Sentences with phrase «symbolic moment»

The action sequences are well - staged and some of the more dramatic and symbolic moments feature characters surrounded by bright and beautiful visuals.

Together, these works examine the conditions in which symbolic moments enter history, how these circumstances evolve over time, and how memory and history compete for relevance in the present.

The recent opening of Taubman Centers» new mall in Salt Lake City might have marked a nice symbolic moment for the retail real estate industry, but it's not about to usher in a new era of construction abandon...

Things are soon dire — which is Jolie's cue throughout the film to move in on Louis's face as he recalls symbolic moments in his life.

It seems to me a very symbolic moment, for what King had done was exchange the uniform of the preachers who dominated the SCLC for the uniform of the young activists in SNCC, and in so doing he was arguably giving evidence of his sensitivity to the charge of the latter that the former were insufficiently attentive to the class divisions within the civil rights movement.

It was a powerful symbolic moment — an inescapable reminder that the challenge of teaching low - income children has become the central issue in American education.

«I know that Martin McGuinness and his colleagues will use this hugely symbolic moment to spur on their work to create a better future for everyone in Northern Ireland.»

Movements benefit from symbolic moments and when assistant attorney for the district Chris Kirby tore into district parent Peggy Hatton, mocking her and calling her the «C - word» on tape, it served to unite the community against the board's status quo.

It's an unexpectedly literary turn for a film like this, the kind of obnoxiously symbolic moment that would doom a Hemingway hero.

It was a symbolic moment.

«Zhou Yu's Train,» like Mr. Wong's work, features a lot of romantic longing, underlined by ravishing, soft - focus imagery and swooning pop music, with a little bit of formal play manipulation of the time line, doubling of characters, obsessive repetition of symbolic moments that serves as proof of the director's artistic intention.

In a symbolic moment, the camera captures a digital clock ticking towards obsolescence.

Locke describes seeing the decay of these beautiful houses, which he once dreamed of living in, as seeing his childhood fall apart — an emotional and symbolic moment.

For someone who spent a lot of her career trying to figure out how to make it to partnership and have a family, it was quite a symbolic moment.

It will be a symbolic moment for the company — after all, it was at the same event last year that Faraday was lambasted for unveiling an overhyped concept car — and the hype has been commensurate.