Sentences with word «unblinking»

Kusama's drawings both illustrate and interpret Andersen's story, bringing it to terrifying life, and Andersen's words lend narrative content to Kusama's landscapes of unblinking eyes, curling tendrils and disembodied profiles.

Although Kusama previously illustrated a 2012 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, her marker drawings for The Little Mermaid are more enigmatic, even sinister, packed with unblinking eyes and tentacled creatures swirling in a hallucinatory underwater world.

In fact the direct, unblinking stare of Warhol's subjects, who are framed head - on in direct confrontation with the camera, is initially more withholding than revealing.

And in trade publishing, author contracts may be the last arena in which you can see the old silence of the trads in force — that unblinking gaze with which a once more stable industry looks back when asked hard questions.

I felt extremely tense while playing BioShock, sitting rigid on the couch, my eyes stuck in unblinking attention.

It's hard not to give it bonus points for avoiding prison movie clichés and for taking a long, unblinking look at the complex dynamics of one American family.

A ghostly phosphorescence, a gleaming flash, its large eyes unblinking as it slipped into a seam in the current, then rose toward the luminous surface where a school of tuna was pecking at the tiny larvae and crustaceans snagged on a weed line.

People work the phones, air - kiss visitors, scuttle about carrying trays of Starbucks, stare unblinking into computer monitors, shielded from the world by their noise - cancelling headphones, and furtively return head hunters» calls from stairwells.

The events and controversies of Malcolm X's life, culminating in his assassination, are presented with unblinking realism in a bold graphic - novel format.

«Help them stare at failure with unblinking honesty... give them a chance to fall down and get back up on their own.»

Lynas, always a realist, gives unblinking assessments of our choices — but still finds possibilities for hope.

Steering a sailboat in a race requires unblinking focus.

At times robotic and at others animistic, their bodily contortions — often coupled with zombie - like disaffected stares or, conversely, malicious unblinking glares — are those of a community still reeling from a traumatic event.

Some Cities brims with confidence, as the band delivers a mix of Motown rhythms and windswept melodies with unblinking force.

The fast - paced track requires an hour of unblinking attention and while some of the «facts» are actually very funny jokes, others are painfully obvious and pointless.

Kaurismäki play these interviews slowly and seriously, with Sherwan Haji giving Khaled's account of his ordeals in long takes, the camera holding on his largely expressionless, unblinking face (the actor gives a terrifically affecting performance throughout, faultlessly low - key and entirely uningratiating).

Because it is not a path to surety, but a way of living in mystery, of staring straight into that fixed, unblinking camera, while holding tightly onto whatever hope we have.

blue bird — he is very strong, large unblinking eyes show that he is alert and can see all things both good and bad, love the flap, pure of heart and a True Hero 10/10

It takes an iron gut, homework, street smarts and unblinking discipline.

But I can't help but wonder if, after eight years of unblinking decisiveness from George W. Bush, America isn't ready for a guy who will pause before committing billions of dollars and thousands of lives to a cause, and who recognizes the importance of thoughtful give - and - take when it comes to making policy and pursuing diplomacy.

Jimmy Croll, Holy Bull's droll, 74 - year - old trainer, reacted to such sniping with a face of unblinking certainty.

After a while, I figured out what was making me so uncomfortable: The knots in the wood paneling were paired like unblinking eyes all around me.

His focused energy, coupled with unusually wide, unblinking blue eyes, can be unnerving.

It's the bright, unblinking spot in the sky.

With unblinking candor, Robbie's Tonya says that her story became so big because the 24/7 news cycle needed something to fill it.

Greenaway's regard is certainly unblinking, though it's hard to see where the seriousness and compassion come in.

Meanwhile, his defense minister, Shimon Peres (an eerily unblinking Eddie Marsan, with some unfortunate fake eyebrows), wants to make a stronger statement and take swift action.

HELMUT BERGER, ACTOR Austria, France, Italy, 2015 Texas Premiere, 90 min Director — Andreas Horvath Filmmaker Andreas Horvath (EARTH»S GOLDEN PLAYGROUND) offers a deeply personal and unblinking portrait of Helmut Berger, the Austrian film star of the «60s and «70s best known for his work with director Luchino Visconti.

In one scene, his wide, expressive eyes stream unblinking tears, conveying a horrifically visceral feeling of physical and metaphorical powerlessness.

He also saw the opportunity to give audiences the wish fulfilment of living with animals, and for that the world and characters needed to pass the test of unblinking believability.

Featuring another exceptional late - career performance from Jack Nicholson, the movie pokes fun without feeling mean - spirited, capturing Payne's native Nebraska and my native Denver with the same kind of unblinking critical affection.

It's immediate, gripping stuff, with Eastwood engaged and depicting the incident in unblinking real time.

But an uneasy triangle develops between Thomas, Edith and Thomas's unsmiling, unblinking sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain), who clearly has plans for her brother's sweet young bride.

Early film vampires — Nosferatu, Dracula — worked to establish vampiric Otherness; every measured step, unblinking close - up, and beat of preternatural calm built a glossary.

Despite his Mormon background, writer - director Neil LaBute has made a name for himself as somewhat of an heir to David Mamet with his theatrically tough dialogue and unblinking themes.

The effect is of a crisp, unblinking intentness, one that induces the viewer to pay attention to the characters, their words and interactions from a natural, unforced remove.

SNL trots out a good ol' gross - out sketch like this every once in awhile, but if you don't have Dan Aykroyd anchoring the bloody business with a truly inhabited, unblinking central performance, or the guest hosts being willing to have chewed food spit into their mouths, then the whole thing turns out to be, well, a mess.

Time is a formidable enemy in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and thus it's appropriate that its scenes, shot in handheld cinemascope, are built around prolonged, pitilessly unblinking takes in which the camera doesn't always follow the actors, or even wait for them to appear.

Derek Cianfrance's relationship drama Blue Valentine conducts a harsh, unblinking autopsy on the doomed marriage of Ryan Gosling, a heavy - drinking slacker much too comfortable with his complete lack of ambition, and Michelle Williams, a practical wife who comes to the bitter realization that she needs to grow old with a man, not a boy, no matter how impishly charming the boy might be.

These are the kinds of unblinking questions we have to ask as we interrogate our practices.

Paul Haggis follows his writerly adaptation of a melancholy boxing tale with a literate and unblinking riff on Angelino bigotry, a movie built on a contrived but still moving movie sermon.

When Nana saw the bowl, her face flushed red and her upper lip shivered, and her eyes, both the lazy one and the good, settled on Mariam in a flat, unblinking way.

The jury's comment: «Ware's astute and precise renderings, composed with a tender yet unblinking clinical eye and fleshed out with pristine and evocative coloring, trace the mundane routines and moments of small crisis that his characters inhabit.

'' [Maia is] right up there in the top branches of indie games to stare at with creepily unblinking desire.»

Primarily headed up by Nina Struthers» unblinking comedic presence, she was joined by bit characters like the scientist Margaret as things devolved (hah) into body horror and gore.

Well, how about two of them, eternally guarding your cherished pet's tomb in unblinking vigil?

Erotic art today doesn't emanate the sense of abandon that lay behind the Olympia Press's activities, or the epoch - shifting power of Manet's unblinking nude.