Sentences with phrase «revelatory moments»

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.

The exhibition's more revelatory moments underscore the studio's role as a catalytic agent capable of shifting the nature of the work created therein, or on its periphery, in unforeseen ways.

Serkis and screenwriter William Nicholson have approached the project with crusading zeal, which produces some revelatory moments but tends to overdose on its own good intentions.

Much as Jennie Livingston did in «Paris Is Burning,» her landmark 1990 portrait of New York's drag - ball culture, Jordenö finds revelatory moments of warmth and intimacy in this stylish, spirited performance space — a public realm that offers acceptance, empowerment and advocacy to those who need it desperately.

While never fully capitalizing on that potential, there are some revelatory moments for the genre here, making you painfully aware of your own self as you hide behind crates and freeze on the spot.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

A still more revelatory moment came when Mackey read an advance copy of the book Firms of Endearment, co-authored by Raj Sisodia, explaining how enterprises with passion and purpose outperform.

In «The Truth,» Strauss relays the revelatory moment when he discovers, with the aid of some highly skilled therapists, that a lot of the way he treats women stems from the way his mother treated him.

It was a revelatory moment for Klein.

This was a revelatory moment for me.

in the midst of all this opposition, I still try to bear witness / preach / teach the kingdom of God with the hope that a believer or a non-believer will have that aha or revelatory moment and truly realize the kingdom of heaven is in deed at hand, and one can actually live the kingdom life even while in this world.

That was for me a revelatory moment.

Eiseley is at his best when he narrates an event or describes a poignant revelatory moment.

[In] one particular revelatory moment, I was preparing for an art show.

I had the same kind of «black or brown» revelatory moment when I realized I never wore my gold jewelry, only my silver.

For every revelatory moment of sharp perception there's an eternity of goofy smiles, stuttered dialogue and embarrassed glances.

The stakes are raised, lives are on the line, and there's one revelatory moment that leads to the best fight scene so far in the entire Marvel cinematic universe.

Rose's first revelatory moment happens after her first trip down the rapids:

What was once presumably a stable relationship disintegrates in a single scene, although some backstory would have given the revelatory moment the oomph it clearly lacks.

It is that revelatory moment when white, middle - class Westerners finally understand what the rest of humanity has always known — that there are places in this world where the safety net they have spent so much of their lives erecting is suddenly whipped away, where the right accent, education, health insurance and a foreign passport — all the trappings that spell «It Can't Happen to Me» — no longer apply, and their well - being depends on the condescension of strangers...

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.»

Painted with broad expanses of flatly sprayed, banal commercial colors (e.g. manila envelope tan, file cabinet grey), they featured nearly imperceptible, atomized tonal gradations along their bottom edge — an unexpected intrusion of the transcendent into the profane, not dissimilar to that revelatory moment when a Reinhardt black painting begins to yield to an attuned and patient eye.

Seeing his art side by side with the richness and complexities of African art will be a revelatory moment for our visitors.»

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

It was a revelatory moment as I struggled to find my voice and vision as the only African American student in my photography class.

One imagines the revelatory moment this uninhabited cove is found, and the longing they have for that moment thereafter.

In a revelatory moment, we follow the construction of a fiction as it transcends one character's personal story to become a reality for all participants.

Another «crucial revelatory moment» came when the Quays were in college and encountered the 1967 exhibition Polish Poster Art, which (again from the wall text):

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The new cultural coding that we need will emerge from the revelatory vh sion that comes in the special moments we describe as «dream.»

present moments of existence which seem to have revelatory power, secular epiphanies akin to what scholastic philosophers called acts.

And in Buddhism, the illuminating moment of enlightenment may be understood as a kind of revelatory experience even though there is no self - revealing God.

In a broad sense, at least, the major religions and philosophies anticipated special revelatory experiences or moments of enlightenment that would transform human existence and bestow on it a final meaning.

A priori, of course, we can not rule out the possibility that God can make one phase or moment of history more decisively revelatory than others.

So it is therefore appropriate, I believe, to inquire into the particular revelatory function attached to certain modalities of scripture which I will place under the title Poetics, in a sense I will explain in a moment.

This was a revelatory political moment.

And while there are a few touching moments, the film never tries to claim sentimental or revelatory power it hasn't earned.

They end up seeing Spike Lee's revelatory Do the Right Thing, and the history in moments such as that give weight to Richard Tanne's sweet, sturdy romantic drama

Beach Rats is beautiful and relentless; Hittman has a rare gift with young actors and a camera that refuses to turn away at vulnerable moments, to revelatory effect.

The smile he cracks after he beds someone he shouldn't is revelatory: Infidelity may be wrong, but in the moment it's hella fun.

It's perfect, then, that Mike Leigh «s marvelous Mr. Turner takes an impressionistic approach to exploring Turner's character, focusing on intimate, revelatory, and often unflattering moments in the late painter's life, stressing truth over historical accuracy while never shattering Turner's mystique.

We hope it's not prudishness, but somewhat taking the Soderbergh stance that «as soon as someone gets naked, the film becomes a documentary,» that scene's overlength did in fact take us out of the story: by a certain point we had understood the drama and import of this moment for Adèle, and her revelatory experience of having sex, for the first time, with someone she was terrifyingly in love with.

Rather than having recognizable supporting players like Jeffrey Wright (as photographer Howard Bingham), Ron Silver (as trainer Angelo Dundee), Paul Rodriguez (as boxing physician Bernie Pacheco), Joe Morton (as lawyer Chauncey Estridge) and Mykelti Williamson (as promoter Don King) give their real - life counterparts spotlight moments of revelatory dialogue and defining characterization, they're flattened and wound as finely engineered brushstrokes winding around the enigmatic center.

Using the same actors over that time span allows for an authenticity of experience in a narrative feature not seen before, the effect of which is to invest even the smallest, most mundane of moments with a profound, revelatory, nature.

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.

Writings identified by the first line of the «typescripts,» as they are called include revelatory pieces such as «When I start to paint...,» dated April 1, 1950 and «In this moment...,» dated Nov. 25, 1950.

The work provided a moment of simplicity both revelatory of and contrasting its time by taking the opportunity to move together without any other aim.

Like Egon Schiele and Frida Kahlo whom she much admires, her subject is herself: the traumatic episodes and periods of despair in her past, and a revelatory, stream of consciousness expose the darker moments of her present.