Sentences with word «redolent»

In an epistle from his «Cézanne Letters,» poet Ranier Maria Rilke, caught between rapture and melancholy, marveled over the chance discovery of page - pressed sprigs of heather redolent of «the scent of autumn earth... Containing depth... the grave almost...» For Rilke, that heather became an eternalized ambassador of the ephemeral.

Much of Cuba's infrastructure was built to cater for the American elite in the heady pre-revolutionary days before Castro, and the island is still redolent with imagery of the 1940s and 50s, whether it be Hemingway's old haunts, museums to the exploits of the revolutionaries, the Tropicana Night Club, which still somehow echoes to the sound of Nat King Cole, the hotels run by «Long Legs Diamond» and the events of the Bay of Pigs.

These photos seem so redolent of life, one experiences a palpable sense of loss or absence at the thought that Twombly died in 2011, three years after these photos were taken.

His prose style is superb, more redolent of 18th - century essayists like Swift than what his contemporary peers customarily serve up.

All that's left, it appears, for his increasingly numerous commentators to do is recount the artist's dual background — he was born and educated in London, where he is based, but raised in Lagos and describe the painting suites, installations, sculpture, and narrative photo series in redolent detail.

Labour remains unforgiven, blamed for everything, its faces still too redolent of a rejected Brown era.

Both draw on the mythologies of the frontier culture of the American West and in particular, the loaded iconographies of the Cowboy, here imbued with a homoerotic quality redolent of Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, while also referencing the work of Martin Scorcese and David Hockney and continuing, as with Julien's earlier film work, to subvert preconceptions of race and sexuality.

Drawing on sounds available in our everyday environment, Nicolai creates soundscapes and installations redolent with clicks and blips from telephones, faxes and other technological detritus: he creates an elementary, universal language that eludes rationality, requesting instead to simply be perceived by the individual.

Situated in a wood - paneled setting redolent of a recreation room or a now - dated interior redesign - familiar to a child of the 70s like Thomas - each photograph layers pride and resistance.

What a veggie car does emit is a smell faintly redolent of the kind of oil being burned — or, in the case of used oil, the scent of whatever it might have cooked previously.

«Though it's just a patch of fabric bobbling over the Adam's apple, the bow tie is oddly redolent of elevated thought and persnickety attention to detail, with a touch of making out after the prom,» agrees no less a fashion authority than The Wall Street Journal's Christina Binkley.

We stepped out for a robust walk each morning, ending up at a small chatter filled coffee shop redolent with the aroma of freshly baked croissants and just ground coffee beans.

On the other hand, in a series of large charcoal drawings from 2011, in a murky figurative style redolent of bad»70s art, she is decidedly out of her element.

Thompson's pithy humor, redolent details, and knowing compassion have never been sharper or more resounding as her characters» follies and struggles reveal depthless truths about men and women, families and vocations, the lure of away and the gravitational pull of home.»

I'd start with the more familiar, like redolent Fried Lemongrass Marinated Beefsteak or aromatic Fried Chicken with Charred Chile Jam, then onward to the more daring.

The opening stages of an online match feel redolent of Call of Duty: you start as one of five nimble pilots, using your grappling hook and other gadgets to get the jump on the opposition and rack up kills.

«What I find so remarkable about confronting Jane Wilson's paintings in the 21st century is how elegiac they look and how they simultaneously recall the poetic sensibilities of mid-century, when the syntax was kept simple, when everyday renditions of land and sky or ordinary life could be once benevolent and metaphysical — simple situations redolent of the vagaries and complexities of the day - to - day.

Twombly returned to sculpture, which he had abandoned in the late 1950s, producing objects redolent of classical architecture or ancient rites, while in his paintings a little later he introduced luminous, watery tones.

Lurid PVC strips vaguely redolent of oversized film stock punctuate the show, appearing like the fragile memories of a film that wasn't shot.

In an epistle from his «Cézanne Letters,» poet Ranier Maria Rilke, caught between rapture and melancholy, marveled over the chance discovery of page - pressed sprigs of heather redolent of «the scent of autumn earth... Containing depth... the grave almost...

Although her drawing studies are often redolent of anatomical drawings, she creatively liberates her work from the directly figurative.

Mnonja exudes dignity and self - assurance as she reclines against a wood - paneled background redolent of a seventies - era family room.

Thank you for your reference to this most moving essay, so very redolent of the related stories of my own remembered childhood in the immediate postwar years.

Guillermo Del Toro sets his protagonist / alter - egos adrift in wonderlands of perverse Catholic imagery redolent with outsized fairytale ovens, seeping caverns, swaying steel meat hooks, and wall - climbing insects.

New work includes a large sprayed wall painting, a marble sculpture of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and an invented structural form redolent of a Modernist zoo enclosure in the manner of Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton buildings of the 1930s.

As Lynne Cooke notes, Chamberlain's gestural abstraction and his embrace of the accidental and the spontaneous made his work consistent with abstract expressionism, but to viewers who focused more on his choice of materials «crushed automobile parts in sweet, hard colors redolent of Detroit cars of the 1950s — it was more appropriately aligned with the contemporary work of many Pop [sic] artists.»

The shifts and overlays become redolent metaphors of home and displacement.»

One project stemming from this idea is the PCC's Courtyard of the Gentiles, inspired by the Temple in Jerusalem but also redolent of Paul's Acropolis experience in Acts 17.

Up to now the society has often seemed a more conservative than innovative force in American hymnody, issuing pamphlets of «new» hymns redolent of a bygone era.

One forgets that the 19th - century worshipers came in from streets redolent of horse manure, to a building whose heating plant left coal dust on the higher reaches of the furniture.

In our Bible, Abraham's wife was «Sara,» a name redolent of the nomad's tent and the cinnamon that the mother of the Hebrews might have used to spice the bread that she baked for her shepherd family.

Carmen Andres of A Kind of Love Affair dove into Zarela's Veracruz and emerged with a Mexican Mushroom Soup redolent with toasted dried chiles, bacon, and cilantro.

Recipe for easy ginger cookies baked using melted organic jaggery as a substitute for molasses - baked to a crisp, these dark brown cookies redolent of spices are perfect for dunking into your favourite hot beverage.

2015 will see the completion of the Wine & Food Village with the opening of Rosgal Gallery, to feature rotating exhibitions, and Redolent Mercantile, a retail experience in finds exclusive to Napa and even California.

We gorge on sweets redolent with milk, ghee and sugar and spend the coming weeks...

Here's a not - so simple flank steak redolent of cumin, green onions, and beer.

For the uninitiated, a fish taco consists of a crispy - chewy fried corn tortilla folded around beer - battered fish fillets, finely shredded cabbage and a creamy sauce redolent of capers and cumin.

Paired with an aromatic jeera or cumin rice redolent with ghee and aromatic spices, it makes for an easy and wholesome meal.

The glories of summer are captured in this pale green egg salad redolent of fresh basil, green onions, and crunchy cucumbers.

This moreish halwa redolent with fragrant ghee, saffron, nuts and dry fruits is perfect for celebrations or any time you crave a sweet treat.

This is a beautifully redolent beer that smells of sticky figs, cloves and allspice, with grassy freshness from the hops.

Confident, satiny - smooth mouthfeel; richly drying finish redolent of chocolate - toned aromatic oak.

No, Jamaican Surprise, actually, a fragrance redolent of vanilla and wafting from the scented candle burning on the manager's desk as the Phat Jamz compilation CD thump - thumped from his portable speakers.

All four riders on our squad have taken turns doing three - mile pulls up and over the mountain, through air redolent of pine and scorched tractor - trailer brakes.

So; again, perhaps I'm being a little harsh here but on the other hand, I expect our beloved club to be run with the sort of efficiency and effectiveness redolent of a private - sector organisation, not the permissive, ineffectual style of a Banana Republic's government office.