Sentences with phrase «with picaresque»

Abrim with picaresque adventures — escapades that carry Jennet from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted Caribbean island — our heroine's search for justice entangles her variously in the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, the customs of her Algonquin Indian captors, the designs of a West Indies pirate band, and the bedsheets of her brilliant lover, the young Ben Franklin.

Not exact matches

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

Nelson, a picaresque character like De Portago, had ridden with the Spaniard before — a victorious ride in last year's Tour de France for automobiles.

With Man Down, following the jarring, harshly lit opening sequence, Montiel plays with three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectorWith Man Down, following the jarring, harshly lit opening sequence, Montiel plays with three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectorwith three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectories.

A picaresque tale for the 1970s with strong political leanings, it's also a satire, a set of Brechtian parables, a rock film, an ironic pilgrim's progress, etc., etc..

American Made is a swaggering picaresque thriller with enough surface - level fun that livens its untamed abandon and succinct details.

Sometime after Porky's and before American Pie, novelist C.D. Payne rehabilitated the horny teen boy genre with Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, a 500 - page picaresque told by a sex - obsessed fourteen - year - old (pardon the redundancy).

This black and white picaresque depicts a rebellious young boy allowed to live with his older brother in 1999 Mexico City, during student unrest.

And, of course, the pulpy, melodramatic plot of The Postman Always Rings Twice is the structuring device of Ossessione, in contrast with the episodic, picaresque plotting of the films we think of as neorealist.

Who, what, when: In America's bicentennial year of 1976, somehow a 47 - year - old Italian art - house auteur with a penchant for flashy white - rimmed eyeglasses and on - screen gender clashes involving sex and politics, was lauded for her World War II concentration - camp picaresque «Seven Beauties.»

And tell it she does, in the picaresque confessional vein of Moll Flanders, through a series of episodes that chart her youth with her naturalist father (Christian Slater, whose transatlantic accent has somehow depreciated from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), her early teen years as a budding sex addict (portrayed in flashback by Stacy Martin), her tumultuous on / off affair with her oily boss, Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf), and her later career as a torture artist in the employ of the mysterious L (Willem Dafoe).

Tyrnauer's camera follows him over several months as he meets up with old colleagues — some of them from his L.A. Confidential-esque gas stations days — who corroborate his picaresque tales.

Bray's success comes on the heels of winning the Printz Medal for Going Bovine, a picaresque tale of a teenage boy searching for a cure for mad cow disease, but she is also known for her atmospheric Victorian - era series that started with A Great and Terrible Beauty and contains supernatural elements.

Part picaresque, part bildungsroman, Lady Bird & The Fox is a return to the dual - narrative romantic adventure of my early novels — packed with the kinds of historical detail that are generally overlooked in Australian fiction, and told with a bit of a wry smile and plenty of warmth.

The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

Golden Hill is an update of eighteenth - century picaresque novels by the likes of Henry Fielding and entertains us with its savage wit, mystery, charismatic protagonist, and romantic storyline as it propels us toward a powerful revelation at the novel's end.

There will also be a dungeon crawling experience with more interactive dungeons than in previous games, social simulation elements in the vein of S - Links and a picaresque setting all centered on the concept of freedom.

As usual, he painted all night long, then amused himself with fishing and the intermittent composition of a picaresque novel, autobiographical in nature.

David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present Picaresque with works by Harumi Abe, Vera Iliatova and Yui Kugimiya.

«In early July a group of young Hong Kong artists [including Nadim Abbas] will travel to the village of Scuol in the picaresque Engadin valley in south - eastern Switzerland in order to take part in a residency program and to share information about their artistic practices with a group of artists from Switzerland and Austria...»