Sentences with phrase «with encyclopedic»

If I write a story about an alien time traveller from a dying race, with encyclopedic knowledge, who sporadically visits London, travels with young companions, occasionally saves Earth and other planets, and appears to change bodies periodically.

She is a brilliant woman with encyclopedic knowledge.

But what is needed is someone with encyclopedic knowledge to face Andrew Neil, an experienced «shock jock» armed with questions supplied by a bank of researchers.

An artist with a rising international reputation, his supercharged, colour - blasted paintings overflow with an encyclopedic collection of cultural references.

With its encyclopedic collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, prints, drawings and new media, it is one of America's most respected art institutions.

Graduating from Yale with an M.F.A. in 1965, Bartlett's first major exhibition, Rhapsody (1976) astounded critics with its encyclopedic demonstration of painting as a subject.

Bartlett's first major exhibition, a single but monumental piece, Rhapsody (1976) astounded critics with its encyclopedic demonstration of painting as a subject.

The collection's whimsical porcelain figures, enchanting miniature portraits, and a dazzling array of historical glass have ranked among NOMA's visitor favorites for decades, and the collection display is now being updated with a new installation that carries forward NOMA's curatorial initiative to integrate collections across material and culture, to provide layered interpretation, and to present the best of our Gulf region's artistic expression in context with our encyclopedic collection covering ancient to contemporary arts.

«An independent thinker with encyclopedic interests, Peggy developed her very personal eye over many years of looking at artwork and talking with artists.

If, however, you're the type of person who scrutinizes player stats and intimidates their fantasy baseball league with your encyclopedic knowledge of the game, well, this game and its RPG elements has a lot on offer.

Eddy was our affable guide (he calls himself Eddie Murphy), funny with an encyclopedic knowledge of the country and the people along the Safari route.

On Alison Chitty's living - room set, which has been created with an encyclopedic eye for detail, the play moves quietly but inexorably to its awful conclusion.

Rachel Kolb is a Disney fangirl, Swan Queen shipper, and life - long Broadway nerd with an encyclopedic knowledge of original Broadway cast recordings.

Here he has all the arrogance as the brilliant neurosurgeon Stephen Strange, a man with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, a substantial collection of expensive watches, and goals that will bring him glory as well as healing those patients he deems worthy of his skill.

Do you let them win, like letting your boss win at golf, or do you crush them with your encyclopedic knowledge of obscure 80's break - dancing moves?

They love his enthusiasm; they are impressed with his encyclopedic knowledge of companies; and they long to be part of the Cramer Nation.

Not exact matches

Every restaurant tries to strike a balance between offering an impressive and encyclopedic wine list with one that its customers can pick a selection from with relative ease.

I came away from my evenings with Kaplan in awe of his intellectual acumen, his encyclopedic knowledge, and most of all of his integrity.

It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation of a civilization — in this case, that of medieval Britain, or at least a vision of it — complete with the arcana of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision of a writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own imagination.

Honored with a prestigious Best of Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator, Andre's Restaurant & Lounge at Monte Carlo has an encyclopedic wine list boasting nearly 1,000 selections and an inventory of more than 3,000 bottles.

By Sunday night he had used his encyclopedic hoops knowledge to wow reporters with his alltime NCAA tournament team, his treatise on the history of Tech point guards («It goes back to Roger Kaiser...») and a detailed instant scouting report of this Saturday's semifinal foe, Oklahoma State.

Francesa, a man of encyclopedic sports knowledge, had no desire to share a studio with a screaming punk who sounded, according to former station owner Jeff Smulyan, «like Donald Duck on steroids.»

Stories are integrated with photographs and illustrations, links to journals and academic studies, related research and topics, and encyclopedic terms, to provide a wealth of relevant information on almost every science topic imaginable — from astrophysics to zoology.

In his encyclopedic history of humankind's quest to conquer the skies, Hallion begins with the ancient Chinese, who swore that their emperor Shun had made the first Asiatic flight around 2230 B.C..

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

Complete with full - page - sized artwork and encyclopedic breakdowns of everything from explanations of Volturi.

Typical of DreamWorks Animation toons, «Megamind» is crammed with pop culture references and jokes invented to show how up - to - the - minute it is in its slang and encyclopedic comic - book know - how.

When you sit with him, his encyclopedic knowledge of film is intimidating and his passion is infectious.»

Pulp Fiction is a non-linear homage to the graphic and violent cheap literature of the early 20th century, enhanced with Tarantino's encyclopedic knowledge of film.

Note that I didn't call The Forbidden Room Maddin's «latest film,» for this isn't so much a film as an encyclopedic compendium of cinematic possibilities, a cauldron bubbling over with highly spiced visual and narrative tropes.

At 146 minutes, it confronts us with a roll call of the many, many characters in the series, and requires a nearly encyclopedic recall of the epic's previous chapters.

Unsurprisingly, much of «Life Itself» is given over to Ebert's democratizing and popularizing impact on the world of film criticism, with judiciously chosen clips («Bonnie and Clyde,» «Cries and Whispers,» «Raging Bull») and excerpts from those same films» respective reviews used to show how Ebert combined his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema with an accessible, plainspoken writing style that could be understood by anybody.

(In French with subtitles) In Search of Beethoven (Unrated) Encyclopedic bio-pic takes a comprehensive, chronological look at the life of Ludwig van Beethoven via a blend of his music and his letters.

Making a meal out of verbal and physical tics that situate his character somewhere on the spectrum, Denzel Washington plays the tunnel - visioned title hero, a Los Angeles attorney and relic of the fist - in - the - air 1960s who's never been good with people but possesses an encyclopedic mind for research.

It isn't some sentimental war story, but a highly detailed, near - encyclopedic compendium that goes deep into V - 2 rocket technology, secret Nazi collaborations with U.S. corporate interests, the dawning atomic age and a kind of fascist dystopia.

Even if you don't like the 40 - year - old's humour, and many don't, you can at least appreciate its gleefully juvenile craft — scenes chockablock with sight gags, rapid - fire cutaways to hilariously absurd punchlines, painfully awkward pauses that last so long you eventually laugh, all of it wrapped in an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture that has made him a bro deity among the coveted 18 - to 34 - year - old male demographic.

Whether it's the folk horror of The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge with its talk of witchery, imps and familiars, the giallo-esque Private View or the chilling psychological drama of episodes such as Tom & Gerri and The Understudy, Shearsmith and Pemberton clearly draw upon an innate and encyclopedic knowledge of genre film and television history.

Race to the Top's sprawling, encyclopedic applications — with their haphazard appendices and Maya Angelou poetry — were treated as a point of pride, rather than evidence of consultants run amok.

Does a human teacher with nuanced understanding of their students» feelings and instincts have an advantage over the promise of a computer with infallible encyclopedic knowledge of the subject matter and teaching methods for it?

An encyclopedic knowledge of their publishing history may be a value - add here, but in a world filled with bottom lines it seems wise to capitalize on new - comers who may have only hopped on board after enjoying Marvel's highly - successful feature films.

Now Sheffield is back with the same encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and touching, resonant prose in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, this time tackling two profoundly painful topics — adolescence and the 1980s.

Writes our reviewer: «Encyclopedic in an exciting way, there's not a cooking category missing, from minty Mojitos to Zucchini Curry, Quail with Pomegranate Jus and an impressive Frozen Passion Fruit Meringue Cake.»

The writer must be skilled enough to avoid an encyclopedic writing style and to blend the facts with aspects of storytelling so that both the reader and the audience want to turn the page to discover what happens next.

Of course, Tom Wolfe came to mind as I began to read, but it was Dickens who stayed with me as I reveled in Hallberg's encyclopedic and brilliant study of a world on the brink of chaos.

The courses are text - based, encyclopedic, and augmented with audio - video presentations on strategies, tools, and techniques you need to succeed.

Tracie originally spent 7 years on the Martha Stewart channel of SiriusXM satellite radio producing and hosting CAT CHAT ® as a live, call - in show - helping cat owners solve the mysteries and challenges of living with felines, base don her encyclopedic book, THE CAT BIBLE: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know, which exposed myths and misconceptions, especially about what to feed a cat (calling any dry food for the obligate carnivores «kitty crack»).

My first real mentors were Bonney Brown, Aimee St. Arnaud, who is now with the ASPCA and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the animal welfare movement, and Susan Feingold, one of the founders of SPOT (Stopping Pet Overpopulation Together) here in Atlanta, who later went on to manage Fulton County Animal Services from 2003 - 2008, and ran the DeKalb shelter from 2013 - 2015.»

Our select team of experienced, enthusiastic, and frankly encyclopedic guides will lead you to the answers — along with some photogenic spots, naturally...

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Amenities include a heated outdoor pool, a spa with its own courtyard garden, and the Michelin one - starred Madera restaurant, renowned for its regional American fare and encyclopedic wine list.