Sentences with phrase «wild man whose»

(But having nothing to do with number 1: 1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake)

Paul Schrader glanced across the table: scrappy, lined, blinking, pressed nose, razor mind, a man of appetites, a Calvinist reborn in the 1970s as a gun - toting wild man whose dislocation and spiritual pain became the seeds of a cinema that set loose angels and demons across ever encroaching darkness.

Like Pulp, Gary King (Simon Pegg) was in his glory in the early 1990s, when he lorded over the sleepy English hamlet of Newton Haven as the big man on its (high school) campus — a leather - jacketed wild man whose pals were only too content to slip into their roles as sidekicks.

Not exact matches

While Odysseus on his return to Ithaca is exactly the same as when he left two decades earlier, «what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing and the old man whose favorite son has been torn to pieces by a wild beast!»

The Underground Man is a wonderful invention, and we would be poorer without him; but, as a fictional personality, he is only a vast collection of antic gestures, a tour de force of contradictions, and the nearer his wild emotional and intellectual oscillations approach a state of absolute incoherence, the more we are persuaded that he is a genuine psychological «type,» whose mysteries Dostoevsky has disclosed to us.

Then he told us about Walt Whitman, the wild man of American poetry whose energy and sensuality and wide experience of the human condition were dramatically different from Emily Dickinson's.

Toback is the brilliant wild child of indie cinema, now a wild man in his 50s, whose films sometimes seem half - baked, but you like them that way: The agony of invention is there on the screen.

During his unique entrance (an intentionally difficult yet memorable shot that echoes Bond's own introduction in the film), Bardem weaves a wild monologue about rats eating rats to be a haunting, finite revelation of an impassioned mad man whose very real demons contribute to Skyfall's wonderful tension.

I was enraptured not only because I felt I was looking at a wild man — someone whose long, tussled hair intimated that he had rushed in from a hike along some windblown cliff to lecture to a bunch of physics students — but more so because I knew he could explain mysteries to me, decipher Newton and the others and render them comprehensible on a practical level.

«Working in a studio is actually a bit isolating; this is a chance to meet and interact with artists and art appreciators in my area,» said Scally, whose paintings include stark, wild landscapes emblazoned with vivid images of man - made things and people.