Sentences with phrase «on cultural reference points»

I bring this up because, as a novice when it comes to Chinese painting and Chinese movies, not to mention Japanese cinema, I depend on cultural reference points — and priorities for them — that are substantially different from Li's.

Not exact matches

Audiences familiar with Key and Peele's pop - cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «Point Break» (all of which figure into one of the movie's better visual gags).

The display looks left over from Richard Prince, and one might praise him for piling on yet more cultural reference points.

The absence of that biographical fixture would likely result in the viewer having no immediate reference point, no mental springboard from which a meaningful discussion on cultural and psychological migration may be introduced.

On this point, the court declined to admit the evidence and further held that: «[i] t would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Statute of Frauds and with the valid public policy need for certainty in real property transactions to imply a term or condition into the Deed of Gift based on a general cultural norm or tradition and the mere reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.&raquOn this point, the court declined to admit the evidence and further held that: «[i] t would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Statute of Frauds and with the valid public policy need for certainty in real property transactions to imply a term or condition into the Deed of Gift based on a general cultural norm or tradition and the mere reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.&raquon a general cultural norm or tradition and the mere reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.»