Sentences with phrase «polemical language»

Oulipian poetic theory ranged from the polemical language of early manifestoes to elaborate formulations of a literary aesthetic based on algorithms and re-combinations.

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In that polemical film, based on the book he wrote of the same title, Navarro argues in racially tinged language that China is bent on global domination and is a threat to the US akin to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

They learned to pray in Arabic, they translated the Scriptures into Arabic and eventually produced a whole body of historical, devotional, polemical, theological and hagiographical literature in the language of their conquerors.

Norwegian director Morten Tyldum's solid English - language debut has been packaged as a tony period drama with an ardent straight - gay non-romance and a polemical edge.

Reviewing a few selected, representative pieces, I will trace the evolution of their thinking since the 1980s, although there is relatively little observable change, given not only the constant polemical tone that has remained at the core of their work but also the similar language that appears throughout the corpus of that work; they unabashedly acknowledge their frequent borrowing, almost verbatim, from previously published essays.

While some artists eschewed the language of abstraction for more popular or polemical forms, Whitten's engagement with the surfaces of his compositions grew more nuanced.

«Electric Ladyland» also befits Van Kerckhoven's background as a trained graphic artist who since 1981 has been both an active member of Antwerp's experimental - music scene and someone who has long embraced an array of visual languages in the studio to explore various polemical, philosophical positions.

Turning its back on illusionism and allegory, this kind of art attempts to define its own universe of meanings, and in the polemical act of purifying itself from extraneously derived languages and imageries, aspires to ineffability.»