Sentences with phrase «social statement»

The collection has unique strength in works by women, artists of color, and artists whose work makes a profound social statement.

Similarly unsurprisingly, it's also filled with heart, humour and wit, all while making a very timely social statement.

What was once considered controversial is now viewed as a genre that can make powerful and positive social statements.

In this installation, the artist used fiber in the form of embroidered imagery to tell narratives, making various social statements in a unique and often tongue - and - cheek way.

But WWE needs to make social statements like you said and they had to tell that bullying story on the big WM stage.

Although I don't intend to make political or social statements with my work, the exploration of controversial topics usually involves the precipitation of polarizing conflicts between characters.

That boldness is a quality more of the film's frenzied marketing than of the film itself; director Robert Wise, whose centennial we're marking this week, excised the closing rhetoric that producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz was insisting upon, sure that if an audience wasn't convinced of the film's social statement by then, a few platitudes wouldn't make a difference.

What we are saying is that you can incorporate some cool Wrangler shirts, Levis tees, and social statement t - shirts into your wardrobe to take the emphasis off practical but dull, plain options.

ELCA churchwide offices prepare social statements and oversee the clergy roster, yet their day - to - day influence on individuals and congregations is quite muted.

The printed version of the twenty - four - page social statement says it was «adopted by more than a two - third majority vote.»

I don't think it's any big social statement or grand conspiracy of sacrifice and sublimation.

Coogler does a great high - wire balancing act managing a complex story while staying true to the comics, introducing new characters into the MCU, and making a strong social statement.

According to David Wise, the history teacher who witnessed the project's development over two decades, «The page of cloth emerged as a 1980s teen - age social statement, a new kind of book, a different page of history.»

Fast - paced and three - dimensional, the novel does justice to this pivotal civil rights issue, and Picoult again proves herself the queen of heartfelt social statement.

Body Architecture — Collective Wear 4 Persons is simultaneously a sculpture with a pointed social statement, four individual wearable garments, and a movable home.

For the last forty or so years, Barbara Kruger has been employing media effects to create political and social statements concerning the topics of consumerism, mass media and feminism, and we're glad to say that she did not lose a bit of her artistic punch.

Scott's widescreen compositions capture the expansiveness of the heat - soaked Southwest plains; however, with the exception of a stunning Joan of Arc - inspired ending, Scott's gift for slick visual splendor is wasted on a run - of - the - mill Bonnie and Clyde - ish tale posing as profound social statement.

Just a nice, quiet, radically fast young man with no interest in making social statements and no clue as to why anyone — all the reporters who peppered him with questions about race after he won the gold medal, all the people roaming websites, even a writer from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED — would make color an issue.

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«I didn't expect it to spawn the type of debate that it [has] and, quite frankly, I wasn't out there to make any sort of social statement,» says Marcello.

The critical position of Director of Studies went to Pastor Karen Bloomquist, a product of the most radical influences at Union Seminary in New York, and the formation of the ELCA's social statements was to be her responsibility.

It may be that the relational view of humanity embedded in the social statements of so many traditions already offers that kind of convergence.

It seems that the church as a whole never published a social statement on this issue.

In a blog post entitled, «The Tornado, The Lutherans, and Homosexuality,» Piper confidently proclaims that the tornado that hit downtown Minneapolis yesterday was a result of divine judgment on a group of Lutherans meeting in a local church to discuss, among other things, a «social statement» that could make it easier for the church to accept homosexual unions.

Now, marriage isn't only the ideal, it's a social statement, a reflection of your values.

But, he said: «It's more of a social statement by a Democratic governor than it is a financial reality game - changer.»

Fashion is usually dynamic, it's the facility to remodel a picture and create a social statement.

I remember when popped collars were a social statement of coolness.

Its mantra: Make a social statement with your fashion statement.

This movie, which was made by an animation studio in Spain, isn't trying to make a social statement; it speaks in the international language of lightweight comedy.

The last of Capra's «social statement» films, Meet John Doe posted a profit, although Capra and Riskin were forced to dissolve their corporation due to excessive taxes.

Amidst sexual scandal in Hollywood, women dresses in black to protest such harassment, and men wearing «Time's Up» pins (the name of a spin off group from the «Me Too» movement) to show their solidarity, the gathering attempted to be a social statement as well as a gala honoring celebrities.

But starting this awards season, celebrities have been using the red carpet as a platform for making political and social statements.

The 2004 version can't hope to compare, so it ditches any notion of social statement and goes instead for the balls - out, adrenaline rush of 28 Days Later, minus the grade - Z digital cinematography in favor of the technical splendor of a slick car commercial.

In this low - budget yet thrilling early feature from David Cronenberg that combines apocalyptic mayhem with a social statement about the sexual promiscuity of the»70s, a mad doctor creates a slug - like parasite that's a combination aphrodisiac and venereal disease and releases it on the residents of a Canadian high - rise, causing them to become violent and, um, «in the mood.»

Even the final act, which has already erroneously been taken as a social statement (I will only give generalizations), debates a controversial issue but brings it squarely to the specifics of these characters and the situation in which they find themselves.

Beyond that, these enormous productions are pressured to make political and social statements... providing the hope of which real life leaders seem to fail.

It's not a movie with a clear endgame in sight or a social statement like last year's Get Out.

This is also an excellent way to make a «social statement» about your concern for animals in general.

But by telling users that the US release will not include these options despite demand for them, they are very much making a social statement favoring opposite - sex relationships over same - sex ones.

Most of the paintings in the show date from the final two decades of the artist's life and reveal her ability to elevate conventional portraiture into a political and social statement.

Her Culture blog profiles Sheida Soleimani (Photography» 15) and how she uses her artwork to make a political or social statement.

As explained by curator Martina Weinhart, the installations are charged by political and social statements and require the public's participation, like in the work by Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida.

Holzer's social statements have recently come in the form of electronic message boards.

I also leaned toward work that made some sort of political or social statement.