Sentences with phrase «of knowingness»

They lack the sort of knowingness that taints so much modern and contemporary art and yet define their own mode of sophistication.

Turtle, 11, who has just the right mixture of knowingness and hope, has been sent to live with her extended family in Florida during the Depression.

Johnson and co-writer Mark Herman are clearly hoping that this dose of knowingness will deal with the issue; you may find yourself thinking that all this doesn; t quite add up as the film plumbs some murky narrative depths.

With all of this knowingness, you might think «My, that Cat has it all together, geesh, what an enlightened Cat...» to which I would laugh and say «knowing something and truly being that knowing are two very different things».

That feeling of knowingness inside that you don't quite think you can spend the rest of your life with this person.

Not exact matches

The world of fence - sitting, not knowingness could be used to describe science.

He states «Theirs is a world of fence - sitting, not - knowingness, but not - trying - ness either».

Sometimes we have an instant knowingness which of these categories most likely apply to our current relationship, and sometimes it only becomes clear with time.

Sexualised images of underage girls in beauty pageants are presented in the same publications, accompanied by sub-headings that project a sexual «knowingness» onto their behaviour.

My role as a coach is to partner with you, so you work through your blind spots and trust your intuition and knowingness, both of which create true transformation.

We do this by establishing an intimacy with our own inner essence — the quiet voice of our inner teacher that speaks in terms of love, silence, knowingness, kindness, and bliss.

Prenatal yoga helps attune the mother to the inner knowingness that lies within her and her baby to experience the transformative and powerful event of birth from a place of strength, grace, purpose and infinite wisdom.

On some posters (not this one) the tag line is «Raises screen acting to a new level of sexual knowingness» -LRB-!!!)

Donald Sutherland as the villainous President Snow is represented more frequently by white roses than in person so when he does appear with a big wolfish grin, there is the delicious knowingness of a megastar arriving for a third act cameo.

A couple of decades ago, this hodgepodge of suspicion and literally steamy sex might have been an Adrian Lyne movie (Lyne's fine Claude Chabrol remake Unfaithful seems to have had some influence on the setting); in today's Hollywood, it's an attempt to replicate the corrosive arch knowingness of David Fincher's Gone Girl adaptation, tasked to Tate Taylor, director of The Help.

The knowingness that undergirds this series and movie goes a long way toward justifying their baser qualities — the stomach - churning violence and the pervasive whiff of machismo that permeates them.

That is to say, it's derivative in a whole - hearted way that takes a lot of stuff you've seen before and pushes it to an absurd extreme — not in the manner of Tarantino-esque intertextual knowingness, but in the sense that Shyamalan seems to think he can make this material deeper, more resonant, altogether more significant than elsewhere.

Embedded in the knowingness of the piece is the notion that we've irrevocably lost something in our post-modern self - awareness: that smug satisfaction allows gaggles of freshmen appreciation classes to giggle at the rear - projection and mattes in Vertigo while losing sight of the fact that the artifice is the message.

But underneath the suggestion of peculiar knowingness an apparent and immense credulity lurked.

«She nonchalantly leans on the car sensually smoking her cigarette,» Bennett explains, «and casually walking around the beautifully shaped fenders of her Corvette with a sense of ownership and knowingness that women are so rarely given credit for embodying.