Sentences with phrase «psychological depth»

With one of the most heart - stopping openings in modern fiction, After You'd Gone is a work of extraordinary psychological depth and impressive maturity.

Brand's works in this show generate psychological depth from minimal materials: sticks, curtains, glass, vague figures, scraps of paper.

His portraits feature psychological depth and immediacy and are still impressive 400 years later.

The aesthetic dexterity and psychological depth of Ang Lee's Hulk is corrupted by Marvel's «reboot» of the superhero franchise, Louis Leterrier's intermittently kinetic but depressingly shallow The Incredible Hulk.

«Games» created complex characters with psychological depth and emotional heft, and put them at risk while tackling bleak futuristic narrative themes.

Despite fine performances from a well - chosen cast, the characters aren't furnished with much psychological depth, and their motives remain patently simple.

She blames herself for the loss of her parents, a bit of torment that provides Woodley with a chance to add psychological depth to a character who also struggles to contain her most violent impulses.

while the images seem more and more the product of Thiebaud's inner vision, of an accumulated experience that brings new psychological depth to his paintings.

McCarthy's wooden sculptures based on the story of Snow White are given psychological depth through distortion of figures and monumentality.

But Ezekiel gives to his condemnation a new dimension of psychological depth which renders his prophecy at once more primitive and more modern than comparable words from his predecessors.

That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.

It's not as flashy or exciting as Woo's films, but it has more psychological depth, some suspenseful action sequences, great performances from the two leads (who are always good) and a nice shiny visual look.

But just like in 1950s sci - fi, the story's strong point isn't psychological depth or complex relationships, but brainy scientists trying to think their way out of a box that grows smaller every minute.

The novel presents itself initially as a lyrical, sweeping family saga with unusual psychological depth, in which swathes of time pass without a great deal happening, apart from travails of love and life.

The effect can be unsettling, and lends psychological depth to make Hotline Miami more than just a shoot - em - up, arcade - style title.

The curator Mark Rosenthal posits Warhol as an artist of «profound psychological depth,» a «revolutionary» who «encouraged the embrace of all possibilities for uninhibited cross-fertilization and hybrid creations.»

In works of classical simplicity and remarkable psychological depth, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra presents a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture.

Painting a new work in her Ridgewood, Queens studio, the artist experiments with images from her vast digital image collection in a search for solutions, looking for the right content and composition to achieve a balance between psychological depth and light humor.

Since he started showing in the mid-nineties, Gonzales has largely taken photographic images as his sources, investing them with renewed psychological depth.

The Ordovas explains that: «the work is imbued with haunted mortality and displaying the sinuous paint handling, visceral intensity and psychological depth of Bacon's mature works.»

It is another sign of the miraculous virtue of the Gospels to fold so much psychological depth and moral and spiritual truth into seemingly simple and natural human encounters.

Inspired by design and utilitarian metal objects collected by Svobodová for her home, the copper brings a metallic warmth and a new psychological depth to the work.

Distorted faces in ambiguious situations have psychological depth through the abstract passages of paint.

Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times - funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound.

The motivations have no psychological depth or resonance, but are simply plot markers.

But psychological depth — you know, something to push our fear buttons in the first place?

Lazily scripted, without even a pretense of character development or psychological depth, it offers nothing new for genre fans and no reason for mainstream auds to bite.

There's a chainsaw, a backwards family (given a much greater presence thanks to a killer turn from Lili Taylor) and of course the great state of Texas, but despite promising more emotional and psychological depth to one of the genre's most legendary villains, in the end we don't really get that much here.

A Quiet Place doesn't have the pin - you - to - your - seat originality of «Get Out,» or the psychological depth and pure scare impact of «Lights Out» or the wall - to - wall intensity of «Don't Breathe,» but it is one of the smarter and more involving horror films of the last few years.

I love filmmaking that has psychological depth.

Refn isn't interested in pretensions of psychological depth, nor does the filmmaker adapt self - conscious art - film tropes like Black Swan's Dardennes-esque tracking shots.

But quality will out, and McGinley's story of murder, intrigue and blackmail in a small Donegal village is wonderful: lyrical, astute, with a psychological depth and philosophical / theological heft equal to Dostoyevsky or Graham Greene.

Veteran direct - to - DVD action director Isaac Florentine attempts to energize the proceedings with exotic visual flourishes, but his efforts are defeated by the endlessly talky, convoluted script which aspires to psychological depth.

It's the latest effort from Laika studios, whose stop - motion wizardry previously gave us Coraline, and though ParaNorman lacks the psychological depth and sinister ingenuity of that Henry Selick film, it combines genre savviness and supernatural slapstick to mostly pleasing results....

With so much plot to trudge through, other directors would have simply gotten lost or stuck to the «boy and his dragon» cliché, but DeBlois gives the dragons just as much psychological depth than the humans.

This carefully researched, detailed, LONG and agonizingly linear recounting of the day - to - day lives of the Romanov family lacks much in the way of historical context or psychological depth.

Norton has created a page - turner with well - developed characters, a truly horrible villain, and the psychological depth of Jonathan Kellerman at his best.»

Intense passion, infidelity, and the psychological depth of the characters exist in both novels.

Novelists with psychological depth, with 3 - D characterizations, writers who challenge convention and style.

For example, an editor might use these keywords to describe a mystery suspense novel: «noir atmosphere,» «urban settings,» «world - weary protagonists,» «harsh realism,» «psychological depth,» «wistful poetry,» «atmospheric,» «urban landscape,» «violent portrait.»

Yet in some, like Bull Spirit (2018) and Small Rabbit Spirit (2018), globs of slathered paint, milky transparencies, and textured underpainting from earlier iterations reveal the psychological depth and complexity of Coates's endeavor.

Her nonrepresentational works push the boundaries of two dimensional painting, the layering of pigments and materials creating a sense of both physical and psychological depth.

In this body of work, the various sitters often confront viewers with steady amusing gazes and dynamic postures adding to the psychological depth of the canvas.

Neel is renowned for her visual acuity and psychological depth, and her portraits and nude paintings of friends, family, strangers, and prominent cultural figures alike convey an incredibly consistent intimacy regardless of the relationship to her subject.

This abstraction forces the body to become second to its environment and calls attention to the psychological depth of light and dark and their interplay with space.

Czech artist Luboš Plný's anatomical renderings of the human body, overlaid with narrative details of his life, capture the wonder and complexity of our species in its physical and psychological depth.

Based on the pattern of the wallpaper in his grandfather's kitchen, the exaggerated, brightly colored floral design gives a vaguely psychedelic feel to the images, adding to both the visual complexity and the psychological depth of the works.

A consistently resourceful street photographer, Arndt captures fleeting gestures and momentary juxtapositions between people and their surroundings, finding in them a sense of emotional or psychological depth.

She sews the objects and fabric together to create abstract compositions that are equal in physical and psychological depth.

Why not bring together artists who simply share their pathos, political intent, psychological depth, a love of materials, and above all, their joy in creating art?