Sentences with phrase «way of allusion»

«Richards generates meaning through abundance, by way of allusion, ellipsis and unity of tone, the lack of legibility counterbalanced by a strong sense of mood.»

The language of these chapters is echoed with remarkable frequency all through the New Testament, either in direct quotation, or by way of allusion.

Not exact matches

«That allusion was something Kevin Feige really wanted to put into this script, because it sort of embodies the internal struggle that Peter Parker is facing throughout, where he is his own greatest enemy in some ways, to have to accept himself before he can do anything helpful for the world.

This new tone is the language of Scripture, a tapestry of citations and allusions woven together in such a way that what the Council teaches will appear ultimately as the Scripture applied to the point in question.

Part of the difficulty with the book of Hebrews is that it was written to Hebrews, and as such, contains numerous allusions to Hebrew ways of thinking and the Hebrew Scriptures.

A few allusions along the way tie this history to the current scandal of priestly sexual abuse and its cover - up.

A charming panel by the «Master of the Winking Eyes» (Ferrara, c. 1450) shows the mother playing with her child as her veil slips over his head, an allusion to the way in which the flesh Christ took from Mary «veils» the Godhead.

KC discussing the cultural shift in the press, subtle allusion to Tony Blair refuting the notion that the development of spin in some way contributed to the development of the phone hacking saga.

Working through an enormous canon of cinematic influences in a far more satisfying way than Carax's glib offering (Gomes» titular allusion to Murnau is no coincidence), Melbourne's resplendent Forum Theatre proved a fittingly grand venue for Gomes» expansive vision: this film is a joy to watch.

Most of my enjoyment of it comes primarily through the ingenious way they mix many different elements, from the fantasy realm of the movies, to the quasi-real (but still fantasy) realm of what's «real», and of course, the allusions to real - life people and movies.

Pointing the way toward the psychological bent Mann would give his Westerns, especially in the Stewart films, The Furies plays up its Freudian complications and allusions to Greek tragedy, going to places far darker and disturbing than most Westerns of its time.

An explosion occurs on the Klingon moon known as Praxis (an allusion to the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl), which makes the Klingon race face possible extinction, as their way of life crumbles, rendering them a superpower no longer (akin to the breakup of the USSR).

Reinforcing the sense that Cincinnati teenagers are the target audience is Bertolucci and Adair's almost abject reliance on every American cliche about the French they can summon up — all the way down to the pseudotriumphant use of Edith Piaf's «Non, je ne regrette rien» (with its irrelevant lyrics) over the final credits — and their systematic elimination of all the atmospheric allusions in the novel to Left Bank locations.

Sometimes it can work, provided that the storyline works well enough on its own that the constant allusions to the original work don't get in the way of enjoying it on its own terms; Clueless is a prime example of such a movie.

That development, one might also recall, led to some really imaginative and cutting allusions to a once - great town trying anything to overcome economic collapse and, in the process, creating Sardine Land — a place no one in town would really want to see and no tourists would go out of their way to visit.

The stories have some clever sci - fi twists, and they throw in witty, if slightly dated, allusions along the way (one of the giant apartment blocks is named after Billy Carter, while the one for the old and infirm is the Ronald Reagan Block).

It's just another allusion to gut instinct — which, by the way, is one of the most powerful instincts around.

Well, imagine that someone quotes and makes significant allusions to your hero's book and does so in a way that ruins the original meaning, and replaces it with a meaning of far lesser value very different from the original meaning.

There's a lot of allusions to the seventeen - year - old FFVIII, such as the Weapon's Monthly magazines, and the way magic is drawn from certain points in the game is similar to the Junction System.

Besides the myriad of thematic allusions, Still Movie also becomes a new way to see painting.

Perhaps a different way of saying that, is that through these allusions to notions of tempo, phrasing, duration, repetition, etc., the show also explores the musicality of looking.

The direction in which the threads are sewn mimic the way brush marks are layered within a painting which, in turn, gives the allusion of depth, volume, and form.

Simmons often uses language or site - specific drawings of buildings, painted and then smeared in ways that evoke movement through time and space and call up allusions to history or cinema.

The allusion to the campfire and the idea of gathering around its warmth to share a meal draws our attention to the attitude of the Group of Seven artists and their way of painting much more than to the reputation of their works or their historical impact.

Have you finally found a way out of the labyrinth that is life and found A Great Perhaps [an allusion to Karuti's earlier work] in these other possible worlds you create in this new body of work?

By using the face, Tony Oursler opens the way to a large number of allusions ranging from elements deriving from areas ranging from the media via mass communication to psychology.

Carl Andre revolutionized sculpture in the 1960s with his flattened, modular works that abandoned verticality — and any accompanying allusions to architecture and the human body — in favor of creating what he famously called «sculpture as place,» explaining, «a place is an area within an environment which has been altered in such a way as to make the general environment more conspicuous.»

Out of these currents and many others, Marshall has crafted his own world, which, dense with contradictory allusions, seems not so much impenetrable as labyrinthine, offering us a way in but no obvious way out.

Now he says that there was a «sly allusion» to it, which is another way of saying «it was discussed.»