Sentences with phrase «points of this allusion»

Does rock need to explain finer points of this allusion?

Not exact matches

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

This new tone is the language of Scripture, a tapestry of citations and allusions woven together in such a way that what the Council teaches will appear ultimately as the Scripture applied to the point in question.

For instance, making allusions to being «caught up in the clouds together» may reinforce the idea of the rapture, which as the article points out is a relatively new concept in Christian theology which can a have a big impact on how one imagines salvation.

So it went, until the finale declared that all the apparatus of conspiracy and allusion had been beside the point.

This contrast is the point of the parable, and the reference becomes clear to us when we recognize that here again we have an allusion to a metaphor regularly used in Jewish expectation concerning the End.

Walker's allusion to skin color points to a historic tradition of tension between black women over the matter of some black men's preference for light - skinned women.

Historical allusions to the rebuilding of the temple may point to a period after 132, although they may indicate earlier events.

There are lots of exclamation marks and, at one point, a bizarre allusion to a Ridley Scott film starring Orlando Bloom.

Importantly, he pointed out that human beings were now carrying out a large - scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past or be reproduced in the future - an allusion, perhaps, to the growing realisation of the finite, one - off nature of the fossil fuels, being as they are a non-renewable resource over human timescales.

It's an ensemble drama — more precisely, a series of linked monologues with point of view passed from character to character on a journey that begins with an allusion to a coming birth and ends under the pall of a tragic death.

There are so many allusions to hiding and the Liz pointed out the use of windows is especially worth noting.

The idea of an ancient sect of fundamentalist chauvinists throws up cute allusions to the Catholic Church, although despite their intimidation it is hard to suppress a guffaw when they introduce themselves as «The Pointed Nails of Justice».

Pointing the way toward the psychological bent Mann would give his Westerns, especially in the Stewart films, The Furies plays up its Freudian complications and allusions to Greek tragedy, going to places far darker and disturbing than most Westerns of its time.

At one point, the goddess of death's design included a visual allusion to a mourning veil.

Audiences familiar with Key and Peele's pop - cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «Point Break» (all of which figure into one of the movie's better visual gags).

When at one point they lose their papers are mistaken for Jews and almost shipped off to a concentration camp, the film becomes one of the earliest filmic allusions to the Holocaust I've seen.

There's a lot of allusions to the seventeen - year - old FFVIII, such as the Weapon's Monthly magazines, and the way magic is drawn from certain points in the game is similar to the Junction System.

I think it's worthwhile to make the point that at the New York Studio School — as opposed to the land of Shakespeare (though the Studio School is run by an amazing Englishman, Graham Nickson)-- «illusions of physicality» — that's called drawing — and «allusions to physicality,» that's talking.

In identical monochromatic prints, a black - and - white ace of spades is iterated ad infinitum to fill the aluminum surfaces with chronicles of the image's movement in a pointed allusion to the «win - screen» of early Windows solitaire.

The first single from Odd Blood, «Ambling Alp,» is an invigorating self - help anthem with cryptic allusions to boxing matches of the»30s, and is accompanied by a disorienting video that simultaneously points to the youthful exuberance of photographer Ryan McGinley and the mystical deserts of Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo — naked young bodies leaping and tumbling down sand dunes as a strange, shape - shifting figure clad in nomadic robes looks on from horseback.

What should have been a high point in Kitaj's career turned into a disaster, as many English critics appeared to find a sadistic glee in being nasty and dismissive of Kitaj and his work, its heady allusions and obscure citations.

The abutment of disparate materials — readymade and fabricated — invested with memory and meaning refers to the transgenerational registry of the lived experience on the individual and the collective while the subtle allusions to the Sacred point towards the soul's aspiration for transcendence.

Her most recent paintings of studs on pleather act as invocations meant to conjure allusions to the spirit world and, like totems, become activated access points to other unworldly dimensions.

In spite of the allusion to Minimalism and De Stijl written implicitly in forms and explicitly in titles, the formal richness of compositional sympathies is not quite the point.

On the other side an allusion to the spectacular roof of the Great Court points to the present and future of the Museum.

After the «Cyborgs» (1997 — 2011) and «Anagrams» series, Lee Bul turned to making complex, model - like landscapes, whose reference to utopia lies mostly in their details: in allusions to or reproductions of utopian architectures, in concrete reference to the German architect Bruno Taut and his idea of star structures, or in pointing to postmodern ideas on the metanarrative («Mon grand récit» series, 2005 ---RRB-.

Through the artists» nimble allusion to linguistic and geographic references, their project points to questions surrounding shifting conceptions of territory.

At some point while I was walking around the spacious exhibition space of Mitchell - Innes & Nash, it struck me that Keltie Ferris's paintings no longer seemed to be making obvious allusions to Joan Mitchell, Frank Stella, and Piet Mondrian.

These conceptual structures, however, were only the starting point; she now creates monoliths of assembled allusions, chimeras of consciousness, exploring various biomorphic iconographies, mycelia exploding into open fiber or wire webs.

Early signs of scientific discomfort with some allusions to climate - related tipping points came in a 2006 blog post, «Runaway Tipping Points of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Stpoints came in a 2006 blog post, «Runaway Tipping Points of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space StPoints of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Importantly, he pointed out that human beings were now carrying out a large - scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past or be reproduced in the future - an allusion, perhaps, to the growing realisation of the finite, one - off nature of the fossil fuels, being as they are a non-renewable resource over human timescales.