Sentences with word «literalization»

When the lower classes eat a flying eyeball, it's something like a horror - flick literalization of Marie Antoinette's suggestion of how to appease the masses mixed mysteriously with the great Illuminati eye.

Creed is a glorious literalization of that nostalgia.

by Walter Chaw On my better days, I still think of film as the quintessential artform of the last century — a medium for expression uniquely suited to our Modernist Yeatsian decomposition, what with its malleability beneath the knife, as it were, cut and spliced back together again as the un-spooling literalization of some patchwork Prometheus.

This juxtaposition plays out as a tongue - in - cheek literalization of classic, if not hackneyed, discussion of figure - ground relationships in art.

8 Although their actual presence in a particular location necessarily makes their relationship to that site a «reciprocal» one (they are altered by the conditions of exposure in the world even as they alter the character of the site by their presence), such works are in a sense mere literalizations of the kind of thematic expressed already in the sixteenth century, for example, by Giorgione's magnificent Dresden Venus (c. 1508/10).9

by Walter Chaw For me, the James Bond films are the literalization of a very particular Conservative fantasy in which a suave, quippy, emotionally - arrested sociopath battles Cold War foes, beds beautiful women without consequence, always has the latest technology, and engages in the endless murder of foreigners.

It's the literalization of inmates running the asylum, following young Dr. Newgate (Jim Sturgess) as he travels to the titular nuthatch to begin his tutelage under good Dr. Lamb (Sir Ben Kingsley), who has some pretty unconventional ideas about how the best way to treat psychotics and the like is to not treat them at all.

When Caden's health begins to deteriorate in strange and grotesque ways (the possibilities of these sicknesses being all in his head or being meant as a literalization of his fear of death seem quite likely), Adele takes his daughter to Berlin for a week - long trip.

Some works are directly political, like David Hammons» The Door, a door to an admissions office bearing the black ink imprint of a body pressed up against the glass — a literalization of the barriers that African Americans faced in entering higher - education institutions.