Sentences with phrase «physical decay»

Physical decay of the urban landscape is juxtaposed with a remarkable formal beauty just as, in a more conceptual sense, time and timelessness contend with each other in these works.

While there is much evidence for physical decay, Whitehead also finds evidence for a trend toward «order» (AI 147) and increasing complexity (FR 4).

With many of the films suffering from physical decay, their goal is to preserve this priceless record before it's lost forever, and to provide more accurate scientific data to colleagues who are responsible for certifying the stockpile every year.

Abbott contributes a smart, soulful performance, but Nixon keeps threatening to walk away with the movie as the mother, who can't get enough of life and whose physical decay is colored by rage, defiance, and terror.

By 2001, the McDowell public schools had fallen into such physical decay and academic failure that the state took over, repairing or shuttering several and building new facilities.

Woods's fall has the dual threads of personal scandal and physical decay.

Cronenberg's directing style is elegant, all shiny surfaces and sleek camera moves, until the horror begins; then the film turns as dark and as bloody as the physical decay of its star - obsessed characters.

This deeply disturbing comedy concerns a Hasidic cantor (Son of Saul's aching Géza Röhrig) who, while mourning his young wife, becomes obsessed with her body's physical decay.

Travess Smalley's photographs of compositions in clay evoke peeling walls, as if to preserve the past in the midst of physical decay.

Their most erotic aspects always remain hidden and, like a traditional memento mori, these still lifes juxtapose sensual fullness with physical decay.

Around this site of physical decay, featured artists have considered the Hellfire history, its non-conformist allusions to the society of the 1700s, and its material presence as a crumbling ruin in the middle of a small Irish countryside town.

This subconscious irreconcilability manifests as a revulsion of physical decay.