Sentences with phrase «reference to the past»

This is naturally less of an issue for newcomers, and yet several references to past events assume a level of knowledge they won't have.
Second, it's aiming for our nostalgia bones with plenty of references to past games in the series both obvious and subtle.
The challenge is to make a picture that stands on its own, but it doesn't mean that it shouldn't have references to the past art form.
A book can easily be seminal... and still have 80 pages of references to past work.
Certain artists quoted references to past or present art, but in general color field painting presents abstraction as an end in itself.
Of course veterans will still take much more from the story as they'll already feel connected to certain characters or understand references to past events.
Being part of a trilogy, the game will confuse you with certain references to the past and you might miss the significance of certain events.
While some songs contain subtle musical references to past themes, each character has brand new theme not heard in the previous titles.
One of the things I noticed looking through the work in the show was a sense that while these are very contemporary works, they make strong references to the past.
This website also contains references to past and present clients.
If what justifies one's life and shows that it is indeed worth living is surviving a set of horrendous events, then everything that happens later and everything one does later must be interpreted and shaped by reference to those past events.
In that regard, the guidelines emphasize that lawyers have an obligation to avoid misleading the public: «Regulations include prohibitions against any misleading information, which includes references to past results that are not objectively verifiable, predictions or guaranties of results, and testimonials that fail to comply with the requirements listed in Rule 4 - 7.13 (b)(8).
Jackson then combines process - based abstraction with references to past historical events that involved racism.
Making reference to the past through costume, objects and historical sites, her images evoke attitudes of the past, providing an opportunity to test our memories and to look at human relationships as they function today.
A couple of reviewers caution newcomers from starting with Dry Ice due to the many references to past events and secondary characters.
As the script balances references to his past while creating some atmosphere, it becomes a hollow character study, in which Keith's interactions with a wide cast of characters try to create a sense of who he is.
Sourcing fragments of marble — taken from the once stately but long deteriorating edifices of Havana — as his canvasses, Novoa renders the grand, anachronistic architectures of future regimes with layered references to those past.
«Structural reform has been quite slow,» Robinson from OMFIF told CNBC, in reference to the past few years following the end of the bailout and when the ruling socialist party took office.
Ceci's budget speech makes repeated references to past Tory governments» boom - bust budgeting, while previewing 2019's major election theme that a more conservative regime will bring sinister slashing.
Where there have been some, I suspect it is in places where the present Mass has been celebrated with as much reference to past forms as to any avant - gardeagenda.
References to past books of the trilogy would be lost, as they were on me, if not read in order.
Finally, there's the main terminal, now a high - ceilinged dining room that glows with soft light, making reference to the past at every turn (greyhound dog statuettes, painted gate markings) while creating an experience that's altogether new.
Or is the designer to dream up fashions without constant references to the past?
Where we're supposed to find Sheen and Lohan's references to their past misdemeanours chuckle worthy and even charming, it comes off as self - indulgent and shallow.
The film often sprinkles in these little bits of humor, whether through a perfectly deadpanned one liner or a particularly clever reference to past art.
The newest Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game includes a brand new story, new items, simple tutorial for new inexperienced players, references to past Mystery Dungeon games, and the fact that ALL 720 Pokemon can be added to your team as you go on missions!
It's one of those films that throws in nostalgic references to past and present cheesy songs and fads (much like the WEDDING SINGER) for most of it's gags, and if you like those sorts of things I suppose you'll enjoy this film more than I did.
As also frequently mentioned in our weekly X-Men recap column, X-ual Healing, Marvel Unlimited is a great way to explore references to past stories in current comics, making Marvel's long and often convoluted continuity an asset rather than a burden.
Minus a couple references to past events sprinkled around the game, you don't need to play it in order to understand what's going on in the sequel.
While I usually don't plan to drop references to past games before I work on a project, ideas always come to me while I'm working, so there's a good chance Gravity Rush will get referenced down the line.
Though Dark Souls 3 has plenty of new, never - before - seen environments, enemies, weapons and armor, fans of the series will quickly spot references to past characters, areas, bosses and weapons from Lordran with exhausting frequency.
There are some nice references to past Double Dragon games mixed in for some fan service, like the beginning of the first Double Dragon when your girlfriend gets kidnapped.
Starting in medias res, the story relies on loose references to past games to bring unfamiliar players up to speed on what's happening in the world of Dead or Alive.
Sonic & All - Stars Racing Transformed is a fantastic racer with tracks that even outdo Mario Kart «s when it comes to fan service and winking references to past games.
They called for a less formal, more socially committed art while generally avoiding references to any past older than the headlines of the Los Angeles Times.
Throughout her artistic practice, Shahzia Sikander culls and explores elements of Indo - Persian miniature paintings, interweaving references to the past with reflections on everyday life and its contemporary forms.
The celebrated children's book author bought the painting for # 2,850 in 1967 and although the estimate is not revealed with reference to past sales it should sell between $ 8 - $ 10 million and Head I (1958) estimated at $ 4.3 - $ 6 million
These views hint at physical, historical and cultural references to the past in a time of postindustrial decline.
Coco's paintings, with a kind of dry humor, directly engage references to his past exploits while at the same time explore an ongoing, deep and exuberant interest in the collision of the graphic and the abstract.
Yet Pollock's radical reorientation of time in painting - his concentration on the instant at which the paint hit the canvas, purging references to past time or previous painting - was the central inspiration for the immediacy in the gestural painting of the fifties as well as in the «happenings» that began at the end of the decade.
I think Oehlen has adopted Abstract Expressionist tropes (spills, pours, smudges, etc.) and fused them with Surrealist landscape space for the most part instrumentally — that is, to reflect a quickly and radically evolving visual world as effectively as possible; references to past styles are merely incidental.
We will cap emissions according to specific goals, measuring progress by reference to past carbon emissions.
paying reference to its past the reuse of demolished materials - stones, steel and wooden purlins for outdoor furnishings and the choice of pre-fabricated construction systems help to minimize energy box's» environmental load over the course of its future lifetime.
It's not even true that this is the first time the IPCC report has made use of paleoclimate data; references to past climates can be found many places in the Third Assessment Report.
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