Sentences with phrase «old mythology with»

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Ward, says Cunningham, «alludes to the Old Testament and Greek mythology with equal frequency and intensity; for her, Katrina is comparable in significance to the Egyptian captivity or the aftermath of the Trojan War.»

You mean that plagiarized retelling of Joseph from the Old Testament, which along with the story of Moses and creation and just about everything else in both books were lifted directly from Egyptian and Sumerian mythology, that New Testament?

The continued use of the word «God» with all its associations and images from the old world always constitutes a temptation to turn back in the direction of mythology, and that leads to idolatry, which has always been the church's greatest weakness.

When Jesus, therefore, pictured the finale of the universe in terms of the contemporary mythology, with fire, worms, wailing, and gnashing of teeth for sinners, and bliss for the righteous, he was using an old form of imagination.

But then I'm not holding my breath — fred has had this same argument time and time again, and has yet to come up with any credible evidence for his particular brand of make - believe — something so obviously rehashed from older mythology.

The modern asterisms are bright and simple, and they dispense with old, largely unfamiliar mythologies.

The oldest mythologies dwell on cosmic and theistic issues, and Paul Halpern shows in The Cyclical Serpent that modern cosmology has much in common with the endless dance of Siva and the cult of Ouroboros, the self - eating serpent.

The essential characters are rounded out by Brendan Gleeson's dour sheriff, Oliver Platt's rich and eccentric mythology buff, and Betty White as the colorful local little old lady with a secret or two.

Amos manages to weave her own mythology into larger fantastical stories, and fight societal norms in the process, all with a fierceness that will please old fans and likely win over new ones.

Meanwhile, Jack and Kelly also have to deal with Sheriff Hank Keogh (Brendan Gleeson), who would like to find the mystery creature and kill it; Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt), a quirky mythology expert who wants to capture and study the beast; and Mrs. Bickerman (Betty White), an eccentric older woman with dubious stories about her missing cattle — and missing husband.

Will you (or your kids) be able to fully appreciate all of its jokes if you're not familiar with older incarnations of Batman or his overall mythology?

From the old — Forest Whitaker (Ghost Dog, The Last King of Scotland, Rogue One)-- to the new — breakout star and Academy Award nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)-- Black Panther celebrates its blackness by filling every nook and cranny of the film with African symbolism, mythology, and memorabilia, in addition to its host of talent with their multitude of African roots.

Understanding what could be meant by the title of the series goes some way towards understanding the structure of the story's cosmology, here a future - scape where the only distinct characters are bounty hunters and the fugitives that they hunt, sometimes with the help of a gloriously cheesy television program that apes reality shows on the one hand (and the Japanese have a long history of outrageous television that no number of «Fear Factor «s can approach), but more trenchantly, the Japanese infatuation with the mythology of the American Old West.

In keeping with the Old West from whence the stories came, Hollywood has always worked overtime stretching and kneading fresh mythologies using plenty of dough and grains of truth.

In an action - packed fantasy novel that combines Aztec and Mayan mythology with life in contemporary South Texas and Mexico, 12 - year - old twins descend into the Land of the Dead to find their mother.

To overcome the resistance that many young and old blacks have of looking deeply into our past I have come up with a creation: A historical novel that uses the tools of mythology and science fiction to create a scenario that allows the reader to identify with a main character who will rise above all others; a character who will be a triumphant hero amidst the travesty of slavery.

Maybe the memory of reading Nintendo Power's mini-guide to Super Metroid and grappling with the then - awesome 16 - bit boss fights would've made me impossible to please either way, but it just felt gimmicky to try to cram the old, established mythology into yet another first - person shooter shell.

«I wanted to create a hybrid sound of old and new with an air of ambiguity and mystery to represent this otherworldly culture that was so immersed in mythology,» she explained.

The fairy tale of the Boy Wonder, discovered by an older artist or discerning patron, usually in the guise of a lowly shepherd boy, has been a stock - in - trade of artistic mythology ever since Vasari immortalized the young Giotto, discovered by the great Cimabue while the lad was guarding his flocks, drawing sheep on a stone; Cimabue, overcome with admiration by the realism of the drawing, immediately invited the humble youth to be his pupil.7 Through some mysterious coincidence, later artists including Beccafumi, Andrea Sansovino, Andrea del Castagno, Mantegna, Zurbaran and Goya were all discovered in similar pastoral circumstances.

Partially in response to an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Artists of the New York School: Second Generation (1957), organized by Meyer Schapiro, which included twenty - three artists, not one of them affiliated with the Tanager, gallery members at the Tanager spent five years developing what they envisioned as their own New York project, a series of five two - week exhibitions organized around five themes: Old Masters, nature departed, natured observed, paint, and personal mythology.

By integrating new and old materials, Bearden created complex narratives that were often inspired by the African American experience, mythology and religion; many of his works have titles with origins in literature and music, two lifelong passions.

Drawing from the legacies of the European Old Masters and Christian iconography, as well as mythology and cultural lore, the artist layers existing histories with new narratives suggested by contemporary world events to create a psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness and repulsion.

While ancient characters and tales, including Homeric literature, Old Testament stories, Greek mythology, and European painting are evident sources, underlying the work is the artist's own elegiac confrontation with the joys and struggles that pervade our daily lives.

In Bjarne Melgaard's most recent paintings, old pornographic magazines are defaced with crudely executed figures and scrawled texts from a continuous novel that relies on the violent mythology surrounding the artist.

On this week's episode, Chris dropped by the kitchen to talk about his recent solo exhibition at Sargent's Daughters, his fascination with science fiction book covers, working on found materials, a love of the Dutch old masters, wrestling with making funny work, childhood terrors, mythologies, and the time he and his brother were driving a van and then it exploded.

Nevelson gathered wooden refuse from old buildings and scavenged antique architectural elements rife with the personal histories of strangers and wove them into her own personal mythology and work.