Sentences with phrase «scenes reminiscent»

The photographs showed the artist dressed up as black dandy in scenes reminiscent of A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth.

In Getting to know you, an ongoing series that exists as performance, sculpture, and photographs, participants position themselves inside cut - out board scenes reminiscent of amusement park photo ops.

The game features characters you won't immediately forget with cut scenes reminiscent of its single player brethren.

Aaron treads some familiar ground with the school corridor scenes reminiscent of his Wolverine and the X-Men, and introduces the erstwhile Avenger Firestorm as a new teacher at the Jean Grey school.

In a series of scenes reminiscent of John Wayne dragging Maureen O'Hara around the Irish countryside in The Quiet Man, Cin - Dee found and dragged the hapless Diana around the town like a rag doll.

Underneath the survivalist narrative of its gritty urban drama is an unabashedly sentimental coming of ager, including opening scenes reminiscent of «Stand By Me».

In scenes reminiscent of The Ten Commandments (1956), apes are enslaved and forced to work against their will.

This moody, elegiac film has universally been acclaimed as a cinematographic masterpiece, from the talents of Cuban - born European Nestor Almendros (and «additional photography» by Haskell Wexler), with naturally - lit, sweeping, 70 mm images of crystal clarity and scope, and artfully composed scenes reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth paintings.

When divers off the Greek island of Zakynthos chanced upon an underwater labyrinth of stone several years ago, they encountered eerie scenes reminiscent of cobblestone floors and the bases of Hellenic - like colonnades, conjuring images of a city that had vanished beneath the waves thousands of years in the past.

This discovery probably took place in scenes reminiscent of the opening chapters of an Enid Blyton thriller.

In scenes reminiscent of the 1981 and 1985 riots in Brixton, police wearing riot gear waded into the crowd to break up the party following news of the former prime minister's death.

She was repeatedly asked by Mr Paxman when she learned of the fuel duty U-turn, in scenes reminiscent of the infamous Michael Howard interview in which he was asked 12 times if he overruled a prison governor.

In scenes reminiscent of Wednesday night, Denilson then hit a fierce effort from outside the box.

Evra is almost certain to face a more severe sanction from UEFA following scenes reminiscent of Eric Cantona's kung - fu kick at Selhurst Park in 1995.

Meanwhile, a scene reminiscent of the Solyndra affair unfolded last month in Ontario where Eclipsall Energy Corp. was found to have halted operations just days after Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty made a stop there in his campaign for re-election.

Likewise with Orestes: the unobscure transcendence of Zeus / God and the creaturely impotence of Orestes are unmistakingly detailed in the whirlwind scene reminiscent of Job.

It was a scene reminiscent of Mourinho's sprint at Old Trafford en route to his first European Cup success with Porto in 2004.

An odd coalition that includes public employee unions and the state Conservative Party have used phone banks, bumper stickers and even a TV ad depicting a state constitutional convention as a bar scene reminiscent of the famous one in «Star Wars.»

Before the MS Explorer sank off the coast of Antarctica seven years ago, passengers fled the ship in inflatable lifeboats in a scene reminiscent of the Titanic disaster.

Starting off rather poorly, with amateurish acting and murky plotting, the film gets a hell of a boost with a truly intense assassination scene reminiscent of the one in Clear and Present Danger, and almost every bit as exciting.

Miguel crosses over to the Land of the Dead — where, in a scene reminiscent of the Neitherworld bureaucracy of Tim Burton's «Beetlejuice,» he is reunited with all of the relatives he knows only from their photos, led by the imperious Mamá Imelda (voiced by Alanna Ubach).

In the film's opening scenes, Jack makes an audacious escape from the clutches of King George before smacking blades with the imposter in a tightly choreographed scene reminiscent of the swordplay between Jack and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) in the original Pirates» movie.

We watch him meet Chewbacca, a hilarious scene reminiscent of Luke's tangles with assorted beasts in assorted arenas in the original trilogy, and a big joke moment from «Thor Ragnarok.»

With an escape scene reminiscent of Fantastic Mr Fox, a touch of young love akin to Moonrise Kingdom and cameos from all the usual Wes Anderson suspects, Grand Budapest Hotel is just superb.

It's a scene reminiscent of Coogler's one - take boxing match in Creed and is equally as exciting and perfectly executed.

Later, the killer spies on Sam at a horse track (a scene reminiscent of one from Notorious) before finally pinning him beneath an Iron Maiden-esque implement of ironic torture and toying with him at excruciating length.

The group — brought together in a scene reminiscent of Ocean's 11 — includes men like the charming James Granger (Matt Damon), the witty Richard Campbell (Bill Murray), the wry Walter Garfield (John Goodman), and an Englishman named Donald Jeffries (Hugh Bonneville).

Rogen and Byrne also attend one of the frat's early, out - of - control parties, which is the opening salvo in what turns out to be some of the most elaborately choreographed and beautifully photographed party sequences we've ever seen in a mainstream studio comedy (their wild night spent drinking their faces off ends in a wonderful scene reminiscent of «The Trip,» with Efron and Rogen comparing Batman impressions.)

By the time, we finally get our confrontation between the chief lawman and the criminal mastermind, a scene reminiscent of the electric Pacino / De Niro diner scene from Heat, it's easy to recognize we've got something good.

It's a scene reminiscent of 1976, when neighbors would crowd around a family's microwave and stare at a hotdog cooking in under a minute.

D.I. Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after the bodies of two children are found in a horrifying scene reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel.

Big Boss is shown running away from this behemoth in a scene reminiscent of Solid Snake's showdown with Liquid Snake in REX's pilot seat.

In «Ubu Roi», Jarry's irrational main character Ubu, leads a group of dancing followers through a scene reminiscent of Russian Futurist stage design, flat cubist abstraction and the illustrated tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

The influence of Marinetti, Italian editor and founder of the Futurist movement, is shared with Bas's appreciation for the absurdist theater of Alfred Jarry, specifically in the canvas Ubu Roi, in which Jarry's protagonist Ubu «leads a group of dancing followers through a scene reminiscent of Soviet Futurist stage design, flat cubist abstraction and the illustrated tales of Hans Christian Andersen.»

The exhibition will include Levinthal's series of photographs of toy cowboys and soldiers created at Yale, on view for the first time since his thesis exhibition, along with photographs from his well - known Modern Romance series in which he used isolated tiny doll figurines to create melodramatic mises - en - scene reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings and film noir.

Illustrations Millais had always demonstrated an immense talent for drawing and his many finished pen - and - ink drawings of the earlier 1850s, for example The Race - Meeting (1853; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), a scene reminiscent of contemporary novels, led him naturally to illustration, an art form he took up with the edition of Tennyson's poems published by Moxon in 1857.

Cosy cavern Set up a living room scene reminiscent of old - world travels, with a classic leather sofa illuminated by a smart chrome lamp.

Not exact matches

Watching the service in action is reminiscent of scenes from a spy movie.

If the Hapsburg regime is thought of at all these days, it no doubt conjures up scenes more reminiscent of The Student Prince or The Mouse That Roared than the Court of Charlemagne.

Generally speaking, Daniel Dennett's method in all his books is too often reminiscent of the forensic technique employed by the Snark, in the Barrister's dream, to defend a pig charged with abandoning its sty: The Snark admits the desertion but then immediately claims this as proof of the pig's alibi (for the creature was obviously absent from the scene of the crime at the time of its commission).

It is also reminiscent of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, with a displaced American, an evocation of Vietnam, and, especially, a scene in which a Baskin - Robbins store explodes, killing innocent bystanders, revealing to Harry and Rae that they are involved inadvertently but inexorably in an evil far beyond what they had foreseen.

The scene is reminiscent of Tokyo's Tsukiji fish markets where quick action is required to snatch the best tuna.

The scenes of the player's agony were reminiscent of Shaw's misfortune against PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League earlier in the season.

Coming from nowhere in a style reminiscent of Silky Sullivan, the Flamingo and Santa Anita Derby winners notably enliven the 3 - year - old scene.

Reminiscent of the elbow - deep bag scene from Mary Poppins, we can only imagine what Carlitos was searching for up there...

I added metal forks, reminiscent of the ice pick that is used in the first scene in the movie.

I remember contemplating how a Stockport suburb was somehow reclaiming the English flag: the scene wasn't remotely reminiscent of the far right or, indeed, the English football team.

There were similar reports of NPP supporters arbitrarily taking over public installations across the country, reminiscent of scenes in the aftermath of the 2008 polls won by the NDC, which witnessed some of the triumphant party's supporters taking over the running of public toilets, toll booths, community centres, among other structures.

There were similar reports of alleged NPP supporters arbitrarily taking over public installations across the country, reminiscent of scenes in the aftermath of the 2008 polls won by the NDC, which witnessed some of the triumphant party's supporters take over the running of public toilets, toll booths and community centres.

The scene was slightly reminiscent of President Trump's meeting last month with survivors of the Parkland shooting, where the president was famously photographed holding a note with his talking points.