Sentences with phrase «something ineffable»

Balco writes: «Like Cézanne, Miller and Forge are not interested in description, but rather revelation: of something ineffable that can only be seen through engagement with the observed world.

Every act of film criticism is like a surgery — always haunted by the risk of failure, always at the risk of discovering something ineffable.

There's something ineffable going on in Entertainment, and it moves beyond parodying the bankrupt nature of comedy and into something more surreal.

For his second feature after the gentle teen comedy The Myth of the American Sleepover, writer - director David Robert Mitchell has produced the most unexpected and downright unnerving fright flick in years, a film that riffs smartly on the classics while adding something ineffable of its own.

Not exact matches

And when I started a public radio program on religion, ethics and meaning seven years ago, I was also quite aware that I was inviting people to put words around something as intimate as anything we try to talk about, and as ultimately ineffable.

«There was not a mere consciousness of something there, but fused in the central happiness of it, a startling awareness of some ineffable good.

We hope, because there remains in Marlo an ineffable sadness — within her, something is unresolved.

Scott Tobias gives the film the same «B +» grade as his colleague, but acknowledges that he thinks it's Malick's worst film, even though he found it affecting in its attempt to «give expression to the ineffable and show us something beautiful, reminding us that we live in a world that's larger than ourselves and crafted by that invisible hand.»

But even that doesn't capture the ineffable sense that Refn has captured in Drive something essential of the doom - laden, apocalyptic eighties to which it owes its greatest debt.

Yet Reynolds has never been modish, for his craft isn't fashion but couture, which is something else entirely — something supposedly ineffable and beyond the dictates of mere trend.

Like writing does for John, art seems to offer Robbie a way to tap into something deeper or ineffable in himself — his final story about Megaboy hints at how much he feels trapped and misunderstood.

Naturally, the world of finance isn't all that keen on ineffable terms like something or a feeling, so here, bonds are rather more precisely defined as a debt security, or simply an IOU.

Tiffany Bell and Frances Morris — the loving curators who put the London survey of her work together — include 1954's Untitled, with its Adolph Gottlieb — like shapes and a few other paintings of its kind, the better to show what it looked like as Martin moved away from the body and into drawing something more ineffable — nature, or more specifically, the cosmos at the heart of the natural world.

In a New York art scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism, with its emphasis on ineffable, sublime themes and maximum emotion, to depict something as humdrum as a flag was a radical gesture.

To «fathom» is to comprehend the essence of something colossal or ineffable by translating it into terms we can grasp.

I have traveled up the West Coast and across Puget Sound to explore just how the dean of relationship research has transmuted the most ineffable of experiences — love — into something particularly precise: mathematics.