Sentences with word «reverential»

Richard Attenborough's reverential biopic of Mohandas K. Gandhi that charts his progress from idealistic young lawyer fighting for civil rights in South Africa through to his assassination by a Hindu nationalist in 1948.

Speak to any of the technicians and they all go misty - eyed over the RB26 engine, talking in reverential tones about the performance it could deliver, and its unique character.

The Colleen he speaks of in reverential tones is Colleen Delee, the 49 - year - old self - taught baker who cranks out something like 375 perfect baguettes every week for Petit Trois... in her Beverly Hills apartment.

Cameraperson (Unrated) Reverential documentary chronicling the career of Kirsten Johnson, cinematographer of the Oscar - winning, documentary Citizenfour and other groundbreaking exposes.

Film Review by Kam Williams Reverential Retrospective Revisits Life and Career of Charismatic Pop Artist David Hockney was born in Bradford, England in 1937 which means that his formative years were substantially shaped by World War II, from the air raids to the food rationing.

There's no sense of exploitation here — if anything, he's almost too reverential in his unwillingness to show any flaws.

Part The Tenant, part Memento, Doug Liman's genre debut is as reverential as it is unpredictable and as virile as it is intellectual.

11 Serve the LORD with reverential awe, and rejoice with trembling.

While the works» crisp graphic style and simplified colors are often said to invoke stained glass windows, a prolonged stay in either gallery produced not so much reverential awe as a desire to escape the relentless confrontation with elementary body processes.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Reverential Bio-Pic Pays Tribute to Legendary H.S. Bandleader After graduating from Wiley College (of «The Great Debaters» fame) back in the Thirties, Conrad «Prof» Johnson (1915 - 2008) briefly embarked on a promising career as a jazz musician, joining big band orchestras led by the likes of Count Basie and Erskine Hawkins.

The figures are positioned in front of an image of a house, the house itself and the neon are both enclosed in a glass case, adding to an almost reverential feel for this work.

Where in ancient literature can one find a more reverential tribute to the good woman than in Proverbs, chapter 31?

«The Artist» couldn't and wouldn't exist as is in the 1920s and yet it also feels so reverential of its source era.

Barth goes on to argue that if we are to obey God, the killing of animals is only possible as a deeply reverential act of repentance; it is permissible only «as we glance backward to creation and forward to the consummation as the boundaries of the sphere in which alone there can be any question of its necessity.»

Peter wasn't too worried, but I was very reverential about the book and was very nervous about taking a foot off the path.

But creating little pockets of peace in each day can make the entire season more reverential and meaningful.

Embarrassed at its cultural «irrelevance,» the church has sought to generalize its specific story into vague consensus values, to translate its concrete doctrines into something as airy as Percy's reverential regard for human life.

If the «gaze» of desire remains a contested issue in psychoanalysis and art theory alike, then Minter's ability to court our attention is a symbolic gesture that borders on reverential.

Timothy Lynch's comments were obviously designed as a deliberately controversial response to the otherwise reverential treatment of Obama by most - something which is amusing and vital on every political panel to avoid mutual self - congratulation.

The chamber sat in reverential silence — no jeering allowed when a tragic individual tale of a distant constituent's helpless woe is told, by either side.

Are you in a quiet and reverential state of mind, undistracted, focused on the amazing, alchemical act of nourishing yourself?

The bold works contain lyrics from Broadway musicals Summer Stock and Hair that Kass has rendered in Abstract Expressionist and Pop styles — as a subversive and reverential nod to both artistic movements.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Reverential Rockumentary Revisits Career of Late Rock Icon Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) is best remembered as the front man and lead guitarist of the Mothers of Invention, the avant - garde rock band that started developing a dedicated cult following in 1966 with the release of its debut album, «Freak Out!»

Trumbo Film Review by Kam Williams Reverential Biopic Restores Reputation of Blacklisted Scriptwriter Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo (1905 - 1976) was at the height of his career when subpoenaed in 1947 to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating the spread of Communist propaganda by Hollywood.

The unfortunately named Ron Rash is also a pretty fine author — and literary novels tend to make flat, dreary, overly reverential films — so you're probably better off sticking to the original.

The window mural enhances this effect, creating an absorbing, reverential environment in which to further appreciate the awe - inspiring triptych that dominates the front gallery.

The contradictions in his work — gravity and play, reverential homage and scenarized self - presentation — show Graham to be a contemporary melancholic.

Though Paul Thomas Anderson's 54 minute documentary, Junun, does make you want to enter into a corporate voyage of discovery and purchase the album whose creation it chronicles, it does so in the most delicately whimsical, carefree and reverential way imaginable.

The 23 - year - old actress shares Stone's reverential views on the former NSA contractor and told E!'s Marc Malkin that she respects Snowden for his integrity.

In this age of distraction I want to learn what it means to embody reverential awareness of others — attunement to the world in all its glory and boredom and limitations of time and space.

The charges around fear memories (that are hurtful), are transmuted efficiently, enabling health and wellbeing and reverential Awareness and Willpower to return.

It is a creative and intelligent combination of the two, presented in a respectful and reverential manner.

Indeed, some of the issues of this run should and will be spoken of in the same reverential tones as Frank Miller or Brian Michael Bendis's runs.

Perversely, this Jerry Bruckheimer production manages to makes Willis reverential and mawkish, the opposite of what audiences love about him.

For her feature directing debut, Black Swan actor Natalie Portman has shepherded through a sombrely reverential adaptation of Amos Oz's 2002 memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, a study of the founding of the state of Israel refracted through Oz's troubled family life.

Its skillful blend of modern lines and reverential details, combined with contemporary content technology and new innovation, has evoked positive reactions from Atari fans both new and old.

At turns reverential and at others derogatory, designers return time and again for inspiration.

The defence of art, particularly bad art, is that it stimulates debate, but Dover's voice is singularly unwelcome in this airless and reverential chamber.

I actually would have liked even more self - reverential moments, though I'm sure with a film as packed with visual miscellany as this, I've missed a few.

Some use the medium as a contemplative, almost reverential experience, or for «quiet meditation or being present in the moment», as Shana Nys Dambrot says.

Might corralling our fear of the details of life and ministry into a single reverential fear of Father, Son and Spirit alleviate the growing anxiety, depression and addiction issues that plague our churches?

Adam Simon who attended the funeral and considered himself a friend of Cardinal Cormac told Premier it was «a very reverential occasion».

Duly reverential, the panel satisfied itself with simply listing all the research possibilities, including the improvement and increased safety of IVF, the creation of cell lines that might someday be useful for bone marrow transplantation, repair of spinal cord injuries, skin replacement and, naturally, the hint of a greater understanding of cancer.»