Sentences with phrase «most revelatory»

Perhaps the most revelatory finding in the bitcoin bible is the bank's realization that cryptocurrencies aren't going anywhere.

Now, though, some of the most revelatory art on sexual themes is being made by women like Bernstein, Betty Tompkins, Juanita McNeely and Joan Semmel, best known for their paintings, and multidisciplinary artists like Schneemann and Valie Export, among others, all of whom have been producing their work for decades to little notice — if not outright persecution — from critics, curators and audiences.

As a scholar, I'm always fascinated by marginalia and have, in fact, researched and written about the marginalia of Herman Melville, Ezra Pound and so on, because I believe those ephemeral words jotted down on the spur of the moment are the most revelatory.

The most revelatory feature is a 48 - minute French TV program on the making of Faces, half of which was shot during the film's three - year - long production.

The most revelatory part of K could be its human remains: skeletons of several individuals crushed under cedar beams in the Canaanite city of burnt red brick in the 10th century B.C.; and 22 people entombed under a single floor of a house dating to the Middle Bronze Age.

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For most, it'll start out revelatory, then settle into good enough, where it belongs.

A partnership between The Observer and the New York Times, and in collaboration with a whistleblower and former Cambridge Analytica employee unveiled a revelatory amount of information; most significantly that Facebook sold and willingly participated in the extraction of information for years, even though CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims that this was done on false pretenses.

Indeed, in a broad sense at least, most religions may be interpreted as responses to the revelatory disclosure of a sacred mystery.

Today, most Christian theologians have rejected, at least in principle, a purely exclusivist approach which would deny the revelatory value of other religions.

It is important to observe, in this connection, that the sense of the breaking in of a revelatory promise has generally been most lively among the poor, that is, among those who are forced to wait and who are most removed from possessing.

For most of us every act of God, every revelatory experience, comes in the form of worldly occurrences that can be read in naturalistic terms.

Most religious faiths are based on a revelatory event or on a significant content or meanings, either cognitive or experiential, which serve to organise human experience.

This was revelatory, because the minute he wakes up most mornings he's whining for his «baba» or for «Barney.»

I think what's most telling and revelatory about this not that he was able to outright buy email addresses directly from google but just how cheap they're sold and bandied about, after all it's just a live address.

The one that fascinated me the most though was revelatory time.

That lack of consideration is the series» most unfortunate waste of a promising storyline, one that could have imbued this second version with something refreshing or even revelatory.

Brady Jandreau is revelatory in his role, but it's his father and friends that seem the most uneasy with the given dialogue.

The most dangerous and addictive aspect of lust is its revelatory quality, the way it makes the whole of life that went before it feel like a wasteland of sleepwalking and tepid emotion.

An unexpected tale of corruption in the New York heating - oil industry in 1981, A Most Violent Year echoes the best of 1970s - era cinema, and is anchored by an astonishing, revelatory performance from Oscar Isaac.

The wonder of the pool scene is how Haneke takes that most mundane of tropes — the shot - reverse shot — and makes it strange, even revelatory.

There's nothing revelatory in the enraged critique within Maps to the Stars, although it is carried somewhat further than its limitations by some really wicked humor and a few of the performances (Almost every member of the cast is playing some variation of an irreparable person, but Moore, Wasikowska, and Bird are the most convincing of the bunch).

Among the most exciting supplements on our new release of Jean Renoir's classic short A Day in the Country is an eighty - nine - minute compilation of outtakes from the film, titled Un tournage à la campagne, which features revelatory behind - the - sce...

Joining Gabriel Byrne, Debra Winger, and Amy Ryan, his performance was lauded as a «revelatory breakthrough» by Variety, «brilliant» by the Chicago Sun Times, as well as the season's «most compelling client» by Entertainment Weekly.

Re-released to tie in with its 25th anniversary, the most striking thing about this film is how revelatory it is, tracing the history of gay activism.

Using the same actors over that time span allows for an authenticity of experience in a narrative feature not seen before, the effect of which is to invest even the smallest, most mundane of moments with a profound, revelatory, nature.

But the picture suffers in comparison to films that address convoluted sociologies (people point to American Beauty, but really, this game goes all the way back to The Graduate) with fury and courage (like Todd Solondz's Palindromes and Happiness) or with surpassing originality and wit (like Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore)-- it suffers most, in other words, from believing that what it has to say is still interesting, still revelatory enough by itself.

2017 has proven to be one of the most controversial and revelatory years in the history of the entertainment...

Ullmann's use of Schubert and Bach is one of the most assured and revelatory utilizations of music we've heard in some time.

Though her research is current and substantial, the basic tenets of introvert - versus - extrovert issues she explores are, for the most part, not revelatory.

The most notable among them include the jazzy, mystical song cycle Astral Weeks [1968]; the swinging, soulful classics Moondance [1970], His Band and the Street Choir [1970], and Tupelo Honey [1971]; the deeply personal and revelatory Saint Dominic's Preview [1972] and Veedon Fleece [1974]; and the visionary and spiritual - minded Common One [1980], A Sense of Wonder [1985], Avalon Sunset [1989], Enlightenment [1990] and Hymns to the Silence [1991].

A brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world's grimmest and most shuttered police states, using as its compass the life and work of George Orwell, the man many in Burma call simply «the prophet»

From one of Iran's most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English — a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it's like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today's Iran.

One sex scene fits neither the story nor the characters, and the violence may make even the most jaded reader uncomfortable, but this is a relentless and revelatory look into the human cost of those who torture on behalf of their country,» says Library Journal.

Given the financial risk for developing for the platform, It's natural that most games have been ports, copycat variations or VR iterations of familiar genres which absolutely fill a need for content - hungry players but do little to advance the notion of VR as a revelatory, essential experience.

As refreshing, and revelatory as Quantum Break can feel at times, it can also feel rote in falling back on these tried and true mechanics that most contemporary games use.

From the results of this crude, but revelatory experiment, it turns out that a brown rectangle is the least favoured: you know, the basis of most modern building designs.

«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.»

Accompanying a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, this revelatory two - volume catalogue raisonné (one volume comprised of plates and the other of critical texts) is the most substantial work on the artist ever published, and the first in English since 1978.

That seems to be a fairly standard line for most any Biennial over the last decade, where artists «working in many mediums present different and contrasting wares,» with emergent themes being «subtle rather than revelatory» and the political art «usually as subtle as a hammer.»

Seen today however, in the context of the Hepworth Wakefield's revelatory survey of her long - overlooked, searching, experimental output, even the artist's most pop creations take on a darker tone.

Hear from the artist's daughter, Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, along with Bay Area painter Robert Bechtle and the exhibition co-curators as they explore revelatory connections between the subject, style, color, and technique of two of the twentieth century's most extraordinary painters.

The result is Spirit of 76: London Punk Eyewitness, a revelatory collection of photography and fly - on - the - wall reportage showcasing the punk movement from its most raucous, bewildering beginnings.

Invented in secret in the privacy of Oiticica's New York loft in the early 1970s, they were not shown as works of art until 1992, twelve years after Oiticica's death, when the first and third in the series — CC1 Trashiscapes and CC3 Maileryn — were exhibited as part of the first traveling retrospective of the artist's work.3 Prior to that exhibition, Oiticica's New York sojourn was little analyzed due to the perceived paucity of his artistic production between the years 1970 and 1978.4 The 1992 presentation of the Cosmococas was revelatory in this regard: not only did these quasi-cinemas demonstrate the continuity and conceptual elaboration of key aesthetic concerns within Oiticica's work (the vertiginous passage from painterly to narcotic «pigment» in service of the sensorial is surely the most striking of these animating threads), they indicated the artist's pointed engagement with the avant - garde artistic culture of New York.

In her second book, acclaimed photographer Brigitte Lacombe offers revelatory portraits of Bill Clinton, Brice Marden, Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, and many of her most influential contemporaries.

«This splendid show has been organized by Margaret Cherin, Curator of the Hillman - Jackson Gallery, and Jacob Fossum, Professor of Painting and Drawing, who explains that «What interests me most about Julie is her intense connection to her own imagination and creative powers and her ability to trust her revelatory impulses.»

For many years, Peter Iden has enjoyed a reputation as one of Germany's most admired critics, and for each of his interviews he takes evident care to research thoroughly the work of his interlocutor, with the result that he elicits particularly revelatory responses.

(2017) Walker depicts her model in only the most cliché of situations, suggesting that the affluent Hollywood woman may actually be quite lonely and insecure — hardly a revelatory gesture.

The Serpentine's revelatory retrospective of work by the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862 — 1944), curated by Birnbaum of Sweden's Moderna Museet and the Serpentine's Emma Enderby (now a curator for Public Art Fund), might have been one of the most widely covered exhibitions of the year.

The final two sections of Video Works are its most uneven, underscoring that, as Contemporary Art Museum Houston senior curator Toby Kamps writes in an essay accompanying the box set, «The Art Guys are inspired as much by dumb, half - baked ideas as they are by revelatory, perspective - changing ones.

Including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, American Modern brings together some of the Museum's most celebrated masterworks, contextualizing them across mediums and amid lesser - seen but revelatory works by artists who expressed compelling emotional and visual tendencies of the time.