Sentences with phrase «triumphant work»

Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny, The Emperor of Ocean Park is a triumphant work of fiction, packed with character and incident — a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murder, integrity tested, and justice gone terribly wrong.

The fact - based feature, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carrell, didn't have much awards luck in TIFF, but it did earn fans and every review singled out Stone's triumphant work as tennis icon Billie Jean King.

By the 1970s, de Kooning abandoned any form of representation concentrating solely on lyrical, abstract paintings that are widely considered some of his most triumphant works.

In the most triumphant works, further abstraction occurs, color is incorporated to energizing effect, and lines begin to fall away.

Moon's Nahan's Forty Winks, a lithographic musing on Korean American dual - consciousness, offers the kind of rich cultural treading and social relevance that make abstracted works in the exhibit, such as Willem de Kooning's lithograph or Ellsworth Kelly's signature geometric shapes, seem like empty reproductions compared to their much more triumphant works in painting.

Not exact matches

Most of the neo-orthodox and some of the radicals worked out and employed, however implicitly, a dialectical method whose subtlety was often lost on the reader amid the resounding proclamations of their triumphant theological conclusions.

The early Christians, therefore, intuitively treated suffering not as ignominy to be endured, but as opportunity to be used, and their typical attitude was positive and triumphant, as when Paul said, `' We know that to them that love God all things work together for good.»

Maybe they hoped he would lay out a Five Year Plan, by which hunger would be eliminated, the working poor triumphant, the hated overlords driven away, land reform instituted, inflation curbed, bread prices brought down, fishing rights restored.

It is almost as if the social activism of the 1920s and 1930s, summed up in the 1925 Life and Work slogan «Doctrine divides but service unites,» were once again ecumenically triumphant.

Since I last wrote on this subject, in the period approaching the Pope's triumphant visit (which, like many others, I was very concerned that this issue would be used by the Dawkins / Tatchell coalition to wreck) work has continued within the Church to understand the problem.

Accepting his party's nomination, Cuomo sounded a triumphant note in his party convention address that cited his successful efforts to pass gay marriage and gun control and his work to boost education investments and fix the economy of upstate New York.

Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor sent a triumphant memo to the labor - backed party's committee members yesterday, touting its performance Tuesday in New York, Connecticut and Vermont after a tumultuous year.

For he began singing that signature tune the moment Ed «the Eagle» Miliband, brow furrowed, eyes triumphant, began squawking about the cost of energy bills, and invited poor Kermit to «implement Labour's price freeze - two parties working together in the national interest».

It was a triumphant moment for the governor, and for unions and progressive groups who have worked for the last year to get Cuomo on board with a $ 15 hourly minimum wage.

It's a tricky balance, and director David Gordon Green (previously known for intense indie dramas) makes the wincing mortality work, finding a triumphant humor in dogged survival and suicidal loyalty.

The final sequence in which the triumphant adminstrator Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) gets to glimpse what he has wrought, however, is priceless.

While he was unfairly snubbed by the Academy for his work in American Beauty, he was triumphant three years later when he picked up the best supporting actor Oscar for his role in Spike Jonze's sharp meta - comedy.

Although this is not a biographical study, Thomas» book does proceed in a basically chronological manner, beginning with Lorre's work on the European stage in the 1920s and early 1930s, following his move to Hollywood and roles as a leading actor in the 1930s, proceeding to a study of his work as a supporting actor at Warner Bros. in the 1940s, his not - so - triumphant return to Europe to direct and star in Der Verlorene after WWII and finally his late screen roles in the 1950s and 1960s.

An incredible fusion of all elements working in harmony, Lenny Abrahamson's Room rises above audience trepidations of grimness to craft a triumphant human narrative.

Paramount to J.J. Abrams» (who was also responsible for resurrecting both the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchises with positive results) triumphant revitalization of the cultural phenomenon that is Star Wars, is a functionally working coexistence between the new major players introduced, along with fan favorite characters that have been heralded across multiple generations.

As in The Meyerowitz Stories, Baumbach's work is most insightful when characters perform an ugly tightrope walk between fashioning themselves as triumphant rebels and having to confront their own abject state of being.

Arguably his best work, the score to Gladiator is as triumphant as it is mesmerizing.

Franco had his work cut out for him in approaching this story; on paper, it's hard to identify whether it's a tragic tale of a man with a dream who failed spectacularly in trying to achieve it it, a comedy about a weirdo, or a triumphant tale of unexpected success.

Miramax - y product did / does have its virtues, however, and since John Wells is a director of some conscience and screenwriter Steven Knight is in fact capable of first - rate work, «Burnt» packs some minor surprises and attractive details along its way — one sequence in which David draws an analogy between Michelin book stars and «Star Wars» heroes is funny and apt — and shows a certain amount of restraint when the inevitable triumphant note is struck.

Freed either by working with the man responsible for her breakout role or by the chance to use her actual accent for once, Collette makes a triumphant return to the big screen, reminding audiences of how much we've missed her while she toiled away on Showtime's «United States of Tara.»

Moonlight is a political work in that it posits the experience of being black in the US, not with the triumphant exceptionalism of a film like The Birth of a Nation, but with attention and care to a common and shared humanity.

Since its founding, Team Triumphant, Inc. has worked with over 300 students in grades K - 12.

Author Linda Hirshman (Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution) keeps the life stories brief — O'Connor's Western upbringing and the can - do work ethic it instilled contrasts with Ginsburg's Brooklyn Jewish intellectual background, but both found their calling in the law and had to fight for the chance to practice.

A young widow's triumphant journey through grief During the first few months of Sophie Stanton's life as a widow, she goes to work dressed in her bathrobe, finds herself sobbing in the produce section of her local grocery store and is crippled with fear by the pattern on her shower curtain.

While there are part - time success stories, there are more triumphant tales from authors who work 60 - 80 hours per week.

Women carrying water from the river, men working iron in the fires, boys returning triumphant from the forest with snared porcupines.

With characters who spring to life as vividly as if they were members of one's own family, and with the clear - eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic - and triumphant - aspects of human nature, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is a memorable and lasting work of fiction.

Abby, our Fiction Editor, worked in publishing in New York before coming to BookPage, and she says Clegg's descent into drug addiction — and triumphant return to the publishing world — is something everyone in New York was talking about, long before the memoir was published.

How it works: All triumphant adventurers can look forward to a reward of up to 35 Euros!

Today she continues to create hyper - realistic sculpture in the tradition made famous by John De Andrea and the late Duane Hanson, but unlike the work of her male peers, who specialize in quotidian and unglamorous figures, Feuerman luxuriates in her models» grace and beauty — and their triumphant spirit.

His luxuriant paintings of vices and voyeuristic pleasures were celebrated in his first solo museum show earlier this year, at Philadelphia's Moore College of Art & Design; his work is appearing in gallery shows and art fairs around the world; and, this month, he will be the subject of Jeffrey Deitch's first show heralding the dealer's triumphant return to SoHo.

We are showing this plus other Paolozzi works; designs for his iconic Statue (Newton) that delights visitors to the British Library and images from his triumphant mosaic at Tottenham Court Rd Tube Station.

The last rooms of photographs and late works aren't the triumphant final toot that this show needed.

With an array of great works on offer, Flashback returns to Turin for what should be a triumphant fourth edition

But these works clearly shouldn't be written off, as they have been, as mere exercises in gloom, early symptoms of Pollock's decline after his triumphant (alcohol - free) spell in the late Forties.

Christopher Burge, Christie's auctioneer, described the sale afterwards as «really extraordinary» and «a triumphant vindication» of the auction house's decision to offer works by younger artists many of which are not even a decade old.

In addition to this triumphant return to his old gallery, with a show of new plate paintings (a series of works that first catapulted him to fame back in 1979), Schnabel has had major exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum; the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; and currently has a show at the Schloss Derneburg Museum in Germany, as well as an opening this week at the Almine Rech Gallery in New York.

Turner Winner Wallinger Calls for Return of Troops; TURNER PRIZE Vicky Anderson Watched the Triumphant Artist Reinforce His Work's Anti-War Stance Daily Post (Liverpool, England); December 4, 2007; Anderson, Vicky; 700 + words... named winner of the 2007 Turner Prize during a televised ceremony... previously nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, praised peace protester Brian Haw, whose seven - year protest... outfit, talking about the Turner Prize, but I wasn't familiar...

Like three untitled paintings from 1956 where large Xs renounce a circle, a square, and a rectangle, «Work (Yellow Cloth)» feels simultaneously like an impassioned renunciation of the past and the triumphant declaration of a free future.

Her work was also shown in the exhibition PPP: Public Private Paintings in Mu.ZEE, Ostend and in Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life in the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

The triumphant Evening sale on May 15th raised an unmatched $ 495,021,500 (# 326,714,190 / $ 386,116,770)-- the highest total in auction history, setting an astonishing 16 new auction records for the foremost artists of the last six decades, with 3 works sold above $ 40 million, 9 above $ 10 million and 23 above $ 5 million.

They came to prominence in my work following 9/11, the day of my MA graduation, when I showed a painting of Osama Bin Laden pointing a gun at a triumphant George Bush.

The geometric repetition seen in Le Coq, and later on a grand scale in Brancusi's triumphant Endless Column, is a recurring compositional element in the works in this exhibition.

«Turner Winner Wallinger Calls for Return of Troops; TURNER PRIZE Vicky Anderson Watched the Triumphant Artist Reinforce His Work's Anti-War Stance.»

Goodman's paintings transform her (and our collective) fears and deepest pains into the beautiful — painting her way to make works that are triumphant and move us on levels we may not understand but always feel.