Sentences with phrase «well as a touchstone»

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The first, a Tim Curry - starring television miniseries, has become a pop culture touchstone, though it's neither as good or as scary as its popularity would lead you to believe.

During the modern era, science served as the touchstone for intellectual rigor, and often for good reason.

That's his thesis, more or less, and despite considerable meandering through a smorgasbord of thinkers, movements, events, and philosophies, most home - grown and more than a few half - baked, he sustains it or, better put, continually returns to it as his touchstone.

The restaurant's menu is diverse and flavor - forward, inspired by DaSilva and Coddington's upbringing as well as the various cultural touchstones that they find irresistible.

They tap the deep ethical principals they forged at Waldorf as a touchstone that serves them well throughout their lives.

While politicians elsewhere in the UK do their best to avoid touchstone moral issues such as abortion and gay rights come election season, they're still a staple of Northern Ireland politics.

In addition, he is the author of the best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition.

The technical features on Roger Rabbit are not as perfect as we would expect from a Disney / Touchstone release, but well done nevertheless.

Featuring all the touchstones of a typical Pixar film — it's funny, charming, clever and touching, often at the same time — «Inside Out» is one of the studio's most unique features to date, and arguably its most mature as well.

That is enough to chalk this up as a commercial win for The Walt Disney Company, who distributed this and four other DreamWorks Pictures under their Touchstone banner in 2011 per a multi-year deal to healthy profits on all but one (Fright Night) and two Best Picture nominations.

If there was any doubt to the validity of Disney's goal to make non-family movies, 1987's numbers removed it as Disney's top four films again hailed under the Touchstone name and included the first and fourth top - grossing films of the year in holiday season releases Three Men and a Baby and Good Morning, Vietnam, each earning well over $ 100 million and easily deserving classification as a «blockbuster.»

I didn't walk into James Mangold's Logan expecting to find George Stevens» Shane, one of the best movies ever made about the toll of violence, explicitly and thoughtfully called to duty as a thematic touchstone.

Many may wish to give the film a spot in their collections too, whether if it's as one of the 1980s» biggest blockbusters, as one of the Walt Disney Company's earliest and most successful Touchstone films, or more likely, as an amusing human drama which provides a unique and compelling take on a cinematically well - tread period of history.

To date, the film has generated $ 168 million domestically and half as much overseas, striking one of the highest grosses in the careers of all four leading men, all of whom have headlined past blockbusters (as well as some of the better Disney / Touchstone movies of the 1990s).

Other important»80s touchstones, like John Hughes teen comedies and all those films in which a person wakes up in the wrong body — «Big» and «All of Me» were the best of them — have been overlooked as inspirations.

Drawing on King Hu's 1967 wuxia classic Dragon Inn, as well as his own (uncredited) 1992 remake, plus Yojimbo, Kagemusha, and any number of other cinematic touchstones, Tsui Hark's Flying Swords of...

There is solipsism as well as grandeur in these doom - and - gloom spectacles, but there is also tremendous feeling — and in «Donnie Darko,» that feeling manifests itself most powerfully in an abiding reverence for the cultural touchstones of its moment.

Classic film noir served as a touchstone for many visual touches, Deckard's world - weary characterization, and the femme fatale look and actions of Rachel (Sean Young), a replicant who draws Deckard's interest, despite his better instincts.

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Released nearly seventeen years ago, Beaches is probably as well - known as any other Touchstone Pictures film.

He is a veteran of touchstone organizations behind the efforts to remake public schools — Teach for America and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and its superintendent training program — as well as the hard - charging charter school efforts in New York City.

Using sites like this one as a clearing house, a touchstone, a place to make sure you know what you're doing is a good way to keep yourself in the know.

The Pre Plus comes with an inductive back battery cover so you can use the phone with the Touchstone charger out - of - the - box, as well as 16 GB of internal memory (double the memory of the original).

Here are some photos from our earlier unboxing, the keyboard and TouchStone charger boxes as well as some comparative pictures with other 10.1» inch tablets the iPad 2 as well as the Motorola XOOM.

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Brian cites Dark Souls as a touchstone for the kind of game they want to make, where players can approach the elements of the story in a different order, do different things, and — if they're good enough — bypass areas entirely in the open world.

Indeed, finding key touchstones that resonant with consumers has played an important role in NIS America's marketing for other titles as well, said Costa.

DAVID SALLE — They were a touchstone for me as well.

In writing dedicated to his paintings a reader will find frequent reference to Northern Renaissance and Venetian art, Persian miniatures, as well as more modern touchstones like Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning.

I employ geometry as a possible carrier of meaning, materiality & formality as vehicles within my process, and intuition & memory as touchstones for what I've learned and remember, as well as tools to challenge my thoughts and feelings as I move forward.

Never performed in the Bard's lifetime, though it seems to be enjoying a revival today, «Timon» functions for Drennen as a cultural touchstone that seems at once familiar and not really well known.

Young's project, as well as the other three, emphasized architectural place as a touchstone for cultural memory; stressed community involvement in the construction and reception of the work; and reflected upon how a historically black neighborhood has consistently and creatively attended to its own needs despite meager resources and the continued trauma of structured inequality.

The Mimbres series elaborates on a touchstone of Varejão's practice: azulejões, paintings influenced by the hand - painted ceramic tiles dating to the 17th and 18th century that were brought to Brazil from Portugal, as well as 11th century cracked Song Dynasty pottery from China.

His other credits include Just Cause (Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne) for Warner Brothers in 1995; The Mambo Kings (Antonio Banderas) for Warner Brothers in 1992, for which he received an Academy Award nomination as lyricist for «Best Song»; The Good Mother (Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson) for Touchstone in 1988; as well as Gorillas in the Mist (Sigourney Weaver) for Warner Brothers / Universal Pictures; and Legal Eagles (Robert Redford, Debra Winger) for Universal Pictures in 1986.

Those pieces are all here, along with a painting by Surrealist René Magritte — a touchstone for Gober — as well as trompel» oeil tattered - book re-creations by San Francisco artist Steve Wolfe, the subject of a Menil show planned for April.

Please do not get hung up on this touchstone series the way many historians have, fetishizing this work to the point where these works have not only been deemed «the last paintings,» but seen as Stella's best work.

He lists the work of Beauford Delaney, Edward Bannister, and Gerhard Richter along with Ellsworth Kelly's yellow square as important touchstones, as well as: ``... an out of place pubic hair, centipede scurrying / On the wall, wind, sirens, a shadow cast in many directions.»

(4) for someone who (like me) generally respects your opinion and uses your technical expertise as a touchstone for evaluating technical questions they are incapable of understanding (either by way of insufficient background or intellectual limitations — or both, as in my case), you undermine your own credibility by accusing someone who at least seems to be engaging in good faith, of engaging in bad faith.

She noted that this same tension was noted in the Touchstones report as well:

The true position was that it had found those terms to be unfair in a consumer contract using as its touchstone the typical consumer so as to apply the Art 4 criteria as best it could.

Java development in a position where, as need and opportunity dictate, we strive to harness the full range of resources available in Java, including other languages running on the JVM; and where best practices, craftsmanship and cognizance of the contemporary state of the art are touchstones of daily effort.