Sentences with phrase «revelatory about»

There's nothing new or revelatory about that.

There have been two recent events that have been much discussed and that might tarnish this persona and that I think are revelatory about some of the features of contemporary school reform — for which Ms. Rhee is a powerful symbol.

They just need to share something meaningful and revelatory about their life in an interesting way.

That's the setup, and while Bell's screenplay doesn't exactly dig into anything unique or revelatory about crumbling relationships, there is at least a bit of honesty to these characters, despite how broadly drawn they are.

«Duck Butter» comes into better focus if you consider Naima's anxieties — and her fighting them — as its primary interest, instead of anything revelatory about relationships.

There's nothing revelatory about any of the character's backstories and Kendrick's chemistry with Russell is the kind of bad that we just don't need to talk about.

What is truly revelatory about Women Without Men is the way its deeply poetic style is fuelled with a strong feminist politics.

I think what's most telling and revelatory about this not that he was able to outright buy email addresses directly from google but just how cheap they're sold and bandied about, after all it's just a live address.

But what was revelatory about the Queen's Speech was what it didn't mention: it wholly ignored the seismic political shifts and horrific events which have brought renewed public engagement in politics and staunch opposition to an ideologically - driven political agenda of austerity and deregulation.

And while his early work was complex and thematically slight, his later writing tackled deep questions in a voice that was both hilarious and seemingly revelatory about the writer himself.

Not exact matches

TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT YOUR GURU, a feature documentary film about internationally renowned life and business strategist Tony Robbins, is a revelatory cinéma vérité film that goes behind... See full summary»

Another common way in which this seemingly revelatory phrase about the heart has hurt the church comes in the means of community.

Anyway, last week, we talked about Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Eastern world.

Precisely in acknowledging God's primordial will as represented by Jesus, one necessarily pronounces a truth - judgment about Jesus» revelatory function — or, to use the traditional term, office.

So if there is something unsurpassable about him for believers, it is ultimately derived from the mystery that he sacramentally mediates - Whenever a religion speaks of the «unsurpassability» of its central revelatory event, personality, or doctrine, religious wisdom exhorts us to acknowledge that only the unfathomable mystery to which these realities point is indeed unsurpassable.

Can Christians plausibly continue to affirm the revelatory supremacy of the Christ - event and at the same time be fully open to other traditions that have their own unique convictions about religious meaning and truth?

Reichenbach does state that to believe that the being about which the Bible is written is omnipotent «requires treating some writings as both authoritative and revelatory.

Logically speaking the psychological interpretation of symbols says nothing about their revelatory status.

The secularistic view of symbols, however, is usually one of skepticism about their revelatory status.

As you may have noticed, I've watched with some consternation as headlines about the (not - so - revelatory) disclosure that I attend an Episcopal church declare that I've «left evangelicals for Episcopalians,» «dropped evangelical pretense for mainline Christianity,» and «departed evangelicalism to embrace a couch potato, cafeteria - style Christianity.»

The 29 - year - old confirmed her split from 35 - year - old Smith last week, and in a revelatory interview with The Sun, a source close to the X Factor dancer has revealed how Macmillan found out about Smith's infidelities.

For expert insight, I spoke with Lance Williams, an investigative reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle and co-author (with Mark Fainaru - Wada) of Game of Shadows, a revelatory book about how BALCO, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, supplied baseball players and other athletes with performance - enhancing drugs.

WHAT: After she uncovers revelatory information about incumbent president George W. Bush's military service in a 2004 news report for «60 Minutes,» producer Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) comes under heavy criticism when the authenticity of the story is questioned.

Re-released to tie in with its 25th anniversary, the most striking thing about this film is how revelatory it is, tracing the history of gay activism.

The first commentary is revelatory — one gets the nagging sensation that Anderson and Gierasch ought to have directed the picture, as they not only seem to know more about the final product than Hooper does («They did?»

From his second feature, 2008's Tony Manero, about a Saturday Night Fever - obsessed killer in»70s Chile, up to his forthcoming film, the poetic Neruda (out in the UK in April), Larraín has made character studies that trust audiences to search the sweep of a film for meaning, using the formal potential of cinema to explore what people are like, rather than saddling an actor with revelatory baggage.

Lament the saturation of CGI - laden franchises, reboots and superhero films all you like, but some fantastic, revelatory works of cinema came out this last year — even some of those comic book movies you're so worried about.

Andrea Arnold seemed to emerge out of nowhere with Red Road (2006), her revelatory, shrewdly observed debut feature about voyeurism and sexual revenge.

Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

In first person, Heivoll tells us about growing up in Finsland, going off to school in Oslo, dropping out when he realized he did not want to be a lawyer, his relationship with his father, and the revelatory moment in Mantua, Italy, when he realized that he needed to write this book about the fires - all of which ultimately boils down to the struggle that led him to accept what an elementary school teach told him: «You are a writer.»

A revelatory and game - changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world.

As a scholar, I'm always fascinated by marginalia and have, in fact, researched and written about the marginalia of Herman Melville, Ezra Pound and so on, because I believe those ephemeral words jotted down on the spur of the moment are the most revelatory.

Okay, so I like walking, and I'm pretty sure any city - break article I write would include the (not so) revelatory idea that walking about is a great way to get a feel for a place.

North's response was quite revelatory, as this is possibly the very first time someone has addressed the matter head - on and gone in detail about Hennig's sudden departure as well as the game's status at the time.

After a long absence following his last solo show at Paula Cooper (in 1977), Van Buren's work finally began filtering back into public view in New York about 10 years ago, first at small venues such as Mitchell Algus Gallery and Sideshow, and in the revelatory exhibition 2007 traveling exhibition «High Times Hard Times: New York Painting 1965 - 1975.»

A few days after my revelatory moment in that car, I spoke to one Royal Academician about his arrival in London in the 1970s.

«Silent Partners» at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge was a revelatory show about the role of the mannequin in art history

The older canvases on view were specifically by the Washington Color School artists, now remembered mostly for their dyed - canvas technique and status as an armament in Clement Greenberg's about - face on Abstract Expressionism, and included revelatory shaped paintings by Kenneth Noland, an almost - not - there Helen Frankenthaler, and this megawatt Jules Olitski.

«This splendid show has been organized by Margaret Cherin, Curator of the Hillman - Jackson Gallery, and Jacob Fossum, Professor of Painting and Drawing, who explains that «What interests me most about Julie is her intense connection to her own imagination and creative powers and her ability to trust her revelatory impulses.»

Two shows I couldn't stop thinking about both involved collage: Vincent Fecteau at Matthew Marks in New York and the Whitechapel's revelatory Hannah Höch survey at the Whitechapel.

Braun's films are, quite frankly, hypnotic, entirely mad and revelatory of what this show is really about — the urban jungle.

Solnit's expansive and interdisciplinary approach to unpacking these works is a lesson in the contingencies of art history, and her book offers some truly revelatory moments about time, photography and seeing.

A revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and togetherness.