Sentences with phrase «wrenching image»

Recently, Prime Minister Harper, battered in the polls by the heart - wrenching image of young Alan Kurdi washed ashore on a Turkish beach, sounded both defiant and angered by opposing politicians who were suddenly tripping over themselves to promise safe sanctuary to an ever escalating numbers of Syrian refugees while still proclaiming their intention to pull Canadian troops from the international military coalition overseas.

Same with a long segment about a heroin - addicted newborn (the most pathetic and heart - wrenching image of this documentary).

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, newspaper and magazine covers almost uniformly showed gut - wrenching images of the Twin Towers engulfed in smoke and flames.

Oregon Wineries Could See Ripple Effects from California Fires The vivid, gut - wrenching images from the fires that tore through California's wine country earlier this month struck a chord with local vintners...

The larger danger is manipulation of our empathy and generosity through heart - wrenching images or narratives that cause the natural release of oxytocin to the brain.

The heart wrenching images of areas that have suffered destruction are very saddening to all of us at World Travel Awards.

Not exact matches

Like millions of other news - and video - obsessed consumers, I have been held captive by the image of an airline passenger being wrenched and dragged like a sandbag off an overbooked United flight from Chicago to Louisville.

By taking an image that inspired and intrigued the world, and imagining the story behind it, she gives her audiences a thought - provoking, heart - wrenching opportunity not just to see history anew but also to hold up a mirror to our own time.

This digitally altered image shows Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, thigh - deep in water and giant wrench in hand, as the protagonist of a fictional sequel to «The Hunger Games.»

That Nolan wrenches grace notes out of such fleeting bits of horror is a testament to his intermittent skills as an image - maker.

As Hess wrote in his mythologising obituary for Kline, «Starting with motifs from swift brush drawings, wrenched out of scale by enlargement, he forged a style and an image out of the broken past with the verve and speed that Siegfried forged his sword.

Using appropriation more pointedly, works from Martha Rosler's powerful Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful series (1967 - 72) juxtapose images from lifestyle magazines with found Vietnam War photography to wrench a distant, all - too - real dystopia into the living rooms of middle - class Americans.

His intimate works penetrate to the core of human integrity, often depicting images of figures wrenched in that critical space where the strained coordination of mind, body...

The image that comes to mind is handing a heavy wrench to a gorilla to use for repairing a computer [or sometimes I visualize a gold pocket watch in place of my laptop].

This heart - wrenching 2007 video explores the self - image of black children in the United States by repeating the historic doll test of Dr Kenneth Clark that led to school desegregation.