Sentences with phrase «than a silenced object»

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The dummy then is no more than a substitute for the breast, an object to silence or pacify a baby when the real thing (the mother) is not available.

And Swinton, even when robbed of one of an actor's most expressive tools, somehow turns that deprivation to her advantage: Her hoarse, watchful silence sets her apart in more ways than one, and Marianne becomes both an object of desire and a figure of unexpected depth and compassion.

«Postmemory is a powerful form of memory precisely because its connection to its object or, source is mediated not through recollection but through representation, projection, and creation — often based on silence rather than speech, on the invisible rather than the visible...» Marianne Hirsche INTRODUCTION «The true picture of the past flits by.