Sentences with phrase «plays on the ambiguity»

Yet the film remains true to McEwan's intellectual preoccupations with different kinds of love, and has lost none of the novel's most memorable elements: the plays on the ambiguity of the title, the arresting first scene, and the strange dynamics of the relationship between Joe and Jed.

Both motifs play on an ambiguity between suggestiveness and emptiness: does Brandon derive some primal satisfaction from his excesses, or are they just a screen for some unpleasant emotion, like, you know, shame?

Such materials as surgical tubing play on the ambiguity of ready - made and made for a physical emergency.

Hobbs also plays on the ambiguity between inside and out.

Suffice it to say, it did point out how just how vapid your «those tribal climate scientists think the science is settled and I can prove it by playing on the ambiguity of that phrase» claptrap is.

Not exact matches

Focusing on core competencies is the sure path to success but so is embracing ambiguity and constantly playing in different sandboxes.

Were we to play the idle game of «dialogue» on this issue, the implication would be clear: These people foolishly sacrificed their livelihoods and reputations for the sake of an ambiguity, not a truth.

The political game as played from 1956 on in Poland was looser than elsewhere in the Soviet bloc, and a world away from the USSR itself, but less repression made for more ambiguity.

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Playing a predatory alien who prays on unsuspecting hitchhikers, luring them to a black and viscous fate that is all the more horrifying for its ambiguities, Johansson is utterly mesmerising.

Assayas» third short, Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982), shot in black - and - white with Elli Medeiros in the lead part, plays on a similar ambiguity as Rectangle.

This theologically confused but utterly entertaining tale of moral ambiguity, blood thirst, and eternity plays unlike any other film centered on an immortal.

He's on a suicide mission, we know, not because the film is completely predictable in every single way (it is), but because Pearce plays out that ambiguity and sadness beautifully.

I got them, played them, finished them and so on, however, silent hill really stood out for me due to the ambiguity of its surroundings, the focus on psychological horror which was unheard of in games at the time, eerie soundtrack, disturbing environments, the amazing puzzles, the unforgettable scenes such as when Lisa was bleeding off to death due to Samael's possession and the fact that the hell the character was experiencing didn't have much explanation at the time and that added to the appeal of the game.

The most polished and complete version of the critically acclaimed RPG action game, you play feared monster slayer (and super human) Geralt of Rivia, who embarks on an epic adventure that spans a vast open world full of exotic beasts and moral ambiguity.

Andy Goldsworthy plays on exactly that ambiguity, between construction and destruction.

Ann Purcell (b. 1941), an American - born artist who studied art in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, creates abstract paintings, collages and works on paper that play with paradox, ambiguity, duality and contradiction.

Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class.

On Ambiguity and Other Forms To Play With Bik van Der Pol, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Heman Chong, Claire Fontaine, Mark Dion, Dora Garcia, Pablo Helguera, Tobias Kaspar, Lili Reynaud - Dewar Curated by Veronica Valentini

The high / low ambiguity that has become Dzama's trademark is on full display in the grainy black - and - white, nickelodeon - style video, which breaks the ice with humor before its plaintive music and clownish onscreen antics begin to play on our sympathies.