Sentences with phrase «whose dramatic life»

In this sweeping book, Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West.

Not exact matches

A supernova is an astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a massive star's life, whose dramatic and catastrophic destruction is marked by one final titanic explosion.

Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.

There lies the center of the long perspective; there lies the focus — in the heavenly places, and in the future — like a dramatic scene whose center is off - stage, as in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus; like a symphony whose climax is still to come; (A view which I have tried to set forth in an article, «Eschatology and Reunion,» Religion in Life, 10:83 - 91.)

In an accompanying commentary, demographer S. Jay Olshansky at the University of Illinois, Chicago, whose work has long backed this view, agrees that life expectancy can't keep going up without dramatic medical breakthroughs.

Just a quick look on her masculine - inspired coat worn over a scenic print shift dress and matched with dramatic laceup boots, men are able to tell that she's an adventurous gal whose entirely in control of life's drama.

The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic was presented to Metro Manila, co-written and directed by Sean Ellis — Seeking a better life, Oscar and his family move from the poverty - stricken rice fields to the big city of Manila, where they fall victim to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival.

He first introduced the project into the world as a gallery installation where different screens pertained to an artistic movement or school of thought, whose texts Blanchett then brings to life as a character befitting a dramatic exploration.

«Experimenter» is a dramatic feature about the life and work of Stanley Milgram, whose extensive Yale study is probably the 20th century's best - known psychological experiment.

Of course no conversation about Metal Gear Solid voice acting can happen without David Hayter, whose dramatic tones brought multiple Snakes to life across every game in the series save the most recent.

A new trailer has been released for Thomas McCarthy's dramatic comedy The Cobbler, which stars Adam Sandler as a man with the ability to metaphysically step into the lives of the people whose shoes he repairs.

And frontrunner Tommy Lee Jones turned in fine, fiery work in Lincoln, bringing complex life to abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, whose character arc is arguably the movie's most dramatic.

He gave two top - tier dramatic performances in 2005: one as an international arms dealer who gets in over his head in Andrew Niccol's Lord of War, and one as a weatherman whose personal life falls into shambles in Gore Verbinski's detour film The Weather Man.

This story of multiple Adolfs, whose lives are unexpectedly woven together during World War II, is one of my favorite of Tezuka's dramatic works.

It tells the story of the history and legacy of Buddy Bolden, the commonly - acknowledged founder of jazz in New Orleans whose life is shrouded in mystery, captured through the use of both documentary material and imagery, and reconstructed dramatic scenes.

This lone line on a pristine sheet of paper in Shilpa Gupta's solo exhibition succinctly sums up the plight of people whose lives undergo dramatic changes by the often arbitrary redrawing of national borders.

To this writer there is hardly anything more moving in art; there are few artists whose work is more passionate and embracing of life's dramatic emotions than that of Egon Schiele (1890 — 1918).