Sentences with phrase «more revelatory»

The exhibition's more revelatory moments underscore the studio's role as a catalytic agent capable of shifting the nature of the work created therein, or on its periphery, in unforeseen ways.

In her review of Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture For a Modern World, Sue Hubbard expressed her view that the Tate had missed the opportunity to build a more revelatory show than was actually achieved by choosing not to use in the show explanations of Hepworth's work in terms of her religious beliefs which Lucy Kent had explored in a catalogue essay.

Whether you have a product or a service (which is what travel bloggers offer) you have to get it (or yourself) out into the market — which involves selling — Daniel Pink wrote a great book — «To Sell is Human» which I felt took a lot of the fear out of approaching people (potential customers) with either your product (or you) by talking of buoyancy strategies when confronted by negative responses — which, lets face it is the biggest fear to asking in the first place — But more revelatory is to ask yourself — Can I do this?

By the end, Hoffman and Baumbach opt for something more revelatory: Harold somehow becomes more himself.

The Danish Girl might have been more revelatory 15 years ago, but if it's met with more informed, discerning eyes today, all the better.

It was after praying at Laval's tomb, however, that I noticed a memorial plaque more revelatory of the current state of Catholicism in Québec than the province's notable register of saints.

Sometimes a spontaneous and uncalculated word may be more revelatory than one born of conscious reflection.

A still more revelatory moment came when Mackey read an advance copy of the book Firms of Endearment, co-authored by Raj Sisodia, explaining how enterprises with passion and purpose outperform.

Not exact matches

But, if I am understanding Wright correctly, this idea has consequences for both uber - conservative Christians (who may tend to see God's presence and revelatory activity as limited the words printed in the Bible) and more liberal Christians (who may prefer to think of the words of Joshua and Jeremiah as entirely their own, and not the words of God).

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and more fully toward an eschatological consummation.

Even more must it be the case for the Christian Scriptures, of which we confess that they testify to us of uniquely revelatory intervention.

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and fully toward an eschatological consummation.17

Or is it possible that the revelatory promise can bond us even more firmly to our planet and to the rest of nature?

Much Christian theology still has overtones of this apologetic approach, but it is being challenged by a more ecumenically minded sensitivity to the revelatory possibilities in all the religions.

A priori, of course, we can not rule out the possibility that God can make one phase or moment of history more decisively revelatory than others.

Jesus» death on a cross was horrifying and, ultimately, revelatory; a royal progress through the world would have been more immediately useful.

The answer is always revelatory, which is one of the reasons Chesterton was right to say that «the simple need for some kind of ideal world in which fictitious persons play an unhampered part is infinitely deeper and older than the rules of good art, and much more important.»

What we can assume, however, is that our indwelling of the clues that comprise our revelatory tradition can lead us to break out into a much more adventurous encounter with other traditions than we have allowed in the past.

Once again, though, we must ask ourselves how we know when our visions are simply projections of childish wishing, rather than images more truly revelatory of mystery.

Christian theology today is becoming more and more comfortable with the view that the symbols of all the religions are in some sense revelatory of the same God that biblical religion discloses in its own manner.

Yet despite the spiffy new London locale and the four - year hiatus, 24: Live Another Day is — at least in its first two hours — more reminiscent of the run - of - the - mill later seasons as opposed to its revelatory, exhilarating heyday.

A foul - mouthed send - up of testosterone - infused, small - budgeted»80s action flicks, MacGruber is more of a functional than revelatory success — its script doesn't really substantially or satisfyingly delve into a number of amusing character defects it sets up for its self - involved hero.

This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics.

Each time I get something more out of it — a revelatory bit of business, an emotional grace note, an inflection from one of the many wonderful performers.

Casting rakish rising star Jean - Paul Belmondo as a hoodlum on the run from the law and American ingenue Jean Seberg as the sly, pixieish girlfriend who ultimately betrays him, Godard was riffing on the American gangster picture, but with its revelatory handheld camerawork and frenetic jump cuts, Breathless is clearly more than homage: it launched a New Wave, rewrote the rules of cinema, and along the way became the definition of cool.

The first commentary is revelatory — one gets the nagging sensation that Anderson and Gierasch ought to have directed the picture, as they not only seem to know more about the final product than Hooper does («They did?»

Pretentious, insane, deluded — the festival experience is concentrated asshole - ism that is sometimes revelatory (as it was when I watched Cronenberg's Spider sitting next to Gaspar Noé at Telluride) but is more often the absolute pits.

Release: Friday, June 19, 2015 [Theater] Written by: Rick Famuyiwa Directed by: Rick Famuyiwa Rick Famuyiwa's Sundance darling isn't particularly revelatory filmmaking, but it's much more intelligent than its dopey title suggests, rejecting racial stereotypes and erasing cultural gaps as confidently as it embraces its young leading trio as a righteous symbol of individualism.

Brooklynn Prince and her kid co-stars (Christopher Rivera, Valeria Cotto) are more convincing but none of them revelatory, owed to swaths of scenes that are cute but serve no larger purpose.

Once you find out just what's going on, you'll probably laugh at all of the absurd ways Rowan Joffe (The American, 28 Weeks Later), who is not very faithfully adapting the novel by S.J. Watson, has to contort the plot in order to get us all the way to the ridiculous climax that is supposed to be exciting and revelatory, when all of the while it is quite depressing and only raises more questions than answers.

King of Jazz (John Murray Anderson, Pál Fejös, 1930) This newly restored two - colour Technicolor treat is a revelatory combination of Art Deco surrealist set - pieces, acrobatic choreography and démodé trick photography bouncing off extremely dated but charmingly goofy humour and jazz which could scarcely be any more trad (notwithstanding that Gershwin's glorious «Rhapsody in Blue», written for the «King of Jazz» himself, bandleader Paul Whiteman, and used prominently in the film, was a pointer to certain new directions).

But it quickly becomes clear that the diaries are much, much more than Shandling's prosaic chronicle of his day - to - day life — they are urgent, searing and shatteringly revelatory cries of the soul.

, but revelatory in a way more true - to - life than any track outing could be.

Being able to gallop around and slay monsters at close to 60 fps is a revelatory experience, even if the frame rate does vary more than in 4K Mode.

Once again, consumers are being told that more polygons will mean better games, as if somehow shoveling another thousand pixels on screen will result in a revelatory experience that will change your life forever.

«The Whitney Museum's revelatory survey of the work that earned O'Keeffe such derision, the evocative, more - or-less abstract art she made starting in 1915 — phenomenally early for an American artist — should reopen eyes to an undeniable fact: O'Keeffe produced some of the most original and ambitious art in the twentieth century.»

New York Times: Much of this Biennale is more subdued and less experimental than in years past, more of a nostalgic meditation on life and art than a revelatory peek into the future.

More than just a typical exhibition, however, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the museum's collection, which are also included.

A lot of New Yorkers only ever find themselves at the end of the J or E train line if they need to get to JFK airport, but the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial offers one more incentive to board a Jamaica - bound train, and it might be just as revelatory as taking a trip abroad.

One of the virtues of this dark and revelatory exhibition is that it offers a chance to rethink our views of primitivism — a fin - de-siècle inclination that has been widely, deservedly criticised in recent decades, but which has always been more complex than its worst critics suppose.

At the Menil Collection in Houston, the legendary curator mounted a revelatory exhibition of the artist's work from the early 1950s, elucidating the rich procedural and conceptual qualities of a body of paintings, collages, and sculptures that had long been overshadowed by the better known and seemingly more systematic Combines and silk screens made over the following ten years.

Inhibited Bites is an improvisatory, revelatory, darkly - comedic performance work by Goldberg built from a collection of more than a thousand index cards containing notes he has jotted down over many years.

Nor are they any less revelatory: while Barlow, at 68, is more than thirty years older than Võ and Villar Rojas, she is virtually an unknown quantity in New York.

He even rinsed off paint to get back into the surface, and the thinner, more translucent layers are often revelatory.

There's nothing in this video that's completely revelatory but it's still a fascinating look at some of the changes that Google is making with Material Design to make both its own apps and Android as a whole more attractive and more intuitive to use.

The other stuff that happened between Christmas and New Year was more in the reminder vein than revelatory: I need the sea and exercise to keep me on track and I get a bit off - key without them.