Sentences with phrase «white whale of»

This concept — that you can pick and pay for only the channels you want — has been the white whale of cord cutters for as long as cord cutting has been a thing.

Thus the title «Moby Dick» should not suggest that this painting is a literal portrayal of the Great White Whale of Herman Melville's novel.

Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby - Dick, a great white whale of tremendous size and ferocity.

The footnote to the Essex tragedy is that it loosely inspired Herman Melville's Moby - Dick, which becomes In the Heart of the Sea's raison d'être as Howard sets out to conquer the white whale of literature with all the legitimacy of Melville and none of the author's high - school syllabus stigma.

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For whatever reason trends and designs over the last 5 years have taken us far below and far above the knee while the classic length I long for remains a white whale of sorts unless it's a body - hugging pencil, which isn't always what I want.

The great white whale of games remains the Asian pastime Go.

Mickelson, however, ate up almost every bit of sunlight before the start of an event that's become the white whale of his career.

Yield, White Whale of Hawthorne!

The white whales of the Arctic are among the most vocal of all marine mammals — newborns even babble like human babies.

Not exact matches

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And then of course, there is the white whale — the first ever Bitcoin index ETF.

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

Ahab's own fixation was on the great white whale as the mask of some «inscrutable malice,» sinewing the whole.

As Dr. J. S. Whale exclaims, «If water might suddenly freeze in midsummer; if the specific gravity of lead might at any time become that of thistledown; if pigs might fly or the White House turn into green cheese — man's life would be a nightmare.»

According to Dr. Altizer, «Ahab's mad quest for the white whale can be seen as faith's response to the death of God, wherein the man of faith becomes the murderer of God so as to make possible a historical actualization of God's death in Jesus, and thus an apocalyptic consummation of God's original self - sacrifice or self - negation.»

Dr. Altizer has a highly original interpretation of the meaning of Captain Ahab's quest for the great white whale in Moby Dick.

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Asked about the timing of the SEC action during an interview Monday on CNBC, Spitzer, who prosecuted securities fraud as the state's attorney general, said that «there's no question the SEC is desperate to prove that it can enforce the law, desperate to bring in the great white whale.»

The 2014 collection of white - whale seats includes more vulnerable Democratic incumbents than Republicans.

But at least the bones are clean and white and, unlike those of the blue whale skeleton, grease free.

Due to the astounding number of board combinations (approximately a 2 followed by 170 zeroes), Go was considered the white whale in computer science.

The distribution of wildlife on Earth is changing with the climate, making conditions more favorable to odd species such as trumpeter swans, beetles, marmots, albatross, killer whales and white - tailed deer

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

For example, researchers can recognize individual humpback whales because each whale has a unique black - and - white pattern on the underside of its tail flukes.

He is not surprised, though, to find bits of a full - sized whale shark in a white shark's belly.

Illustration of an Atlantic White - sided Dolphin and a Long - finned Pilot Whale, two marine mammal species that strand in Cape Cod.

There have been a number of sightings of white whales off the Australian coast over the past few years.

Paul Hodda, chairman of the Australian Whale Watch Society, believes that an all - white humpback could be a sign that the southern population is evolving into a subspecies.

Killer whales are also the only known predators of great white sharks.

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In terms of new participants, we find material from stunt performer Isaac Hamon, Weta Workshop lead concept designer Nick Keller, Weta Workshop sculptors Kim Beaton and Jamie Beswarick, Weta Workshop concept artists Frank Victoria, Lindsey Crummett, Greg Tozer and Johnny Fraser - Allen, hair and makeup designer Peter Swords King, costume designers Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck, costumer Amy Craven, textile artist Kelly Olatunji, Weta Workshop technician Kim Docherty, special makeup and prosthetics supervisor Jason Docherty, prosthetic makeup artist Georgia Allen, master swordsmith Peter Lyon, additional costumer Emma Evans, lead creatures designer Andrew Baker, digital creature supervisor Simon Clutterbuck, textures technical supervisor Glen Sharah, senior shader TD Christopher George, VFX supervisor Chris White, texture artist Daniel Bennett, actor Manu Bennett, Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tour owner Russell Alexander, supervising art director Simon Bright, art director Brian Massey, set dresser Ben Whale, Middle - Earth Minstrel editor / author Bradford Lee Eden, sound designer Dave Whitehead, composer David Long, and musician Neil Finn.

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

This surprise, small budget, black - and white - collaboration between writer / director Noah Baumbach (Greenberg 76, The Squid and the Whale 82) and writer / star Greta Gerwig looks at the post-college life of Frances (Gerwig), an apprentice dancer fumbling though life in New York City.

Screenwriter Ray Bradbury masterfully captures the allegorical elements in the Herman Melville original without sacrificing any of the film's entertainment value (Bradbury suffered his own «great white whale» in the form of director Huston, who sadistically ran roughshod over the sensitive author throughout the film).

Once there, however, the ship is capsized by a gigantic white whale and our heroes find themselves adrift in an unforgiving wasteland of salt water.

This saga of The Essex is actually told to Moby - Dick author Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) by an adult Thomas (played by Whishaw's «Suffragette» co-star, Brendan Gleeson) 30 years later, and it becomes the inspiration for Melville's fictitious tale of the great White Whale.

A large white whale does make an appearance in «In the Heart of the Sea», but it's a supporting role, and Howard fails to establish any dramatic tension early between the hunters (the whalers) and the hunted (the whales) or later, the hunter (the whale) and the hunted (the whalers).

But with the exception of a well - staged whale - hunting sequence and the Essex crew's first meeting with the great white whale, the movie isn't terribly exciting.

At the end of the film (some spoilers), the white - haired moneyed men of Big Whale Oil are worried what the truth will do to their industry.

The live - action version of classic manga and anime Akira is one of those white whales that Hollywood — primarily Warner Bros. — has been hunting for years, burning through writers, casting choices and potential directors but never quite made it into production.

The crew of the Essex must fight for survival against the elements of the ocean and a vengeful white whale in director Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Jordi Mollà, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson.

We're continuing our series of video essays, with our sixth, the white whale.

It starts the first chapter of Herman Melville's «Moby Dick» and introduces the reader to a sailor called Ishmael who narrates the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab and his hunt for the white whale who destroyed his ship and severed his leg.