Sentences with phrase «moments of innocence»

This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers's brilliant and compelling novel.

Moments of innocence, stolen kisses and curfew nights would soon be left far behind.

He says the wish experience provides kids «moments of innocence» and gives them hope.

A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) 2.

Combining fictional tropes with documentary footage, Iran's Abbas Kiarostami depicts / restages events surrounding the trial of a man arrested for impersonating famed director Mohsen Makhmalbaf (A Moment of Innocence).

Not exact matches

Dreaming innocence is not, however, human life, and when Lewis contrasts Malacandra and «the silent planet» (earth), his low estimate of human life becomes evident: when Ransom acknowledges to one of the rational creatures that the speck through the telescope is his planet, «It was the bleakest moment in all his travels.»

Experience must be interpreted, otherwise «myth and faith would perish the moment that the innocence of the ecstatic passes away.»

Most of all l love those early proto - hippie moments of intoxicating innocence, hope, and promise, the ones most potently sounded during the 1963 - 1966 window.

Now as an arty egg - heady guy I can relate to the need (and sometimes temptation) to brood alone, but what I particularly notice is that this music often oscillates, as much of the classic 60s art pop did, between rhythmically simplistic evocations of lonely - ish innocence, say, the Mo Tucker and Marine Girls moments, and a-rhythmic plunges into enervated hopelessness, say, the The Loneliest Person in the World moments.

Without a glimpse of innocence in moments of spontaneous renewal and creativity life would be intolerable.

On the other hand, while shame «reveals the moment of lust, at the same time it can protect from [its] consequences... It can even be said that man and woman, through shame, almost remain in the state of original innocence.

Your daughter's innocence will not last, and do you think she will necessarily be okay with your practice of sharing her private moments with the rest of the world when she's older?

They are both virgins, yet despite some awkward moments, this is no glib comedy of sexual innocence.

If you are ready for a dark movie with its moments of humour and lots of charm, while enjoying the innocence and cuteness adjusting to difficult moments of life, please, check this one!

It is a ferocious moment but, like many in «Three Billboards,» one quilted with subtle, nuanced meaning, not just about guilt and innocence but about the mental state of Mildred Hayes — and the bestial nature of unresolvable, raging grief.

And at this exact moment, she has crossed over the threshold of holding on to any last vestige of passive innocence — hat in hand, this is her decisively leaving the nest.

It's more of a slice of life sort of movie than one with a clear and easy - to - summarize narrative, but it's essentially a very good film concentrating on loss of innocence, scattered with moments of greatness usually brought to the surface by its strong technical aspects (from its stylized editing to its sporadic shifts in tone).

We're offered declarations of extreme displeasure — a character forced to deep - throat a Bowie knife, another partaking in cadaver diddling, the proverbial death of innocence — but these grand moments of visual revelation creep up sans the proper subtext but still manage a choice respite from Refn's overweening impudence.

It's more of a «slice of life» sort of movie than one with a clear and easy - to - summarize narrative, but it's essentially a very good film concentrating on loss of innocence, scattered with moments of greatness that are usually brought to the surface by its strong technical aspects (from its stylized editing to its sporadic shifts in tone).

It's a simple story with moments of unabashed beauty and freedom, as when she runs through the wheat fields of her new home, a burst of innocence and joy from a woman who thinks she's found her dream come true.

Schoenaerts is a physically intimidating beast of a man who looks like he might snap at any moment, but the brilliance of his performance is the vulnerability and innocence that he brings to the character.

But K keeps arguing with his accusers, protesting his innocence (which is clearly irrelevant) and trying to make sense out of a situation that is defiantly senseless from first moment to last.

Director / writer Ryan Coogler, co-writer Joe Robert Cole and producer Nate Moore create a new moment of childhood tragedy for Killmonger that differs from his comic origins and strips away his innocence for good.

Amy Adams is the perfect choice for the influential schoolteacher, her soft voice and innate innocence befitting the reserved persona but not debilitating moments of expansion.

It is as though the authors, the publishers, the teachers, and the professors of education share a bizarre consensus that ordinary children need to be shaken out of their complacency, stripped of their innocence, and frightened by the horrors that the world has in store for them at any moment.

As adults, we can, and should, pause to consider the moments when adults seize the innocence of childhood.

Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master's Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.

In the moments before the brutal murder of Jack Novak ended what she later thought of as her time of innocence, Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz gazed down at the waterfront of her native city, Steelton.

A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune — of innocence and experience, seduction and self - invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of glamour, disaster, and promise — The Emperor's Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment.

It's a clever touch that these photo collections are reviewed at the end of the day, too, as it means that you're often looking at these moments of light - hearted innocence with the benefit of hindsight.

And I'll agree that it absolutely can be, but it's the fact that the default tone is that of self - mockery and innocence which gives the game such an uncanny human depth that makes the dramatic moments more believable.

Expanding upon his interest in the cultural construction of landscape, Doyle says, «The project is a meditation on the moment when the innocence and «can - do» ambition of the American Dream becomes inextricably twisted together with an end - of - empire excess and fears of our own mortality as a species.»

In this moment, we each stand at the polar extreme of our own innocence.

Broomberg & Chanarin's film explores the experience of empathy or the enjoyment of pain in others through formative moments of childhood and innocence of early youth, as well as highlighting the importance of cadets to the armed services and especially the historical role of the drummer boy in battle.

Kawasaki's paintings are comprised of dreamy yet enigmatic portraits of women that exist in moments of tension between idealized innocence and sensuality.