Sentences with phrase «of powerful poem»

When you announce your game with a trailer containing a reading of powerful poem In Flanders Fields, you're setting yourself a very high bar to live up to.

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Each of us connected our journey with a line or phrase from lululemon's powerful poem, Enough Already.

It's a really powerful, heart - in - mouth image which calls to mind W. B. Yeats» poem An Irish Airman Foresees His Death: there is the same sense of elegiac resignation in the fate of the pilots, who leave the horrors of the Earth behind to float forever in the skies they loved.

However, in the hands of David Lowery («Ain't Them Bodies Saints,» «Pete's Dragon») it becomes something powerful and poetic, a cinematic tone poem on love, loss, and letting go told with a simplicity and poignancy bordering on genius.

There is a definite temptation to begin this review by writing (or at least trying) a verdict in haiku, the traditional Japanese way of writing poems that don't rhyme but are nevertheless powerful and moving.

Scored lightly by a series of Brian Eno compositions, The Jacket is an apocalyptic poem of love and loss that's unusually wise about its visual vocabulary — about ways of looking, the line between dreaming and reality, and how eyes on film can be a powerful and elastic metaphor for the audience engaged in a kind of liquid dreaming.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

It's a stylish love poem, really, lifting many of the timeless elements that made noirs so powerful in the 1930s through the 1950s, including the hard - boiled detective, the femme fatale, and the MacGuffin (in this case, a diamond).

As a dark poem of love and madness, Swoon is powerful; as social polemic, it's strained.

the poem is quite powerful for anyone to read as a meditation and you can omit the central section which is an exploration of evil / suffering, please give some reviews as this helps other readers find the resource.

We'd been to Anzio, to southern France, to Sicily, Salermo, the Battle of the Bulge, and we'd never, ever seen anything like this» She translated that journal entry into a powerful poem that begins this way:

The title of this impressive and emotionally powerful novel is inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem «We Wear the Mask» (1896): «We wear the mask that grins and lies...»

Olds has always been a frank and transcendent poet of the body, and now, in her fifth book, a major work, she expands her profoundly tactile sensibility to embrace the entire cosmos in poems of powerful female eroticism and emotional acuity that celebrate love both earthly and spiritual.

«A poem is a small but powerful thing,» he says in his thought - provoking preface, and in this beautiful book, along with his coauthors, poets Chris Colderly and Marjory Wentworth, Alexander offers a collection of 20 poems.

When matched with Lardy's gripping, spare, symbolic paintings of tree trunks, blood - red roots, and wreaths of thorns, these poems form a powerful achievement that teens and adults will want to discuss.

An elegant flurry of torn paper pieces, for example, makes a powerful accompaniment to Georgia Heard's heartbreaking poem, «The Paper Trail,» about lives lost on 9/11.

Echoes of My Soul is a powerful debut collection of poems from emerging poet Lisa Arnold.

The protagonist of the Old Testament poem Judith is, in the words of Hugh Magennis, «one of the most powerful and active female figures in Old English literature, and one of the most «heroic» in her actions.»

The Holzer installation includes poems by Mexico's Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, verses from contemporary Mexican female poets, and a selection of powerful passages from Frida Kahlo's own diary.

Hence colonisation, the uprooting of populations and even human trafficking itself are dealt with in this exhibition, in complex, colourful and powerful forms, into which everyone can delve and find meaning, illustrated by metaphorical titles written like poems.

He referred to the way Wordsworth reworked his poems — his spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings — much as Motherwell reworked his paintings.

Aside from the poem and its author's unbelievable and deep ability to evoke such powerful emotion, this is yet another reminder to me, anyway, to tell the people I love just that, that I love them, and for all of us to put into perspective that which matters most through this journey here on Earth: family, friends, heart and loving one another.

This insightful poem and its powerful message of mentorship has served me well over the years and provides a great example for all of us to emulate.