Sentences with phrase «whose live audience»

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One imagines a graduate of independent mind in the audience whose timpani was telling her that Anna Quindlen is the quintessential representative of the self - flattering feminism that has turned the lives of so many women into a misery.

Gove revealed a bit about his personal story and childhood to the audience, whose most avid followers are so far accustomed only to getting snippets about the education secretary's private life from his wife Sarah Vine's columns in the weekend papers.

It is significant that he chose to reveal that plan (which doesn't really have any details yet) in front of an audience of potential 2020 Democratic candidates and national politicos at a Center for American Progress event in Washington, D.C., rather than here in New York, in front of the very people whose lives any policy change would impact.

«Today in the audience are New Yorkers whose lives have been personally impacted by the chemical PFOA,» Gillibrand told Dourson at the hearing.

The title refers to a children's TV show made for an audience of one — a boy named James, whose life changes after the show's abrupt end.

For audience members whose knowledge of modern Middle Eastern history could stand some brushing up, the first act's portrait of Satrapi's early family life will contain a number of revelations.

Cast as a man whose desperate attempt to escape the monotony of suburban life includes a bundle of large helium balloons and a lightweight deck chair, Ifans charmed Australian audiences in the family - friendly effort.

It's an audience - approved template that Wiig (who co-wrote the screenplay with Annie Mumolo) has little problem personalizing, sincerely and ridiculously confronting issues of beauty, wealth, loyalty, monogamy, marriage, and sex through the tale of a character whose life spirals downward after her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), gets engaged and she's forced to battle for sole possession of BFF status with Lillian's glamorous and wealthy new sidekick, Helen (Rose Byrne).

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.

Rebecca Ferguson - so fantastic in the most recent «Mission Impossible» - is utterly wasted as new wife Anna, a character who seemed to have been designed to wring sympathy from the audience, something I couldn't bestow given that she cheated and lied her way into her seemingly perfect life and don't even get me started on Haley Bennett's Megan, a woman whose tragic past was overshadowed entirely by her fingernails - down - the - blackboard performance as a one dimensional woman who had nothing but overt sexuality and a flat whining energy to offer.

Before getting into how spectacular the action sequences truly are (and trust me, they save the blockbuster from plundering to the bottom of the ocean), it must be said that Oscar - nominated Kon - Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg have no idea whose story the movie should actually belong to, starting out as Henry Turner's (Brenton Thwaites) quest to free his cursed father at sea Will Turner (Orlando Bloom in a glorified cameo along with Keira Knightley as his partner Elizabeth Swann) to locate the Trident of Poseidon subsequently lifting that curse, and while the ultimate goal of the movie for all characters is finding said artifact for different reasons, by the end it's hard to fault the audience if they have forgotten all about that plot element and are just living in the moment of Jack Sparrow and company battling an army of decomposing, undead ghost pirates led by Captain Salazar.

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.

Haneke, whose eclectic output includes Funny Games (both the original Austrian version and the 2007 American remake), Code Unknown, Caché and The White Ribbon, has proven time and again that he loves using the tools of cinema to implicate the audience — as participatory voyeurs — in the turbulent lives of his characters.

American audiences have enjoyed a recent spate of documentaries that take us beyond headlines and just - the - facts news stories about the Islamic State, Iraq and Syria, and that give us, instead, a glimpse of the people whose lives have been so viciously upended by militancy's rise in the Middle East.

Wattpad Stories, which goes live at 10 am ET, takes an in - depth look at people whose lives have been transformed by the power of writing and storytelling, and by the ability to instantly share that creative work with an audience of over 20 million users.

This deal would expand the digital reach of these papers and allow a broader audience of readers who have some form of tie to the region — former residents, or readers whose parents still live in Denver, for example — to continue to benefit from the serious journalism that takes place in those regions.

Francesca, whose interests include travel, live music, craft beer and bourbon, has an organic social media audience of 26K + and is a member of the International Food, Wine, and Travel Writers Association.

Jan is a visual artist, director, writer, and founder of Early Morning Opera, a genre - bending performance + art lab whose works explore emerging technologies, live audiences, and unclassifiable experience.

Curator Michael Komanecky has selected artists currently living in New England whose accomplishments deserve the attention of a wider audience creating an impressive exhibition of primarily large - scale works.

Surround Audience, the latest triennial exhibition at the New Museum, surveys fifty - one emerging artists, from twenty - five countries, whose practices are informed by their lived experience immersed in the digital landscape.

In New York, there was last year's New Museum Triennial, «Surround Audience,» whose participants addressed «a society replete with impressions of life, be they visual, written, or constructed through data,» and «Ocean of Images,» the 2015 iteration of MoMA's «New Photography» showcase, featuring artists who use «contemporary photo - based culture, specifically focusing on connectivity, the circulation of images, information networks, and communication models.»

Performance Space 122 provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live performance.

The Writer's Garret is the only year - round independent literary center in North Texas whose mission is to foster the education and development of readers, writers, and audiences by putting them in touch with quality literature, each other, and the communities in which they live and write.

Collapsing past, present, and future, the exhibition invited the audience to consider vast geological timescales as well as microscopic life forms whose scale of experience is unimaginable to the human mind.

They provide a platform for the celebration of a live experiential space whose focus lies in evolving a social relationship between the audience and performers, while maintaining a sense of visual aestheticism and spectacle.

Artes Mundi is Latin for «Arts of the world», reflecting the international focus of this Wales - based arts charity whose mission is: To present a landmark programme of international, contemporary visual art that will enrich the cultural and educational life of Wales and its people, develop and inspire new audiences and build cultural bridges between Wales and the wider world.

From a child of the Peoples Revolution in China, to a genius banned from sharing his music in his native Iran, to a native Syrian witness to his country's destruction, to a sensuous Spanish woman whose spark for life mesmerizes her audiences, it is an incredible journey of love and life.