Sentences with phrase «with cultural allusions»

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Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

Having searched high and lowbrow, Rick Santorum has finally found a cultural allusion he can work with.

Audiences familiar with Key and Peele's pop - cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «Point Break» (all of which figure into one of the movie's better visual gags).

Usually it's students lacking in cultural knowledge who have trouble with engagement and understanding; they sometimes struggle to clear hurdles because they don't get some of the countless allusions many of us take for granted.

The allusion is one of many in Huffman's exhibition that indicate his fixation with the popular nodes that drive contemporary cultural production, particularly, the profundity and cultural insistence of hip - hop in a world that often refuses to acknowledge the omnipresence of racism and anti-Blackness.

True to form, he accepted the position with an allusion to his wide - ranging, inclusive tastes in art: «I can't get Sun Ra's Fate in a Pleasant Mood out of my mind,» he explained, comparing his excitement to take on the new role to afrofuturist Sun Ra's jazz album — one that, like much of the art that Walker champions, deserves a more pronounced place in our cultural history.

Through her lyrical videos, Behbahani stages a contemporary cultural critique by layering and juxtaposing allusions to past and present sociopolitical circumstances with a language that she draws from her experience as a painter.

«Contrary to the notion therefore that the Abstract Expressionist artists started with the minimum, the truth is that they incorporated complex layers of cultural allusion into their art.