Sentences with phrase «synecdoche for»
Not even a full 60 minutes have passed in director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's 317 - minute Japanese ensemble drama Happy Hour when there's a scene that functions as a synecdoche for the entire film.
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The outcome is that «torture porn» acts as a synecdoche for all extreme horror that ultimately exposes «inattentiveness to horror that exists outside the mainstream.»
The idea of spiritual meaning expressed in style is deftly encapsulated in the first shot of «First Reformed,» a neat synecdoche for the whole film.
The Congers Elementary School has again become the synecdoche for what is wrong in Clarkstown.
Further, Paul's reference to the sword in Romans 13.4 is a pointed synecdoche for executive power or government power more generally.
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It is possible to think about the beatified soul partly because (especially in the work of women mystics and Bonaventure, and in light of the practice of dismemberment of the saints for dispersion into reliquaries) «a new use of synecdoche throbs with enthusiasm for body and for all that to which body gives us access.
This is why the synecdoche of the little photograph was sufficient, superabundant even, densely informative, formative... and why I dared not pay the work any direct attention for 30 years.