Sentences with phrase «on archetypal»

From Shakespearean drama to tennis players, dancers and acrobats at play, King's aesthetic drew on the archetypal everyman, touching on the Walter Mitty in all of us with poignant works in wood, aluminum, bronze, vinyl and clay.

Incomplete, and therefore only open to a partial reading or misunderstanding, the novel is an entryway into Liam Gillick's exhibition and practice; its final point also open to interpretation as a self - deprecating, comedic reflection on the archetypal struggles of all artists, writers, filmmakers, poets, and others.

As a delightful deviation on the archetypal platforming formula, the title will certainly appeal to gamers seeking a fresh take on the genre, as long as they don't mind a vigorous challenge.

During her junior year she built the classic Adirondack chair, but for her senior project, Zeana decided to make it a «double» and constructed a swinging love seat based on the archetypal design.

The home - invasion thriller is an American standard that doesn't lack for classic variations, from Sam Peckinpah's moralistic masterpiece Straw Dogs (1971) to Wes Craven's stealth Ingmar Bergman remake Last House on the Left (1972) to David Fincher's Panic Room (2002), which put a high - tech gloss on an archetypal scenario.

This is a sort of Kabuki, which throws the emphasis on archetypal gestures.

We first meet John Reid (Armie Hammer), a pacifist lawyer and free thinker (he's reading John Locke) on the archetypal train to the frontier, when a gang of bandits attacks it to free a prisoner, the outlaw Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner).

This is a small story on an archetypal small - town stage: waitress Jenna dreams of escaping her bad relationship and dull job.

And like all variations on that archetypal story, Black Panther is a fantasy about black power.

Author Alan Dundes more recently reckons that Jesus of Nazareth scores 19 on this archetypal hero scale.

Not exact matches

After using personality testing for many years on virtually everyone who has ever walked through the door looking for a sales job at Diversified, Natella is confident that there is an archetypal salesperson.

But, given the Security and Exchange Commission's lifting last week of an 80 year ban on «general solicitation,» which prohibited entrepreneurs from publicly discussing private investment offerings, these two archetypal entrepreneurs shed light on the challenges entrepreneurs seeking funds face and how, for some of them, the ban's lifting might be transformative.

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.

They are archetypal representations of behavioral groups (based on qualitative research with real people) and the goals that drive their usage and choices.

For one thing, it means one isn't Jean - Paul Sartre, the «archetypal example» of anti-political, «literary politics,» a manner of «engaging with political life that deliberately... ignored reality and that preferred to remain on the level of an abstract theory or a kind of pure, contentless moralizing.»

The story of Wonder Woman, far from being a feminist fable, is actually the archetypal tragedy of the goddess who falls in love with a mortal man who must die while she lives on immortally.

In Part 2 I will offer a suggestion, together with some evidence, that actually the archetypal successful teams in Europe rely far less on massive goal returns from their centre forwards than many might imagine.

Today marks the launch of the 2018 England Football Association Collection, a collection based on England's archetypal colour palate — white, red and blue — and blends innovative performance technology with modern football styling.

Again on 24 minutes it was another ball launched by De Gea and another header won by Lukaku, this time it fell to his feet and he pushed Emre Can away like the archetypal competitive father with a serious weight advantage.

Uncle Ken took a different approach, not only picking the team for the next game, but plonking himself on the bench too between substitutes and archetypal hired goons.

This pressure is compounded by the historical circumstance which has meant that so much of the modern rhetoric of war in the UK relies on a set of archetypal paradigms, predominantly those of the «good war» of World War Two and the «useless waste» of World War One.

It could be that the Kmar are occasionally living through one of the archetypal narratives — stranger comes to town — and when they see the stranger, they capitalize on this new pool of exotic DNA.

The Republic of Ireland's economy boomed during the 1990s and the early part of this decade on the back of infrastructure funding from the European Union and inward investment from international companies — the archetypal Celtic tiger.

The angarkha are on the rise in all the latest collection which are incorporating archetypal prints and patterns in striking hues of white, black, blues, greens and soft greys and beige.

There are three main types of archetypal «bad online profiles» on online dating sites.

Director Martin Gero turns his knowing lens on five different archetypal relationships in a caustic romantic comedy highlighting the amusing similarities and bizarre differences in human relationships.

Of course, the realm of the archetypal is where popular culture lives, and Mr. Tarantino does not hesitate to train his revisionist energies on some deep and ancient national legends.

For a film heavily marketed as an archetypal, heartwarming tale of a boy and his horse, Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete is welcomingly less saccharine than its trailer suggests.

«China Seas» (Tay Garnett, 1935) Another MGM all - star special, this time set on a boat plagued by piracy and romantic rivalry — with a quadrangle that embraces brash captain Clark Gable, shady - lady songbird Harlow (in an archetypal role), British flower Rosalind Russell and sneaky crook and Harlow admirer Wallace Beery.

The threesome jam in a punk - rock band and are very close, but the film places extra emphasis on Malcolm as his investment in academics and in trying to get into Harvard make for a character that shames most archetypal movie teens.

While the movie relies on somewhat archetypal characters and a predictable plot, its core message about overcoming fear and loneliness by seeing the humanity in one another will resonate with anyone who's ever felt unheard.

simultaneously rewards movie fans on an Easter egg hunt and gives that film a more timelessly prototypical or archetypal feel.

On the surface, The D Train looks like the archetypal Jack Black film as in previous outings like School Of Rock, he plays a small - town lummox who lies, cheats and alienates everybody around him but writer - directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul smartly play on the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversivOn the surface, The D Train looks like the archetypal Jack Black film as in previous outings like School Of Rock, he plays a small - town lummox who lies, cheats and alienates everybody around him but writer - directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul smartly play on the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversivon the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversive.

On the other hand, this might be the most perfect role for Witherspoon since her Tracy Flick from Election: a little spunk, a little intelligence, and a lot of gorgeous life — some of the strength of this performance no doubt due the fact that, personally, no archetypal images swim to mind upon mention of June Carter Cash's name.

In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.

They're arguably not very interesting as individuals — he's an archetypal backpacking tourist and she's the willowy innocent of countless male fantasies — but as lovers, they're total blank pages, stuck with the label of «couple» because relationships based solely on casual sex don't exist in the foreground of expensive (read: American) movies.

The film's opening, with the bandmates waking up in a field in their beater of a van, instantly evokes The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and speaks to archetypal dread: the feeling of a boat adrift on a limitless sea that these backwoods horrors, when they work, suggest.

He goes on the road for a cross-country journey, where in his aimless adventure he encounters a host of archetypal characters in many different states.

The main knock on Epic is that it generates little excitement or interest due to its strict adherence to archetypal standards and a failure to give us protagonists we can truly care about.

NEW YORK — For much of his career, Jude Law has been the archetypal leading man, relying on looks and charm to land featured parts, then deploying them smoothly on screen.

Because it derives its style from documenting what actors do — the action takes place in and around a glass house, designed by Richard Neutra, and a pool, an archetypal Hollywood setting that puts everyone on display — this isn't a movie where the mise en scene can easily be separated from the plot.

«A dodgeball movie is uncharted film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film's writer / director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»

The Acadia makes a paradigm shift from the archetypal full - size, three - row mommy machine — on the market for the past nine years — to a fresh offering in the growing midsize SUV segment, thanks mostly to smaller dimensions.

Taruffi's racing career Part 2 — Charlie Rous concludes his article on the famous racing driver with an account of the years 1934 to 1950 / Our anniversary competition — Enter our motoring quiz competition and you could win a special day at the National Motor Museum / 1929 Sunbeam special — An enthusiastic report from David Hawtin on this exciting20 hp non-standard Sunbeam / The Lea - Francis story 1924 - 37 — Michael Worthington - Williams continues with part 2 of his history of the Coventry make / VSCC's December driving tests — This annual event is described by Tom Thelfall in his Diary of a dilettante / Type 35 Bugatti — The Editor writes about his encounter with a superb example of the archetypal Bugatti / 1908 TT: The» 4 - inch» race — The story of this early event with a curious name is recounted for us by Bryan Goodman / 1939 Lancia Aprilia — Zoe Harrison talked to the proud owner of this far - ahead - of - its - time Lancia / Shaft - drive C.N. — The early history of G.N. and the cars that were not propelled by chains.

Don't be misled by the Patrol's luxury fit - out and impressive refinement; it's the archetypal iron fist in a velvet glove, with superb performance both on - and off - road that has to be experienced to be appreciated.

Compared to the previous generation car, the restyled sixth - generation 5 - Series is a bit on the conservative side, but maintains the archetypal BMW style of a long hood, short overhangs and coupe - like roofline.

So I immediately plotted out a trilogy based on my ideals of the archetypal maturation plot.

This meditation on betrayal in bloody Ireland carries at its center an exploration of the archetypal sexual rivalry between the father and the son.

Elena Spagnolie received her Master's degree in creative writing and Magical Realist studies from New York University, focusing specifically on the relationship between culture and authorial voice, and the Jungian interpretation of archetypal symbols found in Magical Realist works.

Casa de Phoenix is an archetypal hacienda located right by the water on the tip of the Baja Peninsula.