Sentences with phrase «mythic quality»

Sam Elliot «s baritone has taken on an almost mythic quality.

- The Daily Telegraph (UK) «This concentration on isolating tiny fragments of experience and apprehension makes for an intense and immersive read, one in which brutal events are cast in a diffuse light that gives them an almost mythic quality.

According to Lewis, a good story (and authentic play experiences more generally) has a mythic quality:

In terms of direction, Monster's Ball sometimes takes on a mythic quality in terms of race relations in the United States, and in terms of people who are suffering from emotional trauma.

«What Hugh said to you is the attitude we all have — myself, Lauren Shuler Donner, the studio, [director] James Mangold, Hutch Parker — all of us, feel like this is six or seven or eight (depending on how you count) movies in the making, and there are few characters in the history of cinema who have cast as big a shadow as Wolverine, so to tell the final chapter of that story, it has to be the best, and it has to have a mythic quality to it.

It doesn't possess their mythic quality but it's certainly of a piece, particularly with respect to Redford.

The monochrome treatment creates an intense experience and I can see Miller's passion for it; it has an even more timeless, mythic quality, liked a legend carved in stone and come to life.

But the boat's human cargo is tellingly offscreen, ostensibly in order to lend these scenes a mythic quality.

Mabel took on this mythic quality that influenced so much of what happened in the book.

The mod has taken on a mythic quality.

In these titles the themes, tropes, and icons of classic games take on an almost mythic quality.

Given the mythic qualities of Switzerland's topography, it is surprising that the works included — videos by both young, lesser - known artists like Judith Albert, Nicolás Fernández, and Laurence Huber, and firmly established ones like Sylvie Fleury, Roman Signer, and Beat Streuli — do not necessarily reflect on a sense of place or on the history of landscape as an artistic genre but rather

The artist mines fairy tales for their mythic quality and often cross pollinates these ideas with other tropes.

Today, «Tenth Street» has a mythic quality, because it represents the area where the extraordinary dynamism of post-war American art first coalesced and became visible.

Schiele's controversial achievements and untimely death at the age of 28 in World War I add a mythic quality to his abbreviated career.

Early sculptures were given geographic identities based on areas where Price has lived and worked (Hackney, Brixton, Dalston, Deptford)-- street names with historic gravitas or mythic qualities (such as «Achilles Street») that make the ordinary sound heroic and the fabled appear normal.

Frank is best known as a sculptor, but the photographs in this exhibition, taken of scenes she fashioned from scraps found in her studio and outdoors, had the mythic quality of shadow plays cast on a cave wall eons ago.