Sentences with phrase «theme as a comparison»

Continuing the divorce theme as a comparison to a church split, my dad's divorce from my mother still defines him to this day, after 12 years.

Not exact matches

And if my experience resembles a less - agonizing version of the experience of Bill Murray's Phil Connors character in Groundhog Day, that may be fitting inasmuch as the two movies invite comparison as different treatments of a common theme.

It has differentiated itself from grand macrotheoretical formulations concerned with value orientations, the comparison of whole civilizations, or global assertions about dominant themes in modernity such as universalism, pragmatism, and the like.

It's finally impossible to label Ed tv as anything more than a sporadically effective yet predominantly misguided satire, with the movie, for the most part, paling in comparison to the similarly - themed Truman Show.

It's vital that she's as good as she is, because the story requires her to exert the kind of pull that might have men prepared to ruin themselves after just a glimpse of her — arguably also a central theme of «Two Lovers» but more persuasively sold here because of Cotillard's alluring aura of unknowability, even while she's entirely engaged (Of course she also benefits from far more screen time here than Gwyneth Paltrow in «Two Lovers» so it's probably an unfair comparison).

Making Observations, with a focus on such skills as gathering and drawing conclusions from textual evidence; noticing patterns; tracing the development of central ideas and themes; detecting shifts in voice, tone, and point of view; and drawing comparisons across texts.

Including extracts from Dickens, Bronte and Shakespeare, but also more modern, accessible texts such as Willy Russell's Our Day Out, Harry Potter and Roald Dahl's Boy, this collection aims to provide a wide range of texts through which to study the range of skills vital in the new curriculum, such as pre-19th Century Literature, poetry, comparison of theme and time period, language and structural features.

Submissions examining these three themes in domestic and international contexts as well as using cross-cultural comparisons are encouraged.

This section then presents comparisons and common themes observed across districts in the areas of organizational structures and the roles, selection, deployment, staffing, professional development, and evaluation of principal supervisors, as well as the preparation, selection, support, and evaluation of principals.

With this in mind, the top floor of the exhibition serves as a masterful stroke of curating, showing a number of mid-20th century canvases by the artist that serve not only to chart his evolution and development of his immediately recognizable painterly themes, but also to invite a striking comparison to the artist's compatriots.

While the organizational principles of the first presentation remain — such as gallery installations aligned with the geographic locations where the works were created — a deeper understanding of Still's imagery and themes are revealed through new comparisons and associations, suggesting there is still much to learn about this extensive body of work.