Sentences with phrase «through nightmare visions»

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The storming of the fortified beaches of Normandy is an entropic nightmare, a vision of chaos and carnage in which Allied infantry managed to not only maintain their sanity with the very real possibility of being killed at a moment's notice, but also successfully break through enemy lines and punch a major hole into Nazi - occupied France.

When Stuart Klawans says «the nightmare vision of white people exerting their dominance not just around him but inside his body», he points to what may be one of the most damaging aspect of Jordan Peele's vision — that growing up Black in America means that many young Black people see themselves through White eyes and suffer the sometimes crippling psychological effects of that sadly harsh and limiting vision.

Loznitsa concludes with a vision of Russia sleeping through waking catastrophe and encountering only more nightmares, revealing that the film hasn't just been skating by on horrors; the pain is real.

Moving on to 1954 and the low - keyed eighth painting in the series (now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York)-- greys, blues, muffled yellows on a surface just over six feet high by three and a half feet wide, a motor metropolis of tightly curving ramps with headlight beams spreading like stains suggest a vision, slightly smudged, as if seen through the thick glass window of a skyscraper; at any rate remote from the scene of automotive nightmare.

The 700 - piece retrospective, up from the 22nd of this month through April 26, will place Burton's playful artwork alongside storyboards, props, and costumes from grim fantasies such as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Sweeney Todd — which, Magliozzi hopes, will give viewers a more nuanced perception of the director's filmic vision.

Morgan Library and Museum: «Visions and Nightmares: Four Centuries of Spanish Drawings» (through May 11) Skipping from 16th - century church commissions to Goya in just 25 objects, the Morgan's first show of Spanish drawings is necessarily awkward.