Sentences with phrase «nightmare visions of»

I was also so worried about how my daughter would adapt to the new addition, I had nightmare visions of her hitting the new baby or something like that.

Neil Kinnock's warning Realising his party would probably lose the 1983 election, Kinnock provided a nightmare vision of life under Thatcher: «I warn you not to be ordinary.

In his feature debut, Aster presents a nightmare vision of domestic breakdown, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and disquieting.

In recent years, Carpenter and his nightmare vision of a very believable future are finally receiving the recognition and respect they deserve, as no less than Entertainment Weekly even proclaimed John Carpenter as the most influential director of 2014, citing many of last year's most obvious nods to Carpenter and even specifically to Escape, like The Purge: Anarchy, Cold in July, and The Guest, to name a few.

When Stuart Klawans says «the nightmare vision of white people exerting their dominance not just around him but inside his body», he points to what may be one of the most damaging aspect of Jordan Peele's vision — that growing up Black in America means that many young Black people see themselves through White eyes and suffer the sometimes crippling psychological effects of that sadly harsh and limiting vision.

This film represents my worst nightmare vision of the world.

Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam): The corporate culture of the future tries to crush the dreams of clerk Jonathan Pryce, giving the great Gilliam a chance to use his gifts for satire and production design to create a nightmare vision of dehumanization.

Larry Cohen's sci - fi chiller about a detective investigating murderers who claim to be carrying out God's will is the surreal B - side to Taxi Driver: a nightmare vision of the city's repressed rage that starts with cameoing Andy Kaufman gunning down the St. Patrick's Day parade and ends with our hero becoming what he was trying to stop.

With a tighter cut and a meatier presence for characters like Ben Foster's doomed to hang Philip Wills, Cooper's meandering nightmare vision of a terribly unenlightened time could have been great.

«This is our suggested position,» technical director Roberto Corradi says, no doubt having a nightmare vision of wadded - up MC12s.

In the psychiatric hospital of «Iron Maiden,» a routine chest X-ray opens a window onto a nightmare vision of medieval torture and a recognition of how our mortality drives all of us to madness.

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Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

The Moral Vision of the New Testament by Richard B. Hays HarperSanFrancisco, 508 pages, $ 25 This book is both a reviewer's dream and nightmare.

You may be like many families entering parenthood who balk at the thought of owning a travel system; visions of enormous strollers taking up too much room, difficulty steering and being heavy as tanks seem more of a nightmare than a convenience.

Unaware to the film, this nightmare could be a vision that Carmen, a self - described clairvoyant, passes along to Beth, suggesting in Freeway a temperament less on par with a collie than a bull terrier, the breed featured in Baxter, a 1989 French film, whose anthropomorphism is unusual for its anti-Disney idiosyncrasy of having an animal depict the baser side of man.

Darwin's Nightmare is an urgent, horrific, yet at times oddly blinkered vision of the crisis of modern Africa.

After a vision of the Grand Guignol, Vanessa, Sir Malcolm, Ethan, Dr. Frankenstein and Sembene explore an empty theater - only to be confronted by their worst nightmares.

The storming of the fortified beaches of Normandy is an entropic nightmare, a vision of chaos and carnage in which Allied infantry managed to not only maintain their sanity with the very real possibility of being killed at a moment's notice, but also successfully break through enemy lines and punch a major hole into Nazi - occupied France.

His sickness prevents him from dedicating himself wholeheartedly to publishing his work, and he is disturbed by visions of his late daughter and other impossible nightmares.

A young couple, Lisa Younger and Jared Vandenberg, escape the Los Angeles rat race for the quiet life in Joshua Tree, California but paranormal visions and voices quickly turn the house of their dreams into a house of nightmares.

It would have been easy for director Joshua Z. Weinstein to frame the strict religious rules that govern this community as some oppressive nightmare there only to be escaped from, but he's careful to offer a matter - of - fact vision of a highly regulated life.

There are resonances of Olivier Assayas» badly - aged Demonlover (2002) and David Cronenberg's crowning vision of technological perversion, Videodrome (1983), but rather than an affective nightmare, we get a confused schizoid vision whose politics are vague.

Without doubt, this is a nightmare vision, one that's both extremely paranoid and yet leavened by a certain awareness and amused distance from its own paranoia, and it's very much a product of the times.

Hawkeye visiting his family at their farmhouse and those Scarlet Witch nightmares were not a hit with the studio, but the extended sequence where Thor visits a cave and has a vision of the Infinity Stones was, essentially, a mandate.

It is this lack of farsightedness which informs the apocalyptic final vision, fields strewn with bits of broken battleships, depicting how the «beautiful dreams» he has created have borne terrible nightmares.

She has visions and nightmares of the events in the Hunger Games.

The inquiry leaves Sully questioning whether or not he was reckless with the lives of the passengers on board, and as a result suffers from a series of nightmares and visions of what could have happened if his plane had crashed in New York City.

Loznitsa concludes with a vision of Russia sleeping through waking catastrophe and encountering only more nightmares, revealing that the film hasn't just been skating by on horrors; the pain is real.

Fassbender said Kurzel had suggested in an early conversation about the film that Macbeth, shown in the midst of battle in the opening scene, has nightmares and visions of witches because of his battle scars, physical and mental.

In the end, Empire Falls reveals our worst and best instincts, both our most appalling nightmares and our simplest hopes, with all the vision, grace and humanity of truly epic storytelling.

He can't make any sense of the nightmare vision, but neither can he look away.

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In an attempt to tap into the hidden powers of the mind, Ian's captors left him scarred by unrelenting nightmares, visions and unstable powers such as time manipulation and telekinesis.

It's unclear as to whether she shows people visions of possible futures or just purely nightmare scenarios created by their own minds, especially since Thor's vision seems to be a potential portent which sends him scampering back to Asgard at the end of the film, but its her powers that results in the creation of Ultron, and Iron - Man going head - to - head with the Hulk.

In an attempt to tap into the hidden power of the mind, Ian's captors left him scarred with unrelenting nightmares, visions and unstable powers such as time manipulation and telekinesis.

Though I may not have played every all - star game of 2015, I know the unified strength of Bloodborne's nightmare - slaying action, frightful artistic vision and lofty philosophical underpinnings places it highly among them, if not eclipses them altogether (I still read reviews, y ’ know).

Nightmares are highlighted on the mini map and have a cone of vision so you can surely evade them if you play smart and slow.

Moving on to 1954 and the low - keyed eighth painting in the series (now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York)-- greys, blues, muffled yellows on a surface just over six feet high by three and a half feet wide, a motor metropolis of tightly curving ramps with headlight beams spreading like stains suggest a vision, slightly smudged, as if seen through the thick glass window of a skyscraper; at any rate remote from the scene of automotive nightmare.

Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include environmental illness, climate change, unemployment, the alienation of consumer culture, nuclear nightmares, body hate, cultural identity, visions for the future and global justice.

1983 Memorial Exhibition: Ilya Bolotowsky, Gilmore D. Clarke, Jose De Creeft, Theodore Roszak, Jack Tworkov, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Beyond the Plane: American Constructions 1930 - 1965, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927 - 1944, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

At the Chisenhale in the east is Ed Fornieles's extraordinary vision of the modern family as evoked online: a nightmare of search engine - optimised home design tropes sourced from Pinterest and Instagram with porn videos flickering in the background.

The 700 - piece retrospective, up from the 22nd of this month through April 26, will place Burton's playful artwork alongside storyboards, props, and costumes from grim fantasies such as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Sweeney Todd — which, Magliozzi hopes, will give viewers a more nuanced perception of the director's filmic vision.

Mark Dion's presentation of feral animals scavenging early morning Parisian garbage cans, Isa Genzken's miniature diabolic wasteland, Empire Vampire III (2004), or Fiona Tan's toy - train ecological nightmare, 1 to 87 (2014) give us a compressed and convincing vision of a world gone awry.

Visions and Nightmares: Four Centuries of Spanish Drawings opened last month as the museum's inaugural foray into the overlooked history of drawing in Spanish art.

It presents a consumerist nightmare and a liberated paradise that subverts codes of retail, transmitting a highly idiosyncratic vision of the role of the individual within a status - fueled, capitalist society.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen... 11May > Visions and Nightmares: Four Centuries of Spanish Drawings.

de Young... 11May + slides > Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe famsf > Visions and Nightmares: Four Centuries of Spanish Drawings.

Morgan Library and Museum: «Visions and Nightmares: Four Centuries of Spanish Drawings» (through May 11) Skipping from 16th - century church commissions to Goya in just 25 objects, the Morgan's first show of Spanish drawings is necessarily awkward.

The Breakdown Institute's Nightmare Visions In last week's New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert described how the Danish island of Samsø has transitioned to wind electrical generation, biomass (aka straw and such) and other available technologies.

Similarly, buyers purchase lemons - on - foundations below high water marks based on fuzzy feel - good visions of fairy dust and they - lived - happily - ever - after dreams pre nightmares.