Sentences with phrase «mythologized by»

In Vicuña's paintings, religious icons are replaced by personal, political, and literary figures, commemorated and mythologized by the artist.

This culture is further mythologized by Woolfalk for her «Plant Alchemy» works on paper, which are supporting historical documentation of their species.

This approach to education reform is premised on a few notions that have most recently been mythologized by NBC with its Education Nation: tenure and teacher unions are the chief obstacles to reforming America's schools, and monetary incentives will motivate teachers to improve their ability to raise test scores.

It's a moment mythologized by many a young adult novel and Hollywood movie — the moment you lose your virginity.

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But the way to accomplish what he rightly sees to be necessary is by a process which might be described as «in - mythologizing.»

Aaron Mitchell, the next - to - last man executed in 1967, succeeded in mythologizing the liturgy of death by removing all of his clothes a few hours before his execution, slashing his wrists with a razor blade, and standing in the form of a crucifix, arms outstretched.

Even in this journal in a piece by a scientist I recently read said that «Bergson and others were right to emphasize biological events as inherently life - affirming, but wrong in mythologizing them.»

The story quotes the study My Daddy's Name is Donor by Elizabeth Marquardt, who wrote for «On the Square» an article titled The Kids Are Not All Right, a take - down of the recent movie's cheerful and utterly unrealistic mythologizing of sperm donation (the ultimate absent fathers).

God breaks the grip of scapegoating by stepping into the place of a victim, and by being a victim who can not be hidden or mythologized.

Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

The «scotch - tape» technique is mythologized in the graphene origins story which has scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, first isolating the material by using adhesive (aka «sticky» tape or «scotch» tape) as per my Oct. 7, 2010 posting,

Tamblyn tells BuzzFeed that she hopes «to elicit some fresh, challenging conversations and examinations of who we are as a society» by flipping the gender norms, and says the book is about «survivors of rape and the commodification, denigration, and manipulation of their stories by everyone from the American media to the judicial system,» as well as also being «a story about how we dangerously demonize and mythologize women.»

In the 20th century, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was mythologized as God incarnate by the Afro - syncretic Rastafari movement in part because of his resounding triumph against Italian colonizers.

It's an old - fashioned, fast - moving, family - friendly adventure yarn unmuddied by an excess of subtext, political undercurrent or narrative mythologizing.

All the President's Men's masterstroke is how it rejects mythologizing the pivotal history behind it, appropriately forgoing a climax by closing on a simple telex furiously relaying messages.

Prefaced by the above text, Jon Krakauer's nonfiction bestseller Into the Wild mythologizes the plight of Chris McCandless, who spent the final two years of his life in exile from every relationship he had theretofore established, and in revocation of even the most basic amenities of comfort.

... Executive produced by Bill Simmons, and sharply directed by Hehir, Andre the Giant doesn't have to work hard to mythologize the grappler.

Perhaps the ur - example of Tarantino's ability to balance his characters as though on the blade of one of his mythologized Hanzo swords is the titular corpse himself, embodied with such vicious restraint by David Carradine.

Early on, though, I was reminded of patriarch Homer's warning to grandson Lonnie in Hud: that «little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire» — that our perceived, fictionalized, mythologized history becomes the template into which we slot our behaviour into an increasingly Pirandellian future.

In the narrative version, Rebecca Hall plays the disturbed Chubbuck in the weeks leading up to the mythologized event and her news station cohorts (played by Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, and Maria Dizzia plus others) take a deeper part in her story.

Pakula's name belongs on my earlier list of redoubtable directors who stumbled in» 78: a sense of urgency is missing from this enterprise, and the movement into solemn mythologizing is too academic, too uncomplicated by the sorts of existential miscellany the Hellman and Herzog films are chockfull of.

THE DISASTER ARTIST As James and Dave Franco (plus a bevy of cameos) take us step by step through the apparently true story of the making of «The Room» (far worse then the simply dull and incompetent «Plan 9 From Outer Space»), they manage to not overly mythologize Wiseau or smirk at him too much.

Possibly the most mythologized method of travel, the train is celebrated in Starlight on the Rails, a collection of duotone photographs taken by a skilled group of artists over the course of five decades.

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle took place in southern Montana.

«Graham is going to be getting renewed attention, because the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, N.Y., is mounting a comprehensive retrospective of his career, accompanied by a catalogue which gives his full biography (or at least as full as is currently possible, given Graham's tendency to self - mythologize and alter details of his past) and a critical reassessment of his achievements.

Works by Adolf Braun, Jean - Léon Gérôme, Emile René Ménard, Benjamin West, and others offered views into such important themes as the longing for nature in an industrialized world, the molding of history to contemporary needs, and the nostalgic yearning for a mythologized past.

One of the founding members of the Chicano artists collective Los Four, Luján is known for his coloration and visual explorations of Chicano culture and community that drew upon and brought to life various historic and contemporary visual sources with startling results: Pyramid - mounted low riders driven by anthropomorphic dogs traversing a newly defined and mythologized L.A..

Their faint suggestion of battlefield stretchers brings to mind the use of similar forms by Salvatore Scarpitta (1919 - 2007) and the self - mythologizing Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986).

Motivated by an interest in opulence and exotic materials, the monochrome gold motif is a hallmark of Byars» late works, a nod to his self - mythologizing project.

Reprising his celebrated Pop icons from the 1960s, in a manner initially deemed cynical, the Retrospectives look ahead to installations by a number of artists including Martin Kippenberger and Tracey Emin, who overtly engage the self - mythologizing impulse manipulating their personas as a medium, like silkscreen or paint.

By revealing the truth about Spain's increasingly mythologized «green jobs» and renewable energy experience, the revealed study threatened the prospects for Spain's companies to be bailed out by the U.S. repeating these mistakeBy revealing the truth about Spain's increasingly mythologized «green jobs» and renewable energy experience, the revealed study threatened the prospects for Spain's companies to be bailed out by the U.S. repeating these mistakeby the U.S. repeating these mistakes.