Sentences with phrase «modern golden age»

In our modern golden age of video game storytelling, I find that RPGs are better than ever.

Joe Brancatelli, Business Travel Columnist of Joesentme.com, details how decreasing airfares may be creating a modern golden age for leisure travelers.

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I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

Contrary to the popular portrayal of torture as «medieval,» it was the early - modern monarchies that inaugurated «the golden age of judicial torture,» along with offering spectacular public executions that reflected the fragility of the new state's monopoly on violence.

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).

Bringing to your rescue, the age old Turmeric milk popular by its modern name of the miracle golden milk!

If you don't know who the New Age Outlaws are, you're probably six years old and I'm jealous of you, because your entire memories of professional wrestling consist of our modern, golden era.

Rather, it is part of a pervasive reactionary mindset, which is simultaneously modern and archaic; which wants to reinvent Britain, and to drag it back to a fictional golden age assured by national virility and control.

The rise of modern, deadly plagues such as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for monitoring emerging infectious diseases.

It's just as fitting for a modern bride as it was during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

The Golden Age of Hollywood experienced a bit of a rebirth on this year's Oscars red carpet with several guests breaking out the va - va - voom in glamorous retro - inspired gowns (by thoroughly modern designers).

Since the dawn of the modern Golden - Age superhero, we've been treated to over 30 iterations and appearances of Superman, Batman and Spider - Man (multiply that threefold if you count cartoons, cartoon movies and video games).

There are a refreshing number of Newly Featured titles this week, from Golden Age musicals to classic noir to Kurosawa masterpieces to modern crime thrillers.

Shane Black has crafted an astonishing film from a block of hard - as - rock film noir, that has all the wit and irreverence of the modern era and yet still recalls the tough - guy films of Hollywood's golden age of Cagney and Bogart.

HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR A handsome new book (by John Kobal) and exhibition (at The Museum of Modern Art) are bringing to light the achievements of Hollywood's glamour photographers of the Golden Age.

In a modern - day nod to the golden age of air travel, JetBlue will open an outdoor lounge on top of Terminal 5 (T5) at New York's JFK International Airport on Wednesday.

Modern - classic master Pierre - Yves Rochon has filled the lobby and rooms with giltwood, Macassar ebony, and black marble, creating an old - meets - new vibe that honors the property's past and ushers it into another golden age.

The hotel's 274 rooms, which include nine signature suites in the original Golden Age buildings, are inspired by Dutch design, from a modern take on classic Dutch art in the bedrooms to the blue Delft - inspired tiles paving the bathroom floors.

Take a step back in time on board and experience the sophistication of the Golden Age of the «Belle Époque,» relish the luxury and elegance of yesteryear but with a full complement of modern facilities and comforts.

It marries the old and the new — a late 20th century building with architecture from the Dutch Golden Age — interlocking modern luxury and historical elegance.

You may be surprised by Bali's modern tourist facilities, but you will be amazed by its medieval culture - still a vibrant civilisation, very much alive and breathing in its golden age.

All this, enriched with the dark fantasy atmospheres of the best action platformer titles from the genre's golden age, make Castle of Heart a perfect mix of classic influences and modern approaches, utilizing the spectrum of Switch features that will enchant both fans of the genre and newcomers.

What we're trying to do is basically use the base of the Japanese RPGs from the «90s, the Golden Age of RPGs and use modern game technology and development methodology to enhance new JRPGs with that core.

The first two Monkey Island games are amazing point - and - click adventures, filled to the brim with hilarious pirate jokes, insult sword fighting, and way too many modern conveniences for a game set during the Golden Age of Piracy.

It'll whisk you back to the golden age of arcade games, before hitting you smack in the face with its modern day feel, bringing enjoyment that very few other side scrolling shooters can manage.

Insomniac Games brings out the best of the retro golden age and blends it perfectly into a new and modern package for everyone to enjoy.

Capcom's latest entry into the series is a bipolar experiment as its perspective and overall tone are a relative far cry from the series» renowned tendencies; while it rekindles certain gameplay and design elements that are not only reminiscent to the series» golden age, but seamlessly blends the core fundamentals of the genre and the powerless implementation that has been popularized in modern survival horror game design, ushering a harmonic balance of the new and old.

All this, enriched with the dark fantasy atmospheres of the best action platformer titles from the genre's golden age, make Castle of Heart a perfect mix of classic influences and modern approaches, utilising the spectrum of Switch features that will enchant both fans of the genre and newcomers.

But although he does draw on the «golden age» of modern painting, and paintings by lesser known modern artists, to dwell excessively on James» sources would be to miss altogether the intensity of the viewing experience and the ensuing intellectual challenges his work offers.

Past exhibitions have included Rodin's Obsession: The Gates of Hell (2001), Claes Oldenburg: Drawings (2004), Chihuly Los Angeles (2005), Jim Dine: Some Drawings (2007), Roy Lichtenstein: In Process (2011), Illustrating Modern Life: The Golden Age of American Illustration from the Kelly Collection (2013), and Wayne Thiebaud: Works on Paper (2014).

His curatorial projects and artworks have been exhibited at the Tate Modern (London); Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne); Misako & Rosen and Lamp Gallery (Tokyo); Swiss Institute, Gavin Brown's Passerby, 47 Canal and Laurel Gitlen (New York); Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia); Pepin Moore and Angstrom Gallery (Los Angeles); Locust Projects (Miami); Peregrine Program, Western Exhibitions, Suitable, Hyde Park Art Center, Rowley Kennerk and Golden Age (Chicago); MOCAD (Detroit); Poor Farm, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Green Gallery, Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Milwaukee Art Museum (Wisconsin); among others.

Although James» draws on the «golden age» of modern painting, and paintings by lesser known modern artists, to dwell excessively on James» sources would be to miss altogether the intensity of the viewing experience and the ensuing intellectual challenges his work offers.

He has been featured in group exhibitions throughout Europe and the U.S., including Expanding Frontiers: Propos d'Europe 15, curated by Rolf Hoff, Foundation Hippocrène, Paris (2016); The Painter of Modern Life, Curated by Bob Nickas, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2015); The Stand In (or A Glass of Milk), Curated by Alexandra Gaty, Public Fiction (The Museum of), Los Angeles (2013); Pour une grammaire du hasard, Curated by Corrinne Charpentier, Fri Art - Centre d'art de Fribourg / Kunsthalle Freiburg, Switzerland (2012); and Golden Age: Reference Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2011).

A major installation, Gazapocalypse — Return to the Golden Age, took place in the Tanks at Tate Modern in 2012.

The exhibition explores the birth of the first multinational company and Modern Capitalism in the Dutch Golden Age as it stretches through history intersecting trade routes, culture and colonisation to the rise of China with Authoritarian Capitalism.

• Typical Figure Drawing Course • History of Figure Drawing • Italian Renaissance: Golden Age of Drawing • Greatest Renaissance Exponents of Figure Drawing • Drawing Media Used by Renaissance Artists • Modern Drawings of the Human Figure • How Much is a Drawing Worth?

It becomes a pastoral landscape of a type familiar in Venetian painting of the Renaissance, as well as in more modern works such as Henri Matisse's «Bonheur de Vivre» (1906) in the Barnes Foundation, a bucolic idyll that seems to recall a golden age, a garden of paradise.

So, with Boost long having been an ultra-competitive pre-paid provider, and now with compelling amounts of data and inclusions to compete with not only MVNOs but the major telcos themselves, the golden age of modern telecommunications continues shining brightly, with consumers once again the ultimate winners.