Sentences with phrase «miasma lives»
That late - noir miasma lives on indelibly in Scorsese's masterpiece, though for all its actuality it acquired a mythic aura in a way that other searing films depicting contemporary necropoli have not, among them Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986, London), Mike Leigh's Naked (1993, London), Wim Wenders's Land of Plenty (2004, Los Angeles) and Andrea Arnold's Red Road (2006, Glasgow).
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The average life span for a pygmy is only about 17 years; a leading cause of death is infectious disease carried by the miasma of microbes that flourish in the hot, moist jungle.
On the other hand, by contracting its scope to the final four months of the Civil War (and, as it turned out, Lincoln's own life), the dramatic impetus of this against - the - clock structure gets lost in a miasma of dry, detailed, school syllabus - friendly historical re-enactments of men standing around in rooms talking and arguing.
White, for my money, has been too melancholy in some of his books and his trademark moroseness is here, too (with good reason: existential New York miasma, AIDS, literary failures), but the spark of love and friendship between the gay hero and his straight friend, in the end, suggests hope and is a life raft to cling to.
Eventually I moved on, as over the past weeks and months a miasma of cynicism set in over the state of the MMO genre, ushering me out from my chosen genre and into story - driven single - player games like Telltale's Game of Thrones, 80 Days, Life is Strange, and even a bird dating simulator known as Hatoful Boyfriend — I swear this one is better than it sounds — and little did I know, all the while I was playing these games, a pretty enjoyable story experience was growing in my own genre.
Conceptualized and brought to life by Australians Ben Landau and Brittany Veitch, the pieces are designed to — supposedly — buffer your delicate senses from the urban miasma of city life.