Sentences with phrase «lots of allusions»

There are lots of allusions that aren't too tired and a playfulness about the characters that makes their outrages entertaining.

Conversations in public often go over my family's head: since we don't watch sports or commercials, lots of allusions and topics of conversation are beyond us.

And as such, it will not surprise us to see that James makes a lot of allusions to the Old Testament.

There's a lot of allusions to the seventeen - year - old FFVIII, such as the Weapon's Monthly magazines, and the way magic is drawn from certain points in the game is similar to the Junction System.

Not exact matches

I hope the allusions are not lost on the lot of you.

There are lots of exclamation marks and, at one point, a bizarre allusion to a Ridley Scott film starring Orlando Bloom.

Not helping matters is that the central family is a bore, with lots of vague allusions to backstory but precious few specifics to latch on to.

Rango Unusual character designs, a witty script, and a ton of well - placed allusions to past films elevate this film past a lot of its animated competitors — definitely one of the films I've enjoyed most this year, and I look forward to revisiting it again.

While Lanthimos doesn't make any specific political allusions, Dogtooth carries a lot of resonance in the Glenn Beck era, when people are living in paranoid bubbles of their own making, bunkered down by ideology.

This second goal is used as a springboard to leap into some half - baked armchair philosophizing and allusions to 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Tree of Life, but with a lot more guns.

There's a lot of look, and plenty of cinematic allusions, in this hit - woman tale, but it's ultimately just twaddle

A quick overview of Craven's early career segues into a brief discussion of the origins of this film and the reaction to The Last House on the Left — a fascinating corollary between the brutal treatment of the Beane clan and the clan's own brutal behaviour reveals the roots of Craven's amazingly scholarly / satirical approach to Hills, a lot of which (the classical structure, the allusions and metaphor) survives in the final product no matter how imperfect the picture.

While there is a lot of sword swinging, he just gets shot a bunch of times, an allusion to the scene in X-Men Origins: Wolverine where Wade does the same thing... but manages to accomplish the physically impossible feat.

But Hirst has always had more than a little touch of the provocateur about him, so in this encyclopedic show on the history of mankind and art, he slips in allusions to Walt Disney's Pluto, to a pharaoh who looks a lot like Pharrell Williams, and to a mythological character who seems to have leapt out of Paul McCarthy's imagination.

Several artworks should be sold for $ 200,000 — $ 300,000: Fred Sandback's Untitled from 1972 (Lot 136), Tony Cragg's Round The Block from 2003 (Lot 139), Mark Grotjahn's Untitled (Colored Butterfly White Background 2 Wings) from 2006 (Lot 174), Donald Judd's Untitled (89 - 26) from 1989 (Lot 179), Cy Twombly's Allusion (Bay Of Napoli, Part II) from 1975 (Lot 190), Damien Hirst's Love Sweetness from 2003 (Lot 211) and Mike Kelley's Prenatal Mutual Recognition Of Betty And Barney Hill from 1995 (Lot 274).