with its rounded metal frame plus the glass front and back panels.