Sentences with phrase «revered material»

Many have seen the film as too polite or beige, adjectives that unfairly negate the smooth skill with which director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) translates the revered material to the screen.

They revere material success, progress, and personal and intellectual freedom and, more ominously, they have rather uncritically adopted a secularized view of the role of religion.

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He believes that this model better fits what we know of the way early Jews handled revered or sacred traditions than does the Buitmannian one, which contends that the Gospel material was handled rather like ancient folklore such as Homer's Odyssey or Iliad.

Here his approach isn't much more subtle, but it suits the material better, since this is presented as a controversial exposé, complete with opening and closing remarks from Derek Jacobi, an actor revered for his Shakespeare stage performances in the British theater.

Aliens was an impossible assignment: Make a sequel to a revered sci - fi classic while adding your own imprint on the material.

«Black Dynamite,» which stars Michael Jai White in the titular role, is a send - up of Blaxploitation movies that, unlike the parodies from schlock masters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg (the guys behind «Meet The Spartans,» «Disaster Movie,» et al), actually reveres its source material.

After all the online outrage, hand - wringing and cultural thinkpieces, the new Ghostbusters turns out to be business as usual — a bloated remake of a revered comedy that doesn't reinvent its source material or add fresh perspective.

The one - of - a-kind luxury interior exudes distinguished refinement with the finest Jet Quilted leather and Cirrus stitching that highlight the exquisite materials and classic textures of Jaguar â $ ™ s revered historic cars.

He has become revered for his delicate and playful approach, often using such humble, everyday materials as cloth, paper, rope and plywood.

The German artist Isa Genzken is a sculptor whose creations revere, explore, and deconstruct both the great masters of art history and her own materials — no easy feat, but one that has earned her widespread critical attention in both the U.S. and Europe, culminating recently in her blockbuster 2014 survey at MoMA.

A much - revered figure in the art world, Robert Ryman has, over six decades, continuously and methodically experimented with the different possibilities inherent within a painting — abolishing color in order to focus on material, brushstroke, support, and scale.

Although the movement revered humble stuffs — there is art here made from dead snails, old boots, lumps of coal, cheap furry materials, discarded hairbrushes — it is clear from the moment you step in that an illusion of poverty was never the aim.

In addition to the regular menu of wares, the first in the series flaunts small toys like the ones found in Cracker - Jack boxes and gumball machines, beer bottle caps, marbles from the artist's childhood and pins of revered music groups from his engagement with the punk music scene since he played with the band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s, Memory Ware Flat # 1 is a special survey because of they way it pulls together the artist's influences, often - used materials, objects from his daily life and personal memorabilia.

Sodi's relationship with crude raw materials and the constituent elements of nature draws from wabi - sabi, a Japanese aesthetic philosophy that embraces imperfection and reveres natural authenticity above all.

«We properly revere our forefathers for making material and mortal sacrifices for our benefit.