Sentences with phrase «of fabulists»

Like a lot of fabulists, Blume was better off keeping things simple.

The attention to detail and the development of fabulist narratives is apparent in rich and fecund works like Untitled (Spider's Web)(1969) and Drinking Water (1970s).

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The juicy narratives driving Kipnis's four archetypal cases — lovelorn astronaut Lisa Nowak is featured, as is disgraced judge Sol Wachtler, memoir fabulist James Frey, and the dynamic duo of Tripp and Lewinsky — keep things on the zippy side, but the subject matter is worth taking seriously.

Another woman, Flannery O'Connor, one of Hawthorne's chief imaginative disciples as a moral fabulist, blamed Emerson for the «vaporization of religion in America.»

But Dali was also a spectacular fabulist, and that was the only excuse Anderson needed to concoct a scenario that involved the following survivors of a shipwreck: a «sailor babe» (his words), a thuggy pirate, an ethnic pilgrim, an individual «in search of Namaste,» and a schoolboy.

Though a reasonable consensus points to the former, fabulists of any stripe are instant pariahs in the journalism world, whether they're first - time offenders or serial liars, so Finkel was staring at a steep incline on the road to redemption.

Animator / fabulist Hayao Miyazaki pays homage to Hollywood's wartime adventure films in this masterwork built around the adventures of a high - flying pig.

Michelle Williams plays Emily, the most outspoken (yet frequently ignored) woman in a wagon train of three settler families who have hired mountain man (and possible self - mythologizing fabulist) Steven Meek (a brilliant Bruce Greenwood) to guide them through the treacherous Midwest.

Dir Clive Barker (Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Sean Chapman, Doug Bradley) From the disturbed imagination of gifted British fabulist Clive Barker comes a Faustian pact with a difference, involving a mysterious puzzle - box, a painful rebirth and the diet of human flesh needed to put the skin back on the flayed muscle of jaded sensualist Frank's resurrected body.

The Portuguese Gomes, fulfilling the promise of Our Beloved Month of August, follows in the fabulist tradition of his countryman Manoel de Oliveira, as well as directors such as Raúl Ruiz, while paying homage to silent cinema.

Director Steven Spielberg has long been a purveyor of magical fantasies for the silver screen, a joyful fabulist who also ventures into darker, more adult, dramas, as well.

Many more manifestations of the wondrous, weird, and inexplicable occur as a war of the worlds begins, stoked from beyond by none other than Ibn Rushd, still loved by Dunia, and his real - life archrival, the religious thinker Ghazali, who, in Rushdie's fabulist scenario, is aligned with the most terrifying jinn of them all.

And when a stranger from one of Mary's fabulist tales shows up, Tessa risks everything to follow him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentor's tragic secret.

Phantom Drift is focused on fabulist writing and we aim to nurture the literature of fabulism, the fantastic, and the surreal.

«The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth... despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.»

The fabulist and inveterate drifter Joseph Yoakum was known to claim that he had traveled the world as a circus man, a soldier, and a train porter during the first six or so decades of his life.

With over 70 drawings, a dozen vitrines and the remnants of an in situ performance piece, Barney's Subliming Vessel offers a crash course in the artist's accretive, utterly fabulist cosmology.

Aesop, the ancient Greek fabulist, serves as a point of departure for this exhibition, which features more than fifty works that span Brătescu's career.

This quotation, courtesy of the Ancient Greek fabulist Aesop, adorns the entrance to blue orchids , a 48 - minute video by the Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez currently on view at New York's Sean Kelly Gallery.

But what the hell, if the Left wants to pursue Stalinism, then they could be joined with calling for RICO investigations of Trenberth and Mann and his hokey stick, and Hansen and his fabulist claims and Schmidt and his egregious use of data.