Sentences with phrase «like unexpected gifts»

And there are times — like unexpected gifts — when the people become friends, the information becomes insight, the participation becomes engagement; I develop an emotional attachment to the place.

His work has the «kind of authority that can't be striven for, but only arrived at like an unexpected gift», according to the Guardian art critic Adrian Searle.

To tell the truth, as a former painter, I am almost jealous of Doig's recent paintings, of their presence and frankness; they have the kind of authority that can't be striven for, but only arrived at like an unexpected gift — one that may pass.»

Not exact matches

And it was unexpected, almost like a gift.

Whether it's a hostess gift in the form of granola or cookies, or a bright, seasonal salad with familiar but unexpected flavors — like this delicata squash number.

Directed by Raoul Peck on the heels of his triumphant I Am Not Your Negro, and co-written by him with the perpetually waggish Pascal Bonitzer (who has helped the likes of Raul Ruiz and Jacques Rivette invent unexpected gifts), The Young Karl Marx is to the best of my knowledge something new, both in buddy comedies and romantic costume adventures: the story of a scheme to shoulder aside the leaders of the League of the Just and rededicate the organization to a bold new movement, marrying descriptive sociology to post-Hegelian theory!

Here his rock - and - roll bent is paired with the stifled emotions of James Ivory for one heavenly pairing of instincts both complimentary and unexpected — CMBYN feels like the utter embodiment of both of their gifts.

AN UNEXPECTED GIFT A desperate woman and her young son find a safe haven in Falling Like Snowflakes by Denise Hunter, the first in her Summer Harbor series.

Apart from your main income and side jobs, you may still get some unexpected money like tax refunds, an inheritance, lottery winning, wedding gift etc..

It's like getting an unexpected gift from a friend.

The view has been such an unexpected gift, it almost doesn't matter what the inside looks like when you are so drawn to the view outside!