Above all, one feels that this is not a film about life, but a film about life filtered through certain cultural references and conceits. |
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Though opposite in rhythmic conceits, both seem to warp one's sense of movement through space. |
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The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts. |
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Vividly described are some pictures centrally important for Renaissance conceits such as the proximity of pleasure and the pox. |
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The really metaphysical poem-i.e. something of use Here, of use Now as soul-making and soul-moving-concerns neither objects nor conceits. |
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With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event. |
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And all the while, as you're occupied with these little conceits, the film's geologic strata are shifting into place. |
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It was the most blasphemous, the most rageful, the funniest, the most American of all conceits for a novel. |
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Of the female architects I've known, none in my experience exhibit the same conceits as the male architects. |
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As a result, artists are constructing elaborate conceits to make what they produce fit into the category of a print. |
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No writer could pen a single word but for the rich humus of public domain effort with which we garden our notions and conceits. |
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She is a conspiracy theorist whose political conceits have consistently been proved wrong. |
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He was the tangible symbol of the Baby Boom, its conceits, its self-absorption, its lack of discipline and failures of responsibility. |
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A victim of its own success, and the influence it had on subsequent films, its conceits seem stale and unoriginal today. |
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These were seen by authorities as very partial, untrue, seditious, and savouring too much of dangerous and traitorous conceits. |
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The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences. |
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Sir Tom proves that it is possible to construct a tight 100 minutes of drama around neuroscientific conceits. |
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This device is the least successful of the show's many conceits, but even then, the talented cast and the director's assured grip keep us enthralled. |
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Whereas Mangan's work is an echo of some pretty familiar sculptural conceits, Painting Machine seems to come from a place that's a little more contemporary. |
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It is through his attempt to get Givens to confess to his trickery that the narrator comes to realize the conceits he has constructed about himself. |
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Both produce some wines good enough to challenge the well-bred conceits of wine makers in Burgundy and Bordeaux. |
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Like Lanier, she rediscovered the value of conceits for setting forth her thoughts and feelings. |
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Certainly, you could list fine episodes and plotlines and comic conceits until the cows come home. |
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His wit has proved enduring, a deep learning underlies his pastoral conceits, and his plain language has gained in lustre over the centuries. |
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She falls into wordy explication and overly signalled conceits. |
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Form, with Francisco de Quevedo, the most prominent partner of the great prose writers of Spanish baroque conceits. |
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In addition to its scholarly role, translation acted as a method of training for hopeful poets, and as a mine of conceits for the more experienced writer. |
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To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation. |
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By accident, though, Clancy came close to the ideal because he suppressed personal conceits and put his body on the line for the benefit of others. |
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But the stilted dialogue and bizarre narrative conceits pale in comparison with some of the sacrilege being committed here. |
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In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images. |
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I may often get impatient with Twombly's showoffy irresoluteness and fustian poetic conceits, but if I try to imagine art of our time without his exceedingly human presence in it, I feel a global chill. |
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Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest, bring forth no other fruits but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and phlegmatic conceits? |
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In 1756 António Dinis da Cruz e Silva and others established the Arcádia Lusitana, its first aim being the uprooting of Gongorism, a style studded with Baroque conceits and Spanish influence in general. |
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At times the fervency of the male seems hyperbolic in its poetic conceits, as in Der Mond and Dass doch gemalt, but Wolf wisely treats these poems with complete earnestness. |
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But Cuse notes that the network has supported some of its loopiest conceits. |
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One of the greatest conceits of the past century has been the presumption that we found a single model that will spawn economic success wherever applied. |
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However, it can only succeed if is conducted in explicit opposition to racial hierarchies, civilisationist conceits and neo-imperial exploitation. |
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Objects recently introduced to India, such as the eyeglass or hourglass, were eagerly adopted as images by the poets, who wanted newfangled conceits to bolster their tortuous inventiveness. |
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I surmise that she was hampered by, even while being nurtured on, a scene that was dominated by men, including her husband, who steered art-making toward literary conceits and rapscallion gestures. |
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The lower-case non-punctuators, the serial capitalizers, the rhetorical questioners, the subpoena-anticipators, the posterity-watchers: they all have their reasons, and their conceits. |
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Conceptismo was characterized by its use of striking metaphors, expressed either concisely and epigrammatically or elaborated into lengthy conceits. |
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Significative short-circuits, playful palimpsests, unless they are our conceits displayed, but with the wish to go beyond all expectations and thus preventing one from forgetting. |
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He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits. |
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Donne's immediate successors in poetry therefore tended to regard his works with ambivalence, with the Neoclassical poets regarding his conceits as abuse of the metaphor. |
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That many philosophistic and superstitious conceits have been mixed with it, in process of time, proves nothing against the general fact as stated. |
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