Sentences with phrase «whose disdain»

In a career spanning 35 years, Ms. Rosler, whose disdain for the normal rites of passage from galleries to collectors to museums struck many as indeed criminal, has clung tenaciously to a very personal art that refuses to separate aesthetics from politics.

Enter the Soronprfbs, an eclectic musical outfit whose disdain for vowels is matched only by the eccentricity of frontman Frank (Fassbender), who lives his life enclosed in a huge, cartoonish prop head.

Severely disfigured facially, plagued by blinding migraines, and subjected to power grabs by the board of seven old timers whose disdain for him is an open secret, David finds himself relaying his unbelievable story to a psychologist (Kurt Russell) from prison, about to stand trial for murder.

Both films use a laconic, unexpurgated voiceover to elucidate on the inner turmoil of a man whose well - being is eroding and whose disdain for the people around him grows with each passing day and toward a violent epiphany.

George Hilsdon scored 108 goals in six seasons, earning him a weather vane that remains at the ground to this day, whilst perhaps the biggest character, in every way, of these early years, was the 22 stone goalkeeper, Willy «Fatty» Foulke, whose disdain for both forwards and referees was obvious and oft demonstrated.

Not exact matches

Oral Roberts, whose television programs typify the romantic world view, paraphrases Eliza Doolittle to express the disdain with which the charismatic approach views conventional Christianity:

A non-citizen man who can not voice a single opinion that is not fed to him by his controllers, a man who disdains this country, who is NOT a christian, whose mother's history was rewritten after he ran for office (she was a known wh * re not a «good citizen» as she is now portrayed, a man who is a racist against whites even though he is half - white, a man whose wife is disbarred....

But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock!

However, this fact is no respecter of the drill - master's discipline; it is too proud to desire a disciple whose willingness to attach himself to the cause is based upon the favorable turn that events have taken; it disdains naturalization, whether under the protection of a king or a professor.

Nestlé, whose infant formula and baby foods are known to contribute to increased illness and long - term diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancers has shown nothing but disdain for the marketing rules for those products.

The most wincing disdain is reserved for one of Simpson's own Tory colleagues, Louise Bagshawe, whose latest novel Destiny must have been «written between division bells».

Performances from the chief supporting players are uniformly excellent, especially from Platt and Rockwell, whose characters rib each other and share a disdain of Frost's celebrity.

That famous movement's auteurs disdained Freudian psychology (at least at first) and rarely embedded their protagonists in familial contexts; think of Godard, whose characters spring to life in an existential present, with no hint of having had parents, much less grandparents.

Moreover, I hate that modern pop culture is so literalminded as to place a high premium on plausibility, while I'm 99 % sure that knowing the Batsuit could stop bullets off camera, too, is not going to convert any of the haters, whose snotty disdain for the superhero genre is more a fashion statement than an issue of disbelief.

Lex's disdain for government regulations is embodied by his feud with Sen. June Finch (Holly Hunter), whose hearings stand in the way of his free import of kryptonite, which he hopes to weaponize.

A control freak of a CEO with world domination on his mind, his obsessive disdain for creative expression has turned him into the maniacal Lord Business, whose bidding his carried out by the swivel - headed Bad Cop / Good Cop (Liam Neeson).

The fact that many of the early groups that arose to represent parents were run by middle - class women whose desire to improve the lot of poor kids were mixed in with their own disdain for their parents also played a part in this co-opting.

But the most compelling voices are those of the journalists, including NPR's Daniel Schorr, whose awe, disdain and frustration serve as a road map to Khrushchev's historic visit.

And there's Kateb, known to the Americans as Dodge, an Iraqi interpreter whose love of American culture - from hip - hop to the dog - eared copy of Huck Finn he carries - is matched only by his disdain for what Americans are doing to his country.

There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage.

Kamrooz Aram, a Brooklyn - based artist whose works often challenge a modernist disdain for decoration, shares his thoughts on ornament and its complex relationship to modernist painting and exhibition design as demonstrated in his own varied practice in which painting, collage, sculpture, and the art of display operate as equals.

Lindfield makes the good point that criticism of Georgian Gothic as unscholarly was voiced in the 18th century as well as the 19th, not least by Walpole, and that the first person to make a distinction between true «Gothic» and modern «Gothick» was Batty Langley, whose invention in 1742 of the five Gothic «orders» has provoked the disdain of almost everyone who writes on the Gothic revival.

Rehberger is a new breed of artist — one whose work combines a future - oriented modernist ethic with a postmodern sense of play and disdain for categorical distinctions.Tobias Rehberger: 005 - 000 provides an overview of the artist's exhibition activities in museums and galleries as well as in public spaces, including the Tsutsumu garden, his recent installation at the Hanover EXPO 2000.

In fact much of his later writing was taken up with criticizing the new abstract expressionists, along with contemporary art movements like Post-Painterly Abstraction and Pop art, whose aesthetics he disdained.

I think here of a series of protagonists: Kander & Ebb, two Jewish homosexuals who gleefully pen a new fascist anthem two - thirds of the way through their score for the musical Cabaret; Christopher Isherwood and WH Auden, on whose lucky escape to the musical and sexual underworld of Wiemar the same musical was based; and the French Fumistes without whose radical disdain for order the erotic incoherencies of Wiemar would have never been possible.

This may be accompanied by a disdain for those whose purpose it is to generate profit.

These «impractical professors whose chief mission is to produce theoretical legal scholarship» feel indifferent towards — and sometimes outright disdain for — practicing lawyers and faculty members with a practical bent, he writes....