Sentences with phrase «obscure references from»

The 37 - year - old actor tackled a variety questions that included a number of obscure references from his career: The short - lived animated series Tron: Uprising; the 2013 thriller Grand Piano; the animated mini-series Over the Garden Wall, that Beastie Boys video he did back in 2011, and of course, Lord of the Rings.

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Dear friends and colleagues, This summer we saw an opportunity to provide greater clarity to entrepreneurs and our partners about the mission and focus of our work, which at times was obscured by references to «needles in haystacks» instead of our true inspiration, which is the gritty teamwork required to harvest hay from a field and stack it in a barn.

• Fact # 7: Mark Batterson is the author of the recent book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day based on an obscure reference in 1 Chronicles 11:22 «Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a brave man from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits.

Apart from a couple of very obscure references, one would never guess that he served as president of the «Christian Union» (Inter-Varsity) at Edinburgh a quarter of a century ago.

Some facts are luminously obvious, but the rest of our experience is obscured in a deep, penumbral shadow with reference to which our intellectual faculty varies from that of a savage to that of a jellyfish.

That reference page didn't just show the limitations, though — it also showed the possibilities, and several of the visual effects on the site derive from more - obscure CSS features I learned about in passing while trying to figure out why something else had blown up.

The game references everything from Lord of the Rings to Street Fighter to obscure Internet memes, but none of these are particularly clever or funny.

But fortunately, none of those throwback references obscure or confuse the excellent dungeon - crawling RPG gameplay that features unique classes, interesting (and frequent) boss battles, and a dynamite soundtrack from video game virtuoso Yuzo Koshiro.

His writings and conversations are peppered with references to obscure texts from literature, psychology and philosophy.

Her works are layered with meanings and references that viewers can appreciate on many levels, from persistent visual motifs, to repetitive phrases and titles, to obscure citations, allusions, and puns.

Her use of rhyme schemes, puns and obscure references probe the various levels of language, from its most cerebral to its most bodily.

There are multiple literary references, from the ideograms of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy to a short story by the obscure and troubled early 20th century German writer Robert Walser that signal an atmosphere, a mindset.

With additional references ranging from the obscure (nude portraits from Paris» Salpetrière hospital) to the mundane (a close look reveals the Quaker Oats mascot), Chadsey's cyborg characters are alluringly bizarre.

Glasgow artist Torsten Lauschmann's solo exhibition, «War of the Corners», takes as points of reference everything from Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet (1922), children's soft play cubes and an obscure 18th century critical spat about high and low culture in opera.

Other references are more obscure: Rasputin's fingernails are presented in a vitrine in a chamber built like a tree house (you have to climb a ladder to get to it), and it is pretty difficult to concentrate on the vitrine of objects related to polar exploration, which are on loan from the Royal Geographic Society, because there's a DVD of The Cure's Greatest Hits blaring over it.

While citation styles in other disciplines have moved increasingly towards greater simplicity and clarity, concentrating on malleable concepts and abandoning the use of arcane bibliographic terms and obscure abbreviations, all legal citation guides continue to share and suffer from the same conceptual error: namely, that there should be a rule for every possible source to which a legal professional might refer and, better yet, an abbreviation for every source in which the reference might be found.