Sentences with phrase «seems emblematic»

In what seems emblematic of these times, one of U.S.» most iconic apparel brands — Gap Inc. — has recently announced plans to concentrate its growth on international markets...

The Black Book of Women, in light of this week's events in Poland, seems emblematic of the acute social awareness Stasińska brings to her work.

Emma Watson eventually shows up and has a misunderstanding that seems emblematic of current discourse, but then the movie stops trying to grow and change.

A picture from the demonstration at Parliament Square — ostensibly against the PLP — seems emblematic of this shift.

The New Times series seemed emblematic of the general lack of direction on the left.

That seemed emblematic of shifting attitudes toward genetics and what's of worth.

Not exact matches

It's perhaps just emblematic of our storied branch - plant economy and the complacent mentality that seems to come with it.

No city is so emblematic of «the American dream «like Los Angeles — A place where everything seems possible!

The effect is much cruder than the book: you're aware of the geometric patterns linking the parallel stories; everything seems a little too pat, the emblems of the era a little too obviously emblematic - cake - baking in the Fifties, Aids now.

A trite framing device, in which the travails of these people are cross-cut with the progress of the Voyager satellite through space, seems to suggest that their interactions are emblematic of present day human society in general.

The set - up is the kind we've seen many times before, but while the hilarity of the moment initially seems indicative of just what Bayer is about to bring to the table, it eventually reveals itself to be emblematic of the film itself: familiar trappings, gussied up with a fresh script from screenwriter Lauryn Kahn.

Yet the race and its surprise outcome were met with tepid coverage by national media outlets that didn't seem interested in a race that was emblematic of national tensions within the Democratic party and the school reform movement.

In fact, the dominance of the term «abstract expressionism» over «action painting,» which seemed more applicable to Pollock and Willem de Kooning than any other members of the New York School, is emblematic of the influence of formalist discourse.

Certain key motifs appear over and over: skinny legs that seem to have been de-boned, piles of old shoes, cartoonish and clunky, clocks with one hand, low hanging light bulbs and, again and again, these hooded figures that may be Klansmen or something more personally emblematic: the masks that artists, like all of us, hide behind; the disguises we don to face or shy away from the world; the evil, banal and faceless, that lurks within us all.

In this regard, it seemed important to show a work emblematic of the artist's oeuvre in painting, which is the privileged medium of Western tradition.

Now he seems darkly emblematic of his time, like the shock one feels thinking back.

Yau writes: «By shifting the focus to 1957 — ’62 — the latter being the year that Feeley began making the emblematic abstractions that seemed to have secured his reputation — we learn that the oeuvre contains a wider range of works than we might have previously thought.

All over the city — in a graveyard, in a bar, in the ancient Olympic stadium — Pope.L had placed live performances and recordings of people whispering or quietly singing, and Whispering Campaign (2016 — 17) seems like the emblematic artwork of Documenta 14: intentionally fractured, at times unintelligible, vaguely menacing, and cohering only partially, and in retrospect.

By shifting the focus to 1957 — ’62 — the latter being the year that Feeley began making the emblematic abstractions that seemed to have secured his reputation — we learn that the oeuvre contains a wider range of works than we might have previously thought.

A simple singular yellow stick held by the captain offers an aspect of theatre to the mis en scène, cutting through the picture plane, it seems both provocative and benign, emblematic of power or merely of dress.

Way back in 1990, an episode of «The Simpsons» introduced Blinky, a mutated orange fish with three - eyes caught in the waters near the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, emblematic of mean Mr. Burns» callousness towards the environment — and now, it seems, life has imitated cartoon.

This camera lacks in low light, but usually it's good enough you don't have to think about the photos you're taking, and, in a way, that's really emblematic of what seems to be Google's overall approach to its homegrown hardware.

First, Kwikset seems to have eschewed the kinds of design touches emblematic of an expensive device, and considering the fact that this is likely going to sit on the outside of your home, I'd say that's wise.