Sentences with phrase «most lyrical»

From the recorded disc - jockey contest in Dan Graham's otherwise tedious basement installation to Bruce Nauman's video projection «End of the World» (1996) on the top floor — Nauman's most lyrical work yet — music and sound are active ingredients in many artists» pieces.

He also travelled extensively in the Indian sub-continent and south - east Asia, evolving the personal philosophy that shines through his most lyrical work.

Brooklyn - based Herter's detailed ink drawings (priced between $ 1,700 — $ 3,000) show fantastical characters in the throes of confrontation (titles include Accusal, 2015, and Aggressive Constellation # 5, 2015), while Bisky's watercolors of nude or swim trunk - sporting men (priced between $ 3,000 — $ 9,700), floating in on a pure white backdrop or playing chicken in crystal blue water, are some of the most lyrical pieces at the fair.

After developing his signature technique of staining in 1953, Louis destroyed much of his previous work, which makes Sub-Marine an important document in the career of an artist who went on to become one of the most lyrical artists of the so - called Washington Color School.

A critic for the leftist journal Art Front wrote that Tamayo's art «soars above the work of most of his compatriots» and that his «is the most lyrical voice to come out of that country.»

The 1980s finds Moriyama at his most lyrical.

We take a look at conceptual art's most lyrical proponent and his work's importance for brainy young artists today.

Carrie Moyer's new paintings are the most lyrical and personal works to date in her ever - evolving painting practice.

Dybek's 2004 collection of linked stories about Chicago's South Side, I Sailed with Magellan, is absolutely masterful and contains what I believe to be one of the greatest and most lyrical stories of all time about unconsummated love — a 14 - page wonder called «We Didn't.»

Trained as a musician, Jean Grémillon became one of French cinema's most lyrical artists.

In Frances Ha he hit on a contemporary equivalent of the French New Wave at its most lyrical.

This is quite possibly the most lyrical, most spiritual sports movie ever made.

We're off from the first suspenseful minute as Petit and his accomplices sneak into the towers (prepare to choke up at the digital re-creation), set up shop and pull off the most lyrical and illicit piece of performance art in, like, ever.

The result is a glorious low - tech pleasure that may be the most lyrical, phantasmagoric boys» adventure story since Joe Dante's Explorers.

Now Andrew — who, let's be honest, isn't the most lyrical of gentlemen — is forcing liberals to confront a question that is particularly salient to their post — Barack Obama future: What if they've been overvaluing eloquence all along?

Whether it is the original utterance of one or neither of these eighth - century prophets, it is one of prophetism's finest and most lyrical expressions of the hope for covenant fulfillment.

Updike is most lyrical when describing his youth in the small eastern Pennsylvania town of Shillington, poignantly evoking the people and the places which served as his defining presences.

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Instead, what most often plagues these songs is lyrical incoherence.

This is why it has the power to heal us of our modern derangements: because, paradoxical as it may seem to modern temperaments, Christian asceticism is the practice of love, what Maximus the Confessor calls learning to see the logos of each thing within the Logos of God, and it eventuates most properly in the grateful reverence of a Bonaventure or the lyrical ecstasy of a Thomas Traherne.

Yet, what he saw he saw in a holy fullness that most of us now miss, and his lyrical prose is filled with biblical echoes.

Arberry's translation is by far the most poetic, capturing something of the lyrical quality of the Arabic.

The Bible (especially the lyrical King James version) is full of useful phrases and metaphors — indeed, that may be its most valuable contribution to civilization — and the English language would be poorer by far if we were required to use them only with the meaning and in the context in which they were originally written.

Not only did the manager wax lyrical about the qualities of Ozil and what he adds to the team, Wenger suggested that having players like Ozil, Giroud and Koscielny back from lengthy injury spells could benefit us as they will be much fresher than those who have played most of the games in the first half of the season.

Why is he a holocaust denier is what should be asked of him on Thursday, not the gift question what do you feel about the holocaust, the latter gives him the opportunity to wax lyrical about censorship laws, the former is question that will get him most hot under the collar.

And now, please meet Sherry of Petite Over 40, our guest blogger for this month, and someone I absolutely adore for her mastery in not just putting together the most whimsy of outfits but the deft ability to massage and cajole the written word into lyrical prose.

It is the love scenes, played beneath shimmering apple blossoms in lyrical soft focus, that stick in the memory, ironically turning what is now the film's ending into one of the director's most bitterly pessimistic scenes.

one of the best albums of this or any other year... exceptionally beautiful, melodic and evocative songs that take the listener on a mysterious journey through a tender and lyrical dreamscape... Most amazing song on the album: «Nothing to do but Dream».

Buñuel conjures with Freudian imagery, outrageous humor, and a quiet, lyrical camera style to create one of his most complex and complete works, a film that continues to disturb and transfix.

Cleo has a background in modeling and dance, predominately ballet and lyrical dance, and spent most of her teens competing in eisteddfods throughout Australia.

It provided some of the most unique, lyrical, authentic, and immersive cinematography I've seen the whole year.

We expect nothing less than the same refined and lyrical cinematic precision we've been getting from one of Britain's most celebrated auteurs.

Yet there's no doubt in my mind that his 18th, The Eel (1997)-- which shared last year's Palme d'Or with Taste of Cherry and opens this week at the Music Box — is the most interesting new movie around: funny, lyrical, provocative, imaginative, and consistently entertaining.

Emotionally speaking, this is director Luca Guadagnino's most honest and intelligent work to date, a lyrical, sensuous, aching love story that skips all the usual coming - of - age beats in favour of finding a gentler, less conventional rhythm.

While Green has veered off in several eclectic directions, the lyrical and soulful «George Washington» still proves to be his most absorbing work.

«This delicate, hand - drawn marvel is lyrical and heartbreaking in ways that most live - action movies never approach.»

Ford's penchant for broad comedy is at its worst here, but at the same time, he also manages some of his most beautiful lyrical passages.

A brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship.

You can string together the most insightful, lyrical, delicious words ever connected in the human lexicon, but if your book cover looks like Photoshop amateur hour, no one will ever pick it up.

A work of bold, lyrical beauty, telling detail and compelling characterization — at once cheerful and thoughtful, playful and profound — and written in a unique prose style that metamorphoses brilliantly with the passage of time, 26a will surely be one of the most - talked - about novels of this year and many years to come, and its remarkable author, Diana Evans, welcomed gratefully into the highest order of literary achievement.

His prose, at its best, is lyrical - and, at its worst, is still better than most.

This lyrical memoir will transport you to the breathtaking landscapes of West Africa, whose stark beauties will instill wonder in even the most experienced traveler.

Certainly he wrote more prolifically than is implied in The Invention of Fire, composing long, lyrical and satirical poems in Latin, French and Middle English, most notably «Vox Clamantis» (The Voice Of One Crying Out), «Mirour de l'Omme» (The Mirror of Mankind), and «Confessio Amantis» (the Lover's Confession) respectively.

In her most spellbinding novel yet, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni spins a fresh, enchanting story of transformation that is as lyrical as it is dramatic.

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.

A sweeping, eerily resonant epic of race and violence in the Jim Crow South: a lyrical and emotionally devastating masterpiece from Charlie Smith, whom the New York Public Library has said «may be America's most bewitching stylist alive.»

Gaige's lyrical, literary style still places her in this broad category, though this novel is certainly the most active of her three.

History comes alive in this lyrical and moving true story of one woman's courage and the inception of one of the most famous royal lineages of all time.

Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age - old conflict we might think we understand - one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again.

-- Financial Times «The most assured and intriguing first novel by a Scottish writer that I have read in a decade, a book which is lithely and poetically written, politically and morally brave and simply unforgettable... Anais's voice is an intricate blend of the demotic and the hauntingly lyrical... As a debut, The Panopticon does everything it should.

A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from one of our most accomplished storytellers, Lost Memory of Skin unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical, show - casing Banks at his most compelling, his reckless sense of humor and intense empathy at full bore.