Sentences with phrase «summons memories»

He has a lot of fun with a balletic, vertical, mountainside chase - and - swordfight sequence that summons memories of «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.»

But rather than employ a straightforward narrative, Davies jumps in and out of time, swoops into fantasies and fears, summons memories and dreams.

The generic action — including a falling building that unfortunately summons memories of 9/11 — is presented in headache - inducing 3 - D, and the comedy isn't particularly sharp.

Speaking at a conference in California, he outlined a vision of a modest and local health care system that summons memories of local drugstores of post-war America serving food at lunch counters.

Recapturing those days and summoning memories of a time when the good folks won, cleanly and against all the odds, is the singular accomplishment of a splendid new documentary, Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism, which should be on everyone's summer must - watch list.

Recalling the feeling of falling in love will usually summon memories of where you had your first dinner.

When you summon memories of this film, they are almost always of two men in a room, in a default state of discontent.

Often stitching and adhering fragments and strips from earlier painted pieces onto larger canvases, he summons the memory of his mother, a seamstress who parlayed her talent at sewing dresses, hats, and Indian saris into a successful business.

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For population science was not only failing to help people, Connelly argues, but also actively harming some of them — and in a way that summoned some of the baser episodes of recent historical memory:

We shall have to consider a moment in the unfolding of the universe, that is, a snapshot that exists independently of any consciousness, then we shall try conjointly to summon another moment brought as close as possible to the first, and thus have a minimum of time enter into the world without allowing the faintest glimmer of memory to go with it.

Trojan Force Led by zealous coach Pete Carroll, USC is summoning up memories of Pac - 10 glory and making an impassioned run at its first outright national title in three decades

This was the longest night of Derrick's young life, the longest night he would ever suffer through, and it's a memory he summons freely as he sits in the rear of a crowded Kansas City restaurant 16 years later, speaking solemnly amid the boisterous din of happy hour.

What impresses me most about these nostalgia pieces is the vivid memories they clearly summon up for many here.

A hot dog vendor has positioned his cart up the hill, and the aroma of simmering meat wafts by, summoning your best memories of summer.

These links to emotion and learning also help explain why a single whiff can summon up powerful memories.

Po, the Dragon Warrior of the Valley of Peace, must grapple with a haunting memory from his childhood in order to summon the strength to do battle with this nefarious - and mightily armed - antagonist.

Beautiful untruths and half - truths abound in Michael Almereyda's quietly shimmering new movie, which takes place in a somewhat distant future when our deceased loved ones can be summoned back as «Primes» — artificially intelligent holograms that, through the act of talking and listening, become repositories of our own deeply unreliable memories.

The mission for which Dumbledore summoned Harry at the outset was to visit the London home of Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), who has become reclusive since his Hogwarts days, but is now urgently needed along with his memories of the young student Tom Riddle, who grew up to become the man whose name should rhyme with Death.

How to sculpt an environment that optimizes creative flow and summons relevant knowledge from your long - term memory through the right retrie

By summoning piecemeal memories from his life, Jonathan desperately tries to sort through the events that led to his incarceration — as much an attempt at personal understanding as an explanation and confession to his beloved friend.

So when her grandmother leaves the house to her, Jess summons her courage and returns to a place full of memories — and secrets.

Dark Souls 2 is filled with many other small changes, like summoning having a time limit and online play being tied to «soul memory,» an uncontrollable stat based on every enemy soul accrued throughout the game.

Carter himself has the ability to summon enemy units and use psychic powers, the most fun of which is the telekinetic lift which brings back fond memories of the gravity gun from Half Life 2.

Here's a short list of a couple; Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Summon Night 6, Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA, the recently announced Secret of Mana remake, and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth — Hacker's Memory.

The only vague memory he can summon in his mind is that of a sculpture atop a hill, depicting human hands reaching towards the sky.

Greenfield - Sanders digitally engineers impossible realities that summon a collective memory.

Consisting of 20 public interventions in the old neighborhoods of central Shanghai and 14 installations within MOCA building, the complex and involved show aims to «summon childhood memories that question the evolution of this massive city over the past few years.»

Through a variety of processes involving photography, research, documentation, and personal experience, de Andrade summons up a slice of memory and offers a deliberation on various forms of collective amnesia.

Is painting those forms a way to summon these deep subjects and memories?

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu: A career survey of a painter born in China shortly before the 1949 revolution traces her work's obsession with the power of memory and the cultural distances traversed in her experience.

In a multi-experiment study undertaken by two Harvard professors, adults who recalled good childhood memories «(seemed) to summon a heightened sense of moral purity.»