Sentences with phrase «mythic figure»

The use of mythic figures to distinguish individual societies has continued, though many of the figures have long since lost any social or religious power.

For those without the horticultural skills to blanket churches in fescue, wrap bridges in foliage, or etch mythic figures in rice paddies, there is grass painting.

Their theology is a collection of cliched abstractions» «love» and «acceptance» and «empowerment» and «peace - and - justice» (one word), and so on» and they could easily make any hero or mythic figure at all be the loving or accepting or empowering one, or the guru of peace - and - justice, instead of Jesus, and sometimes do.»

In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.

The gambit of Spielberg's Lincoln is to humanize this almost mythic figure.

As Mitch Cullin weaves together Holmes's hidden past, his poignant struggle to retain mental acuity, and his unlikely relationship with Roger, Holmes is transformed from the machine - like, mythic figure into an ordinary man, confronting and acquiescing to emotions he has resisted his entire life.

We can only guess what these mysterious symbols meant to their creators, but they may represent mythic figures, natural phenomena, or abstract concepts.

The American artist served in the U.S. armed forces in World War II Italy, surviving to become a nearly mythic figure in the art world.

Mir's paintings present a world populated by mythic figures, creatures, machines, and fragments of ambiguous forms that are at odds with their surroundings.

We are invited to see both the potential historical import of an unknown individual, as in the haunting Jody, and to consider the contemporary connotations of mythic figures, as in Champion.

Daniel Day - Lewis is a near - mythic figure in Hollywood, a three - time Oscar - winner as selective about the parts he takes as the interviews he gives, and a method actor notorious for disappearing into characters for weeks or months at a time.

Even he, the «son of God» — i.e the mythic figure with the closest possible relationship to God — asked questions, so how could questions be anything but good?

Fifteen years later McGwire has retired as one of the game's mythic figures.

Einstein was a mythic figure — the world's most famous scientist.

Although he retained a sense of impudent playfulness, he had also acquired a marmoreal aspect, transcending fame itself to become one of the century's mythic figures, his plump, sad face known throughout the world.

And in this moment, the film makes clear what it is that is so compelling about him — perhaps as a person but surely now, as a mythic figure who went out into the mountains and died — the very fact that Chris makes choices, informed and not, eventually irrevocable.

Captured indelibly by cinematographers Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, Malick's film has a visual syntax so eloquent and graceful — its fields of gold cause its quiet characters to stand out like mythic figures — it would play powerfully as a silent film.

Day - Lewis» folksy vocal choices — the relaxed pace, the self - deprecating tone — make the character of Lincoln seem more human and approachable, even as his mythic figure and ability to hold a room showcase what made him a legend in his time.

Instead of making the guy a mythic figure «of superhuman strength who can not be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire,» as Nicholas Rogers described him in his 2003 book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, McBride thinks it's scarier to have him be some weird dude who likes to murder people.

Apparently there is no end to the mythic figures determined to wear a superhero's cape, and it's hoped there's no end to our interest in seeing them try.

So Calvin agrees to return to the small town where he once was a mythic figure, to the very home he once abandoned.

Pulling ideas from disparate subjects, pop culture, mythic figures and current events, Schutz takes us from mundanity — showering, waiting for a taxi, sleepwalking, sneezing — to a unique blend of (mythical) science fiction — getting dressed all at once, amalgamations of God, being and rendering an octopus at the same time — boasting a «give me anything and I'll make it work for me» narrative abstraction.

This mythic figure is mostly naked in each scene with powerful thighs, sagging breasts, and protruding stomach — the very antithesis of the ideal female form in Western culture.

The artist Christopher D'Arcangelo — another mythic figure that Garcia Torres has addressed in earlier work — created another challenge in this regard, opting in 1978 to remove his name from the announcement and printed materials associated with an exhibition that he was asked to take part in at Artists Space in New York.

Moving across a stage full of sculpture, Hennessy cannibalizes the work of the legendary and problematic Beuys, embodying his shamanic beliefs and channeling this mythic figure.

This mythic figure is having a moment.

The mythic figures and beasts merge various myths (Egyptian, Assyrian, Meso - American, Greco - Roman), sitting uneasily at the juncture of spectacle and satire, but their sheer detail and scale (one figure, Demon with Bowl, stands several storeys high) makes the jaw drop.

Seated with his head bowed and his hands bandaged, Ali appears as a mythic figure, simultaneously battle - worn and composed.»

Mary is a mythic figure — she has a long history and has her own notoriety as a figure so I was well aware of this when imagining showing with her.

His mythic figure portraits recall the work of Kim Jones from the late 1980's, along with the late works of Philip Guston.

in a special issue of Art News, there were no women's studies, no feminist theory, no such thing as feminist art criticism; there was instead a focus on the mythic figure of the great (male) artist through history.

The mythic figures are too big and uncomfortable, not quite at ease in the natural world, which is made up of slathers of paint.