Sentences with phrase «of beckett»

The frames hanging above the Eiffel hold three close - up photos of Beckett as a newborn (he was seriously born with that cute little rat tail!).

Right now, more than half of Beckett's dresser drawers are empty -LCB- because most of his clothes are in the closet -RCB-, but over time I know those drawers will fill up quickly and we'll be glad that we purchased an adult - size dresser rather than a small scale child's dresser!

«Typically, watershed plans have citizen engagement, but those citizens are focused on improving water quality,» says Iacoangeli, principal of Beckett & Raeder.

The attorneys of Beckett, Yott, McCarty & Spann are experts at personal injury litigation, settlements and trials.

The attorneys & staff of Beckett, Yott, McCarty & Spann would like to congratulate Riley on this impressive achievement, and invite everyone to join us on this special night.

Though the Reno personal injury attorneys of Beckett, Yott, McCarty & Spann have already warned of the dangers of driving in Reno's winter weather, walking on icy sidewalks and parking lots can sometimes prove to be equally hazardous.

Laurie Yott and Jim McCarty of Beckett, Yott, McCarty & Spann will be giving a workers» compensation law & practice seminar on September 22 at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nevada.

It reveals an amazing part of Beckett's work, published in French by Éditions de Minuit, after the author had decided, in 1938, to live in France.

Bringing a treasure of documentation, including manuscripts, letters, photographs, references to audio - visual recordings, and essays from Paul Auster to Georges Didi - Huberman, the publication explores the contribution of Beckett as an author, a theatre director and a filmmaker.

As with many of Beckett's works, there has been much debate as to its meaning.

As Paul Chan has recently observed (in a piece about his staging of Beckett's Godot in New Orleans), «a voice that desires a reply sounds different than an echo that wants attention.»

Stan Douglas builds his staged images around recognisable themes from literature and cinema, borrowing from such genres as the Wild West or murder mystery, or the work of Beckett and Kafka.

Presenting an enveloping installation that delves into philosophical tropes of Beckett's Waiting for Godot along with a five - member dance troupe, Belgian artist Timmermans brings his laborious drawings and performances to Frieze.

«You must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on» - the closing words of Beckett's «The Unnamable» resonate with the absurd plight of McDevitt's tragicomic anti-hero.

In one of Beckett's novels the lead character transfers stones from his left to his right trouser pocket, seemingly unable to decide where they should remain — an existential dilemma.

Adorned and surrounded by sumptuous flora, each of Beckett's masterfully rendered subjects evokes a feeling of a sultry summer haze.

PL Some of the visuals in your «Super-8 Trilogy» remind me of Beckett's television play Quad (1981), in which four performers wearing different coloured cloaks move on a platform, and each has a corresponding «sound» that accompanies them.

All of this got me thinking — not of Beckett or the D.A.'s Office, but of FLOCK.

This laughably sad, morosely funny Irish - language short novel about a direct forebear of Beckett's absurdist protagonists waited 90 years to be translated into English and more broadly recognized as the masterpiece it is.

Is the social studies education community destined to remain trapped, like the doomed clowns of Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, waiting for a transformation that never comes?

With Solo only a couple of weeks away, fans won't have to wait long to see how the actor does, but one person who has already made up their mind is the actor's co-star, Woody Harrelson, who plays the part of Beckett (Han's apparent mentor) in the movie.

(It is no accident that this bit of wisdom is cited in «Waiting For Godot,» an obscure theatrical work by another talented Irishman name of Beckett.)

There follows a genuinely thrilling train heist, which goes awry, earning the gang the worrying disapproval of Beckett's villainous paymaster, Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany, excellent as ever).

Lance and Alvin have a kind of Beckett - inflected masculine partnership that shares elements with Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy.

Even as the case is progressing, the film's center of gravity switches from the trial to the progress of Beckett's disease, and we briefly meet his lover (Antonio Banderas) and his family, most especially his mother (Joanne Woodward), whose role is small but supplies two of the most powerful moments in the film.

Truly this little machine is amazing and I love it so much that we are finding ways to use it in our home regardless of Beckett eating mostly what we eat nowadays.

He was worth a lot, but it's hard to argue that he was worth his huge contract and the contract of Crawford and the contract of Beckett and the penalties they had to pay for the luxury tax.

If we would be instructed in the postmodern world, we should seek out a performance of Beckett — the postmodern world is the world according to Beckett.

Throughout the race weekend you can watch all the action unfold from the roof of the Porsche Experience Centre which offers panoramic views of Becketts, Hangar Straight and through to Stowe.

Not exact matches

In the words of playwright Samuel Beckett: «Ever tried.

Perth Airport chairman and Curtin University chancellor Colin Beckett has taken the role as head of the Western Power board, with Iluka Resources chair Greg Martin appointed as his deputy.

The site went viral: In a month, Beckett Simonon sold out of its first round of inventory.

After receiving his award, Beckett asked Mr Sorenson about the recent acquisition of Starwood by Marriott.

When I heard that Moira Walley - Beckett of Breaking Bad fame had taken the helm of a new Anne miniseries for CBC, I was aghast.

Sartre, Beckett and others contend that we must give ourselves to a universe that is itself devoid of meaning.

Surrealism, dadaism, the writings of James Joyce and, later, Samuel Beckett — all proclaimed a world that has lost its story, and, along with its story, its coherence, purpose, and promise.

I can remember in college and graduate school reading Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Beckett, and Camus while bemoaning with everyone else, including the teacher, the loss of a shared vision about the purpose of human life.

That entire premise is what the Christian religions use for recognizing martyrdom, i.e., Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, St. Isaac Jogues, St. Thomas Beckett, etc..

There, on «the threshold of heaven,» as the English critic Lucy Beckett has suggested, the old philosopher may at last have identified poetic beauty not as a creative substitute for divine revelation, but as an instance of «our participation in truth.»

Unlike Samuel Beckett or Jorge Luis Borges, who provide a modernist critique of dialectical hubris by parodying the infinite regress of its logic while never going beyond that logic themselves, Solzhenitsyn claims to have learned how to move beyond the absurdities born of an unbridled rationalism, since he, and the rest of his fellow zeks (prisoners), have suffered dialectic's most extreme miscalculation.

Beckett carries this mode of presentation to what are perhaps its limits, in long narratives in which nothing ever happens.

Beckett's apparent insistence, later in the book, on the importance of Catholic sympathies (e.g. in Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson) suggests apologetics, not aesthetics, and reminds one uncomfortably that arguing the case for reasonable faith and faith - based reason is tremendously difficult without straying into what appears to be a partisan position.

Despite this, Beckett's book remains an important survey and reminder of what in Western thought is of value, and why, and demonstrates the truth articulated by both the Second Vatican Council and Saint Julian: «Whatever has been spoken aright by any man... belongs to us Christians; for we worship and love... the Logos which is from the unbegotten and ineffable God... [and] those writers were able, through the seed of the Logos implanted inthem, to see reality darkly» (p. 51).

Similarly, Beckett's distinction between Augustine and Aquinas ignores the influence of the former on the latter and perpetuates an opposition that is commonly held but largely fallacious.

Exploring the Western tradition of writing from Aeschylus to John Paul II, Lucy Beckett provides an encyclopaedic account of what might be styled an «alternative canon» of great writers.

She traces the line of a tradition of writing specifically relative to, and interpreted in the light of Christian revelation, encompassing authors as disparate as Bede and Beckett, Plato and Pushkin.

In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition by Lucy Beckett, Ignatius (available from Family Publications, Oxford), 648pp, # 15.50

In order to demonstrate the central importance of the humanities, Beckett attempts a recuperation of the Augustinian tradition of thought (distinguished from the scholastic tradition founded on Aquinas).

This relative truth of texts to the truth of God leads to the second Augustinian concept employed in Beckett's argument — awareness of the opposition and relativity of the civitas terrena to the civitas Dei.

Chesterton once mistakenly lamented the triumph of Augustinianism, and Beckett makes precisely the opposite mistake.