Sentences with phrase «un-spooling literalization»

Again and again, it names the effects that literalization and the heaven - and - hell framework have had upon the meanings of Christian language.

The first is the literalization of language in the modern period.

Creed is a glorious literalization of that nostalgia.

by Walter Chaw For me, the James Bond films are the literalization of a very particular Conservative fantasy in which a suave, quippy, emotionally - arrested sociopath battles Cold War foes, beds beautiful women without consequence, always has the latest technology, and engages in the endless murder of foreigners.

by Walter Chaw On my better days, I still think of film as the quintessential artform of the last century — a medium for expression uniquely suited to our Modernist Yeatsian decomposition, what with its malleability beneath the knife, as it were, cut and spliced back together again as the un-spooling literalization of some patchwork Prometheus.

When the lower classes eat a flying eyeball, it's something like a horror - flick literalization of Marie Antoinette's suggestion of how to appease the masses mixed mysteriously with the great Illuminati eye.

When Caden's health begins to deteriorate in strange and grotesque ways (the possibilities of these sicknesses being all in his head or being meant as a literalization of his fear of death seem quite likely), Adele takes his daughter to Berlin for a week - long trip.

8 Although their actual presence in a particular location necessarily makes their relationship to that site a «reciprocal» one (they are altered by the conditions of exposure in the world even as they alter the character of the site by their presence), such works are in a sense mere literalizations of the kind of thematic expressed already in the sixteenth century, for example, by Giorgione's magnificent Dresden Venus (c. 1508/10).9