Sentences with phrase «with ordinariness»

These fantastic alien forms are scuffed with ordinariness and even bathos.

It's not a masterpiece, but it is a rarity: one of those glimpses into another culture obsessed with ordinariness, mendacity, and universality.

Ms. Lambert's film builds nicely, staying in tune with the ordinariness and intimacy explored in Ms. Akerman's boldly rendered films.

They had a hard time with the ordinariness of him, with his humiliation at the hands of a powerful and corrupt authority.

They present the Church as the Church of those who as sinners accept in faith the human life of all, with its ordinariness and its burdens, so that we experience our own lot as that of the Church, and ourselves as its members in that way; as the Church which is believed because we believe in God, the Church whose belief is not to be identified with what it experiences; above all as the Church which is the promise of salvation for the world which has not yet expressly recognized itself as part of the Church, the Church as the sacramentum of the world's salvation.

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It was almost too much to bear: the absolute ordinariness of the scene, which would remind any of us of our own desks and unfinished projects, combined with a fear that she might not be back to finish things up, to clean the dust off the tape dispenser and wash out the water bottle for another use.

Mary the sinless Mother of God was, of course, lovely beyond all dreaming, but I was more drawn to the women among whom Christ lived who had shadings of flaws and ordinariness, of quintessentially female weakness: Martha testy in her kitchen, Mary Magdalene the penitent with her foolishly expensive perfume, her hair long enough to dry the feet of Christ, her tears for her many sins.

The shock of Lucas's death was compounded by the sheer ordinariness of the play that caused it — he wasn't hit awkwardly or with unusual force.

After Philip May appeared on the show with his wife last year, one columnist noted that «he seemed to be able to don a mantle of such extreme ordinariness that he might as well not have been there».

It's hard to imagine a more fitting choice to play the modest and mild - mannered pilot, and although he doesn't get a lot to work with from a character standpoint (Sully is extraordinary only in his ordinariness), the actor makes the most of even the smallest moments.

The cinematography really emphasises the ordinariness of the locale, contrasting it with frequent mentions of big cities such as London and Dublin.

Asghar Farhadi is an extraordinarily perceptive filmmaker with a profound ability to distill the «ordinariness»... Continue reading About Elly

Asghar Farhadi is an extraordinarily perceptive filmmaker with a profound ability to distill the «ordinariness» of the human experience into cinematic form.

Hanks is given a speech which he delivers with his customarily epic ordinariness of how war changes a man.

He's a person with a life, a family, friends, people who love him and people he loves, and the very ordinariness of his day leading up to his death, with mistakes and decisions both good and bad, and the laid - back, observational filmmaking draws us into his existence in a way that may allow you forget about history and invest in his future, one that will never be.

That one was too small, that one had only two roads in and out, that one looked as though it saw so few visitors that there would be no way for her not to stand out, despite all that ordinariness she tried to camoflage herself with.

A little over ten years ago, Heidi Zuckerman, the director of the Aspen Art Museum, came up with a remedy to their ordinariness.

All kinds of contradictory emotions seep into these paintings — loneliness and camaraderie, and the convoluted union between ordinariness and strangeness that is synonymous with daily living.»

This affords different perspectives and insights that have the capacity to transfigure the ordinariness of life, offering deeper meaning through the unification of the intellect with our emotions and imaginations.

The ordinariness of the objects imbues the work with a poetic tension - things are familiar but, isolated from their original function, somehow wrong.

Pondick's earlier works with beds, shoes, teeth, chairs, and baby bottles, were tender, humble, emotional and poetic, laying bare our frailties and ordinariness.

In this way we can be afforded insights that have the capacity to transfigure the ordinariness of life and offer us deeper meaning through the unification of the intellect with our emotions and imaginations.

Born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927, Dodd shares the commitment to the gritty ordinariness of the everyday with another native of that much misaligned state, the poet William Carlos Williams, who was interested in «a new art form -LSB-...] rooted in locality which should give it fruit.»

While dealing with the very complex subject matter that is marriage, Zvavahera's work implies the expressive handling of brush strokes and a refusal to force a line to perform more than the ordinariness of its function.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.