Sentences with phrase «strange hybrid of»

If the Arte Povera movement challenged established art conventions through its use of found or «low» materials, and if abstract expressionism was in many ways a tradition of American hegemony during the Cold War and the ultimate in «high art seriousness» as practitioners confronted the sublime and the subconscious in their energetic output, Scott's paintings are a strange hybrid of both.

The Royal Academy of Arts» ever popular Summer Exhibition is back again — a strange hybrid of art fair and curated exhibition, featuring many established artists and a healthy dose of young up and comers.

The previously Japanese exclusive mobile game is a strange hybrid of Pokemon-esque RPG monster battling and those 2p machines you see down the arcade.

The first Lost Kingdoms was a strange hybrid of action - RPG and card collecting that was unfortunately a little unbalanced and clunky at times but otherwise a solid, if brief, offering.

Namco's Metal Marines is a strange hybrid of real - time strategy and SimCity-esque planning for the Super NES.

Golf Story is set to be a strange hybrid of RPG and golf gameplay, complete with an expansive story.

The gameplay in Boom Blox looks like a strange hybrid of Jenga, Animal Crossing, and Rube Goldberg machines.

An extremely strange hybrid of dark comedy / drama, actor turned director John Slattery's (from Mad Men fame) film God's Pocket will likely be forever known only because of it's featuring of one of screen legend Philip Seymour Hoffman's last roles as grubby (when wasn't he grubby?)

Forster creates some stunning images with this strange hybrid of various zombie tropes — particularly in the Israel sequence, as the monsters overwhelm the city, spilling over walls, and bringing down helicopters — but there's something too fake - y about them.

We're part of an informal community of breastfeeding advocates (and me, although I do consider myself a breastfeeding advocate, albeit a strange hybrid of one) where we discuss ways to better serve all mothers and provide REAL support and education.

The result was (is) a «strange hybrid of superstition and idolatrous religious concepts.

The Nephilim were the strange hybrids of Genesis 6, apparently the principal reason for the judgment of the Flood of Noahs time.

Sonic Forces is quite possibly the strangest hybrid of past Sonic games that I have ever played when it comes to the gameplay.

Not exact matches

Allaire told me that he believes the strange mishmash of Mandarin and English concocted there is likely to become the lingua franca of the future, a prediction that reminded me of what sci - fi enthusiasts might have said about a Japanese - English hybrid in the «80s, when the cyberpunk aesthetic of Neuromancer and Blade Runner held sway.

It could well be a sort of strange hybrid party, a getting - together of the left and the right.

Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»

The Germany midfielder had been used in a strange tucked - in right - sided role, some weird hybrid of wide midfielder and holding player.

«The evolutionary process... of this very strange hybrid strain may be a very interesting scientific story,» Yang wrote in his e-mail.

In another manuscript, the strange choice of materials matched the bizarre contorted hybrid figures seen swarming across the page margins.

The Switch is such a familiar part of the gaming landscape now that it's strange to consider that Nintendo's hybrid device is about to head into its first holiday season.

This strange, Oscar - winning hybrid is, of all things, a neo-noir crime courtroom musical.

Despite taking place almost exclusively in the fictional landscape of a game world, what few special effects emerge are, in typical Cronenbergian fashion, physical rather than digital; the one major use of CGI is a two - headed lizard / frog hybrid, and its appearance is genuinely surprisingly more because we're so unaccustomed to seeing anything wholly computer - generated than because of how strange it actually looks — and that effect still holds up remarkably well.

Love Me or Leave Me is a strange film, a hybrid of conflicting genres which never quite merges into a whole, but is part of the film's unnerving power.

The DLC game pack presents hours of fresh Elder Scrolls stories and is jammed with unforgettable architecture, strange creatures, and powerful hybrid monsters.

At Cannes we called the film «a strange and certainly not wholly successful hybrid» and ultimately «a minor entry» in Denis» filmography; however, the director still remains one of the most interesting and distinctive working today.

It's not nearly as easy on the impatient unwilling to spend the time to master the intricacies of unit management and deployment needed to excel in this strange little hybrid of multiplayer online battle arena and tower defense.

A strange but mostly satisfying hybrid of WWII actioner and anti-war satire, 1970's Kelly's Heroes echoes the action of director Brian G. Hutton's previous film — the 1968 When Eagles Dare — while embracing the counter-cultural comedy of M * A * S * H.

Oddworld: Strangers Wrath HD is an HD remake of the much loved classic hybrid FPS and 3rd person adventure.

Barrett - Jackson's no stranger to the hybrid supercar trio from McLaren, Ferrari, and Porsche, and it looks like a 918 Spyder is the star of this year's sale.

Audi is no stranger to hybrid power, making good use of it in its dominant R18 Le Mans cars.

Manual operation is actually worth the effort, and there's something gleefully strange in the sensation of sliding the back wheels of a hybrid.

Toyota has also removed all of the strange noises the old Camry Hybrid made.

One strange feature of the Ioniq Hybrid is that you only seem to be able to use a third of the battery's charge.

Thanks to our friend SHM's Studio we have accessed to this pictures of a mysterious Kia Optima Hybrid, but if you take a closer look you will find something strange on its body panels.

Now that the hybrid concept has been proven to work, it would be strange if Nintendo were to make a new traditional system of any kind, as that would essentially be a step backward.

Organic life forms are something of an endangered species, instead replaced by strange, technical hybrids and machines long laid into slumber.

Knowing this secret to instant success, Square - Enix brought the PSP a little title called Final Fantasy Dissidia, a strange fighter / RPG hybrid that consisted of characters from every numbered Final Fantasy title.

Some of the smaller animals and non-essential hybrids that you have to photograph for the local science center are a bit uninspired and / or undetailed, but that and some strange shadows are the only graphical problems I experienced.

Its inhabitants, the Inklings, are strange human - squid hybrids who can switch forms at will, splattering paint on the floor in their biped guise then swimming through it as a squid, and their obsession is a manic form of paintball.

The DLC game pack presents hours of fresh Elder Scrolls stories and is jammed with unforgettable architecture, strange creatures, and powerful hybrid monsters.

Many people had high hopes for the Wii U when it was introduced, but the console, like some strange hybrid animal, could never get its footing on the rocky shores of the console space.

One of the better offerings in the strange genre of RPG - puzzle hybrids.

A strange, very hard - to - describe hybrid of hack»n' slash action, real - time strategy and

This technique adds to the believability of Catimbang's images — their life - like renderings look as though these strange hybrids could have always existed.

This work is a homespun faerie tale, a re-creation of cultural folklore and a personal mythology — a world populated by recurring fantastical creatures and strange hybrid phenomena.

Intended to reference a multitude of ecological forms, both floral and aquatic, her constructions are ultimately free from origin and nomenclature; they are strange organic hybrids that effectively evoke the enigmatic beauty of the natural world.

They are a strange hybrid between pre-Christian Anglo - Saxon craft and the austere aesthetics of Modernism, like miniature monoliths in search of spiritual significance.

With CATALIN, «a Wagnerian hybrid environment of sculpture, film, music, fragrance, theater, performance, and grand spectacle» at Jones Center; and Pet Sounds, sculptures at Laguna Gloria that «begin as railings and morph into luscious, playful blobs that engage the viewer with murmurs, vibrations, and strange sounds when touched,» Long explores the human condition «and the fragility of our physical and psychological worlds.»

Commingling the strange with the familiar, Chris Garofalo's hybrid forms envision potential relationships between Earth's species during imaginary eras of time.

He distorts and renews this material so that it stands out and becomes his own: a kind of strange hybrid that blurs boundaries between the comic and the tragic, the grotesque and the beautiful, the classic and the innovative.