Sentences with phrase «of allusion»

There's different kinds of crafts and there's different kinds of allusions to the body and its functions.»
Conversations in public often go over my family's head: since we don't watch sports or commercials, lots of allusions and topics of conversation are beyond us.
By using the face, Tony Oursler opens the way to a large number of allusions ranging from elements deriving from areas ranging from the media via mass communication to psychology.
From a number of allusions in the text of Hosea, it appears rather certain that the prophet's career began after the reign of Jeroboam 11 (786 - 746) and probably after 740 (despite the reference to Jeroboam in 1:1).
As Lucy discovers and explores the traces of her lineage - from an heirloom tapestry and dusty political tracts to a web of allusions depicted in stained - glass windows throughout upstate New York - the family story she has always known is shattered, Lucy's quest for the truth reconfigures her family's history, links her to a unique slice of the suffragette movement, and yields dramatic insights that embolden her to live freely.
Her work incorporates a wide range of allusions, from Rome's Baroque church facades to the antique vessels of Sicily to ancient Roman domestic wall paintings.
«The style of the poem overall is marked by hundreds of allusions and quotations from other texts, like my paintings.»
The language of these chapters is echoed with remarkable frequency all through the New Testament, either in direct quotation, or by way of allusion.
The allusions themselves, indeed, can not be Lukan; not only does Mark 14.62 have the same combination of allusions, but there is also no indication that Luke ever uses Son of man except in dependence upon a Vorlage.
«The chairman himself had made some sort of allusion towards what could happen were we to go down this route, but there was no surprising that, as we knew that from the beginning,» he said.
Luckily fans of The Wizard of Oz will still find plenty of allusions to the production that starred Judy Garland as Dorothy, the girl with the ruby red slippers.
His pursuit of large - scale fomats grew over time, structured, all the while, by his fascination with artifice and his eclectic store of allusions.
An endless array of allusions springs to mind — shredded fishnet stockings, spider webs, hammocks, neural pathways, nomadic dwellings, acrobatic safety nets, kids» makeshift forts, the flight patterns of pigeons, river systems, air traffic control maps, the electrical grid, and so on.
, 2012, similarly employs materials from a hardware store to play on the tension between indifference and the inevitability of allusion.
It has rhyme, rhythm, a wealth of allusion and a highly distinctive and seductive aesthetic «voice».
In Eliot's poems, «the confusion of life will be reflected in the disorganized flux of images; its lack of clear meaning in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.»
The series Quint has in mind is the series of allusions in Milton's epic to the flight and fall of Icarus.
And as if that were not enough, the archeology of allusion uncovers references to Dante, Tasso, echoes of Dante in Tasso, Ovid, Elijah's chariot, Columbus, and Ulysses.
They both also reported on Hercules; and Josephus spoke about the gods Saturn, Jupiter and Apollo too, with the same type of allusions and reportage.
The irony of this allusion is compounded if one knows that in the 1930s and «40s the Nazi Party allocated such tubs for every German home to «insure a minimum standard of hygiene.»
And Sunday school gave us basic training in the value of allusion, at first by showing us how the New Testament refers to the Old, and then by getting us ready to see how the scripture still whispers through most of the literature of the Western world.
Does rock need to explain finer points of this allusion?
Or the false detection of allusions to Thomas More and the Mass in Sonnet 23.
He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem after completing his English Literature thesis: «The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572 - 1620.»
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About as rare as the Tanooki Suit, Frog Mario has yet to make a return outside of an allusion in Paper Mario: Sticker Star.
A few of the allusions merit light laughs, though most are fairly obvious and not too inspired.
Let's hope there are deeper pleasures hidden like an Easter egg in this oasis of allusions and I Love The»80s cameos.
Haynes has previously tried constructing Chinese boxes of allusion, quotation, and pastiche in Superstar and Velvet Goldmine but he masters this strategy in I'm Not There.
Displaying his many talents, as fabulist, storyteller, scatologist, master of allusion and cliché, and more, Pow!
The combat in The Surge contains no shields, more of an allusion to Bloodborne.
FFXIV includes a great deal of allusions to the previous FF titles (for some, they might feel like an homage to the series as a whole).
Like any component sequel, the achievements of its predecessor are augmented, with the title providing a persistent procession of allusions and reproductions of classic gaming experiences.
U's could refer to YOU and to US, but Guyton's strength is not depth of allusion.
It enters, too, with the breadth of allusions, through the Civil Rights era to the present.
For Abichandani, the theme of wilderness «resonates within my practice because of its allusion to an un-manicured, untamed and uncontrollable state of fecund existence.
In the generic trees, oceans and skies, Butler imposes the most concocted of allusions (end shot of a movie) onto the most natural of forms, a subtle reminder of what we stand to lose in «the end.»
For «Melt to Earth,» Mr. Curry, who is based in Los Angeles, applied his typical sampling - like sweep of allusions: rudimentary World War I tanks, science fiction creatures, even Giacometti's unrealized commission for Chase Manhattan Plaza.
Foregoing the well - trodden path of allusion, Lüpertz gains access to the troubled unconscious.
In spite of the allusion to Minimalism and De Stijl written implicitly in forms and explicitly in titles, the formal richness of compositional sympathies is not quite the point.
Encapsulating a range of iconographical, historical and theoretical references, the works in this exhibition obscure and disarticulate the standard mechanics of allusion and representation.
Deploying strategies of allusion, vandalism, mistranslation and appropriation, the participating artists approached texts by writers such as Bessie Head, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Virginia Woolf.
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