Sentences with phrase «more modern exploration»

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It's hard to think of any modern human activity that has had more of a multiplicative impact on the imagination than space exploration.

The theme for the first three - city cycle — including New York, Berlin and an unannounced site in Asia — is «Confronting Comfort,» billed as «an exploration of how urban environments can be made more responsive to people's needs, how a balance can be found between modern notions of individual versus collective comfort, and the urgent need for environmental and social responsibility.»

«Dr. Low Dog's exploration of natural medicine and role in modern healthcare began more than 35 years ago as she studied midwifery, herbal medicine, massage therapy, and martial arts.»

The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern - day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration.

Two pure comedies, Paul Feig's «Spy» and Judd Apatow's «Trainwreck,» were nominated in the Best Motion Picture — Comedy category alongside three films comprised of considerably more dramatic fare: Adam McKay's exploration of the modern financial crisis, «The Big Short,» David O. Russell's profile of an entrepreneur, «Joy,» and Ridley Scott's sci - fi adventure, «The Martian.»

There's much more to love: Adichie's depictions of modern Lagos, her portrait of life as an undocumented immigrant, her exploration of why someone who lived in a country that wasn't facing starvation or genocide, but simply a lack of opportunity, might be willing to risk all for a chance in the West — I could go on, but I'll stop there and just tell you to pick this one up already.

The Royal Princess is a more modern version of the smaller Princess ship, with all cabins on board being outside - perfect for exotic exploration.

The Wilderness Skills School offers modern survival skills classes alongside classes such as animal tracking, tide - pool ecology, mountain explorations and more.

Instead of using a modern approach, director Balcomb chose to incorporate a style more in tune with the types of films that inspired the first Metroid game in 1986 (which named one of its creatures after Ridley Scott), favoring exploration and isolation over action spectacle.

We started in 2009, with thousands of articles to bring you everything about retro games, modern hardcore gaming, in - depth explorations of game developers, important gaming series and more.

Throughout his career, Glenn Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more recent conceptual art.

Throughout his career, Ligon (b. 1960) has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more recent conceptual art.

Volume Eleven was, for those knowledgeable of Mohaiemen's previous explorations, perhaps the more familiar of the two, delving into the ambiguities of South Asia's modern history — and, more broadly, that of the troubled twentieth century — via his reading of a Bengali great - uncle's writings of the 1930s, which displayed a disturbing sympathy for Hitlerian Germany as a potential counterweight to the English colonizer on the Indian subcontinent.