Sentences with phrase «obvious nods»

, tree - embelished dresses, and obvious nods to repurposing fabrics.

Her references to art history include Romantic painterly gestures, obvious nods to the California Light and Space movement and the idea of the ready - made.

The quite obvious nods to Kubrick, for example, are undermined by an increasing interest in the subversive montage techniques of Godard, while an intertitle design inspired by Murnau's Sunrise is made strange when conflated with the King of Pop's lyrics for the song `' Childhood.»

There are obvious nods here to artists like Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse, both of whom utilized alternative materials including fabric and textiles to speak to a larger context about female identity and sexuality as well as women's invisibility in the greater world at large.

One mission in particular made fun of the stealth gameplay of Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid, while less obvious nods are made to Harry Potter, The Matrix, Iron Man, Mass Effect and even prior Saints Row games.

Without giving away to much, there are very obvious nods to series veterans, like Leon Kennedy and Jill Valentine, and more subtle auditory points to the newest title, Resident Evil 7.

These are usually fun and obvious nods to the character's abilities, such as Ness providing ESP or the Animal Crossing characters giving Kirby Leaf.

No one quite expected it to look the way it did, despite the obvious nods to the iconic GT40.

While there are a few obvious nods to Carpenter's Halloween early on, we would expect nothing less of writer Kenny Caperton, who owns and lives in The Myers House NC (a life - size replica of Michael Myers» home), and the fun genre references are just beginning.

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.

Zappa wrote this book as a tribute to his daughter, but the ending is an obvious nod to his late father, who was anything but a conventional dad.

The company, Power Home Remodeling, bought the billboards in an obvious nod to the currently Oscar - nominated film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, but it also draws on real speculation that James might at least consider Philadelphia if he leaves the Cavaliers in free agency this summer.

This is an obvious nod to Simmons missing the entire 2016 season with a broken foot.

Then a more obvious nod to Ed Miliband — «Responsible capitalism is what sensible business wants,» a clear echo of the Labour leader's often - cited speech of 2011.

A lot of the mechanics in the script by Benjamin and Paul China (billed as «The China Brothers» in a perhaps too - obvious nod to the Coens) are boilerplate familiar to the point of being rote, but the manner in which they're assembled and played out by sophomore director Jamie M. Dagg and his expressive cast of weathered character actors largely redeems them.

The opening scene, in which Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) confronts Leo O'Bannon (Albert Finney) and Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne) is an obvious nod to the opening of The Godfather: another small, balding Italian man, asking a lethal favor of a crime boss seated behind a large desk, while throwing in a reference to people behaving like «animals.»

Their fashionable frocks are costume designer Jacqueline Durran's only obvious nod to the seventies» more outlandish attire.

Much has been made of the influence of both Woody Allen «s Manhattan and the French New Wave films of Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut, but the most obvious nod in the film has to be to Leos Carax «s Mauvais Sang (1986).

The website IMDB lists the title of the film as «Ip Man Zero,» an obvious nod to its coming before parts one and two, but unfortunately, it's also an inadvertent comment on what this particular film has to offer.

Josh makes a new friend named Hannah (Vand), a mysterious woman who spends her nights wandering the streets (an obvious nod to Vand's turn as the chador - wearing vampire in «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night»).

While it may seem like an obvious nod to enthusiasts everywhere, there was another big reason Honda opted for the do - it - yourself shifter.

In an obvious nod to its workhorse orientation the GX also features a prominent black plastic snorkel to enhance its deep water crossing and dust - busting abilities.

The FJ's retro styling is an obvious nod to the angular, utilitarian Toyota Land Cruisers from the 1960s, but underneath, it's entirely up to date.

Bandi — whose pseudonym is derived from firefly, an obvious nod to the insect's small light amid vast darkness — shockingly remains a prominent North Korean writer.

The Skin Collector's title is an obvious nod to The Bone Collector, the very first Lincoln Rhyme novel and Deaver's 1997 debut, which was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

In terms of the design of the phone, Samsung's CEO admitted that the design of the phone was explicitly created to circumvent Apple design patents, with a slightly tapered design that is unlike any iPhone model on the market, in an obvious nod to currently ongoing litigation while the size of the phone is meant to resemble a miniature tablet rather than any conventional smartphone, with an elongated teardrop shape.

However, aside from its obvious nod to niche pet clothing manufacturers, the day also lends itself to increasing animal adoption.

It's hardly much of a criticism, though, but does serve as a very obvious nod to the game's mobile origins.

An obvious nod to Kojima's earlier game, the squat robot even resembles the original robot boss from the game.

This seems like an obvious nod to the hybrid nature of the Switch which is clearly the hit feature among gamers.

The off switches for almost all of the latest gameplay elements are the obvious nod to EA's wider usability concerns.

Her Untitled (111), ca 1976 - 8 is probably the most obvious nod to Diebenkorn.

Many international galleries were shining a spotlight on an Asian - born artist, or Asian - themed work — an obvious nod to the eastern context that was sometimes too obvious.

Echoing the same event, Descending the Staircase, 2012, allows the emancipated slats to hang parabolically from a wire, the title an obvious nod to Duchamp's ridiculed painting of a nude, completed a century earlier in 1912 and first seen in the United States at the controversial Armory Show of 1913.

, 2012, allows the emancipated slats to hang parabolically from a wire, the title an obvious nod to Duchamp's ridiculed painting of a nude, completed a century earlier in 1912 and first seen in the United States at the controversial Armory Show of 1913.

The exhibition title could be a tongue - in - cheek reference to the «real» world as we know it becoming ever - more digital, or an obvious nod to the 3D pieces included in the show.

Three years ago in La Jolla, California, ACU sponsored a meeting of high - level environmental activists and organization heads, titled «Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control,» an obvious nod to RICO investigations used to accuse tobacco companies of a large scale conspiracy to deceive the public about the dangers of cigarette smoking.

With an obvious nod to Google's success in education with its Chromebook platform, Microsoft announced a new lightweight version of Windows 10 dubbed Windows 10 S.

It's a pretty obvious nod to the fact that S9 will feature slow - motion capture; over the past couple of weeks, a variety of leaks have indicated the S9 and S9 + will feature rear - facing cameras capable of capturing slow - motion video at 480 frames per second.

Adding to the curiosity was that the student's username in the popular online video game «Fortnite» was reportedly «NickCruz,» an obvious nod to the man who was charged with perpetrating the school shooting in February.

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He called the new endeavor Obvious, a nod to a lesson learned from the success at Blogger — that seemingly silly and trivial ideas often look like great ones in retrospect.

Whoever didn't see the government giving virtual currency a nod was valuable to a group of really wealthy (and speculative) buyers seems to be ignoring the obvious.

Had you of showed an obvious concern for his error, I would have nodded in approval (not that you need my approval of course).

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It runs the usual Maddin gamut of stylistic nods to (primarily) the late silent and early talkie periods, complete with a whopping amount of explanatory intertitles (perhaps outweighing actual spoken dialogue), artificially scratched / aged «film stock,» use of obvious miniatures, approximation of two - strip Technicolor and so forth.

For one, SF5 features some of the most gorgeous 3D animation ever for a fighter, with flowing, clear animations that feature the key - frames and telling nods that help to make a move look cool while also ensuring its utility is obvious.

The photo comes from Reynolds» Twitter account, and it's clearly a fun nod to a classic photo of Reynolds in his Deadpool costume that you've probably seen 100 times — the fact that she's literally laying on Reynolds» Deadpool costume makes this even more obvious.

The only reason anyone has had to doubt its dominance came when it shockingly failed to earn a nod for the Best Director Oscar, but as we saw just five years ago, «Argo» didn't even need one to take the top prize, so in terms of which film has the least number of obstacles to overcome AND everything else that a film ultimately needs to win Best Picture, it would seem that «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» is far and away the obvious choice.

Some may roll their eyes at the very obvious references to The Shining in this film, but I see them more as a nod and homage to a classic than Wan ripping off Kubrick.

Even the BAFTAs, where this film had an obvious home court advantage, only extended four technical nods (the same as the Oscars, except Make Up & Hair instead of Score).