Sentences with phrase «own cultural touchstones»

At last count, Epic revealed there are 45 million people who signed up to play Fortnite, which makes it a phenomenal success and a cultural touchstone.

While some might sniff that Victoria's Secret is to lingerie what Gap (GPS) is to haute couture, the Fashion Show remains a cultural touchstone (though a shrinking one: last year 9.1 million people watched the show, down from 9.7 million a year earlier.)

The company he built had become a cultural touchstone.

Comedy Central's president stated: «Through his unique voice and vision, «The Daily Show» has become a cultural touchstone for millions of fans and an unparalleled platform for political comedy that will endure for years to come.

As Fifty Shades of Grey hits the cinema this weekend and becomes the cultural touchstone of 2015 thus far (yes, Fifty shades... More

One such cultural touchstone was Juba's emerging fashion industry, led by designers such as Akuja de Garang.

The restaurant's menu is diverse and flavor - forward, inspired by DaSilva and Coddington's upbringing as well as the various cultural touchstones that they find irresistible.

He added that he «flat - out disagreed with him doing this [protesting the national anthem] on the merits,» but said that he didn't believe it would become a cultural touchstone.

Television enables international communal experiences to be shared and / or experienced, and many of our cultural touchstones revolve around televised content, both fictional and non-fictional.

They provide an important cultural touchstone in today's world.

Each generation has its cultural touchstones and millennials are more in tune with hip - hop than Hollywood.

The show has become a cultural touchstone because it explores sexuality from the woman's point of view in frank, funny, and honest ways.

reignited the youth genre with the dynamics of music video aesthetics and has remained a cultural touchstone ever since

It's not merely a relic of a time when near - nudity could be plentiful in a PG - rated film, but a historical record: this particular cultural touchstone is said to be responsible for ushering in the enduring popularity of the wet - T - shirt contest.

«The Black Panther» has become something of a cultural touchstone even before its release.

Documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg — longtime U.S. Supreme Court Justice and now a cultural touchstone — proves to be engrossing.

Twenty - five years after these cultural touchstones, a new and very different generation of LGBTQ

Films like Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous have deservedly lasted as cultural touchstones, but even then their conflicts seemed pretty inane in the grand scheme of things.

A gripping police procedural and a disquieting immersion into a twisted psyche, «The Silence of the Lambs» swept the Academy Awards (best picture, best director, best screenplay, best actress, best actor) and remains a cultural touchstone.

An X-Files extravaganza with creator Chris Carter talking about the production of his cultural touchstone, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Leading this push was the serial killer thriller «The Silence of the Lambs,» which became a cultural touchstone that inspired a rash of similarly gritty suspense movies throughout the decade.

These Russian cultural touchstones engage in the performance of dignified ritual, emanating a want for recognition, one thing never truly received from their European neighbors.

«American Graffiti»: Wednesday is your shot, Daddy - o, at viewing George Lucas» cultural touchstone, an ode to early»60s teenage abandon, drive - ins, James Dean, muscle cars and Wolfman Jack («Rock and roll yourself to death!»).

Ashley Hamilton, whose credits include such cultural touchstones as Beethoven's 2nd and Sunset Beach, has reportedly been cast in a minor villain role as Firepower, which has seen various incarnations in the comics but is essentially another guy in an experimental power suit.

The original 1960 Broadway production of the musical version of the King Arthur legend by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe was a smash hit turned cultural touchstone, associated forever with the idealism and youth of the John F. Kennedy.

The music, curated by Lamar, in its exploration of sound and texture, its lyrical bravura and messaging aligned with the movie, has the makings of a cultural touchstone.

While I have no experience with Catholic school myself, it's clear from the little moments and details that color Lady Bird's daily life that Gerwig has filled the film to the brim with the sorts of cultural touchstones that are universal to those with that shared experience, evidenced by the little audience chuckles as she endures the various rituals that come from attending a school like that.

Not every great movie becomes a cultural touchstone.

It's a cultural touchstone with imagery that instantly became iconic, a deeply layered satire, and an exploration of race and relationships that has made an indelible impact on the world in the year since it debuted.

The fact that movie - goers are flocking en masse only further solidifies the cultural touchstone Black Panther is now guaranteed to be.

There is solipsism as well as grandeur in these doom - and - gloom spectacles, but there is also tremendous feeling — and in «Donnie Darko,» that feeling manifests itself most powerfully in an abiding reverence for the cultural touchstones of its moment.

Other cultural touchstones don't get off scot - free either — there are jabs at the highbrow (French theorist Roland Barthes), the populist (Justin Bieber) and the likes of Michael Fassbender, Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner for donning cowls for cash.

Coppola's first two tales of the Corleone family aren't just great crime movies, they're cultural touchstones.

Smack dab in the middle of a season dominated by superheroes and minions comes «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a re-enactment of the shocking»70s psychology project so disturbing and infamous it remains a hot topic in textbooks and a cultural touchstone for conversations about the abuse of power by authority figures.

The connecting thread between Empire Records, The Craft, and End of Days is of course Robin Tunney, who hit it big in the late «90s and has grown to show as much longevity in her career as the select films from her body of work — cult phenoms, if not cultural touchstones by some measure.

It's the perfect kind of manufactured reality for a guy who doesn't make documentaries that tell the truth — he makes propaganda films in hopes of breaking the population free from its cultural touchstones.

Sales swept past Lincoln, as the Escalade quickly became a cultural touchstone, and the brand's defining vehicle.

Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist Jefferson draws on cultural touchstones, from Ebony to James Baldwin to Ntozake Shange, as she traces her life during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, when radical race consciousness and feminism questioned all of the old assumptions.

The inspiration behind the TV show and movie The Fugitive, the case is now a cultural touchstone that transcends generations.Briefly, the story goes like this: on the morning of July 4, 1954, Sam Sheppard, a...

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In Asia, the Pacific, Middle East and Latin America, Grand Mercure is a cultural touchstone in each destination, capturing guests» imagination and bringing local stories to life.

Home to some of the world's most celebrated cultural touchstones, Central Europe was built for exploration.

Sauna is a cultural touchstone, a focal point for life, serving as a base for births and coming - of - age rituals - and is traditionally fully nude.

The game boasts a rich, historically inspired story lavished with over-the-top action, cultural touchstones from the era, and plenty of murderous gameplay instances.

The works of HP Lovecraft have come to form a cultural touchstone for fans of horror and Victoriana alike.

Not only do you get a look at the prototyping process that spans back to versions Cactus had created nearly a decade ago, but also the real - world cultural touchstones that inspired the game's neon - lit and blood - drenched scenery.

However you feel, the game was a massive critical and commercial success, selling more than 20 million copies and spawning cultural touchstones such as the «arrow to the knee» joke.

These are simple gestures but important cultural touchstones.

Throughout her career Pensato's eye has been drawn to the cultural touchstones and abandoned ephemera of a quintessentially American childhood, and boasts an enormous collection of plush toys, models and statuettes of cartoon characters and mascots in her East Williamsburg studio.

I was instantly drawn to the way she uses textures like Nigerian portrait fabric and symbols like food labels or magazine clippings to weave together memories from her childhood in Africa and her adulthood in the United States, creating her own cultural touchstones in the process.Since receiving an MFA from Yale University five years ago, 33 - year - old Akunyili Crosby has worked almost nonstop, building an impressive CV of prestigious art prizes and gallery shows across the US and in Europe.