Sentences with phrase «religious allusion»

Lucas has created a «stairway to heaven» out of pointedly banal, and ironically fleshly, matter: the religious allusion of the work's title is undercut by more earthly possibilities.

The drama brims with religious allusion and questions of how faith manifests in a world without hope.

If you don't «get» the Judeo - Christian religious allusions and texts that make the questions in this film, it will remain

If you don't «get» the Judeo - Christian religious allusions and texts that make the questions in this film, it will remain incomprehensible, I suppose.

The title and central concept may be ripe with religious allusions, but there's no heavy - handed allegorising here.

In a film cleverly marbled with religious allusions, the character's name is derived from St Luke, that most scientific of evangelists («Alton,» meanwhile, is presumably a nod to noir maestro John Alton, patron saint of cinematographers).

Specialist still life artists included: Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), who is noted for still lifes of dead game and meat, crammed with religious allusions and moral pointers; Harmen van Steenwyck (1612 - 56), the leading vanitas painter; Willem Claesz Heda (1594 - 1681), an exponent of monochrome banketje; Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1660), a specialist in ontbijtjes (breakfast still lifes); Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606 - 83) and Willem Kalf (1619 - 93), who specialized in decorative still lifes; Samuel Van Hoogstraten (1627 - 78), whose speciality was interiors with deep linear perspective; and Rachel Ruysch (1664 - 1750), arguably the greatest ever female flower painter.

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And Amnesty International, in a report released earlier this year, said «repeated calls by the Supreme Leader and other authorities to combat «false beliefs» - apparently an allusion to evangelical Christianity, Baha'ism and Sufism - appear to have led to an increase in religious persecution.»

Further, the allusion to the practice of not fasting during a wedding is an allusion to a well - documented ancient Jewish practice of freeing wedding participants, including the guests, from religious obligations during the seven days of the wedding celebrations (References in Billerbeck, Kommentar I, p. 506.)

Third, the Christian church has little access to or influence on the major policy making institutions of our society, in spite of the noisy presence of reactionary church voices and political campaign allusions to religious values.

To the concept of the king as a being, in his religious significance, apart from and above his people, we have numerous allusions: Jeremiah refers to public lamentations at the death of a king such as clearly relate them to the ritual of the fertility - god (Jer.

Hirst titled each work twice, his own allusions to spirituality and religious iconography accompanied by references to the poetry of Philip Larkin, taken largely from the poet's final published volume, «High Windows» (1974)(«Sympathy in White Major - Absolution II» (2006)-RRB-.

Meta - narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Basquiat's urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin's abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese's theatrical symbolism.

Mother of God's religious undertones are amplified by a collaged advertisement for the Catholic Review, found in the lower right corner, which reads «An invaluable spiritual road map...» This bit of text draws together the title of the painting, the maps, and the spiritual allusions of the circle, yet it also walks a line between sincerity and tongue - in - cheek humor.

Leigh's work also may also appear to have mystical allusions: her research - driven practice draws from folklore and traditional religious practices spanning the Caribbean, Africa, and the American South.

A Conversation with Adam Pendleton and Michael Bühler - Rose Moderated by Abou Farman Chris Ofili's work has repeatedly deployed religious images, icons, and allusions, and operated as if the site of...

A person who, in a disseminated statement or communication, threatens or expresses contempt for a national, ethnic or other such group of persons with allusion to race, colour, national or ethnic origin or religious belief shall, be sentenced for agitation against a national or ethnic group to imprisonment for at most two years or, if the crime is petty, to a fine.