Sentences with phrase «silent world»

When I said earlier, for instance, that it was «as if» our methods forced us to conceive of religious communities as silent worlds, what did I mean?

These days, I take such sounds for granted, but ten years ago I would have worked in a muffled, partially silent world.

Our wonderful silent world, shining and as iridescent and insubstantial as a soap bubble, was exploding and vanishing before the heat of the microphone.

A menacing horror movie set in a pitilessly silent world, director John Krasinski's latest film A Quiet Place is also a fine sample of smart sci - fi, solidly buttressed by arresting human drama.

So how does a family with small children survive in a forcibly silent world?

For while Regan — a headstrong young teenager played here by Millicent Simmonds, who, by one of those strange film - world coincidences, is also the star of another of the week's big releases, Wonderstruck — is completely at home in this new silent world, she's also detached from its dangers.

Devoted to getting people to better understand the not - so - silent world animals live in, she brings all her creativity, passion and savvy to our advisory board.

Back when he was a high school guitar player obsessed with software, Allen was mesmerized by movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World.

In a twist on the Copernican revolution, Barbour portrays a silent world devoid of action, where nothing, neither heavens nor Earth, moves.

The daughter of deaf parents reconciles her musical talents with the silent world in which she grew up.

Lee Abbott (John Krasinski, who also directs) and his wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt) have a deaf teenage daughter, Regan (played by deaf actress Millicent Simmonds), so they already know American sign language and use it, and a lighting system, to communicate in their silent world.

Emily Blunts character asks her on screen (and in reality) husband John Krasinski, a question and worry every parent has it also deals with a relationship between a father and daughter and the looming presence of a new born in this silent world this family are forced to live in, surely an impossible thing to do but her pregnancy reflects the family's determination and unity.

As a formal exercise in the look and feel of cinema, «Wonderstruck» is dazzling, particularly in the way it brings a silent world to life; as a piece of storytelling, it struggles to find balance, and then relies on a string of coincidences to tie things together.

In 1959, Louis Malle and Jacques - Yves Cousteau picked up the most prestigious prize in moviedom — the Palme d'Or — for their marine biology - themed documentary, The Silent World.

One half is colored by the burnished, bronzed glow of»70s American childhood; the other, without dialogue and shot in black - and - white, evokes its era's cinema as well as the silent world of its young protagonist.

Hazanavicius allows himself the odd flourish, playing on reflections with one dizzying upside down shot, but carefully crafts a silent world so absorbing that a sequence involving sound interrupts it like a harsh nightmare.

In a way my birth date, squarely astride the calendar year, was a metaphor for my subsequent life, one foot always being dragged back to the deaf world, the silent world of my father and of my mother, from whose womb I had just emerged, and the other trying to stride forward into the greater world of the hearing, to escape into the world destined to be my own.

Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has retreated into a silent world that Cara, his mother, knows only too well.

In addition, when I made the appointment, I asked for a sedative that I could give Hopper before we ever even got to the veterinary hospital; this little guy was blind and deaf and very vulnerable in his dark and silent world, and I wanted to give him all the help I could.

The remote summit remains a silent world, spared the ravages of human development.

You will be amazed at the peace you experience in what Jacques Cousteau described as «The Silent World», where the sound of your breathing and bubbles takes you away from the incessant «chatter and noise» above the surface of the water.

Curator Iwona Blazwick enters in her Focus the silent world of Sylvia (1962 - 63), a classic Katz portrait that resonates with the urban landscape occupied by both artist and sitter.

Some of his previous solo exhibitions include Half Full Half Empty (2011), Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Empty - space - landscapes (2010) Galeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; and Silent World (2008), Ark Galerie, Jakarta, Indonesia.

She was recently invited to be a guest artist in the Special Projects Studio at the Torpedo Factory as part of her community based art project, The Silent World.

She most recently curated Unburied: The Secrets We Keep and the community art project The Silent World at Convergence in Alexandria, VA..

Influenced by moody, classical painting aesthetics; the subtleties of tonal colours and composition, «De'Souza - Hartley's imagery is often an intoxicating paradox within a silent world; dark, but resolutely beautiful».

Through his highly personal subject - matter, which includes a Self - Triptych (1986) expressing his mental conflict and turmoil, he concentrated chiefly on dogs, carcasses, and evocations of men, including elderly tycoons and Velazquez's Innocent X, caged in plate glass and screaming in a silent world of horror, dissolution and fear, and expressed with energy and singleness of aim all the gradations of emotion from pity and disgust to horror, traumatic revulsion and the unbalance of panic.