Sentences with phrase «self mythologizing»

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She's an unreliable narrator, and while I wouldn't say I, Tonya laughs at her, it does undercut her attempts to self - mythologize her own status as an underdog turned unwitting villain.

Michelle Williams plays Emily, the most outspoken (yet frequently ignored) woman in a wagon train of three settler families who have hired mountain man (and possible self - mythologizing fabulist) Steven Meek (a brilliant Bruce Greenwood) to guide them through the treacherous Midwest.

Her early descent down the Times Square stairs in Mistress America, the second film she co-wrote with Baumbach, felt like more than just the perfect introduction to her self - mythologizing character — it was also the coronation of indie royalty, like the star taking her place as the quick - witted queen of millennial New York neurosis.

Millennial communication patterns — a constant, rapid shuffle between angst, oversharing, self - mythologizing, self - abasement, insincere social ritual, and sincere shared enthusiasm — slot incredibly well into the framework of a screwball comedy.

While the film never makes us doubt that Neruda is a great poet and a politician of true conviction, nevertheless he also emerges as a self - serving, self - mythologizing, perpetually randy buffoon.

This is in many ways a self - serving, hyperbolic story that mythologizes Childers and his life without addressing the inherent contradictions in murdering people for God.

But the chameleon theme extends past the protagonist's species and his self - mythologizing attempts to blend into his new world: All the color in Rango is just a skin - deep patina that would be more convincing if it went deeper, down to the bones.

King and country: a self - mythologizing adventurer's tale is retold (again and again) in Niles Atallah's experimental feature

The famous warning of the first game was self - mythologizing: «The true Demon's Souls starts here.»

«Graham is going to be getting renewed attention, because the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, N.Y., is mounting a comprehensive retrospective of his career, accompanied by a catalogue which gives his full biography (or at least as full as is currently possible, given Graham's tendency to self - mythologize and alter details of his past) and a critical reassessment of his achievements.

One can see his self - indulgence and mythologizing in McCarthy's desperate need to displease.

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

It would be unfair to say that Walter De Maria was given to self - mythologizing, but he was an elusive, at times even evasive, figure.

Using laborers specially flown in, it recreates the workings and the product (chocolate - covered marshmallows) of the candy factory in Mr. Murillo's hometown in Colombia, enacting his humble beginnings with the self - mythologizing hubris typical of young males wielding paintbrushes.

In decades since, critics have often been eager to puncture Mr. Johns's legend, deriding him as «self - mythologizing» or «undernourished and overthought.»

Their faint suggestion of battlefield stretchers brings to mind the use of similar forms by Salvatore Scarpitta (1919 - 2007) and the self - mythologizing Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986).

What's more, the equation of Milhazes and Kahlo elides the readily apparent stylistic differences between the latter, a self - mythologizing diarist, and the former, a discreetly Matissean sensualist so disengaged from self - reference that she cloaks even the traces of her own painterly gesture.

Motivated by an interest in opulence and exotic materials, the monochrome gold motif is a hallmark of Byars» late works, a nod to his self - mythologizing project.

Reprising his celebrated Pop icons from the 1960s, in a manner initially deemed cynical, the Retrospectives look ahead to installations by a number of artists including Martin Kippenberger and Tracey Emin, who overtly engage the self - mythologizing impulse manipulating their personas as a medium, like silkscreen or paint.

For those of you familiar with Picasso and his self - mythologized monster; you may need to read that sentence again.