Sentences with phrase «most poetic»

I've titled the exhibition after Julie Zahn's, A Starling In Shadow, because it is the most poetic way to state — whether known nationally or recognized primarily within their own communities — that all these artists deserve to have a brighter light shining on their work.»

The most poetic and revealing of these may be the surfer, the solitary longboarder challenging a massive wave.

This long - awaited retrospective of Felix Gonzalez - Torres at Rockbund Art Museum marks the first solo exhibition of the late American artist in China, which also turns out to be the most poetic show the museum has hosted in its seven - year history.

Of all the literature written about Balthus, the most poetic by far are the beautiful essays by Albert Camus and Guy Davenport.

LOS ANGELES — Of all the things the artist Chris Burden did, and had done to, his body for the sake of art — shot, through the arm, with a.22 rifle; nailed, through the hands; cut, with broken glass; confined, for five days inside a tiny locker — perhaps his most poetic performance piece was the simplest.

Layers of wash and textured abstraction mingle with hints of playful illustration in Word To Mother's most poetic body of work so far.

She seems the most poetic voice here, with her diaristic recent films and stories.

«Abstraction may be the most poetic visual language because it is ultimately about the spirit,» they write.

I liked Arshile Gorky most, because he seemed to be the most poetic of them.

This one may be the most poetic one I've seen you do, and I've been reading you for two years.

He has no idea how much his thinking influences me, a thinking that is not yet rooted in the limited possibilities that life inflicts on us, even the most poetic of us.

They can update their word choices to find the most poetic, expressive language.

Perhaps the most poetic moment, given the industry's thrust for equality, came when Gerwig took the stage during her presentation for Lady Bird.

8:00 am — Fox Movie Channel — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

11:30 am — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

8:00 pm — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

In the most poetic scenes of the film so evocatively shot by Richard Wong, the ghosts of Lily and Snow Flower materialize in modern - day Shanghai.

I thought, «This is the most poetic thing I'll ever see.»

The splatterpunks count as their most notable acolyte Clive Barker, whose film Hellraiser, also from 1987, delivers some of the decade's most graphic gore as well as its most poetic moments of horror.

Accordingly, the parts of Sentinel that bog down are the parts that rely too much on the cast to provide backstory and motivation when the best, most poetic bits of the picture are the first ten minutes (including its credit sequence) that tells all one needs to know without a word of dialogue.

Our family matinee on Saturday will feature one of Sayles» most poetic and imaginative films, «The Secret of Roan Inish,» about an Irish creature of the sea that may not be entirely mythical.

Even so, Krasinski has made one of the most poetic horror movies of recent years.

There may be better straight introductions to the accomplishments of this most poetic of cinematic artists, but for the already initiated this will serve as a welcome remembrance.

It's not the most poetic thing to live by, but at least it's accurate.

That's why you fill your home with the scent everyone associates with the most poetic flower of all time.

Most Poetic: Esther Inglis - Arkell with «Butterflies Remember a Mountain That Hasn't Existed For Millennia»

Most Poetic: Megan at Sorta Crunchy with «This Is Where... I Live» «Pieces of my heart are scattered across the country, from the shores of Lake Erie to the plazas of Kansas City to the hill country of Texas to the playful coast of California.

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

To me, the Jerusalem Bible is the most poetic of all translations.

Perhaps the most poetic example of the power of social media mining occurred in April.

Not exact matches

This is, maybe most of all, a SOUTHERN film — the honorable, violent, classy (sir and mam), men - of - few - well - chosen - poetic - words, chivalrous, gun - toting, fishing, motorized - vehicle - loving, woman - idealizing - and - protecting, family - and - place - oriented, unprosperous, rural (but not agrarian) South.

I think this is possibly the clearest / most helpful instantiation of it to - date: It's economical and poetic — although I have a slight quibble with em > unhistorical, which I think ought to be ahistorical!

It is highly poetic, and most religious traditions and religious rites were written using the King James Version of the Bible.

«18 Here Whitehead discovers first of all the value of the individual: «Remembering the poetic rendering of our concrete experience, we see at once that the element of value, of being valuable, of having value, of being an end in itself, of being something which is for its own sake, must not be omitted in any account of any event as the most concrete actual something.

I never said that being creative was wrong and I would most certainly encourage our song writers to take a lead from the wonderful poetic devices of the Bible.

Most pervasively, a certain poetic dignity is lost, and that is more than an aesthetic question, for it is partly this dignity that makes Psalms so resonant an instrument of prayer.

There is little question that the most distinguished poetic voice of our time...

The verses, (with the snake junk), which appear only in the Gospel of Mark, (16: 9 - 20) were a later addition, -LRB-(most scholars agree the original gospel ended with the (far more poetic), empty tomb)-RRB-.

There is more than enough, from Chambers» text and from letters already published, to testify to the poetic powers of the most eloquent American witness to the greatest trials of the century: in the great arena, the Communist claim for the world; in the arena here, the fight of Alger Hiss to defy reality and let live the webs of his great deception.

Niebuhr insisted that the poetic and religious imagination of the Bible most readily expresses the basis for the doctrine of man.

In the Koran there is very little in the way of story material, most of it is made up of the forthright commands of Ali, or directives for the conduct of human affairs in the Theocracy, or poetic expressions of religious insight given to the prophets.

There are several important books of this character, some earlier, some later, the Apastamba — the Baudhayana, the Institutes of Vishnu, and most important of all that of the Manavan School, the Manavan sutras, or, when, put into poetic form, as was actually done, the Manavan Dharma Sastras, better known as the Laws of Manu.

In this allegory full of poetic images, wisdom is personified as a woman — a kind of hostess with the mostest.

And, as much as Bakhtin may have taught us to admire Dostoevsky's «polyphonic poetics,» most judicious readers of Russian — like the great Prince D. S. Mirsky — have recognized in Tolstoy's art the kind of serene sublimity and fullness of vision that places it naturally and worthily in the company of Shakespeare's plays, Dante's Commedia, and the Homeric epics.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

Verlaine was twenty - seven, with a wife and a substantial poetic reputation, when the sixteen - year - old Arthur Rimbaud, the most precocious literary genius ever, wrote to him from the provinces and sent him some poems.

The keepers of those myths that you probably have the most issue with, somewhat successfully changed the meaning of the word myth to the word lie... to make their own myths (which they called parables and which were presented more in allegorical than historical form), to in their minds be perceived more as truth... and in God's own poetic justice, now have their cherished tales of perceived morality thrown into the same category by those who make the same efforts at understnding the meanings.

Of the cursed poets, Verlaine is perhaps the most sympathetic figure: Although his poetic gift marks him as extraordinary, in every other respect his weaknesses are all too human.

I mean, usually I wax poetic (HA) about how I am the most boring - est pizza eater on the planet, forcing any and all around me...»

Van Wyk and Snyder could wax poetic about why they make good knives out of an old shed a stone's throw away from the house, but perhaps the most succinct explanation is that a good knife is essential to the lifestyle they want to lead — and a work - from - home - in - the - country situation is, too.