Sentences with phrase «whose life narrative»

He introduces us to people facing radically altered senses of identity: an Alzheimer's patient whose life narrative erodes relentlessly; a woman whose schizophrenic world is filled with voices; a man who feels he must amputate his leg to feel whole.

Not exact matches

The grittiness of Lent, and the «intransigent historical claims» without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us that Christianity does not rest on myths or «narratives,» but on radically changed human lives whose effect on their times are historical fact.

This is not a new insight — Corbin Carnell treated it more than 30 years ago in Bright Shadow of Reality, whose subtitle was the nicely phrased «C. S. Lewis and the Feeling Intellect,» and David Downing also emphasizes it in his new book — but Jacobs uses this narrative thread to good advantage in uncovering continuity in Lewis's life.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

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.

The quest for inclusiveness in moral education can be pursued only by emptying lived morality of its particularity — those «thick» normative meanings whose seriousness and authority are embedded within the social organization of distinct communities and the collective rituals and narratives that give them continuity over time.

A narrative form of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a short fictional story whose characters are taken from everyday life.

It's important to keep pushing for the types of characters people want to see on screen, and Black Panther has done great work in giving the world a cast of crucial black women whose lives are full and whose actions define the narrative.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

But Sievey, whose life inspired the 2014 narrative feature film, «Frank,» grew to resent his creation, and descended into alcoholism and bankruptcy.

One More Time — whose working title, When I Live My Life Over Again (also the title of Paul's new single), was changed after Tribeca — is the second narrative feature written and directed by Robert Edwards.

On one level a genre mash - up revelling in influences as diverse as John Carpenter, Night of the Living Dead and The Stepford Wives, it also ambitiously holds a mirror up to the history of modern America, confronting not overt racism (that would be too easy, not to mention predictable) but a more insidious narrative of coercion and white supremacy whose legacy stretches back across the generations.

Not content with reaching a dazzling apotheosis in the on - screen presentation of song and dance, Fosse wove singing and dancing into a semi-autobiographical narrative chronicling the final days in the life of Joe Gideon, a genius director - choreographer whose non-stop work regimen is making him physically ill.

She's our audience surrogate, surveying the narrative's kink with her typical wild - eyed disbelief; he's a larger than life bohemian stereotype whose charm lets Schwartzman wear his crown as the king of amicable jerks more snugly than he has in his last half dozen roles.

Kids who don't learn in traditional ways — kids who have difficulty communicating in a way that pleases a teacher — kids who fail within a system that was never designed for them to succeed in the first place — kids whose lived experiences are different from the narratives in those narrowed POVs in textbooks.

In a stark, unpretentious narrative that reflects the language of the street, 15 - year - old Tasha reveals her delight in her baby girl, Imani, whose absolute devotion helps Tasha deal with the rape that lead to Imani's birth and the tragedy that takes her life.

In a compelling personal narrative that follows his farm animals from birth to death, journalist Lovenheim brings home the story of the milk and the beef we eat, and he does it by honoring the cattle and the people whose labor and lives feed a nation and a world.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever - combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger - than - life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

In a tightly structured narrative, Philbrick sketches the two larger - than - life antagonists: Sioux chief Sitting Bull, whose charisma and political savvy earned him the position of leader of the Plains Indians, and George Armstrong Custer, one of the Union's greatest cavalry officers and a man with a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage.

The real strength of Picture Us In the Light is how deftly Gilbert demonstrates that to have a powerful narrative a book doesn't have to fit neat categories because, after all, whose life does?

The vividly imagined present - tense narrative follows young Will, whose quiet life changes as he travels westward and takes part in the golden - spike ceremony completing the Canadian Pacific Railway, in 1885.

Hinting at the game's mercenary life narrative, the trailer opens on a variety of the characters that players will have access to, and gives players a brief glance at each of the nations whose flag they may fight under during their time with this strategy title.

English is the author of «How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness,» co-editor of ««Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress» and he is working on a new book, «1971: A Year in the Life of Color,» whose subject was the basis of his Twenty - Sixth Annual Rebay Lecture at the Guggenheim Museum in January 2014.

Feminism proposed two alternative sets of criteria between 1970 and 1990: in the 1970s, the first — in whose development Schapiro participated — challenged the formalist canon for its exclusion of so much political narrative, and even formal content and materiality, and proposed alternatives that looked to craft, costume, folk art, surrealism, the real, lived experience, and the body; the second, developed by deconstructionist feminism during the 1980s, challenged the first for its essentialism and looked back to aspects of modernism other than those promoted by Greenberg, namely the fragmentary, the filmic, the appropriational, and the disruptive aesthetics of Brechtian distantiation.

He is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and experimental publisher whose work explores fiction, reality, and the narrative structures that we employ as a way to explain the chaos and clutter of our everyday lives.

The singular artist, her patented methodology, her hand, her oeuvre, a life primed for retrospection contra the looming anticipation of death, banal idioms whose meanings have worn through semantic satiation, the grand narrative of painting and its anthropomorphic object, legends of pop culture, salient reason itself — all appear to instinct as enframing devices or resistances to subvert.

Speakers include graphic artist and illustration mastermind Jean Jullien, whose iconic» Peace for Paris» symbol became an instant global meme; children's book author and illustrator You Jung Byun, known for her detailed narrative and commissioned work inhabited by strange beasts and lost children; everyone's favourite gif - wunderkind Julian Glander, creator of bubblegum - coloured digital illustration, indie games and interactive artwork, all subsumed under the catchword «digital toys»; animator, writer, and producer Ben Bocquelet, creator of the famed animation series «The Amazing World of Gumball `; Martina Paukova, illustrator with an incredibly fast - paced career, whose jam - packed images in a trademark palette and Memphis - inspired patterns mirror our mundane lives in the digital age; and Jaime Álvarez, renowned for his 3D rendered Mr. Kat (PE) universe, fusing pre-Columbian with contemporary kawaii aesthetics.

Butler, the pioneering Los Angeles science fiction writer (the first to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, the so - called genius grant) and a writer whose narratives seamlessly blended issues of race and gender with elements of the magical, is the subject of a new exhibition on her life and work.

The artist, whose solo exhibition «Sanctuary,» is on view at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York through Aug. 12, says the narratives of African American life and history in Lawrence's paintings are so familiar to him and his experiences that what really draws his attention is how he constructs his images, a defining element Thomas also emphasized.

Perpetuating the glamorized narrative of the artistic benefits of culturally isolated madness feels both outdated and detrimental to living outsider artists whose practices can in fact provide a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of mental disability.

With the employees whose work lives will be affected always at the front of his mind, Mark weaves the facts of each case into a compelling narrative that will persuade an arbitrator to see things from the union's and employees» perspective.

Based on how we experience our lives through stories, narrative therapy is uniquely suited to address a problem whose deadliness stems from persuasive rhetoric.