Sentences with phrase «on miasma»

Not exact matches

Until we can connect our brains directly to this virtual miasma of data that Google has done such a good job organizing, we're going to be reliant on companies to make hardware that acts as the intermediary.

On the other hand, by contracting its scope to the final four months of the Civil War (and, as it turned out, Lincoln's own life), the dramatic impetus of this against - the - clock structure gets lost in a miasma of dry, detailed, school syllabus - friendly historical re-enactments of men standing around in rooms talking and arguing.

That late - noir miasma lives on indelibly in Scorsese's masterpiece, though for all its actuality it acquired a mythic aura in a way that other searing films depicting contemporary necropoli have not, among them Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986, London), Mike Leigh's Naked (1993, London), Wim Wenders's Land of Plenty (2004, Los Angeles) and Andrea Arnold's Red Road (2006, Glasgow).

Eventually I moved on, as over the past weeks and months a miasma of cynicism set in over the state of the MMO genre, ushering me out from my chosen genre and into story - driven single - player games like Telltale's Game of Thrones, 80 Days, Life is Strange, and even a bird dating simulator known as Hatoful Boyfriend — I swear this one is better than it sounds — and little did I know, all the while I was playing these games, a pretty enjoyable story experience was growing in my own genre.

Similar to Earth, Aranya's world has four seasons on the world map: snow storm, acid rain, volcano rain and miasma.

Seventies Blaxploitation films like Cleopatra Jones, with its gun - toting heroine, capitalized on this burgeoning racial pride, problematically merging a miasma of competing interests, most obviously Black power and female lack.

The December 17 opening brings an 8 pm performance by artist Beatrice Loft Schulz, starting off the three - week exhibition on the basis of «an investment in embracing the performative potential within these hierarchies, whilst at once making known the paradoxes in doing so» through everything from reality show dating, physically imposing oneself onto objects, or «creating contingent situations from a masculine vocabulary tied up in the miasma of power relations».

Like when parents descended upon Facebook to keep tabs on... I mean, stay connected to their kids, and Gen Y and Z fled to Instagram and Snapchat, leaving Facebook adults trapped in a miasma of political opinions and cat memes.