Sentences with phrase «works as a tribute»

A daring choice, but it worked as a tribute to dearly departeds like Harry Dean Stanton, Jeanne Moreau and Glenne Hedley.

(At one point the Mounties get into an extended discussion / debate about the career of Danny DeVito that has nothing to do with the story at hand, is actually quite funny and works as a tribute to the versatility and longevity of Mr. Danny DeVito.)

On July 5, 2011, the day of Cy Twombly's death, Julian Schnabel (born 1951) painted a series of cruciform works as a tribute to Twombly, who was an important influencer of his early painting and a close friend.

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[T] he upgrade to triple A,» the newspaper chirped, «was rightly viewed as a tribute to the hard work the Liberal government has done to get the province's books in order.»

I suspect that missing from the tribute video will be any acknowledgement of the fact that the founder of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, vehemently opposed the work of Martin Luther King Jr, publicly condemned him as a communist, and delivered an impassioned sermon the day after King's march to Selma opposing civil rights marchers as «left wing leaders» whose only aim was to stir up racial tensions and violence.

As a tribute to Mike, a man who served his country and lived his life by the true Spirit of America — honor, pride, integrity, and hard work.

She commented, «I began working as a celebrant in 2012, and quickly learnt that the tribute is the central part of a humanist funeral.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Once again, Westchester County and The Volunteer Center of United Way are calling on those who live and work in Westchester to use volunteer service as a way to pay tribute to those whose lives were lost and were forever changed by the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

It is fitting that shortly after losing my friend and former boss Tessa Jowell to brain cancer I'm able to pay tribute to her trailblazing work in this area as the first minister for public health.

As the political world offered tributes to Benn following his death last week, parliament's chiefs were scratching their collective head trying to work out how they might give the man who left the Commons to «spend more time on politics» a good send - off.

«I want to pay tribute to my fellow ministers from the devolved administrations and their officials as well as Defra officials - everyone worked together for a fair deal that has benefits for fishermen throughout the UK.»

As a result of the success of these events, the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women, local domestic violence advocates and community volunteers worked together to plan and create a Tribute Garden - a permanent, public tribute honoring fallen victims and survivors, while also raising awaTribute Garden - a permanent, public tribute honoring fallen victims and survivors, while also raising awatribute honoring fallen victims and survivors, while also raising awareness.

As shadow ministers paid tribute to the «talented working - class MP», he sarcastically said Labour would soon be reaching «day three of what would be the longest reshuffle in history».

Andy Mroczek, who has worked as a choreographer at Stoneman Douglas, posted a tribute to Gina on Facebook.

ACT UP can justly be proud of what it has achieved in AIDS: it is a tribute to their work that other health groups, such as people with diabetes and women with breast cancer, are now joining them at meetings in New York to learn their campaigning methods.

007 Legends attempts to be a big, brassy tribute to 50 years of James Bond, but it ends up a little too ambitious for its own good, with a story that is more spectacle than substance and some new ideas that don't work together as well as they should.

Mark Wahlberg stars as Chris Cole, a wannabe rock star who works by day as a copy machine repairman and by night as the lead singer of Blood Pollution, a Pennsylvania tribute band that imitates the best - selling heavy metal rockers of Steel Dragon.

I have no doubt that the developers of Rad Rodgers meant their work to be a loving tribute to 16 - bit platformers, and as long as the game restricts itself to fast action, it's a perfectly fine experience.

But whether or not there is, perhaps, some trace of a love like Georges's and Anne's that lingers on, that really is as immortal as true love can feel to us, we can at least be certain of one thing: The value of a work of art as perfectly achieved as Amour, with its true, profound, and thorough tribute to the emotion after which it's named, is, for whatever it's worth, as close to imperishable and eternal as it gets.

Although «The Walk» succeeds mainly as a slice of popcorn entertainment rather than a potential Oscar contender, it's a really well - made movie that works both as a celebration of Petit's once - in - a-lifetime performance and a tribute to the World Trade Center.

This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.

Through John Logan's sharp - as - a-razor script filled with hilarious run - on sentences and oddball sensibilities, the film is at once a reverential tribute to a genre and a wholly original piece of work.

«A Tribute to John Candy» is a look into his work in the film, as an actor and a person.

Indeed, Ivory will win because he's due, and deservedly so, both for his astutely configured adaptation of André Aciman's acclaimed novel of the same name — about the love affair between two men that plays out against the background of a dreamy Mediterranean summer — and as a tribute to his 44 - year working partnership (and romantic relationship) with Ismail Merchant.

Sam Claflin as tribute Finnick Odair wearing what seems to be a skirt crafted in part from a flap of crocodile skin, one seriously unbuttoned linen shirt, again with the stand collar, big buckle leather belt and dirty black work boots that whisper, very quietly, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Perhaps more importantly, the film works very well as a daughter's tribute to her father as a man, and that seems to be exactly what it set out to be.

Both established film makers, the documentary is a tribute from one artist to the other as well as a revealing look at Jia's life and work offering audiences a rare insight into the creative mind.

And yet, while the film is likely to be looked at now primarily as a feature - length tribute to Stanton and his career, his exemplary work is not the only reason for the film's success.

Indeed, what will here be known as «the church scene», is an unashamed love letter to the best work of John Woo, and a worthy tribute to the maestro at that.

And should we understand all the echoes of and allusions to David Cronenberg's movies in «Antiviral» — I can strongly feel «Rabid,» «Videodrome» and «eXistenZ,» at the very least — as a work of collaboration and tribute or an Oedipal assault?

The film was presented as part of a Tribute to Danny Boyle, looking back at his filmography and the work that brought him to this point.

Yet, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is still a great tribute to marriage, working together as a family, and learning to love others in spite of differences.

Narciso Ibañez Serrador's film works particularly well thanks to such a secluded setting and the seemingly innocent children come across as incredibly menacing, particularly in scenes that clearly pay tribute to Hitchcock's The Birds as hordes of children take to the streets.

As a tribute to her efforts in bringing the work of women filmmakers to prominence, SIFF created this special award and asked Women in Film Seattle to bestow it.

ROBERT ALTMAN The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment pay tribute to America's greatest living and working director Kathleen Murphy writes about Altman the artist; plus: a salute to «the producer as gambler» by Alan Rudolph

Work begun under Hawkins's direction continues at the center, and we are including her piece as a tribute to her vision.

As we have Ofsted Inspectors around, I would also like to pay tribute to the head teacher of the virtual school for the immense amount of work that she and her team have undertaken to ensure no child taken into care is permanently excluded by a school.

When he became old enough to drive, Dicham made sure his first car was as interesting as those from his childhood, picking up a Panhard coupe in tribute to his grandfather, who worked at the automaker.

An important tribute to the significance of land to a people who had worked it as slaves.

He edited Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1991) as Yoji Kondo.

As a tribute to all of the hard working Americans out there, we have compiled some interesting facts and figures about the U.S. work force just in time for Labor Day.

So have you considered leaving this site up as a tribute to your past work?

I have decided to keep the site up as sort of a tribute to his work.

Posted her longtime friend and Michigan Humane Society colleague Eileen Liska - Stronczer in a personal tribute, «Her devoted surrogate daughter and estate executor, Bev Steffens - Claudio,» also long involved in humane work, «was holding her hand as she peacefully passed over.

Proceeds from this event as well as Tribute Light donations are an important part of helping us continue our work.

«The project is a tribute to those who tended the gardens in the past, as well as to those who work to save them today.»

Ska Studios is one of my favorite companies, as well as Tribute [Games] and I wanted to work with them because I have enjoyed their past games and I knew that they had future games coming out like Salt and Sanctuary and Mercenary Kings, Curses «N Chaos and Flinthook.

The AI that Kimberly is working on now is named «Stanley» as a tribute to the Stanley Parable.

A series of loading screens commemorate some of your finest achievements in the first game, collating beautiful ink work that acts as a tribute to you, the player.

His entire body of work reads as a tribute to a half - century's worth of influential artists and movements in modern art.