Sentences with phrase «other allusions»

I think it is plausible to say that at least some of the assertion of abstraction (or self - sufficiency) in modernist painting comes from stressing paint's materiality, so suggesting that illusions of space or light (or other allusions to the wider world) are in fact inherent properties of the material.

The show's title, «Relief,» is a direct reference to the perilous flight of the refugee at sea while other allusions to the refugee's journey manifest in a variety of forms.

The other allusion to Return of the King here is Pippin's song used during the trailer.

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Maybe it really was a reference to «chocolatey skin,» the kind of reference that, like many other racial terms or allusions, is probably best left for self - referential use by members of the relevant groups.

And Amnesty International, in a report released earlier this year, said «repeated calls by the Supreme Leader and other authorities to combat «false beliefs» - apparently an allusion to evangelical Christianity, Baha'ism and Sufism - appear to have led to an increase in religious persecution.»

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

New Testament scholars are perhaps familiar with the fact that the term euangellion is also found in imperial propaganda at the time of the birth of Jesus or that Revelation 13 probably includes allusions to Nero and other emperors, but little beyond that.

Hays offers some valuable suggestions (for example, to pay attention to the Septuagint and to understand the larger context of OT allusions), while others seem confusing in their implications (what to do with the fact that the evangelists operated «with a de facto canon within the canon»?)

Any other editing or moderation of his words, any picking and choosing of which of his commands and teachings are literal versus allusion, or should versus should not be followed, are simply cherry picking by you, a mere mortal who was born in sin.

Along with allusions to values throughout John Paul's writings, we find the term in other magisterial documents as well.

John's image of Jesus as the good shepherd is a clear allusion to and interpretation of the death of Jesus, an interpretation of the meaning of that death as his self - giving love for others.

The allusion again is to a situation in which outcasts are accepting forgiveness and other Jews are finding offence in this, and thereby blinding themselves to the reality of their own situation.

[39] Regarding chronology, Timothy Barnes, in Tertullian, op cit., points out that this treatise, which comes from the period before Tertullian became a Montanist, does not yield more precise information when the criteria regarding historical allusions, references to other works, doctrinal progression and style, are applied.

One or two students in each of the four nine - week classes chose the course because they wanted to understand the allusions to the Bible made by their parents or other adults they respected.

There had been a number of allusions to this, but, in the earlier Dialogues, Margaret had been mainly concerned to bring out how our participation in the «passage of nature» gives us a bare sense - awareness which is much richer than that presupposed in other empiricist accounts, notably the sense data account.

Standing outside the Jewish Children's Museum, Mr. Hikind made several allusions to the Holocaust, comparing Jewish leaders who are silent on the Iran deal to those who looked the other way during the genocide.

Along with «a row has blown up» or «sources are saying», this attempt to push self - originated personal agenda topics couched in such blatant and weak «one degree of separation» allusions to «others» who seem to be entirely in the author's own mind is dire.

In his writing, he's less restrained, sprinkling his work with literary allusions to loosestrife from Hamlet and Wind in the Willows to remind readers that in other places and times it wasn't a public enemy.

Post responsibly, and include tags and proper names to all The following is a list of allusions to other My Little Pony generations, works of fiction...

Given the rather sophisticated allegorical treatments that TV audiences have been treated to in recent years courtesy of «Battlestar Galactica,» «The 4400» and the like, I find V's first episode falling short, other than a fairly obvious allusion to Hitler Youth in the aliens» outreach to teens.

Really, all it is is a cross between Antz (one bug in a colony finding his own path) and Shrek (constant pop culture allusions done in rapid tongue - in - cheek fashion), with perhaps a few dozen others sprinkled here and there.

The campy style of humor is still there, which is a mix of over-the-top action, allusions to other films, and cheesecake girly - girl silliness.

Circumstances send David on a dangerous journey to discover his maker, a nightmarish trek (with many allusions to that other lost boy, Pinocchio) that includes a sinister mechanical gigolo (Law), a tech - phobic Flesh Fair, a visit to a half - submerged Manhattan and a controversial, highly emotional climax that lingers in the heart and the mind.

He is hamstrung a tad by the vagueness of the script, but the emotional content is fulfilled, which is key for a film like this, with its allusions to Spielberg and other sorts of Amblin-esque road adventure films.

Without the lighter tone, and the allusions to classic horror of days gone by, this would be fairly routine stuff, very derivative of other vampire flicks that have come before.

With an allusion to the Biblical Garden of Eden and the many temptations that resulted in the fall of the world's first happy couple, one gets the filling of trouble - in - paradise early on as their idyllic summer abode is persistent encroached upon by snakes and other slithering creatures, not the least of which is Harry, the manipulator, and the forbidden fruit of the young woman he has in tow.

Filtering his unique vision through a wealth of cinematic history, his movies are filled with endless references and allusions to other films.

Likewise, the majority of the humor has little to do with an assortment of general or specific allusions to other examples of the genre.

Other biographical details and allusions to the author's stories and poems reside throughout the film but mostly in the context of solving the murders.

In other words, stress the legitimate kid - beneficial aspects of your proffered policy, but sprinkle in occasional allusions to meaningful dividends for the decision makers involved.

While describing use as many epithets, similes, metaphors, allusions, and all the other figures and tropes of speech as it is only possible in order to make the readers feel like being a part of this very picture.

Emotions, feelings, allusions, and all the other kinds of sensitive representing details are out of the question when you deal with narrative expository essay.

Suffice it to say that if the allusions to tentacled, other - dimensional monstrosities, depraved subhuman cultists and haunted, crumbling architecture weren't enough to convey Darkest Dungeon's obvious Lovecraft influences, a visit to the Cove will surely end any remaining doubts.

After being developed under heavy secrecy with the moniker «Project White Rock» - an allusion to the game's intended addictive qualities - Nokia's flagship mobile title for its reimagined N - Gage mobile platform was unveiled in May as Reset Generation, an action / puzzle game that somehow fuses Tetris, Bomberman, and Super Mario Bros., among others.

Heard a guy at the gallery tell some other guy at the gallery that the stuff is «ecological» and that, um, Tara «repositions perceptual experience... «in a practice that has appeared until now largely materially driven and in the service of organic allusion»».

The difference, as Moses sees it, between being an artist and a painter is one of discernment: He would contend that an artist makes things that look like, or at the very least make allusion to, other things.

Tu m» synthesises the various means through which a painting may reflect reality: as allusion, impression, and as an object among other objects.

Playful at first impression, Carter's art contains allusions to mundane yet foreboding engagements, such as radio transmissions, encoded transcriptions, and other electronic communications that serve not only to link us to world networks, but also to place us under surveillance and deprive us of our privacy.

A number of other themes such as mirrors and pattern, repetition, and geometry are touched upon in various pieces, creating a dense web of allusions and associations.

And, Shelley Reed's paintings are also featured in the important exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center though June 5, 2011, entitled: Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism, with Cynthia Consentino, Julie Buffalohead, Felipe Archuleta, Jesse Aaron, Laurie Hohgan, Keith Carter, Richard Ross, Gina Litherland, Fay Ku and others.

The layering of marks, painterly swirls and colored fields create forces within the composition that act upon each other resulting in a dynamic spin that sends the allusion of landscape and space into sweeping movements.

An allusion to vines and other forms of crawling flora is consistently evoked in the larger works which drape loosely around their surrounding environment.

Drawing distinct parallels between bygone civilizations and our own, allusions to bondage, sadomasochism, and other forms of contemporary fetish emerge to underscore the violence and sexual experimentation of societies past and present.

It seems Treib and these other painters are using forms that play with the idea of the glyph or allusions to alphabets — Feldman less successfully, granted.

Reassessing such landscapes with specific references and allusions to history, literature and mythology, Quinn probes the psychological depths of Romanticism and other schools of painting.

Yet there is a very emphatic allusion to the American painter Frank Stella, and other quotations abound.

Allusion has played a significant role throughout Wolgers's work: sometimes it's played down, at other times it's abrasively in - your - face.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narratives.

These include their deployment as discrete formal elements, their role as complex evocations of race, identity, and power, and their association with music, among other meanings and allusions.

Have you finally found a way out of the labyrinth that is life and found A Great Perhaps [an allusion to Karuti's earlier work] in these other possible worlds you create in this new body of work?