Sentences with phrase «philosophise with»

After Steven Spielberg shell - shocked us with Saving Private Ryan and Terrence Malick encouraged us to ruminate and philosophise with The Thin Red Line, anyone treading the same ground had huge boots to fill.

It combines high - minded postmodern philosophising with very generic, often very banal, thriller elements

Not exact matches

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

Taking place in a cornfield somewhere in southern Germany, the film evokes Malick's work not only because of its heavy - handed philosophising dialogue but also because of its strained attempt to infuse its cinematography with the very meaning that its dialogue about philosophy, including Being and Time, never achieves.

It's a slickly made movie with a first - rate cast, but occasional glimpses of gritty honesty aren't quite enough to counteract sudsy philosophising that sounds profound but is actually rather shallow.

Along the way there is a lot of discussion about art and various philosophising and navel - gazing thoughts shared by Giacometti with his disciple.

In this slightly bizarre, seemingly third - world and possibly post-apocalyptic setting, Coetzee uses the encounters his characters have with neighbours, officials, work colleagues and random strangers to philosophise about various aspects of life: attraction and beauty; self - belief; work that fulfils; progress; the reality of history; rules and non-conformity; power and law - enforcement; and whether philosophical non-conformity warrants punishment.

Make like Sartre and de Beauvoir and philosophise over coffee at The Flore or Deux Magots in Saint Germain, step out with the fashionistas for a spot of boutique shopping in the Marais, or perhaps join the artists and romantics in Montmartre and Pigalle.

When he exhibited Work No 227: The Lights Going On and Off for the 2001 Turner prize, which he won (the other contenders were Mike Nelson, Isaac Julien and Richard Billingham: a strong year), even the art - friendly got huffy, with reviews such as «unfit to be considered for the prize», «exceptionally odd», and» (has been) met with a mixture of deep incredulity, attempts at philosophising and plain outrage».

When his entry for the Turner Prize exhibition was unveiled at the Tate Britain in London last month, it met with a mixture of incredulity, attempts at deep philosophising and plain outrage.

As an aside, one can philosophise that a reason for success was the need for each geophysicist to work with the data manually, over and over, to get a personal «feel» for it.

Then Curtis helps you out, but ironically, with his own form of «philosophising», but which was awful.