Sentences with phrase «modern figures as»

We could equally have included such transformative modern figures as Joss Whedon, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg (who made the jump to blockbusters by inventing them).

Not exact matches

Combining with Disney are 21st Century Fox's critically acclaimed film production businesses, including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox 2000, which together offer diverse and compelling storytelling businesses and are the homes of Avatar, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool, as well as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hidden Figures, Gone Girl, The Shape of Water and The Martian — and its storied television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21, which have brought The Americans, This Is Us, Modern Family, The Simpsons and so many more hit TV series to viewers across the globe.

The editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick, recently contrasted modern writers in Russia with the tradition of the Great Russian Writer: such figures as Gogol, Tolstoy, and even Solzhenitsyn, who represented both sagacity and idealism.

Giacometti, a Swiss modern master known for his haunting sculptures of blank - face Everymen, cast the work 50 years ago as part of a commission to plant several of his bronze figures outside Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City's financial district.

To young priests and seminarians of the first decades of the 21st century, he is the hero figure of the later decades of the 20th, and as such a priest and bishop for the modern era whose style and message, insights and vision are a model for them to follow, as well as a saint whose intercession they seek and to whose influence many attribute their discernment of a call to the priesthood.

In the modern age, due to books like The DaVinci Code and Holy Blood Holy Grail, it's become hip to look at Mary Magdalene as kind of a female Christ figure, even though those books don't quite articulate it that way.

Is it altogether faithful to say, as Cox does, that they «conjure the figure of a huge man, in presence if not in stature, who lived his life devotedly, even compulsively at times, on all the frightening boundaries of modern life»?

I don't consider myself «postmodern» or «emerging» but most of the postmodern / emerging philosophy and theology I have read is a reaction against a modern philosophy and theology which overemphasized «the many» (the human ability to figure things out on our own), and as a result, is not too humanistic, but is almost excessively spiritual.

Necip Fazil Kisakurek certainly ranks as an important figure among modern Turkish poets.

there are several flaws in that — not the least of which is the definition of a pastor as an «authority» figure in a premodern / modern western context.

The difference between Greek pessimism and the oriental and modern variety is that the Greeks had not made the discovery that the pathetic mood may be idealized, and figure as a higher form of sensibility.

The overall style of Sleeping Beauty is also more modern than that of the older Disney fairy tales; both figures and backgrounds are somewhat sharp edged and angular, in the manner of 1950s commercial art, rather than softly rounded as in the earlier films.

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

«18 It is partly in response to that void of an Italian Reformation that we may understand Gramsci's fascination, and not Gramsci's alone but that of almost every major modern Italian intellectual with Niccolo Machiavelli, the Italian contemporary of Luther and Calvin.19 Gramsci treats Machiavelli as a Reformer in secular guise, a «precocious Jacobin,» with a vision of a people armed, a national Italy, and Gramsci used the figure of Machiavelli's Prince to express the unifying and leading function of the modern Communist party.

This paper will attempt an assessment of Leclerc's radical position, using as a foil the thought of the baroque scholastic, Francis Suarez.5 The latter was picked to fulfill such a function both because he represents the most complete summation of the older Aristotelian theory of substance Leclerc attempts to appropriate and reinterpret, and because he was the most important scholastic figure for the age that Leclerc sees as both the turning point in the history of the philosophy of nature, and as the golden age of such a philosophy, namely, the modern age (PN 194 - 95).

Two influential, non-Catholic figures immediately come to mind: sociologist Max Weber described a «Protestant work ethic» that explained the rise of capitalism and modernity on the basis of a disembodied understanding of salvation inherited from the Reformers; and systematic philosopher Georg Hegel hailed the Reformation, «the all - enlightening Sun,» as ushering in modern times by freeing «the specific and definite embodiment of Deity» from any «outward form» so that one may be reconciled to God «in faith and spiritual enjoyment.»

It was also the belief of the Babylonians and As - syrians, as their monuments testify, for a figure of a guardian angel now in the British Museum once decorated an As - syrian palace, and might well serve for a modern representation; while Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, says: «He (Marduk) sent a tutelary deity (cherub) of grace to go at my side; in everything that I did, he made my work to succeed.&raquAs - syrians, as their monuments testify, for a figure of a guardian angel now in the British Museum once decorated an As - syrian palace, and might well serve for a modern representation; while Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, says: «He (Marduk) sent a tutelary deity (cherub) of grace to go at my side; in everything that I did, he made my work to succeed.&raquas their monuments testify, for a figure of a guardian angel now in the British Museum once decorated an As - syrian palace, and might well serve for a modern representation; while Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, says: «He (Marduk) sent a tutelary deity (cherub) of grace to go at my side; in everything that I did, he made my work to succeed.&raquAs - syrian palace, and might well serve for a modern representation; while Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, says: «He (Marduk) sent a tutelary deity (cherub) of grace to go at my side; in everything that I did, he made my work to succeed.»

That a figure such as Shinawatra could have gained ownership of an English football club, however, is a distasteful reminder of the amorality of the modern game.

One of the things that caught my attention the newborn Stroller Mod is its design and its print, very modern and fun.My particular cart model is the abstract, which, as you can see, shows geometric figures in vivid and very urban colors.

It's a book about figuring out the parenting choices that'll make you and your family the happiest, and to clearing your life of all the stuff that's been foisted on you as a must - do for modern parenting.

As investigators continue to figure out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the tragedy of Las Vegas is renewing a long - running gun control debate.

«Donald Trump began as a bit of a joke... But he has gone way beyond being a joke now and he had become - as he clearly always was but has become overtly - an utterly repellent figure in modern politics.

She must figure out how best to sterilize spacefaring instruments; baking them, as NASA used to do, isn't a good option for the sensitive electronic components on modern spacecraft.

I was also asked to undertake numerous varied tasks such as writing short overviews, for example,» 1000 words about kidney cancer», looking for figures illustrating advances in modern surgical oncology, and finding photographs of a mammogram being performed.

The beginnings of modern science are traced back to relatively obscure figures, such as Pierre Gassendi, credited with the first concept of gravity, and early «atomicists», such as the «Mad Duchess», Margaret Cavendish, who believed in four types of atoms — square, long, round and sharp.

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They are mamas on the same journey as their customers, championing modern day families working hard to figure it out.

The iconic style figures such as Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor belong to the list but I've also selected some of my favorite modern style icons who constantly stand out in their outstanding panache.

Modern online dating services often pride themselves on having an extremely large user base, with many using high membership figures as part of a promotional strategy to on - board new customers.

And although this figure is very low, the reluctancy to use modern dating app platforms was emphasised further, as 81 % of respondents confirmed they would actively avoid casual dating apps when looking for a serious partner.

We see images of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s and of figures such as John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro, among others, and the furious and evocative unity of picture and song reminds the audience that communism sprang from concerns that intensely dog modern society.

The case for Hitchcock as a modern Conrad rests on this ruthless investigation of the heart of darkness, but the film is uniquely Hitchcockian in its positioning of the godlike mother figure.

Aside from the main themes and characters, there's that divorced - women's support group, run by Dorothy's cynical sister (the expertly wisecracking Bonnie Hunt); a «child - care technician» obsessed with modern jazz; and run - ins with various sporting figures, both real (from Frank Gifford to Katarina Witt) and fictional, such as a superstar quarterback played by TV's Jerry O'Connell, and his hard - nosed dad (an uncredited Beau Bridges).

Figuring he has absolutely nothing to lose by submitting himself as a guinea pig for the advancement of modern science, Andre signs up and checks himself in for an entire weekend of injections, hallucinations, and oversized suppositories.

This is the time of the Ottoman Empire's last days as various nations become mired in World War I. International upheaval, as viewed from the intimate vantage point of a historical figure as enchanting and modern feeling as Bell, gives the filmmakers a variety of avenues to explore.

A pre-eminent figure in Irish film, Neil Jordan's expansive career has provided some of the key moments in modern Irish film as well as engaging an international following that stretches far beyond Irish shores.

The spirit of a vicious child serial killer resurfaces in the nightmares of teens in modern - day and is responsible for their subsequent and shocking deaths in this tense, spooky thriller from who else, but Wes Craven (I'm actually not that familiar at all with his style, but since this is a horror film for the ages I figured I'd best get ahead and jump on the bandwagon as quick as possible to make up for lost time).

Openly trolling the ambitions of other modern comic - book movies, the sequel to Deadpool, the surprise hit that cast Ryan Reynolds as the self - destructive and puerile Bugs Bunny figure of the present superhero blockbuster landscape, mostly outdoes its predecessor in terms of style and satirical intent: Now that he's...

For modern players, this would seem like a no - brainer, and luckily Capcom figured it out, because each of the environments are lushly and thematically detailed and as imaginative as the monsters themselves.

At the time, he kept it vague, only saying that the series would «re-examine a figure who maybe we forget how radical they were in their thinking because they were so incorporated into our culture and outlook as a modern society.»

I've said this before, but one of the problems with modern box office analysis is that it treats studio tracking numbers, which are supposed to be internal figures that can be used to adjust marketing in the run up to release, as ironclad box office predictions.

As with previous Platinum Edition releases, the treasure trove of extras can be found on the second disc's «Backstage Disney» section, which features an hour - long documentary of the film's development, production, and reception, featuring comments from modern animation figures such as Pixar's John Lassiter as well as many of the now - elderly voice actors for Bambi and the other forest creatureAs with previous Platinum Edition releases, the treasure trove of extras can be found on the second disc's «Backstage Disney» section, which features an hour - long documentary of the film's development, production, and reception, featuring comments from modern animation figures such as Pixar's John Lassiter as well as many of the now - elderly voice actors for Bambi and the other forest creatureas Pixar's John Lassiter as well as many of the now - elderly voice actors for Bambi and the other forest creatureas well as many of the now - elderly voice actors for Bambi and the other forest creatureas many of the now - elderly voice actors for Bambi and the other forest creatures.

He's charming, creepy and completely believable as a modern - day Charles Manson figure, able to manipulate his brethren by telling and giving them everything they want.

This is a vital piece of modern filmmaking that officially stamps Andrew Dominik as an important figure.

That last point seems like it could be a tease as to the potential undertones of this adaptation of Milton's story, since the idea of an evil figure managing to corrupt fundamentally good people with his twisted rhetoric does seem like it has some parallels with modern life.

Modern realization of best practice in education no longer supports the idea of the teacher as an authoritarian figure standing in the front of the room scrawling on a chalkboard.

Even better, they come with a big discount as compared to their modern day counterparts: The flagship luxury sedans for the 2017 model year can be up in the 6 - figure range when you're shopping the most common luxury brands.

Or, pushes to evolve the standard and what it is capable of doing will lead to features being inconsistently supported, as is the case with HTML5 and modern browsers, and we'll forever have our heads under the bonnet trying to figure out how to make the damn thing work.