Sentences with phrase «of narrative logic»

Pan is a collection of neat yet unorganized ideas (plus some obvious continuity errors) and great visuals, but not a whole lot of narrative logic.

Thus freed from the burdens of narrative logic and / or character development, the comic talents of Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Ike Barinholtz, and others are allowed to float free and act on their impulses in an «anything goes» atmosphere — the raunchier the better.

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The logic of the redemption narrative predicts that when Musk says that he plans to convert the world to solar power and establish a colony on Mars, he's entirely sincere, as crazy as he might sound.

Students of narrative semiotics, those who investigate the internal logic of a passage of literature, often use a «semiotic square» to describe a story's relation to a series of four opposing propositions.

In the logic of the Whig narrative, to reject any one phase of the narrative — such as the extension of transgender bathroom access — is to reject all previous phases as well.

The «wrong» kind of Christian is one who insists on a simplistic, one dimensional narrative at the expense of fact, logic, or common sense.

The justifying ground of Christian belief is the trinitarian and incarnational logic of biblical narrative as expressed in Christian liturgical practices.

Craddock, too, in Overhearing the Gospel (1978), endorsed «narrative» sermons — not that narrative should replace logic, or that sermons consist only of stories, but that the sermon has «the scope that ties it to the life of a larger community» and touches «intellectual or emotional or volitional» concerns while «conveying the sense of movement from one place to another» and «thinking alongside the hearers.»

But recent criticism blames the inadequacy of homiletical theory: the teachers of inductive and narrative preaching have given the busy pastor an excuse for poor preparation, shallow logic and self - indulgent personal reminiscences.

In our view, a liberal arts approach also emphasises a respect for the past; the significance of grammar, logic and rhetoric; and the notion, popularised by the historian Christopher Dawson, that ideas develop within cultures, which means that a grand narrative must necessarily underpin the curriculum.

The ideas on which the formula was based came out of ancient ancestral traditions; the logic of the doctrine was unassailable once the premises were granted; great prophets, such as Amos, Micah, and Jeremiah, held stoutly to it; and the formula was confirmed and solidified by the final rewriting of the Hebrew historical narratives to illustrate the thesis that every calamity in Israel's record had been a definite punishment for Israel's transgression.

I have followed what I take to be the general logic of classical christological reflection, using the crucifixion narrative of the Gospels to illustrate the way this faith is generated and nurtured.

It may be the effort to articulate the unconscious or hidden logic or meaning system or semantic pattern which connects a set of texts or narratives; it attempts to define a genre.

It is a logic which, as we shall see, moves us in the course of the biblical narrative from creation to history, from first things to human politics.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the world witnessed the American unilateral momentum; its narrative and logics are visible during the Obama administration, even though its apex is to be found in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

This chapter proposes an initial reading of the logic of Chinas evolving narrative as a. China and DinnerwareRestaurant Ware — vintage, antique and collectible — available for sale at TIAS.com.

Oblivious to both narrative logic and the laws of physics, the cliché - filled San Andreas doesn't nearly have the star power of earlier, better disaster movies it borrows from like «The Poseidon Adventure,» «Earthquake» and «The Towering Inferno.»

He can't help himself from following that shot with a deeply curious coda, which uses the movie narrative logic of cliffhangers and sequels to position The Post as prequel to All the President's Men.

But Niccol's paranoid anxieties about the totalitarian dangers of cyberspace feel oddly glib and dated, light on thrills or narrative logic.

Laura easily laps most films for narrative complexity, the sheer number of audacious hairpins it negotiates on the road of logic dizzying for their arbitrary contortions.

Giving nothing for the audience to grasp onto or connect with is always a risky strategy especially in a film with such a simple narrative and although our protagonist has one redeemable quality, being a loving family man, it is only when Kuklinski's world starts to collapse around him that we are shown little pieces of reason, logic and humanity as he becomes emotional, desperate, abusive, and even panicky.

A mess of early CGI, noisy silliness and bizarre science fiction musings, both films leave narrative logic and effective atmosphere at the door, with their camp pleasures very much a matter of diminishing returns across their mercifully brief runtimes.

3:15 am (6th)-- Sundance — INLAND EMPIRE David Lynch's latest magnum opus, which pretty much can't be understood by any use of normal narrative logic.

Although its overwhelming logic is hence from video games — «I've never made it this far,» Cage tells his followers at one point, when asked what comes next — Edge of Tomorrow works best as a gleeful riff on the narrative tricks endemic to the cinema, an art defined more by editing than by images.

This disjunction of sounds and images is of course a classic narrative devise of cinema (27) and functions as a kind of pedagogical entry into the visual regime of the film; it does interpolate the viewer and ask him or her to connect these tracks, not necessarily to make sense of them, but at least to organise a suspended logic of connectivity.

The logic of the faction system was already frustrating, but now the series introduces this master - race narrative that only makes things worse.

Presented in an extensive series of visual puzzles, requiring logic and imagination, each panel move changes the current narrative, leading to all kinds of comedic blunders, untimely deaths — and when solved correctly — stylish heists, fast getaways and nail - biting escapades.

While the film starts off with a promise, by mid-point the film ceases to exist as the dialogues are sort of campy and lazily written and the narrative doesn't much bother with logic or reason either.

10:30 pm — Sundance — INLAND EMPIRE David Lynch's latest magnum opus, which pretty much can't be understood by any use of normal narrative logic.

Thinking about it now, part of me considers the film to be a masterpiece, another thinks that it's a ridiculously unbelievable tale that not only defies logic, but makes claims that aren't supported by the narrative.

This movie is ridden with plot holes, it has an unacceptable amount of logic issues, Mystique's costume is distractingly fake and silly looking, Anna Paquin gets a title card yet is in five seconds of the movie, multiple story beats are repeated and the narrative puts into question everything that's happened in previous «X-Men» films, but, if you can get past the fact that the «Days of Future Past» narrative is downright ridiculous, you can still enjoy some of the mindless, summer fun — and Quicksilver's sequences, because that's high quality cinema right there.

Many films associated with the French New Wave could also be considered prime examples of stoned - logic films because they foreground style over tight narratives, and focus on existential themes of the individual's place in modern society.

The results will tell you a lot — yes, their writing skills and their understanding of narrative structure — but it will also provide some insights into their reasoning, logic, and maturity level.

Aya Chebbi: I think my inspiration is my commitment to change the narrative about Tunisia, Africa and the Middle East through people's stories... to challenge the misrepresentation and misinformation on the mainstream media that eventually shape the incomplete perceptions of others about these regions... to challenge that simply with real stories by offering another definition, logic, image or narrative...

The Inexplicable Logic of my Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Clarion, 3/7) Sáenz's coming - of - age novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) won multiple awards, including a Printz Honor, the Pura Belpré Narrative Medal, the Lambda Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award for LGBT fiction.

As a writer, I always want to meet the reader at least halfway, so I enjoyed finding ways to create a variety of fixed points in the swirl of time and memory, an internal logic to the narrative shifts.

For nonfiction, including memoir, we evaluate structure and logic of the main themes and argument, as well as the narrative, necessary research, and more.

This would be commendable if the story didn't find itself scrambled to bits by the lack of logic between the said narrative and gameplay.

We want the player to feel the wonder of a mysterious world and to enjoy the satisfaction of piecing narrative clues together and solving puzzles through logic.

TD What I am noticing about If Only... (besides the irruption of your divorce papers — the end to a contract — and the possible contractual relationship you share with Mass MoCA and your fellow traveler, the pilot) is how the narrative logic seems to be determined by logistics / constraints, much as in Drop the Monkey.

Fragments of narrative accumulate and form their own kind of logic.

Within his work there is no chronology, no unfolding narrative, no apparent logic, simply glimpses of experience that give visual form to primordial desires, ones we feel yet can not define.

Known for extravagant and baroque site - specific work, the Bartram's piece is McDonald's most pared - down work to date, and the clear, compact book reflects a new sort of logic with its juxtapositions of raking photographic documentary from the performance with chapters of floss embroideries containing a minimal, unfolding narrative about loss and the evolution of the species.

Ghost run (1975) meanwhile abandons perspectival logic or narrative coherence in favour of a compression of differently sized, and contrastively rendered, figures — a matron with full breasts, a cavorting girl, or ghostly faces with saucer eyes.

Harvest showcases two precisely choreographed environments which at first may appear visually and conceptually diverse, but through Elmgreen & Dragset's own refined systems of logic, they bring to life a multi-layered set of narratives that play upon childhood memories, and question issues linked to our cultural heritage and the institutional through a personally charged perception.

Characterised, regularly, by an apparent absence of reason, conventional logic and / or narrative, her moving image works play games based on semantic and semiotic theory.

A skilled draughtsman with an experienced painterly hand, he easily convinces us of the impossible — logic collapses in the narratives, beckoning various interpretations.

Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into the realm of installation by arranging and stacking canvases in space, exploding the frame - by - frame logic of comic book and film narrative into three - dimensional environments.

The narrative gains momentum when we, as viewers, surrender our sense of structure and logic to the magic of disorder, mistake and spontaneity.

In his previous work about the inference and narrative of «the object», YU attempts to reveal the contingency and complex logics that are inherent to things.