Sentences with phrase «other powerful narratives»

And there are other powerful narratives waiting in the wings.

Not exact matches

As powerful as these church commemorations are, other historical narratives compete with them in today's Russia.

To be sure, there are other narratives — significant and powerful narratives.

Real - time opposition research is most powerful when it's embedded within a narrative about the opposing candidate — basically, when it reinforces what you've been saying about the other guy all along, a message that derives from the opposition research that's gathered using these online tools and otherwise.

The philosophical vignettes might not have the narrative weight to be anything other than beguiling curios tossed out and then forgotten about but there are enough of them, delivered sharply enough by delightful movie stars at the top of their game, to make Age of Ultron one of the most thoughtfully driven monster vehicles you are likely to see in a summer rammed with powerful, glossy, mechanised beasts.

Meanwhile, people on the other sides of these debates worry that «disruption» is a flawed yet rhetorically powerful narrative used to rationalize K — 12 privatization.

We're Not Leaving is a compilation of powerful first - person narratives told from the vantage point of World Trade Center disaster workers — police officers, firefighters, construction workers, and other volunteers at the site.

It was powerful, even at an early age, because unconsciously I'd already bought into that narrative about running to the wild to heal yourself, and I think the same can be said for the subjects of those other, older stories in the book.

Whether or not you're a fan of Assassins Creed the fact remains that no other game franchise this generation has given its players so much freedom in such rich and detailed worlds, while simultaneously delivering a powerful, meticulously thought - out narrative.

From giant installations and elusive sculptural pieces challenging everyday objects to powerful and other - worldly visual narratives, NOW is a national arts programme that celebrates female contemporary artists working in mainland China today.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

Two other powerful works, Weems's stunning, red - curtained, mixed - media installation, a magic show based on holograms called Lincoln, Lonnie and Me — A Story in 5 Parts (2012), at the McKenna Museum of African American Art, and Fraser's masterful performance at NOMA reenacting a New Orleans city council hearing from 1991 probe racism, both subtle and overt, in vivid, unsettling narratives.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

In other disasters the most powerful narrative can be one of blame - of the people who started a fire (leading at times to the demonization of a supposed arsonist), the government who did not build the flood defenses, the construction companies who broke building codes, or the emergency services who failed to do their job.

It would be a disservice to discuss them other than to say that they create a powerful and personal narrative.