Sentences with phrase «seemingly at the behest»

Alice (Mia Wasikowska) ventures through the looking glass seemingly at the behest of the Blue Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), who tells her it's been too long since she's called on them.

In a cozily domestic basement lair, a young woman (Alexia Fast, as the eponymous captive) sings and plays a piano, pausing sometimes to deliver monologues about her experience into a tape recorder, seemingly at the behest of her captor, Mika (Kevin Durand).

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Seemingly at the regime's behest, prime minister David Cameron, has called for an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood to be spearheaded by Sir John Jenkins, the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Sure, Shakespeare's plays were often times full of titillation and seemingly inane romances, but they nevertheless retained the quality of art at the behest of real character, commanded to the audience through real, identifiable problems of death, power, and scandal.

Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of figurative art, particularly figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of figurative art, which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.