Sentences with phrase «most idiosyncratic»

«Chicago Imagists 1966 - 1973» will present a rare opportunity to discover - or rediscover - one of the most idiosyncratic and visually striking group of artists to emerge from the United States in the 60's and 70's.

Bruno Gironcoli is one of the most idiosyncratic artists of the twentieth century.

Famously depicted by Andy Warhol in the 1960s, Solomon became one of the most idiosyncratic and independently minded art dealers of the postwar era.

This Suite of Twenty - Seven Color Lithographs, charged with remembered Provençal light, relies on an iconography derived from signage in a palette of primaries, offset by some of the most idiosyncratic tertiary colors of his career.

Abess has one of the country's most idiosyncratic collections at his fingertips, one filled with all manner of material culture, from propaganda posters to iconic transportation signage to commemorative mugs with political undertones.

[Gamasutra's Simon Parkin attended Nottingham, UK's GameCity, to find one of the world's most idiosyncratic celebrations of video games pushing the medium's cultural relevance.]

Located on the inner base of the Nicoya peninsula, Montezuma is a gathering place for Costa Rica's most idiosyncratic locals and travelers.

The second entry in John Carpenter's «apocalypse trilogy» is perhaps his most idiosyncratic effort.

Adapting an 1848 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky of the same name, Luchino Visconti transposed the action from the canals of Tsarist St Petersburg to the back streets of 1950s Livorno — to this day, one of the oddest and most idiosyncratic of Italian cities.

But love him or hate him, he long ago established himself as one of filmdom's most idiosyncratic line readers; his rubbery tenor bends and snaps with a singsong pliancy that transforms average dialogue.

The Hunter Valley is one of our most idiosyncratic wine regions, for many reasons, not least its climate - which doggedly follows its own pattern, different from any other Australian region.

Donald Trump is the most idiosyncratic Republican Party presidential nominee of the post — World War II era.

Second, people often focus on a CEO's most idiosyncratic trait — such as Steve Jobs's temper or Richard Branson's flair.

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But most of these ideas — valuable as many of them might be — are idiosyncratic or based on personal experience.

Yes, of course you need to get through your requirements, but after that an idiosyncratic pick with an inspiring or thought - provoking teacher («When I think about the classes that shaped me the most, I think about my Marxist Canadian history class, taught by a socialist ideologue,» says Blattman) beats on on - topic one taught by a snooze - inducing robot.

The Boston University School of Theology Library was most helpful in obtaining many idiosyncratic titles and microfilms on which this research strongly depends.

While every country doubtless has its own idiosyncratic pressure — this time around, for example, Brazil are not only Brazil but Brazil in Brazil, arguably the most pressurised state of existence in football — English football fans are highly aware of just how much impact a country's and a country's media's view of its football team can have.

The treatment of pain has turned out to be one of the most variable and idiosyncratic of all of the fields of medicine, with perhaps hundreds of genes influencing a person's pain reaction and response to therapy.

With 248 dimensions, E8 is the largest, most complicated and most beautiful of five idiosyncratic objects known as the exceptional simple Lie groups.

IBM's megacomputer, Watson, creamed the hominid competition at the quirky, punny, idiosyncratic Jeopardy! This contest, calling on such skills as language, grammar, and wordplay, is among the most human of games — much more so than the mathematical system of chess, which IBM's Deep Blue mastered in the 1990s.

Idiosyncratic and interesting, most will say.

Perhaps most of all, the movie is a reminder that there are few contemporary American filmmakers quite like Anderson, who, after the dazzling Altmanesque panoramas of «Boogie Nights» and «Magnolia,» has followed his instincts in ever more feverish and idiosyncratic directions.

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

The tales — from some of the world's most insightful and idiosyncratic directors — include a modern - day fable of love, a hate born from war and an unreconciled past, and a satirical skewering of a well - heeled, ego - driven art world that often falls short in its espousals of human empathy.

While Jesus» Son is overlong - the final section dealing with Fuckhead's redemption is disappointingly prosaic - the film is, for the most part an engaging, idiosyncratic and long overdue contribution from an increasingly assured director.

King, who matures from idiosyncratic comedies like The Bull and the Bunny and TV show The Mighty Boorish, peaks with a spellbinding narrative that utilizes characters to the most attractive and naturalistic effects.

But the star of the show is Wright himself, executing his idiosyncratic vision and pulling off one of the most uniquely pleasurable action - comedy - musical - romance - thrillers you'll ever see.

These essays — on Fassbinder, the 1975 New York Film Festival, Taxi Driver, and Jeanne Dielman — found Farber at the peak of his powers, blessed with one of the most distinctive (and idiosyncratic) voices in English - language film criticism.

Most people seemed to love it, but there were some of the usual grumbles that it looked like more of the same from the idiosyncratic filmmaker.

With its sparse dialogue and strikingly beautiful, color - saturated imagery — almost all of it framed in boxy, anachronistic Academy ratio — the movie doesn't really look or sound like any martial arts flick ever made, offering an original and idiosyncratic take on one of film history's most durable genres.

And it is one of the most tricky and idiosyncratic properties on the planet, where the creator's voice, Hideo Kojima, is a genius.

This ranks among Haynes» best work, confirming him yet again as one of the most valuable and idiosyncratic voices in the history of American cinema.

To many, Terrence Malick, perhaps the most revered of modern American auteurs, has ascended to his own idiosyncratic, esoteric doss, entering his most prolific decade in his forty years of filmmaking with confounding illustrations of pronounced existential ennui.

Most memorably, it also features extensive, idiosyncratic monologues by Mitchum himself, a sample of which follows.

But his idiosyncratic style is one of the most polarising in cinema.

That Gustave's portion of the film is framed in an aspect ratio of 1.37:1 (the standard of decades gone by) only heightens the idiosyncratic nature of the picture, a tactic sure to please fans and alienate most everyone else.

Hornaday's list is good, if idiosyncratic: She gives the magnificent Miller's Crossing and Raising Arizona their due, for instance, and if she rates The Big Lebowski lower than most, well, so do I.

Until last year, the idiosyncratic Scottish auteur behind «Ratcatcher» and «We Need to Talk About Kevin» wasn't even a remotely plausible candidate to direct a blockbuster spy movie that comes with a full set of baggage — prior to her most recent film, Ramsay seemed as well - suited for James Bond as Apichatpong Weersethakul does for the next «Star Wars» spin - off.

Lately, the company has become more comfortable hiring idiosyncratic young talent, the best (and most recent) example being Taika Waititi, the director of Thor: Ragnarok.

Oscar's screenplay categories habitually reserve some love for odd ducks, and as one of the year's most buzzed - about, idiosyncratic indies, Beasts surely fits the bill.

Their idiosyncratic sense of humor and pristine attention to detail for various time periods have been the most consistently great trademarks in their filmography, which is why I was so hyped for their newest feature, Hail, Caesar!

Best known to the public as the idiosyncratic author of Ghost World, Daniel Clowes stands as one of the most storied authors — of comic books or any other medium — working today.

Speaking of comedy: a horror genre workout could be improved immeasurably through Green's idiosyncratic sense of humor and off - kilter dialogue, which turns up even in his most serious efforts.

Sangue del mio sangue (Blood of My Blood, Marco Bellocchio, 2015) Inventive flair and idiosyncratic humour characterise this wholly surprising mix, which featured the year's most powerfully strange, defiant end sequence.

Cantankerous Englishman Michael Powell and softly spoken Hungarian Emeric Pressburger forged such an alliance under the banner named The Archers, a maverick filmmaking team responsible for some of the most wondrous and idiosyncratic works in British cinema.

It's safe to say that ever since his third feature, the irresistibly charming and endearing The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson has managed to establish himself as one of the most distinguishable and idiosyncratic directors in contemporary American cinema.

But it's an endearing, even haunting film from one of cinema's most inventive artists, one who manages to bend even the hoariest B - movie tropes to his idiosyncratic, deeply humanistic imagination.

His wholly idiosyncratic and hilarious style, filmed in long takes with obtrusive zooms and bountiful amounts of soju, typifies some of the best and most intelligent films of world cinema.

Most important, they have no way of determining that introduction of the «similar approaches» was the cause of improvement, as opposed to being just present when other systematic or idiosyncratic factors promoted improvement in these several schools.

Now, other reviewers have weighed in — and most are enthusiastic about the idiosyncratic 1,100 page doorstop with more than 200 essays by contemporary writers and academics, including novelist Walter Mosley writing on what it means to be «hardboiled,» novelist Mary Gaitskill on why Norman Mailer moves her, and humorist Sarah Vowell on «American Gothic» and kitsch.