Sentences with phrase «like mythic»

Already there are startups like Mythic and SambaNova Systems, which have raised tens of millions of dollars and specialize in the rapid - fire calculations for typical AI processes.

In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order... [read more»]

In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order to transfigure them, discovering which traits can be refashioned to abstract or practical effect.

Ultimately, like the mythic nymphs of The Odyssey who, through their songs, lured sailors into the sea and to their own destruction, Alloucherie's icebergs are sirens.

Like Mythic is new to MMOs (Dark Age of Camelot is still going strong — it isn't WoW that hurts DAoC — it's Warhammer Online.)

We want to make it feel like a mythic adventure.»

Passing through the hands of a number of different owners over the years, Aston Martin has regularly suffered fiscal implosions — only to rise again from its ashes like that mythic bird.

Captured indelibly by cinematographers Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, Malick's film has a visual syntax so eloquent and graceful — its fields of gold cause its quiet characters to stand out like mythic figures — it would play powerfully as a silent film.

His beard is blond too, and his serene gaze makes him look more like a mythic English king than a Middle Eastern radical.»

The funny thing is, though, that this other group knows all of the stories your family likes to tell about the deceased, and the stories they add to the mix sound more like mythic embellishments of his character than outright lies.

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Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

But Fritz's forgery, toward which King was so credulous, would merely have delivered us a mythic Christianity that was still less radical, even if more to our liking.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

Apparently, there's an old North Korean myth about Tongmyong, who founded the real - life Koguryo Kingdom and is something like the Western world's King Arthur: a real person whose feats have slowly taken on mythic proportions.

As noted above, post-Enlightenment students of human culture have continued to use mythic figures like Apollo and Dionysius to distinguish in trenchant form the ethos of particular cultures.

Aristotle wrote of various forms of «calamari»; seaside cultures have long feared mythic, tentacled beasts like the Norse kraken; Jules Verne, of course, entrenched in us images of a giant squid battling Captain Nemo's steampunk submarine.

Like many tales about the world's spiritual heroes, the story of Patanjali's birth has assumed mythic dimensions.

That's what I feel like watching Jauja — like I'm looking through a window into some mythic realm so unfamiliar it's spooky.

It almost felt like this was some mythic property we'd never see.

«What Hugh said to you is the attitude we all have — myself, Lauren Shuler Donner, the studio, [director] James Mangold, Hutch Parker — all of us, feel like this is six or seven or eight (depending on how you count) movies in the making, and there are few characters in the history of cinema who have cast as big a shadow as Wolverine, so to tell the final chapter of that story, it has to be the best, and it has to have a mythic quality to it.

His absence makes his return with Martin Scorsese's flawed but fascinating 2002 epic «Gangs of New York» all the more mythic, with Day - Lewis» Bill «The Butcher» Cutting introduced like a giant, his boots stepping like a bull, his handlebar mustache and American Eagle - emblazoned glass eye making an immediately imposing impression.

Like the Omniverous Zoetrope version of The Black Stallion, Randal Kleiser's The Blue Lagoon bypasses the sheer excitement in its card - carrying mythic subjectâ $» girl and boy, distinctly prepubescent, are cast ashore in Paradise and grow to young adulthood one with Natureâ $» to generate one TV - commercial / poster - art image after another.

The monochrome treatment creates an intense experience and I can see Miller's passion for it; it has an even more timeless, mythic quality, liked a legend carved in stone and come to life.

Owing a debt to the Zen - like simplicity and nocturnal L.A. ambience of Walter Hill's The Driver — which, in turn, took a page from Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï — the film is little more than an exercise in style, but it's dazzling and mythic, a testament to the fundamental appeal of fast cars, dangerous men, and tension that squeezes like a hand to the throat.

This highly entertaining time - filler lacks the mythic resonances that made «300» feel like an instant classic, but works surprisingly well.

His firefighter character accrues the weight of a mythic, Shane - like hero.

One of several soaring action set pieces in Sicario involves a nocturnal tunnel sequence that obtains a mythic Orphean quality that subtly places Kate in a Eurydice - like position.

In Son of Paleface Frank Tashlin solved a similar problem for Bob Hope by fully committing the film's sight gags to the mythic grotesqueries and bouncing - back - therefrom of Road Runner — style animated cartoons, but like a ten - year - old kid perpetually yelling «Fake!»

The mythic tale begins in a kind of parallel universe, like a Victorian - era, proto - industrial and very chilly New York, where demons and flying horses are the norm, and thugs in collusion with evil forces have extraordinary powers facilitated by colored stones!?

Instead of making the guy a mythic figure «of superhuman strength who can not be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire,» as Nicholas Rogers described him in his 2003 book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, McBride thinks it's scarier to have him be some weird dude who likes to murder people.

A salesman from Ashland, Alabama, who, by his own confession, just wanted to be a great man, Edward is revealed in a series of amusing, backward glances as a man quick with a rib - splitting joke as well as full of wise if improbable tales of his heroic past that blend into the mythic, even fairy - tale - like material of transcendence.

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Nesbø infuses the mythic elements of the tragedy with bold strokes of horrific, Don Winslow — like drug - war realism.

As Mitch Cullin weaves together Holmes's hidden past, his poignant struggle to retain mental acuity, and his unlikely relationship with Roger, Holmes is transformed from the machine - like, mythic figure into an ordinary man, confronting and acquiescing to emotions he has resisted his entire life.

I remember hoping they would leave it like this forever because this powerful, mythic prettiness — our right — is all we want.

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A wall of thread by Cameron Crawford, like white bedsprings, could serve as a loom for Reichek's mythic Ariadne.

The younger artists link speed and Modernism alike to a mythic, violent America, and they like it.

«Basquiat had been mythic — but only like Lou Reed was mythic», he writes.

«Barney was mythic like Jason and his Argonauts or Daedalus.»

In «Mythic Being,» Piper walks down the street dressed like a man, wearing a loosely curled Afro - style wig, mustache, and sunglasses.

Given the mythic qualities of Switzerland's topography, it is surprising that the works included — videos by both young, lesser - known artists like Judith Albert, Nicolás Fernández, and Laurence Huber, and firmly established ones like Sylvie Fleury, Roman Signer, and Beat Streuli — do not necessarily reflect on a sense of place or on the history of landscape as an artistic genre but rather

This new edition expands on the scope of the old, adding new acquisitions and featuring 150 master works by artists from Asia, Europe and the Americas — from delicate Song - dynasty handscrolls to jewel - like images of medieval piety, scenes of mythic drama, austere still lifes, sensitive portraits, grand landscapes and jarring Modern visions.

Intended to act in the space between knowledge and emotion, his dream - like oil paintings consider the present moment as part of a larger, intuited (perhaps mythic) history.

People like to mention Pollock with his spattered canvas, Johns with his flag, Robert Rauschenberg with his combine paintings, Julian Schnabel with his Neo-Expressionism and smashed china, Anselm Kiefer with his mythic landscapes and broken branches, Radcliffe Bailey with the slave trade, or Jean - Michel Basquiat if one needs to invoke a black artist with a spray can.

Piper is known for her performance works — public provocations like her male avatar, The Mythic Being (1973 — 75), or her pedagogical Funk Lessons (1983 — 84)-- but this huge exhibition demonstrates her polyglot mastery of objects, images, and text.

Somehow she marries mythic ideals with a contemporary specificity that feels like portraiture, creating a charged experience for the viewer.»

Marshall reminds us that artists of color have historically endured a conditional access that reinforces the narrative of their own exclusion: «So it's like all of the black folks who achieve this sort of mythic status as artists are always people who were working as naives, untrained, kind of natural artists.»

I think for many of them, like Vito Acconci and Dan Graham, writing was a way to demystify art making and take it outside of the mythic realm of genius and inspiration.

All the way from Zurich, Galerie Gmurzynska (Booth 3E11) will bring on a Kabinett showcase of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam — whose depictions of mythic creatures was said to be appropriated by the likes of Pablo Picasso and André Breton — in anticipation of a wider show in its gallery later in the year.