Sentences with phrase «with cultural references»

Famous among lawyers for his colorful opinions and courtroom meanderings — which are frequently laced with cultural references, both high and low — Judge Strine has supporters and detractors in the securities class - action bar.

Among these new works is an environmental installation with sound entitled Pinocchio Is On Fire, which examines key moments in the history of the black community in Los Angeles from the early 1980s to the present (with cultural references that include the rise of HIV and crack cocaine during the 1980s, gangster rap, and mega-churches, along with aspects of the artist's own biography).

A surreal, creepy, funny allegory, the film is stuffed with cultural references, including Nigerian mythology, Francis Picabia's painting «Adoration of the Calf» and Busby Berkeley musicals.

Keith Sklar's drawings and paintings are densely packed with cultural references, absurdist humor, and pathos.

I would like to have a name with a cultural reference, that is character names from older literature or folk tales.

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«Marxism and Christianity in India», in The Encounter of Church with Movement of Social Change in various cultural contexts with special reference to Marxism, LWF, Geneva, 1977.

On our recent cultural agenda they have been asked with reference to specific institutions: What is a classroom?

We were trained to talk about the Greek and Hebrew, and to reference the cultural, historical, and grammatical contexts of whatever passage were were studying, thereby giving us more and better ammunition against those with whom we disagreed.

A prerequisite of historical research of this kind is constant wrestling with, and reference to, the literature, idioms and categories of the social, cultural and historical context of the subject.

3 See for example the case studies analysed by G. Rajamani and C. Lawrence, «Baptism and Conversion with Special Reference to Socio - Cultural Dimensions,» in Godwin R. Singh, ed., A Call to Discipleship: Baptism and Conversion (Delhi: ISPCK, 1985), pp. 112 - 136.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions aCultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions acultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

In writing books laced with philosophical ruminations and literary references, he has served as an emissary from the brain sciences to the cultural milieu.

In a global world, where physical and virtual limits collapse, we are flooded with information and cultural references, data and objects that come from everywhere.

Celebrated for his renaissance - like intelligence, Lagerfeld's aesthetic is imbued with cultural and historical reference points.

This isn't just a cultural reference; this is a world - changing reference, because now we have something to talk about, in the same way that the world changed with Operation Yew Tree.

The dialogue is a weird mix of stone age and «street» with just enough modern one liners and cultural references to spoil any immersion you might be able to dive into.

A richer plot, life lessons and loving Chinese cultural references rendered by turns sweet, scary and charming, with yet more fantastical kung fu, make this an engaging winner.

The dialogue is riddled with awkward puns and out of place popular cultural references.

In which case, his barrage of f - bombs and references to mothers named Martha feel a little too familiar, and just far enough behind the curve of what is being discussed in the cultural conversation that they don't land with the same merciless cruelty that made the previous film, well, if not better, then somehow more incisive.

If you qualify, this movie is so packed with references to some of the biggest cultural hits of the past few decades that even astute viewers will have a hard time keeping up.

It starred Harvey Keitel (who had helped get it made after reading the script), Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Lawrence Tierney and Tarantino himself, and was a tour - de-force, heavily stylized crime thriller where the fast - paced dialogue was laced with pop - cultural references.

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).

Films that feed parasitically on earlier films are nothing new; Godard's own early films teemed with such references — though they tended to be critical rather than simple replays, and they always rubbed shoulders with countless other cultural references.

With numerous pop - cultural references, movie references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).

With first radio and then television, both passive receivers, becoming ubiquitous presences in people's homes, culture was united in the limited number of options available, and thus coalesced around a comparatively small number of widely shared cultural reference points.

Since his early days with «Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story» and «Safe,» Haynes has developed sophisticated narratives out of existing cultural reference points.

- Some minor SMSC / cultural input with reference to the Basque region and the concept of «pelota vasca» (Basque pelota).

A topic revision sheet on the impact on employment / unemployment issues in Spain, to support pupils with concrete example and cultural references w...

The clever hashtag offers a lesson in the value of cultural literacy — often a touchy subject in education — but with a nifty twist: This time, it's our students who got a cultural reference that left many adults scratching their heads.

Many teachers are now too young to get the cultural reference to the 1980s» pop group who, with Fun Boy Three, covered this Ella Fitzgerald song.

Humanities can also be incorporated with economic and cultural references.

This is literary fantasy crammed full with alternate - historical and cultural references, but also one that never loses sight of the need to entertain.

Curiously, the translation in Portuguese is far superior to the English translation by Terry, with ample footnotes by the translator / scholar explaining the many cultural and historic references.

Because the novel is packed with music, book, and movie references, readers» cultural literacy will get a definite boost.

Britain in 1917 comes alive with lush landscapes, colorful period costumes and cultural references.

The dialogue is a weird mix of stone age and «street» with just enough modern one liners and cultural references to spoil any immersion you might be able to dive into.

While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.

's deep storylines, humour, character interactions and cultural references made it a hit with players and critics alike; now given a suitable remastering for the 21st Century, you'd be remiss to miss some afterlife action.

Darnielle's first novel, Wolf in White Van (2014), is layered thick with references that situate it not just in a particular time or place, but inside a particular cultural niche, full of Conan the Barbarian comics and b - movie...

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

In Encampment — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation occupying MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Clemente's transitory experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and indeed consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a particularly rich range of references and meaning.

Yinka Shonibare MBE employs a multiplicity of strategies, including auto - ethnography and humour in combination with Western historical and cultural references to deliver a body of work that is simultaneously seductive and subversive.

(It reads, «Grandiosity is the defense against depression which masks the deep pain over loss of self»; as is often the case with Martin's references to cultural icons, one senses a perfect balance between respect and irony.)

With its art historical and pop cultural references (which are sometimes combined), Dumas's practice is often based upon the painterly manipulation of found imagery.

Here we find painted sculptures with «low» cultural references, graffiti - inspired text paintings and large installations with performative elements.

He also uses materials with many cultural references, such as lead.

Just as Ofili's work champions the supremacy of pure aesthetics, it is likewise replete with political and cultural references.

A group of 25 diverse women artists were invited to create art about present conditions of DISILLUSIONMENT, whether personal, global, cultural, political or societal — addressing issues of deception, falseness, unfaithfulness, betrayal and treachery — with reference to wearing, inhabiting, being veiled, clothed, draped, revealed, exposed or wrapped in disillusion.

Vernon Fisher: Flaubert's parrot Schrodinger's cat hey look monkeys throwing shit The celebrated painter unveils a new body of work with «a wide range of pop cultural and literary references that highlight the artist's play with imagery, association, and possible meaning.»