Sentences with phrase «most archetypal»

Marshall reworks the canon through its most archetypal modes: the historical tableau, landscape and genre painting, and portraiture.

Critically examining the Western canon through its most archetypal forms, he reworks the historic tableau, landscape, genre painting and portraiture, but also the muralist tradition and the comic book.

Mario Merz, to my mind the most archetypal of the Italian arte povera artists, is represented by two works.

Yet, 37 years later, PAC - MAN is still one of the most archetypal characters in gaming.

The medieval European farmhouse embodies what we think of today as one of the most archetypal examples of a courtyard house — four buildings arranged around a square courtyard with a steep roof covered by thatch.

Nabwana IGG's aesthetic is proudly low - grade, immersing the viewer the slums of Kampala, Uganda as seen through blurry digital video and overflowing with quick cuts and rapid - fire action scenes interspersed with the most archetypal, blatant narratives.

The patience the film shows in exploring the dynamic of the Granite Mountain Hotshots as an ever - shifting but carefully balanced ecosystem allows for even the most archetypal characters here to feel fleshed out and genuinely human.

The threesome jam in a punk - rock band and are very close, but the film places extra emphasis on Malcolm as his investment in academics and in trying to get into Harvard make for a character that shames most archetypal movie teens.

Frank Capra's classic comedy - drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles.

In the most archetypal of these tests, Harry has to use his magic skills to swim all the way across the bottom of the mysterious lake as part of a contest with other schools of wizardry.

Not exact matches

Walter Isaacson has written biographies of some of the most brilliant people to ever live: Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Ben Franklin, and now, Leonardo da Vinci — the archetypal Renaissance Man himself.

He developed what he called the «hero tradition» to describe these archetypal features of history's most loved heroes; twenty - two common events likely to occur in a hero's life:

The world's newest most expensive player — a footballer with the attributes and abilities to live up to his billing as the archetypal modern midfield all - rounder — was muffled by his manager's tactics in almost the complete reverse of Guardiola's impact upon De Bruyne.

If your research doesn't fit into one of these archetypal stories, most science reporters won't have the foggiest notion what to do with it.

Most sites base themselves around «traditional» relationships and more archetypal romances.

Elizabeth Banks» Diane is the most open character — she has the tendency to chatter that you'd expect from an archetypal high school cheerleader - turned - suburban wife and mother — but when she enters Amos» orbit, even she clams up.

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

On the other hand, this might be the most perfect role for Witherspoon since her Tracy Flick from Election: a little spunk, a little intelligence, and a lot of gorgeous life — some of the strength of this performance no doubt due the fact that, personally, no archetypal images swim to mind upon mention of June Carter Cash's name.

While this might not be totally dismissible, it's certainly not the entire truth, this angle is played up to its most extreme, engendering archetypal character clichés.

Robert Wise's film defines the genre in so many ways, what with Bernard Herrmann's theremin - heavy score, the extraterrestrial's archetypal flying saucer, the iconic look of giant robot Gort and even the screen's most famous snatch of alien dialogue.

Bresson, as many writers have noted, looked for spiritual grace in the most misbegotten places and creatures, but, for all its pleasant side trips, War Horse begins as an archetypal Spielberg film, and ends like one, too: the affirmation of a preordained connection between two kindred souls, and the cathartic relief produced by a last - moment rescue.

Still, with its thematic overtones of natural selection, the hunt, and the most dangerous game, The Hunted takes the action - thriller into classically archetypal territory.

He is most celebrated for stylish thrillers in which archetypal gangsters and lawmen are pitted against each other

Less than # 10,000 will buy you the archetypal big - muscle TVR coupe, the Cerbera, a monstrously rapid machine powered by that most daring of engineering adventures, an engine designed and built in - house.

For a certain kind of uncompromising yet lyrical writer — think of Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, or William Kittredge — the West offers a stage for a special kind of archetypal, almost Shakespearean tragedy, and Olmstead makes the most of it.

Indigo Prophecy had a lot of interesting ideas for merging narrative with interactivity, but most definitely suffered from archetypal characters, an over-the-top storyline, and, often, awkward dialogue.

Most of them escape archetypal categorization and are only interpreted as vague nuances of a personality.

In Cindy Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills series, most of the 69 photographs depict the artist as a archetypal character known from the movies: a housewife, a femme fatale, a working girl, and everything in between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify women.

Her most recent exhibition at galerie kamel mennour, All around fades to a heavy sound, featured a curtain made of canvas, depicting an archetypal sky.

Smith's drawings are typified by a hyperbolic allure, with an archetypal framework revealed collectively throughout the portrait series; this becomes most evident in simplified yet distinctive feminine features - elongated eyelashes radiating outward from almond - shaped lids, cherry red lacquered fingernails and lips, pronounced cupid's bows, and wide, toothy grins...

Because, you see, most of these archetypal pieces are normally in a large side chamber off the South Concourse in the foot of the Corning Tower, not far from their current setting at the State Museum.

But only a handful (John McCain being the most prominent) give more than a half - hearted assent, and many (Brendan Nelson is an archetypal example) give different positions depending on the audience and the way the political wind is blowing on the day.

If your research doesn't fit into one of these archetypal stories, most science reporters won't have the foggiest notion what to do with it.

And yet most relationships, for better or worse, fall into an archetypal pattern that, when identified, can add extra meaning and purpose -LSB-...]