| 单词 | metaphysical |
| 例句 | Like any other scientific theory, it may initially be put forward for aesthetic or metaphysical reasons, but the real test is whether it makes predictions that agree with observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a difficult position to take; Descartes was certainly mindful of the metaphysical problems of rejecting the vacuum entirely. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My old friend Ork sat shaking his head in dismay, saying nothing, brooding, no doubt, on the dark metaphysical implications. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is the point of this metaphysical speculation?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Bendix: “It was English. Mrs. Nally never cares if you’re late. Seriously, ask her. We were doing the metaphysical poets. Would you be in a rush to get yourself some pastoral elegy of John Donne?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He was as cynical as I was regarding uplift and hope, and we were proud of having escaped what we called the “childhood disease of metaphysical fear.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Jo, laughing, “if my people are ‘philosophical and metaphysical’, it isn’t my fault, for I know nothing about such things, except what I hear father say, sometimes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that confinement prevents one from observing an isolated quark or gluon might seem to make the whole notion of quarks and gluons as particles somewhat metaphysical. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with all this, I suppose I’m trying to say that I know how bitterly you resent the years when S. and I were regularly conducting home seminars, and the metaphysical sittings in particular. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The categories of grammar reflect the building blocks of thought—time, space, causality, matter—and a philosophical wordsmith can play with them to awaken her readers to metaphysical conundrums. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He was a professor of metaphysical philosophy at the university. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I became skilled in ignoring these cosmic threats and developed a callousness toward all metaphysical preachments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “A face stared up at him, a turquoise mask with only one eye. . . . The mask was surprisingly heavy, as if it carried metaphysical weight, a man’s soul, his history, his quest for immortality.” ‘Dancing with the Tiger’: a whirling tale of art and its sometimes sordid acquisition 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z At the same time, Weber was a fanatical realist whose movies are rich in physical and behavioral detail—and she was also a fantasist whose extravagant visions ranged from the psychological to the metaphysical. “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Although its plot points are many and captivating, it is more metaphysical. Review | In Neal Stephenson’s ‘Fall,’ there is life after death 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z The two characters are on a collision course throughout “Kafka on the Shore,” which is a metaphysical journey filled with magical realism. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z But this is, of course, a physical and metaphysical impossibility: we are not each other but ourselves. The Man Who Queered Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z As metaphysical conjectures go, this does not perhaps rank with Hegel or Wittgenstein. Review: ‘D Deb Debbie Deborah,’ a Dizzying Subversion of Identity 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z You can catch echoes of that metaphysical drama’s cosmic oddball moments here. Review: ‘Maniac’ Is a Hallucinatory, Emotional Dream Machine 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Instead, they are usually quiet affairs featuring characters wracked with metaphysical concerns and trapped in enmeshed, unhappy relationships, these conflicts communicated often via images bathed in natural light. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z The two shared a bill at the Capital Centre, where Fresh remembers feeling go-go’s magnetism in an almost metaphysical way. Grammy night is coming — and go-go music finally has a shot 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “I knew instantly. I was rocketed to the fourth dimension. It was a metaphysical overtaking. I called my ex-wife and my mother and said, ‘I met my future wife.’ ” The Story Behind the Hanley Mellon Clothing Line 2014-04-11T20:55:56Z Though the strands of this metaphysical story come unraveled, the music is engrossing. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s a tour de force of controlled cinematic energy, as ordinary staged action rises with a sense of quiet miracle to seemingly metaphysical power through simple and stunning changes of angle, composition, light, and mood. A Five-Hour Japanese Film Captures the Agonizing Intimacies of Daily Life 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Fantasy, even when it’s rooted in practical details and doesn’t involve any metaphysical impossibilities, is the hardest genre to pull off, for the simple reason that life is interesting. In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Characters deliver big chunks of artless exposition so readers can keep up with metaphysical nuances. Review: David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’ Plunges Into a Battle of Immortals 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Your description of the coronavirus as being both physical and metaphysical is such a perfect encapsulation of the Age of Trump. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z But some speak of metaphorical, even metaphysical strengths as well. Inside one of the few places where dancers still perform, founded by a glamorous disco impresario 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Over the course of almost three hours in Studio Theatre’s upstairs Milton space, actors playing seven secondary figures from Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” perform what you might call metaphysical stand-up. Review | Sometimes, no sisters are better than ‘Three’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Manny Jacinto, a star of the metaphysical sitcom “The Good Place,” would like to be the kind of actor who does his own stunts. Manny Jacinto of ‘The Good Place’ Plummets to Earth 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z No. It's a metaphysical apocalypse, as much as anything else. Will Joe Beef survive the apocalypse? 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z The Virginia artist’s still lifes are hardly esoteric, but they do undertake the metaphysical challenge of freezing instants amid unceasing change. In the galleries: Watercolors reveal a forceful vision at Touchstone 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Prime minister's questions threw up a metaphysical conundrum today. Simon Hoggart's sketch 2010-12-09T00:05:00Z Whether made with colored tape and department store fabric or with actual pigment on walls and metal panels, his works satisfy painting’s metaphysical requirements without quite meeting its material conditions. Art Review: Following a Painter?s Options Beyond the Canvas 2011-08-04T22:00:30Z But the aggregate effect of this loosening, line after line, verse after verse, hints at a sort of metaphysical freedom. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Raised on the Gospels and the metaphysical aphorisms of Mary Baker Eddy, I regarded Thoreau’s book as a loamy version of “Science and Health.” Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Gainsbourg sings lyrics that move between the medical and the metaphysical: Ghost imagining my mind Neural pattern like a spider... 2010-01-23T15:48:00Z Well, he's one of the fathers of surrealism, but he was actually part of the metaphysical group. Devendra Banhart: 'I love almost every Britpop band' 2013-03-21T22:37:54Z So raw, so honest — metaphysical and at the same time rooted in the world. Denis Johnson had ruthless honesty and transcendent power 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z His "out, out, brief candle", delivered in anguish, is less metaphysical speculation than a lament for his wife. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z You know the public usually have this perceptive intelligence, it's almost metaphysical, and they can almost tell when an artist is in tune with what they do. Glastonbury 2010: How Dizzee and the performers psyched up 2010-06-28T07:59:00Z The jokes that the universe plays on hapless human creatures may be cruel, but they’re also funny, and the Coens are skilled and wily metaphysical pranksters. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Review: The Coens Go Darkly West Again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In drafts eighteen through eighty-four, I realized that the stakes of this piece are less aesthetic or ethical than metaphysical. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z They meditate on metaphysical themes of love and chaos, using images from popular culture past and present. Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z It is also a portal into the metaphysical shadow-world of Michelangelo's own poems. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z But there was also literacy’s metaphysical promise — that you could write your way into new futures, into places that existed outside of imaginations made narrow by anti-blackness. Can You Dismantle White Supremacy With Words? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The Booth family, by and large, proved more easily moved when it came to the metaphysical. Necromancers, Killers and Presidents, Summoned From the Pages of History 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z While the witty wordplay and aphoristic metaphysical musings that dominate the dialogue can be often amusing, sometimes profound, the play’s self-conscious navel-gazing starts to feel glib, even predictable, partway into the two-hour piece. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z For the most part, the Church of Jediism – with an estimated 500,000 members worldwide – focuses on the metaphysical side of the Force. 'How do wookiees breed?': the big Star Wars questions answered 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Not that it was that difficult to follow the action, or more accurately, the philosophical musing and, in the case of Lucifer’s big aria, the corrosive malevolence of the Devil’s metaphysical plotting. Music Review: Louis Andriessen?s ?Commedia? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-16T22:59:00Z The best of his work is fueled by nuclear-strength imagination, grand metaphysical and theological explorations, and prescience in matters of technology, marketing, consumerism, media and ecological catastrophe. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Near the end, after some brief metaphysical speculation, Dalrymple confides touchingly: "I am relieved that I am not writing about the philosophy of mind, a subject far too difficult for me." Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-12T21:55:02Z Were you interested in metaphysical ideas as a kid? David Lynch in conversation: “It’s ignorance that keeps us in that boat of suffering” 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z At first glance, the distraught diva in this picture can only be Carol, who is played with almost metaphysical movie-star blondness by Ms. Blanchett. Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “The Whale,” he said, “was a piece written by an angry young man … because the world didn’t see the cosmos in metaphysical terms.” John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z The two girls, “daughters of socialism, as the phrase went,” resolve their eternal love triangle with a stunning metaphysical selflessness. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Twenty-one years ago, she wrote a book, “A Way to Garden,” that combined practical aspects of gardening with its more metaphysical rewards. The garden evolves over time, but so does the gardener. Margaret Roach should know. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Topics ranged from the mundane to the metaphysical – which clothes they wore to go shopping to their thoughts on the nature of happiness. The way we were: Mass Observation at the Photographers' Gallery 2013-07-20T23:05:48Z But in court documents, CorePower’s lawyers dismissed karma as a meaningless “metaphysical precept,” on par with words like “authentic,” “World Class Yoga Experience” and, yes, “soul-rocking.” Psst. Kid. Wanna Teach Some Yoga? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z That metaphysical stasis might sound cerebral or even dull, but Shafak takes a passionate, athletic approach to the novel of ideas. Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Hinting at some comical metaphysical secret, it nicely punctuates this trippy exhibition. A Five-Artist Exhibition Goes Sci-Fi at Mitchell Algus 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Alternative treatments, rituals and metaphysical organizing principles loom large in popular culture. Now Therapists Have to Figure Out Astrology, Tarot and Psychedelics 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Lena pursues a romance with a rock climber, and other guests involve themselves in sexual and metaphysical shenanigans. Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “I would rather do things that nobody wants,” he said, of his decision to spend the past decade on a metaphysical, postmodern novel. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z And this metaphysical stuff was the longest running of that. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z Let's get metaphysical: Actors acting actors Singers, sporting heroes, kings, queens and presidents. Clog dancing's big street revival 2010-12-02T22:59:00Z But, he said, the ring’s real magic is how it mingles the physical and metaphysical realms. Possessed: A Turquoise Link to Willie Nelson 2010-12-17T23:39:13Z As he moved away from practicing Judaism, she shared her interest in metaphysical literature. Review | Artist Hyman Bloom’s body of work is revered. And the bodies are cadavers. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z But when it comes to tackling the big, metaphysical questions, the horror framework is in danger of being too rigid to come up with new answers – like a dying religion. How post-horror movies are taking over cinema 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z It is not very likely that he or anybody close to him at this point engages in such epistemic or metaphysical exercises. Donald Trump’s reign of bullsh*t: He’s not lying to us, he’s just completely full of it 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z They also remind us of the metaphysical arrogance of childhood. Movie Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ Directed by Benh Zeitlin 2012-06-26T20:56:35Z In a nearby wall text, Ms. Quaytman comments on how af Klint, working like a “mad scientist,” was able to join both rational and intuitive faculties to conjure invisible, metaphysical ideas. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The Revolutionary War, it turns out, was not just what you studied in 8th grade history but a metaphysical battle against Death itself. TV Tonight: Sleepy Hollow 2013-09-16T09:30:13Z Mapping the metaphysical pathways that allow human beings to be devastated or buoyed by a series of sounds? The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Lyra Silvertongue, a girl of mysterious parentage who finds herself caught up in a cosmic war with metaphysical elements drawn from Milton, Blake, quantum physics and Nordic mythology. Philip Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’ is an enthralling prequel to His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The complete poems of Andrew Marvell — and most of the metaphysical poets — and also Tennyson. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Primitive art, peasant art, Indian art, Japanese and Chinese art, musical instruments, drums, jazz, the spectacle of sport, the colour of sport, magic realism, Borges, the metaphysical, dawn, sunsets, fish eyes, trees, flowers, seas, atolls. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z The scenes of Jacky’s silhouette while shadowboxing have an almost metaphysical dimension. Movie Review: ?Bullhead,? Directed by Michael R. Roskam 2012-02-16T23:52:20Z The frescoes are part of an exhibition called “Monday,” commissioned by the Fondazione Memmo, which loosely illustrates the melancholy and metaphysical angst associated with the first day of the week. An Artist Brings Alive the Worlds Dancing in Her Head 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z These elaborate fantasies of metaphysical connections and nefarious cabals provide the film’s grand narrative power. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Specifically, I'm thinking here of Inception – the metaphysical sci-fi blockbuster due out here in the summer from Christopher Nolan, these days of course a major Hollywood presence. Inception: confusion can be good 2010-06-04T09:25:00Z Using her clairvoyance to develop a casual pickup line is just one of her freaky metaphysical powers. Perspective | Turnstile, Tinashe, Fay Victor, 42 Dugg — the fall concert season is here 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z That place and time produced truly metaphysical fiction and poetry, which seems to me to be the highest achievement of literature. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z For readers who favor metaphysical wandering — or wondering — Marilynne Robinson has an expansive, inquisitive new essay collection whose title pretty much says it all: “What Are We Doing Here?” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Shifting between meanings with an agility a metaphysical poet might envy, Watts recalls the jelly his great-grandmother cooked up. Review | Signature Theatre’s latest show is a ‘Jam’ to savor 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z A homey powder-blue kitchen is framed by three door-less thresholds on the left, right and center — each one representing passage into the house or the outside world, or a more metaphysical passage into the afterlife. ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Murphy’s notable Irish forebears in employing the monologue format include Brian Friel and Conor McPherson, but her story does not acquire the spiritual or metaphysical dimensions that their finest works do. 2010-01-08T03:46:00Z Each element — painted on silk or porcelain, carved into lacquer or jade — carries a specific metaphysical meaning and psychic weight. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z From those sounds he created expansive, meditative tracks that hover between the physical and the metaphysical. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z He deals in despair and metaphysical stasis, one part Kafka, one part Beckett, plus a dollop of earthy comedy. Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? 2012-07-13T21:30:01Z When a similar spirit of technological euphoria reanimated American art in the ’60s, the metaphysical tragedians of the ’50s went into eclipse. Art Review: ‘Signs & Symbols’ and Oskar Fischinger at Whitney Museum 2012-07-26T20:02:10Z “The Ascension” leaps to an opposite extreme: synthetic and outsized rather than intimately acoustic, metaphysical instead of biographical. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The film is on the verge of delirium: a gripping metaphysical drama. Essential Killing ? review 2011-03-31T21:51:00Z The series squandered its final season in a misguided effort to transform its trademark narrative ingenuity into a grand metaphysical statement. "Lost": Ruined by its own fans? 2010-05-24T14:30:00Z “They don't want to live so much as to exist, preferably on a metaphysical level.” 2010-02-08T20:50:00Z Indeed, with its elegant mix of science fiction and metaphysical mystery, Le Tellier’s thriller is comfortably settled in the middle seat between “Lost” and “Manifest.” Review | Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Wittgenstein’s declaration is usually taken to mean that talk about anything metaphysical — God or gods, supernatural phenomena, mystical experience — collapses into nonsense under scrutiny. Milton Resnick Exhibition at Mana Contemporary 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In her review for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis praised the lead performances but wrote, “The movie insistently puts a secular frame around its story, leaving little room for the metaphysical.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Drew Michael’ and ‘Ghoul’ 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z A tense, paranoid nightmare with a chilly metaphysical overview has been trampled into a blustering, bad cartoon. | '13': ?13,? With Sam Riley and Jason Statham - Review 2011-10-27T21:38:36Z It was the satyr play, he argued, that gave Greeks the "metaphysical solace that, despite every phenomenal change, life is at bottom indestructibly joyous and powerful". Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z For all the metaphysical malaise on display, the movie barely begins to address the particular agonies of the writing profession and the neuroses afflicting people who live mostly inside their heads. Movie Review: ‘Stuck in Love’ Stars Greg Kinnear as a Divorced Novelist 2013-07-04T20:34:58Z In the course of a typical conversation with a fellow comic, you can usually rely on the ever-cheery Pete Holmes to get personal, metaphysical or both. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The play is a hybrid: thriller, metaphysical essay with poetic moments and occasional bleak jokes. Doktor Glas – review 2013-04-19T16:41:16Z The loss of Sarajevo was, to him, a metaphysical loss, as it removed him from his past. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z Her skepticism about God was more personal than metaphysical. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z There are murky shadows and muddy nightscapes, all redolent not just of ordinary danger but of metaphysical darkness. Review: ‘Batman v Superman,’ Dawn of a Franchise 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Rap is made with words, but what if those words were just containers for oozing moods and profound metaphysical yearning? The best music of 2015: Young Thug, Ellie Goulding and Kelela shine 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The Jew, first seen as a theological spoiler, becomes a metaphysical and monetary spoiler. Connections: Two New Books About Anti-Semitism 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z “I knew that something beyond the beyond was going on,” one interviewee says, echoing the metaphysical beliefs of many circle fans. | 'What on Earth?': ?What on Earth? Probes Mysteries of Crop Circles 2011-04-22T04:53:01Z Yet Luke provides us with a more metaphysical answer. Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI – digested read 2012-11-25T19:30:02Z Mr. Coelho’s lyrics on the record are metaphysical, apolitical and compassionate. Review: Ute Lemper Seeks Truth and Justice in a Collaboration With Paulo Coelho 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Nevermind the range of metaphysical questions that can be explored in the very proposition of zombies. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z For now — praise be! — in a history-making metaphysical transformation, Mr. Parsons has been temporarily inhabited by the spirit of the Lord. Review: ‘An Act of God,’ With Jim Parsons as an Almighty Comedian 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z These dispatches from the medical and metaphysical fronts are infused with oblique yet intense snippets of memoir. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z He directed the smashing martial arts fantasy "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon," the landmark gay love story "Brokeback Mountain" and the 3-D metaphysical adventure "Life of Pi." Cooperation and creative versatility distinguish winning directors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Which is to say, “A Burglar’s Guide to the City” isn’t just an entertaining and unusual book but also kind of trippy and at times metaphysical in its musings. How to be a better burglar: Creeping around in buildings with Geoff Manaugh and Jeff VanderMeer 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Reviewing it in The New York Times, James Poniewozik called it “a blasphemous blood bath, a metaphysical action caper, stylized and splattery, that doesn’t have great depth but makes up for it with volume.” Steve Dillon, Comic Artist Who Helped Create ‘Preacher,’ Dies at 54 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z His study was the metaphysical idea of Magic, which found expression not only in performance, but in practice, commentary, design and contemplation. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z When “Maps to the Stars,” directed by David Cronenberg from Wagner’s screenplay, opens Feb. 27, audiences will get a startlingly vivid reminder of the writer’s vision, which is at once outrageously scabrous and achingly metaphysical. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Dramatists, writing in the shadow of the new apocalyptic threat of ecological disaster, aren't simply importing themes — they are forcing us to reconsider our fundamental aesthetic, ethical and metaphysical orientations. The arts become Earth-aware: Dawning age of what are known as eco-arts 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z A more this-worldly religion such as Judaism is perfectly suited to a philosopher who made her name in The Fragility of Goodness by defending the practical ethics of Aristotle over the metaphysical supernaturalism of Plato. Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance 2012-06-29T21:55:17Z The metaphysical high jinks turn out to rest on a sturdy moral foundation. ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Review: It’s Messy, and Glorious 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Hegarty’s constant theme is transformation through the flesh as a route to self-knowledge, and the journey he describes is both sexual and metaphysical: “Transgender,” he once said, “is a condition of the spirit.” The Week Ahead: Oct. 24-30 2010-10-24T01:00:00Z I like Lear for being very familial and political, as well as metaphysical. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Glück is a lyric poet in the line of the metaphysical poets, like George Herbert, who also used flowers as images of the soul, and the poems in her book have a despairing power. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XIII 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Even with tiny bites you’ll immediately perceive the way he hops between material realms and metaphysical ones as freely as a bunny in a meadow. The Essential Vladimir Nabokov 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z “And then like five months later, after forcing me to read the complete commentaries of Gurdjieff and all this metaphysical hoodoo, he gives me the building, like out of the blue.” In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Vermeer takes it to the most poetic extreme, in his stilled metaphysical concentration on the most ordinary spaces and acts. Rebellious Rembrandt, Dutch explorer of the infinite 2011-01-11T15:26:42Z The difference between Marcus’s posthumous voice in the movie and in the book is the difference between a cinematic convention and a metaphysical shock. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z There was a lot of metaphysical discussion of whether that should come at the beginning of the show or whether it should be saved for the end. ‘The Addams Family’ Musical Was Panned. Then It Became a Hit. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z To answer these questions fully would take more space than I have, and the metaphysical aspects of Mr. Malick’s vision have been explored at appropriate length elsewhere. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z Marketing for the Universal film continued to play up those elements while de-emphasizing "Lucy's" philosophical and metaphysical pontificating. 'Lucy': 5 reasons the Scarlett Johansson film ruled the box office 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z There was a slight sense of metaphysical unease in the train car, as if everyone was looking around and wondering: Why aren’t you in a car? Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z This view is a logical and metaphysical dead end, says Smolin. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin; Farewell to Reality by Jim Baggott – review 2013-06-10T08:00:01Z “Like a god controlling lightning bolts, he could throw ideas,” he said of de Chirico in his metaphysical period. Duane Michals Searches the Morgan and Finds Himself 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The well appears to be a real one, not a metaphysical source of spiritual refreshment, but Dickinson's first stroke in the poem is to defamiliarise it, transform it into a kind of black hole. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z In Zemba’s dark comedy “Superstitions,” the state of America is examined through the metaphysical beliefs its citizens carry. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z After all, I knew of the popular atheist discourse on the subject, which cast the religious not only as incorrect about metaphysical realities but as standing in the way of social and intellectual progress. Toxic atheism drives people apart 2012-10-21T16:00:00Z Lewis, Owen Barfield and Charles Williams, but — their book’s subtitle notwithstanding — the focus is less literary than religious or metaphysical. ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s a genial male-bonding album, conscious of history but also relaxed; it’s far less metaphysical than the albums Mr. Miller makes with his wife, Julie Miller. New Music: BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE 2012-12-31T22:21:39Z The communication is otherworldly or metaphysical, and the rhetoric is rather ambitious, but the impetus and direction are promising. Museum and Gallery Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:17:26Z Such flights of poetry would seem pretentious and implausible in the hands of a less skilled writer, but Jiles grounds her characters’ metaphysical musings in a starkly realistic portrait of the lawless Texas landscape. Can a 10-year-old girl ever recover from years in captivity? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z I’m not sure that Chute answers the metaphysical question posed by the title of her book; it hardly matters. The Hand of the Comic Artist 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z The intoxicating sensual appeal may seem out of step with imperatives of Buddhist humility, but there is often a transcendentalist aspect in cloisonné’s metaphysical symbolism and its otherworldly beauty. Art Review: When Enamel Wares Adorned China?s Imperial Courts 2011-02-17T21:29:31Z To me the coronavirus feels like the physical manifestation of some sort of metaphysical infection that we have had during the last three years at least with Donald Trump and this situation. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The song title translates as “Praise for the Institution of Cynicism,” and the lyrics — with English subtitles in the video — are a broad-spectrum, almost metaphysical protest. The Playlist: BigBang Prepares for a Split and 2 Chainz Steals the Spotlight 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z What sets the show apart from its small-screen peers is a subtle metaphysical layer all its own. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z "We wanted to see how celebrities such as Cheryl Cole answer metaphysical questions such as, 'Why are we here?' or, 'What happens to us after we die?'" says Prowse. The pranksters who gave George Osborne a GCSE maths book 2012-08-21T19:00:01Z There is far more latitude for the imagination here, as in a series of paintings titled “Ten Kings of Hell” that is densely populated with heavenly and demonic metaphysical characters. Art Review: Refined Restraint in ‘Treasures from Korea,’ in Philadelphia 2014-03-20T12:00:02Z If there's sleight-of-hand here, it's the brilliant way in which Marías transforms a homicide into a literary and metaphysical meditation on existential questions. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z Whether you go for that metaphysical stuff or not, consider getting out of the pool and up into hills at least once during your trip. Palm Springs beyond the poolside: lonesome hikes, alien-inspired architecture and a poignant art museum 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The metaphysical struggle between good and evil, dark and light – which Christianity codifies as the birth of Jesus, the light that "shineth in darkness" – is enacted daily. Darkness in literature: Kathleen Jamie's Darkness and Light 2012-12-11T08:02:00Z It’s nominally a horror film, but it’s a story of mental derangement with a premise of metaphysical shock that’s more or less detachable from its richly textured and disturbingly inventive cinematic essence. The Front Row: “Carnival of Souls” 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Is madness a result of broken workings, or something more metaphysical? The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf – review 2013-01-11T20:00:04Z The aftereffects of these bloody deeds spread forth on levels practical, psychological and metaphysical, rippling outward like waves in a dark pool. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Rajiv Joseph?s Play at the Mark Taper Forum 2010-05-14T23:58:00Z According to the group’s website, “The Rosicrucians are a community of mystics who study and practice the metaphysical laws governing the universe.” What is it like to be the brother of Robert Kennedy’s assassin? The life of the other Sirhan. 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Things were heard at face value, which meant that the metaphysical disentangling The Author requires of its audience was not always achieved fully. Death of The Author: how did my play fare in LA? 2011-03-07T17:31:16Z It's surely possible to doubt this: Chekhov's metaphysical tragi-comedies resonate for everybody, not just Russians – for all the undeniably wild Russian flavour in what I saw. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z The Quiet American has a metaphysical bent, though I suspect that, too, is rendered partially in jest. The Gonzo Artists Arrive in Cleveland 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Posts on this theme include a lament about how often people ask her “why” she writes — she calls this question “highly metaphysical.” Michelle Dean loves Ursula K. Le Guin's cat stories. Which is a good start. 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z He abruptly intercuts the different musical sources throughout the film, following a scene with drone-like chanting and two women’s incantation of a naïvely metaphysical meditation with one of Coleman’s catchiest blues jaunts. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Lib also mulls over metaphysical questions, particularly wondering about the existence of a God who would allow the suffering she sees before her, as well as the torment she witnessed at Scutari. ‘The Wonder’: From the author of ‘Room,’ another tight, intense drama 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z For romantic sensibilities screaming for the sublime, the metaphysical pondering of the deep — no. The Cruise Issue: On the World?s Largest Cruise Ship, the Sea Is an Afterthought 2011-02-14T16:19:28Z Rahman is not so interested in the more metaphysical aspects of our problems with money. Microloans in Hackney | Feature 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Between inert grunge and violent dynamism yawns a terrific metaphysical abyss. Art Review: ?Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970? at N.Y.U. - Review 2012-01-13T16:11:35Z If you fail at the level of language, if you write in clichés or secondhand phrases, your failure is metaphysical, and you’re doomed. Just Like You, Claire Messud Never Read ‘A Brief History of Time’ 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s a cautionary image that invites contemplation on a metaphysical scale. 'Dirt' at Raven Playhouse mines horror and comedy 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z This metaphysical philosophy is suffused throughout "The Shining." Why "The Shining" is a hopeful film 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “There was something metaphysical about my attraction to her,” he said. A Certain Metaphysical Attraction 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Up on the screen, Robert Pattinson's hollow-eyed young plutocrat is being ferried across a creepy metaphysical Manhattan, all but entombed in his white limousine. Cannes diary: day 10 2012-05-25T15:25:25Z Cool move, suggesting a metaphysical presence with such physical sounds, and yes, this soundtrack was made almost entirely with human breath — via various clarinets, via Stetson’s gigantic bass sax, via his own throat. Perspective | Is ‘Hereditary’ really the best horror movie in years? Sure sounds like it. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Jon Batiste’s lovely jazz compositions take turns with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s subtle, cerebral score, building a sonic bridge between the sensual and the abstract, the physical and the metaphysical. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z You have to look past the violence and jokes to notice, for example, that moment in “Three Billboards” when Frances McDormand’s character, shattered by the murder of her daughter, engages a deer in metaphysical conversation: You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z That phrase, “absolute evil,” would become an important constituent of Wiesel’s rhetoric over the years; the Bad News gestured toward a kind of metaphysical innocence. Postscript: Elie Wiesel, 1928—2016 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z There’s something special going on with this child, something metaphysical, almost supernatural.” TELEVISION: Kiefer Sutherland in Tim Kring?s ?Touch? on Fox 2012-01-11T12:58:00Z For him, the technique of acting is at once physical and metaphysical, a discipline of the face, limbs, voice and spirit. Movie Review: ‘Peter Brook: The Tightrope’ Follows the Theater Director 2014-01-30T23:35:57Z The strangeness that De Palma conveys is as much psychological and even metaphysical as it is practical. Movie of the Week: “Mission to Mars” 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Amid the metaphysical ruminations of “Guardian Angel,” Biber’s eerie finale to his “Mystery Sonatas,” she directed a little smile at the audience, eyebrow raised. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The effect of all this linguistic diaphanousness and metaphysical maelstrom is that individual poems don’t stick in the mind. Best Known as a Holocaust Poet, Nelly Sachs Deserves Another Look 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Much of the finest English-language poetry is religious in one way or another, and perhaps the golden age was that of the metaphysical poets. Poster poems: religion 2013-04-12T15:23:10Z But, not one to let her brother do all the navel-gazing, Willow — she of “Whip My Hair” fame — also got a little metaphysical. Willow and Jaden Smith: Their Weirdest Interview Quotes 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The unreliability of human beings — our propensity to lie, to spin, to delude ourselves and one another — is for him an ethical problem rather than a metaphysical puzzle. Movie Review: Deciphering Donald H. Rumsfeld in ‘The Unknown Known’ 2014-04-01T22:00:03Z In someone else’s hands, these elements might have provided the starting point for a work of science-fiction, or else an exploration of metaphysical or spiritual questions: Where did these people go? The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z It’s a blasphemous blood bath, a metaphysical action caper, stylized and splattery, that doesn’t have great depth but makes up for it with volume. Review: ‘Preacher’ Goes to Heaven, Hell and Texas 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z There was a vital, metaphysical need for sincerity. "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z He said he was always interested in “metaphysical things” and in middle school looked into meditation and hypnosis. After the deluge, a mushroom hunt in the urban forest 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z There's a metaphysical touch of paradox in the notion of becoming "whole as a half" but, although wholeness is obviously desirable, the poem doesn't quite celebrate the potentiality. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z The poem's programme is more metaphysical than illustrative, a depiction of life's trials and tribulations ending with a massive fugue and final hymn of affirmation, complete with offstage female chorus. Suk: Symphony No?1; Ripening 2010-10-02T21:45:00Z But Mr. Braff in a metaphysical mode is at a loss for words. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Milch, a 1966 graduate of Yale who was an ardent student of Robert Penn Warren, can’t help but go all metaphysical when the are discussed. Television: HBO?s ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman 2012-01-25T15:29:12Z In his part gnomic, part mechanic’s style, Mr. Pirsig’s narrator declares that the real world is a seamless continuum of the material and metaphysical. Robert M. Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies at 88 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Wear one to sharpen your metaphysical perceptions or, maybe, just as a nice pop of color. Browsing: Trench Coats for Spring; New Jewelry; Bonobos Introduces AYR label and More Shopping News 2014-04-23T21:49:59Z In the best of Robert Lepage's metaphysical kaleidoscopes, his visual and aural effects have the force of ideas. Rutherford & Son; Glasgow Girls; Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-17T00:06:21Z Her inner voice yields jokes and asides, a montage of the metaphysical and the trivial, and Woods’s wry yet intimate images provide the deadpan slapstick contrast to her desperate whirl of thought. Forgotten Treasures of Black Women’s Cinema 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z More seriously, he talks about the Red Hand Files, his newsletter, a sort of metaphysical advice column, in which he exercises a compassion that he admits “doesn’t come naturally.” ‘This Much I Know to Be True’ Review: Nick Cave Prepares for the Stage 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “There’s some sort of spiritual, metaphysical reality there that makes it feel like you’re stepping into a ritualistic space.” Plotting the Future of the Most Storied Studio in Jazz 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z First there was Plato and at the very end was Nietzsche, and Nietzsche’s metaphysical doctrine is that everything is will to power. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z He titled his first feature “Paris Belongs to Us”; it’s a seemingly metaphysical conjunction of a theatre’s Shakespeare production and a political conspiracy. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z This painting makes clear my comparison with Italian metaphysical modernism. George Shaw's prophetic art of neglect 2011-04-04T10:40:17Z In matters metaphysical, keep an open mind or, as we shall see later, “don’t get overwrought.” Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z Rather, metaphysical truth exists — good and evil, moral and immoral, action and consequence. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z “Under the Silver Lake” is less a cinematic folly than a category mistake, taking the sterility of its own imaginative conceits for a metaphysical condition. ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z This new collaboration marries that company’s physical and metaphysical theatrics with Decker’s feminine, fevered aesthetic. Making a Meal of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Dead cell phones, power outages, and a bit of metaphysical theory add to the eerie, disquieting atmosphere. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Nor, as it turned out, was the photograph entirely devoid of its own metaphysical dimensions. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z To others, however, the vigorous response reflects the fact that even the best-supported science, empirically speaking, is still enmeshed in unsettled metaphysical questions. Thomas Nagel Is Praised by Creationists 2013-02-06T22:56:34Z A fine staging by Emilie Beck for The Theatre @ Boston Court inventively connects the parallel everyday and metaphysical realms in which the play maneuvers. 'Shiv' connects the everyday and the metaphysical at Boston Court 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s perhaps the funniest book I’ve read this year, and also among the most moving and philosophical, charged with the kind of metaphysical self-interrogation that is a central, though often overlooked, aspect of her work. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z This is a standard in video games, known as a checkpoint, that more ambitious titles like the acclaimed "Star Wars" spinoff "Knights of the Old Republic" employ as a moral/metaphysical puzzle. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z The screens are like windows to the outdoors, and they also suggest something metaphysical beyond the constructed interior. Light and Dark at MoMA, the Morgan, the Armory and Beyond 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The poem's answer, as it evolves, seems to be that Actaeon's metaphysical theft and the literal destruction Diana unleashes are equally necessary "fatal flaws" in the moral scheme. Poem of the week: Actaeon by George Szirtes 2013-07-22T11:16:36Z Then the Twin Towers crumbled and there was an immediate need to fall into one another, into the metaphysical beauty of human connection, to remind ourselves the world still existed. The power of radical forgiveness 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Several contributors go out of their way to establish their own faithless bona fides, perhaps as a way of legitimizing their metaphysical reactions to the strip. In a Collection of ‘Peanuts’ Tributes, the Gang Is All Here 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z In the 17th century, the metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell wrote, “But at my back I always hear/ Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” Cultural Studies: On ?Mad Men,? The Allure of Messy Lives 2010-07-30T21:05:00Z The film’s passionate insistence on remembrance lends it a moral as well as a metaphysical weight. | 'Nostalgia for the Light': Chile?s Past Is Present in the Desert 2011-03-17T21:58:19Z That spectral conceit has a strong emotional effect on one of the movie’s characters and turns out to have a basis not in the metaphysical realm but in the economic one. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z In the First Symphony, Mr. Salonen seemed intent on reminding listeners that this piece is an earthbound symphonic composition, not just Mahler’s first step into the metaphysical beyond. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Brings Mahler to Carnegie, Ever So Coolly 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z But there’s a metaphysical utility to that kind of movement, too. The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Prewar American blues performers often thought of the river as a metaphysical gateway—a vein separating here from something beyond. Lost in America with Hiss Golden Messenger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “She has not only used materials in innovative ways to literally capture light,” Conaty says, “but to also capture the metaphysical qualities of light. And she has done a lot of it through painting.” The 'whoa' moment and Mary Corse: The painter who toys with light is finally getting her due 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z He imbued clusters of vases and bottles with metaphysical heft. 7 Notable Debuts at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The intertwined works explore arcane scientific and metaphysical fields of study that McCarthy had long been obsessed with: quantum physics, the philosophy of mathematics and theories about the nature of consciousness. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Lubezki can infuse Sunset Boulevard, Venice Beach and other often-filmed spots with a beauty that feels erotic and metaphysical at the same time. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Rather, its concerns are existential, metaphysical, even when politics enters the work. George Saunders' novel 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is remarkable 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Trouble is, Bond doesn't follow through with this metaphysical style. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman – first look review 2013-01-23T17:14:22Z “How can we intensify the spiritual, metaphysical matter in which the piece is received? That’s what I want: to really magnify that experience.” 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z On one side is the belief in some kind of unseen, metaphysical force governing the universe; on the other is the certainty, shared by the director, that no such thing exists. ‘Magic in the Moonlight’: Another Woody Allen Odd Couple 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z What it takes is a comprehensive vision of justice—one that’s rich in spiritual, even metaphysical overtones—which Lee realizes in ghostly visions of a Shakespearean power. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The Renaissance was such a moment, as the metaphysical reality of Christianity began to give way to that of empirical science and perceptual experience. Art Review: ‘Bellini, Titian and Lotto’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-07-05T21:59:59Z This is that rare tale that lures us into a metaphysical black hole: the nature of identity that eludes conclusion. As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s also, for all its metaphysical weirdness, a story about family and loved ones. Thanksgiving TV: Plan Your Other Binge 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z But “First Winter” knows what it is: a stark metaphysical parable that contemplates the superficiality and fragility of modern civilization. Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z The metaphysical speaks to us through the nature. Naomi Watts survives "Infinite Storm," a harrowing mountain-climbing tale based on a true story 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Heim never works with an explicit story; still, this triptych succeeds in taking the viewer on a metaphysical life journey. Diavolo's 'L'Espace du Temps' resonates in its metaphysical convergence 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Both approach craft from a metaphysical vantage point, channeling the abstraction of feeling into dramatic, physical form. Former 'Runway' finalist Bradon McDonald's costumes create character for Jessica Lang Dance 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The legacy of Dent, an activist district attorney turned murderous lunatic, looms over this one, the literal and metaphysical personification of good intentions gone disastrously wrong. | 'The Dark Knight Rises’: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With Christian Bale 2012-07-18T17:49:45Z Probably because most of the songs that survive this freaky metaphysical transition aren’t all that freaky in and of themselves. On a scale of Monkees-to-Gorillaz, how should we evaluate fictional music? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z On one level it was subtly political — a nod, he suggested, to Capitol Hill — and on another level it was suggestively metaphysical. Music Review: Intuitions Unsaid but Issued in Rhythms 2011-08-12T21:38:22Z And the alluringly radiant last song, “This Is the Thesis ... ,” softens to a tranquil pianissimo, instruments falling away as the voice alone finds the metaphysical “merely in living as and where we live.” Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Far from mere metaphysical noodling, the consequences of such forgetting are situated within an all too familiar contemporary dread. Sam Shepard's dual-voiced farewell 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But for decades, he has presented himself among his fellow philosophers as a ruthless slayer of metaphysical fancy. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z But rather than contemplate social conditions in the Italian countryside, the film fixes its attention on matters at once metaphysical and material, taking as its subject nothing less than life itself. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z What gets left behind in all this metaphysical guesswork is Rovena and Besfort, who instead of developing and becoming more interesting as the book goes on, are, if anything, pared down and reduced. Books of The Times: Power Struggles and Riddles, in Romance and Political Intrigue 2010-11-23T23:27:00Z Four curious characters eke out a meager existence in a metaphorical, metaphysical realm in Samuel Beckett's classic Absurdist drama. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z I attach no importance to the metaphysical aspects of his arguments, but I consider his views on physical & psychological issues valuable. Liveright to Publish Nelson Mandela’s Letters From Prison 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The abductions, batterings, and escapes are entertaining, but distract us from the heart of the novel – the relationship between Lizzie and Adam, and the metaphysical issues with which they wrestle. The Hit by Melvin Burgess – review 2013-04-17T10:24:26Z “Peak blackness is a rare metaphysical anomaly that can only occur when an amalgam of black excellence comes together at the same societal intersection,” he said. Late-night hosts on Moonlight's Oscar win: America reaches 'peak blackness' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z But there is nothing hippy-dippy about her films, which for all their metaphysical leanings, are devoid of New Age sap and, if anything, derive their visceral power from a formal poise and rigor. Retrospectives of the Filmmaker Nina Menkes 2012-02-19T03:37:17Z There was a sense of wondering, without going too far out, what it would be like to live your life as someone who is metaphysical, and as someone who really feels everything. Imogen Poots Keeps Everyone Guessing in ‘Outer Range’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z It’s a poetic notion, all the more so for its nostalgic charm arising from an act of metaphysical villainy. “Ghostbusters”: Bland, Mechanical, and Completely Worth Seeing 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Usually this is because they are metaphysical in nature and strive to convey some sort of complex, even ineffable vision. Review | ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ may have sold 596 copies in its first printing, but it deserves a wider audience 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z But a turn for the metaphysical seems wholly organic, and the show is repeatedly reinvigorated by its saving grace: humor. Fringe Festival in Review 2010-08-18T21:22:00Z Inception unfolds as a kind of metaphysical heist movie: a Thomas Crown Affair of the senses. Film review: Inception 2010-07-09T23:17:00Z The director, who meditates regularly, says he isn’t religious, but has long been concerned with matters metaphysical: the title of his 2004 film 21 Grams refers to the hypothetical weight of the soul. Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z A metaphysical aroma wafts from the resulting slashes, which seem to open onto infinite black voids. Review | Lucio Fontana slashed his canvases with a knife. Was it a gimmick or something more? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Pondering evil in the universe, in its immediate, local, and intimate manifestations, Lynch launches metaphysical speculations in which hair-trigger shifts launch major actions on the other side of the continent. “Twin Peaks: The Return” Episodes 3 and 4: David Lynch Is Back 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Dorn's poetry is many things at once: rangy and compressed, rough and refined, metaphysical and crude, slangy and grandiloquent, subtle and hectoring. Collected Poems by Edward Dorn – review 2013-02-01T16:01:01Z But the film also suggests a potentially metaphysical dimension. ‘Little Joe’ Review: This Flower Can Dispense Joy, but It Has Demands 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Her eighth novel is even more metaphysical and experimental than its predecessors. A Cosmic Being Dies in Yoga Class. Then Things Get Really Weird. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z And hovering over all the scary stuff are some big, metaphysical questions about the origin and ultimate fate of humanity. Movie Review: ‘Prometheus,’ by Ridley Scott, With Noomi Rapace 2012-06-07T12:44:28Z But once I overcame my short attention span, the undulating, almost melodic delivery and metaphysical imagery proved to be charming and moving. The Saudi housewife who spoke out 2010-04-12T10:00:00Z Can you talk about developing these metaphysical aspects of your story and the more existential concepts in the film? Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Johor journeys to Rohanda through zone 6, a metaphysical realm crowded with the souls of the dead awaiting rebirth, much religions various versions of purgatory. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z I think that movies are a medium—in the spiritual or metaphysical sense of putting the souls of viewers into connection with the souls of filmmakers. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Elemental and atmospheric, it is a work of remarkable economy and restraint that excerpts Genesis, Exodus and Psalms yet abstracts their text in canonic clouds — a 15-minute container for metaphysical thought. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z But “Angels’ Atlas” is another reminder that despite its underpinnings — sometimes social, sometimes metaphysical — her large-scale, forceful group work is simply conventional. Review: A Trip From Light to Dark With the National Ballet of Canada 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Andersson skirts so many human mysteries and Pigeon plays out as a giddy metaphysical burlesque. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z We live and so we think with and through other people's experiences, just as others live with and through our writing as an existential, sentimental, political, metaphysical experience. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z It’s one of the best family films of the year, and a worthy metaphysical companion piece to Docter’s “Inside Out.” New this week: ‘Soul,’ a Tom Hanks film & ‘Bridgerton’ on TV 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Pollan’s sources of information heavily represent metaphysical constructs of psychological theories brought to bear on the psychedelic experience rather than rigorous neuroscientific analysis. Letters to the Editor 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But Mr. Mungiu, one of the crucial figures in the post-dictatorship flowering of Romanian cinema, has a gift for infusing daily routines with an almost metaphysical sense of dread. Review: ‘Graduation’ and the Anguish of Living Vicariously 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Eventually he went into sales, married and spent much time in metaphysical searching, exploring reincarnation and the power of the mind to heal physical ailments like cancer. House Proud: A Cottage Just Right for Frodo 2011-08-11T17:36:54Z I don’t think any topic is more anxiety provoking, or more genuinely interesting to everyday people, than free will But then philosophers replace the interesting issues with technical, metaphysical issues. The truth about free will: Does it actually exist? 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s a heady concept, part Sartre, part Durang, and when “Space” clicks, it rides an impressive line between dark screwball comedy and sweeping metaphysical study. Long-buried family truths emerge in the dark comedy 'Space' 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z It eventually works its way around to the kinds of metaphysical questions that made “Star Trek” so great. ‘Starship Icarus,’ Science Fiction Satire on Cracked .com 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The primetime show used creepy music, spooky lightning, and sometimes-questionable acting in an effort to crack vexing cases, both legal and metaphysical. A brief history of "Unsolved Mysteries" 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z For everyone else, life simply goes on, same as before, but with less physical and metaphysical certainty. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The current cinema is built on the absences of the past—and their metaphysical emanations are also now taking cinematic form. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z One of Sierz's chief contentions is that "for a while, there has been a real tension in contemporary British theatre between the literal, on the one hand, and the metaphysical, on the other". Noises off 2010-03-25T17:09:00Z If you work a bit, you can persuade yourself of hidden depths and metaphysical sorrows. Review: Robert Redford Aims to Charm in ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z And then, in Act 3, it takes off in a metaphysical direction, as the plot moves ahead in time and shifts to several characters now deceased and seated in the town cemetery. ‘Our Town’ debuted in 1938, but it’s still staged everywhere. A new book explains why it’s so timeless. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The parallels are particularly striking in their treatment of the human figure, with de Kooning’s works not just borrowing from Soutine’s poses and distortions, but also adopting his same sense of metaphysical space. Review | Gehry renovation at the Philadelphia Art Museum is stunning and sleek, but suits the old building 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z The book is a metaphysical journey told through Igbo cosmology. Akwaeke Emezi: ‘Imagine Being Ogbanje, Like Me’ 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s very clear in Mike Nichols’s film version, too, that the political and metaphysical were of less interest to him than the personal. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z She wrote her dissertation on the metaphysical poet George Herbert, whose limpid, fervent verse touched a nerve. Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z But keep listening, because when a songwriter pulls us in with such metaphysical magnetism, then sets boundaries, we’re probably in the presence of true greatness. Review | Let’s get small with Jessica Pratt 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z For almost two hours, the audience looked on as epic and often metaphysical questions—of faith, language, taste, value, ownership, legacy—were debated with ferocious intensity. What Happened After Mexico’s Greatest Architect Was Turned Into a Diamond 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z That is the unquenchable human urge to acquire knowledge, whether carnal, mathematical, historical or metaphysical. | 'Arcadia': The 180-Year Itch, Metaphysically Speaking 2011-03-18T02:01:09Z It could almost be the work of an American Antonioni, though Mulligan is more interested in individual psychologies than metaphysical conundrums. DVD: A Screwball, a Noir, a Courtroom Drama, All Unsung 2011-12-23T16:00:00Z It includes wine and cheese, yes, but also a metaphysical luxury: that of expanded time, to lounge poolside on those built-in stone benches, to take in that magical view. In Palm Springs, to Pool Hop Is to Time Travel 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z MacDonald is generally regarded as the most original, the most metaphysical, and certainly the strangest of all Victorian writers of fairy tales. Review | What we all could use right now: Tales of magic, wonder and the triumph of goodness 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Reacting against their genteel predecessors, these New Critics claimed that the meaning of a written document — like, say, a metaphysical poem or the transcript of a presidential phone call — was self-contained, discoverable and stable. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But if exceptional illusion-making skill is required to “prove” the reality of metaphysical persons and events, then is not doubt already lurking? Art Review: ‘Bellini, Titian and Lotto’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-07-05T21:59:59Z Badalamenti evokes Douglas Sirk melodrama with soaring strings, as Lynch does with his romantic plots, but tempers it with modern instrumentation, just as Lynch does by conjuring a sense of metaphysical terror. Twin Peaks still marks the summit of TV soundtracks 2010-03-25T12:28:00Z Despite all of the heavy, metaphysical searching evoked on his lyric sheet, Cohen judged the quality of his work by its everyday usefulness. Eavesdropping on Leonard Cohen’s conversations with the void 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Panning a book like this may feel like harpooning a minnow, but I think treacly metaphysical fiction does us a cultural disservice. Review | Mitch Albom serves up another helping of superficial spirituality 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z It amps up to a less digestible level of metaphysical hoo-ha, but the pages turn rapidly with well-orchestrated suspense. New Books From Louisa Hall, Christian Kracht, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Others 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z It may help to explain why, throughout his career, he risked the radical depersonalization and self-effacement of his art, why he pursued unconscious resonances, irrational wonders, metaphysical mysteries of life and death. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Suddenly, nuclear war begins, and his friend, something of a mystic, offers him a metaphysical bargain to save the world—and it involves sex. “Interstellar” Is a Flowery Greeting Card 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Nicholas Kenyon, writing in The New Yorker, described a 1980 performance of “Donnerstag” as “full of arresting ideas but in grave danger of collapsing under the weight of its metaphysical pretensions.” An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Back then his work was less metaphysical and more topical. Pearl Jam poster artist Brad Klausen has a new book: 'From a Basement in Seattle' 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z The show takes its title from the device used to ensure that paintings hang evenly on the wall, though its metaphysical wordplay is clear from the outset. Art Review: ?The Spirit Level,? Group Show at Gladstone Gallery, Chelsea 2012-04-12T21:12:02Z An art made only of light – it sounds airy, not to say metaphysical. Light fantastic 2013-01-26T09:00:44Z Early issues, which told the story of Morpheus’s escape from a long imprisonment and the rebuilding of his metaphysical powers, also featured appearances from established DC heroes like Batman, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter. Sweet Dreams: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Becomes an Audio Drama 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z I said, this other stuff, this metaphysical stuff, was petty bourgeois self-indulgence. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z Nonetheless, Herbert — like the other metaphysical poets — fell out of fashion during the 18th century. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury But their songs contained all manner of complexities: rhythmic and harmonic, as well as tonal, political, philosophical and metaphysical. Review: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Harmonic and Political Still 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z This has trickled down from the metaphysical heights into our everyday world. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Ripley and Jones show how each metaphysical go-around discloses more clues; each makes Colter fall for Christina a little more, and each makes the thought of losing her seem more unbearable. Source Code ? review 2011-03-31T14:00:01Z We’d gathered Monday, with the Franklin family’s blessing, to behold a trove of all kinds of genius — physical, musical, oratorical, sartorial, tonsorial, metaphysical — the most staggering genius, of course, being Franklin’s. Aretha Franklin Didn’t Want You to See This Movie. But You Must. 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z And these are global questions, these are metaphysical questions — they’re the unanswerable questions. Dennis Lehane on writing, family and his new novel, 'Since We Fell' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The inky rain itself establishes metaphysical mood: everything is dark, nothing is settled. Clip joint: rain 2010-07-21T12:53:00Z “For me the bindi is a metaphysical side of the third eye. It’s your inner consciousness — do you have yours? She doesn’t need to show that she has it.” Now Visiting From India, an ‘Ancestor’ for Everyone 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z These scenes were mixed with CGI to create Susie's surroundings in the "in-between" - a sort of metaphysical purgatory; a holding area between death and heaven. 2010-02-15T08:24:00Z His own work is often characterized by an iconoclastic wit, imbued with serious metaphysical inquiry — a “curiosity about the nature of reality, in a much more profound sense than just a bunch of atoms.” Duane Michals Searches the Morgan and Finds Himself 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Welch takes from her mountain and Southern sources a set of metaphysical intuitions. Twenty Years of Listening to Gillian Welch 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “Predestination” similarly plays around with enduring topics like fate and imprisonment, metaphysical and otherwise, and pins them on a character forced to change identities. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The film, Mr. Givon’s first feature, shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009, is a tricky combination of realistic portrait and low-key metaphysical thriller, and he mostly pulls it off. DVD: New DVDs: ‘The Saphead,’ ‘Seven Minutes in Heaven’ 2012-07-06T17:30:00Z Yet they are never quite as metaphysical as they want to be. Damien Hirst, Richard Serra and Tracey Emin ? the week in art 2012-05-18T14:03:06Z Compared to most of Jodorowsky's other works, Borgia is striking for its lack of metaphysical subtext. Alejandro Jodorowsky's dance on the edge of meaning 2011-01-25T12:27:40Z Directed with lots of air-devouring pauses by Daniel Aukin, with a stark black set designed by Eugene Lee, this Signature Theater production calls ponderous attention to its great metaphysical themes. Theater Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Heartless’ Opens, With Lois Smith 2012-08-28T02:00:00Z This is two shows for the price of one: pin-sharp character comedy and metaphysical magic to boot. Ian D Montfort 2010-08-19T20:46:00Z The former, based on Paul Bowles’ mystical, metaphysical semi-autobiographical novel, followed an egocentric American couple travelling to find the meaning in their relationship. Bernardo Bertolucci obituary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z In Komunyakaa’s world, the most ordinary thing, if you look at it right, is imbued with mystical, mythical or metaphysical significance — even if the approved official accounts tend to insist otherwise. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z “The Tender Enemy” is a metaphysical comedic romance, centered on the lavish engagement party of a young woman that’s being held in a mansion behind the gates of a grand estate. Max Ophüls’s Unheralded Masterwork “The Tender Enemy” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The unfinished structure, a striking example of metaphysical architecture, was designed with no windows, doors, ceilings or floors. 36 Hours in Modena, Italy 2012-10-18T19:34:49Z I was angry because the world didn't see the cosmos in metaphysical terms. A guide to John Tavener's music 2013-02-19T16:15:03Z This open-ended approach can be frustrating at times, like a brew of metaphysical musings, Dollar Store Antonioni and barren “Slackers,” but the film does have an unsettling vibe under its sunny exterior. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Around the same time Rorty completed his metaphysical therapy, and was reinventing himself as a general-interest writer, his peers in the English department were replacing the categories of mind and world with language and text. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Indeed, White’s work got into some pretty heavy metaphysical territory. Could You Transplant a Head? This Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein Thought So. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Under the never-ending Montana sky, fortunately unmarred by wildfire smoke, we contemplated the metaphysical vastness of the wilderness. ‘Llama therapy’ in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Wright’s particular obsession is the past — his own, and the very idea of the past, which is to say, the metaphysical nature of time. A Poet Maps the Landscapes of Memory 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Faust and the devil are less like prey and predator than like quarrelsome business partners, the mismatched halves of a metaphysical buddy picture. ‘Faust’: Alexander Sokurov’s version casts a dreamy spell 2014-01-09T21:21:26Z Barrault thought the problem with “L’ État de siège” stemmed from the confusion over whether the plague was political or metaphysical. Tyranny and resistance: Albert Camus' 1948 drama 'L’État de siège' carries new relevance 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z On the run from these agents of metaphysical threat, they find that the rectilinear world of Manhattan is a mess of crisscrossing wormholes, not subject to the usual laws of time and space. The Adjustment Bureau ? review 2011-03-03T22:15:01Z But considering “Walden” in the context of Thoreau’s life makes a richer and far more sympathetic book than its collection of metaphysical aphorisms would suggest. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z There’s a metaphysical element in Thompson, and Americans always leave that out. Film: Jim Thompson?s ?Killer Inside Me? Is Made Into a Film 2010-06-03T17:07:00Z “A Great Reckoning” is one of her best, but I think that pretty much every time I finish a Gamache mystery . . . or metaphysical exploration, or whatever the heck these miraculous books are. There’s a bit of Nancy Drew in Louise Penny’s masterful ‘A Great Reckoning’ 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Rand, I explained to him, had discounted the metaphysical value of that which could only destroy but never create. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Think of this collection as a metaphysical kaleidoscope in which clearer views unfold only as readers allow their vision to become hazy. National Book Award finalists for poetry He always used a mirror for self-portraiture, and painted exactly what he saw, so these are portraits, rather than metaphysical self-images. My top five Lucian Freud paintings 2011-07-22T11:42:03Z Age tends to creep into their talks as a rueful metaphysical truth and blunt existential fact, but that same night Mitch also gets stoned with a young guy in a club bathroom. ‘Land Ho!’ Sends Men of a Certain Age to Iceland 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Of course, the use of variant meters in a single stanza is common among the Elizabethan and metaphysical poets, but here the pattern seems to be additionally suggestive. Poem of the week: 'Shadows in the Water' by Thomas Traherne 2010-12-20T10:13:09Z She was more fond of chewing gum than smoking opium, less concerned with luring men to their metaphysical doom than cleaning out their bank accounts and moving on to the next sucker. 2010-02-06T01:50:00Z If regular old Hollywood melodrama, rendering bourgeois passions operatic, provokes chuckles even among its devotees, Bergman’s infusion of middle-class anguish with metaphysical heights and existential depths risks unleashing a laugh riot. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “The Rabbit Hutch”’s vibrant, messy sprawl can seem that way too, but its excesses also feel generous: defiant in the face of death, metaphysical exits or whatever comes next. One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z The movie doesn't even try to capture the surreal metaphysical stuff like Turtle the Creator or how the Losers see a vision of It smashing to Earth like an asteroid millions of years ago. Reading Stephen King's 'It': Still unsettling, all these years later 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z You want to know what new psychoses and vocabulary and levels of intent his characters have taken on: distanced and bratty; sentimental and sociopathic; dry and metaphysical; grateful and generous. Critics' Choice: New CDs by Sharon Jones, E-40 and Bill Callahan 2010-04-04T21:55:00Z An almost metaphysical vision begins to emerge: in life's abundance there is profusion, but also pattern. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Oguike Dance – review 2013-02-11T18:20:59Z His weird foray into the previously known unknown of metaphysical epistemology, much mocked by the British, suited perfectly the spooky tenor of the times. Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:24Z Though Baudelaire does not unbalance the opera's metaphysical polarities, his astonishing descriptions of the music reveal a transgressive inclination towards Venus rather than God. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z There are vistas in Braden King's metaphysical road movie, "Here," that are so beautiful you want to step through the screen and disappear into the Armenian landscape. Stunning visuals, wandering plot in cerebral road movie 'Here' 2012-06-21T20:24:04Z They spend a lot of time wandering the fields and pathways of a drab and marshy northern French countryside, their mostly silent, idle days punctuated by spasms of violence and eruptions of metaphysical strangeness. Movie Review: ‘Hors Satan,’ Directed by Bruno Dumont 2013-01-17T23:18:44Z We soon discover that there is a supernatural mechanism at work, a metaphysical machine that customizes life-changing visions for each person. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Baker plays with metaphysical ingredients, getting the lights on a Christmas tree to flicker portentously while Bach plays on a glowing CD player. Review | ‘The Flick’ playwright Annie Baker goes long again in the three-hour ‘John’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z There he hides from the monster, called the Demogorgon after a Dungeons & Dragons creature, and occasionally communicates with his mother and friends across the metaphysical plane. Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z This might be material, social or even metaphysical, but it will encode difference. War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction? 2013-04-08T09:00:01Z The crow meeting, which started out as research, somehow edged into a metaphysical encounter with deeper meanings, and it now informs Mr. Marshall’s newest series of paintings. Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z This existential dilemma permeates the narrative, adding metaphysical speculation to the assorted mysteries that will follow. ‘The Fifth Heart,’ by Dan Simmons 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z He has just one arrow in his abdomen and is gazing up at the sky in an ecstasy at once physical and metaphysical. Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Reviews of his erotic, heavy-hearted and metaphysical novels commanded the front pages of books sections, as did his occasional interviews. In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z And so, a fairly predictable opening spins quickly into a complex metaphysical inquiry that is also a poignant social allegory — as much “Twin Peaks” as “True Detective.” ‘The Outsider’ Brings a Faceless Terror, and Stephen King, to HBO 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z While he claims he’s not interested in proving or disproving the existence of God, by the end, his metaphysical commitments become clear. Reza Aslan’s ‘God: A Human History’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z So you’re not claiming to have a foolproof plan for metaphysical reward. Michael Schur on ‘The Good Place,’ Ted Danson and Kantian Ethics 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Where Antonioni’s film evoked the metaphysical malaise of Italy’s leisure class in that country’s postwar boom, “About Elly” depicts the strains between strict Islamic traditions and modernism within Iran’s affluent, sophisticated middle class. Review: In ‘About Elly,’ a Middle Class Enjoying Itself Is Engulfed in Change 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Or perhaps there’s an alternative to resistance or acceptance: these novels seem to be building toward metaphysical ideas about how our present-day selves relate to the whole sweep of our lives. Knausgaard or Ferrante? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s still a pleasure to spend time with this prickly duo, even if Nicloux’s metaphysical riddler is on the slender side. Cannes 2015, week two report: perfect Pixar but Gus goes gooey 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Together, they represent the next generation of metaphysical art, in which spiritual principles are supported by rigorous artistic practices. | “The Mothership” Lands in Downtown Los Angeles 2014-01-20T21:40:36Z At nearly 400 pages, “The Passenger” reads at times like a thriller, albeit a digressive, metaphysical one. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Designing the costumes for “The Revenant” was both a physical and metaphysical challenge for Jacqueline West. Beaver Hides, Bear Grease and ‘The Revenant’ 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z “That has been the biggest challenge: To create a space that is metaphysical of course, where we can be together,” Risso said in a video interview ahead of the virtual unveiling. Milan Fashion: Marni avenges lockdown with global video 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z There is simply no spiritual, intellectual or metaphysical equivalent to Lear, the Richards, the Henries, nor the twin peaks of Othello and his demonic tempter, Iago, and certainly no woman baddies of that order. Are Shakespeare's women second-class citizens? 2012-07-19T11:09:28Z Beane’s always palpable love of theater, and satirical eye for its self-dramatizing denizens, suggested a lighthearted romp in the metaphysical woods. Review: In ‘Fairycakes,’ the Woods Are Campy, Dark and Daft 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Turning the play's most famous lines into metaphysical graffiti is certainly one way of avoiding cliche; but it emphasises Shaw's tendency to work through the soliloquies as if solving an equation. Hamlet ? review 2011-03-03T22:00:04Z Fallaci spent almost a decade on “Inshallah,” a giant novel about the war in Lebanon, which exposed her weakness for melodrama and metaphysical kitsch. A new biography gets Oriana Fallaci the way people who knew her couldn't 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The source of the terror, though, is not a supernatural presence but a metaphysical absence. Review: ‘First Reformed’ Is an Epiphany. Ethan Hawke Is, Too. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Glenn Shadix, best remembered for his portrayal of a portly, pretentious designer in the metaphysical comedy "Beetlejuice," died Tuesday at his home in Birmingham. 'Beetlejuice' actor Glenn Shadix dies in Alabama 2010-09-08T01:25:00Z But then it became the unliberated woman’s survival kit, with advice on how to please a man, lover or boss under any circumstances and also—in a metaphysical sense—how to smile all the time.” The Death of the Original Cosmo Girl: Helen Gurley Brown (1922-2012) 2012-08-13T22:15:03Z He sketches a theological family tree that, while selective, highlights the connections between these individuals across generations: They read one another’s metaphysical treatises and visited one another’s communes. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s structured around a serious of conversations — sometimes philosophical, sometimes metaphysical and often deeply personal — set against several of the city’s landmarks. ‘Columbus’ explores a city’s personal relationship with its architecture 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Valerie works in a field that allows her to ponder big, metaphysical questions of life, science, faith and philosophy. Just in time for Valentine's Day: my failed proposal to get my girlfriend back 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z In the first quarter of the book I was held back from investing too much in the story because it seemed as if the metaphysical rug was about to be pulled out from under us. A Debut Novel Traces the Boundary Between Life and Death 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z But many attendees preferred gaming over metaphysical discussions. A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Clothing can act as a sort of metaphysical armor, and Ms. Electra found out early on you don’t need much of it to protect yourself from the world. Around the World in a Day With Carmen Electra 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z To the director, it’s a metaphysical sacrament — and all along, his camera has hinted that mankind must commit to the planet before it’s too late. ‘The Mountain’ Review: Stone-Faced in Nature’s Splendors 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z It is also full of Beckettian shifts in register, from the mundane to the metaphysical, as well as bits of business that have the jaunty rhythms of vaudeville routines. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z Over the years, I was a witness to “Rent” growing up, as if I had a metaphysical ruler at the ready, always waiting to take the latest measure of the heights it had scaled. Perspective | ‘Rent’ and I, we’ve been going together for 23 years. And not even ‘Rent: Live’ could break us up. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z If it's hard to get rid of real uninvited visitors, imagine how hard it is to divest yourself of the metaphysical variety. Readers recommend: songs about visitors ? results 2011-08-25T13:46:52Z For Sjón – a poet and a compulsively metaphysical thinker – this self-imposed handicap is a hazardous tactic. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z I might be on some metaphysical journey to the Pyramids and stop for a while to pull it back. Simon goes back to way old methods for new disc 2011-04-13T12:06:18Z “Parsifal” is Wagner’s metaphysical meditation on the knights of the Holy Grail, the goblet supposedly used at the Last Supper and which later caught Jesus’s blood on the cross. Watch the Met Opera Stage a Sea of Blood 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z He was also taken by the Wyoming-set drama’s hybrid nature, combining a “supernatural, metaphysical aspect” and a classic trope, a family’s fight to keep its land. Josh Brolin: Tough rancher in ‘Outer Range,’ softie at home 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z A state in which all our metaphysical ideas simply dissolve in the presence of overpowering sensory experience? How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The air around his cypresses remains thick with opposing approaches, from the metaphysical to the earnestly botanical to the suddenly topical question raised by the Case of the Embedded Pebbles. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z A collection of nine stories that reflect the ideal of science fiction — metaphysical or scientific speculation united with humanist emotion. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z It sounds pretty metaphysical for a film entering a marketplace currently dominated by Marvel's Avengers Assemble and Battleship. Prometheus: the making of a new myth 2012-05-25T23:01:00Z The question she came up with—“Could a nude woman artist be both image and image-maker?”—was simultaneously formal, art historical, metaphysical, and revolutionary. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Without a glimmer of mysticism or spirituality, “An Elephant Standing Still” is metaphysical. “An Elephant Sitting Still,” Reviewed: A Young Chinese Filmmaker’s Masterly Portrait of Political and Intimate Despair 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z There’s also a virtually metaphysical dimension to Cassandro’s struggle with his sport’s public and private rigors. “Cassandro, the Exotico!,” Reviewed: An Intimate Portrait of a Lucha-Libre Star 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z And Usher created one of the night's simplest — and loveliest — moments in his performance, accompanied only by a harpist, of Stevie Wonder's metaphysical "If It's Magic." Grammys 2015 was a low-wattage affair 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z More recently, however, he's moved on to a larger canvas involving the mystical and metaphysical, and the results have been less satisfactory. 360 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:33Z The metaphysical change which takes place over 500 or so years is a horrifying experience – an experience in which he relives some of the most unendurable moments of his long life, including the galactic war. Doctor Who's acid test 2010-04-13T20:00:00Z The interlude seems as much metaphysical as physical. Bianco – review 2013-04-15T17:13:35Z It’s effectively spooky, and moves beyond the clichés of combat into troubling political and metaphysical territory. At New Directors/New Films, a Glimpse of the Otherworldly 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z There are some metaphysical body slams, tumbles, and drags that are also unexaggerated, realized with a modesty that emphasizes the ordinary fragility of bodies. “The Curse of La Llorona” Exemplifies the Problem with Genre 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z His early vitrines are genuinely striking and ambitiously metaphysical. Damien Hirst, Richard Serra and Tracey Emin ? the week in art 2012-05-18T14:03:06Z He is not, although by the time McBride is swimming through a watery tunnel toward a rebirth — complete with a portentous, symbolic umbilical cord — the film is en route to a metaphysical collapse. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z THE new fragrance is called Womanity, which in broad terms is meant to evoke a metaphysical bond existing among all of womankind. Thierry Mugler, a Designer Transformed 2010-04-30T20:00:00Z It is they who find it impossible to leave after dinner, and wind up, in Act II, sleeping, bickering and eventually fighting over food scraps as their metaphysical entrapment persists for days. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The book’s final section includes larger, metaphysical questions about impermanence and how people relate to the earth and sea. The best poetry books for January take on race, current events, love and loss 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z This poem contains many of the cleverest metaphysical conceits: witness "our vegetable love" or those trying worms. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z It was, in large part, a reaction to the metaphysical macho of Abstract Expressionism and its successors. In the galleries: Getting ‘Personal’ at King Street 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The message of the latest Pixar feature — a lyrical, metaphysical tale of a jazz pianist’s adventures in the afterlife — is that it’s good to be alive. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Was there something itching inside you that motivated you to explore frameworks of trauma and recovery in such a similar metaphysical plane? Damon Lindelof on ‘The Leftovers’ Finale, the Show’s Future and His Afterlife Obsession 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Those case studies captured the emotional and metaphysical, as well as physiological, dimensions of his patients’ conditions. Oliver Sacks, Casting Light on the Interconnectedness of Life 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Michael Schur’s ingenious metaphysical sitcom “at first seems more like a movie idea” but “over five previewed episodes, it holds up,” James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Good Place’ and ‘Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z While the themes that often populate her work are again examined here — cross-cultural marriage, faith, migration, notions of home — this time, the central questions are metaphysical: What lies within us? Review | Leila Aboulela’s ‘Bird Summons’ takes the traditional road trip novel down a new path 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z You never grant metaphysical importance to evil or the irrational because they are impotent. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z But the moral dilemma posed by the play — when is murder justifiable? — can’t be fully addressed unless the tragedy’s psychological, political and metaphysical levels are fused. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z White observes the transformation of the secret society of outsiders into a cult of love, complete with its metaphysical mysteries and rowdy rites. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The movie, which will debut in theaters on May 7, before a video-on-demand release, seemed to connect to Oyelowo on a metaphysical level. David Oyelowo Fights for Representation in Family Films 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The couple, both mind-body healers and metaphysical authors who meditated for several hours a day, had reached enlightenment, they said. What I learned about love during my years of reporting on weddings 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “For us it’s this metaphysical and spiritual symbol about believing in something larger than yourself.” New at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: A Sunny Little Cloud 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z “You can flirt with the banal on the edges of a musical work” like “Picture,” Crimp said, “but ultimately, that’s done to prepare the ground to enter into a much deeper metaphysical space.” An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z “We weren’t doing drugs, we weren’t escaping through alcohol,” Allen told me, “so we were escaping through this more metaphysical relationship with ourselves.” Holy Hell and the truth about cults: 'They’re not going to give it up easily' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z These may be signs of a cosmic or metaphysical presence, or they may be figments of Dinesen’s increasingly desperate and fevered imagination. Review: ‘Jauja,’ a Desperate Odyssey in the Argentine Desert 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Anti-Semitism is a metaphysical passion, not a materialist one. Connections: Two New Books About Anti-Semitism 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z Born in Russia and a New Yorker from the age of 5, Resnick belonged to the last generation of Modernists — the Abstract Expressionists — for whom metaphysical intuitions still centrally mattered. Milton Resnick Exhibition at Mana Contemporary 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Yet they possess a rare quality that borders on the metaphysical, housing connections to people and actions that have no other proof of existence. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z “The metaphysical explanation,” he says, “is that Roger Federer is one of those rare, preternatural athletes who appear to be exempt, at least in part, from certain physical laws.” A David Foster Wallace Reading List for 'The End of the Tour' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z “Turquoise is like a stone of protection,” he added, referring to the stone’s reputed spiritual and metaphysical properties. A Macho Home on Guys’ Wrists 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Meanwhile Chris, who spends mornings on-air waxing poetic about topics ranging from Carl Jung to motorcycle repair, is constantly evaluating his own metaphysical connections. 30 years on, the magical realism of "Northern Exposure" is a gentle balm for our cabin fever 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z For Keats, the nightingale’s song encapsulates all the great metaphysical hazards of being alive. Humanity’s Deepest Longings, Found in a Bird’s Song 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z At its best, this approach cuts through the metaphysical waffle that often passes for music criticism and helps tease out what is common to punk clubs and La Scala. How Music Works by David Byrne - review 2012-11-09T22:55:01Z Like Carlos Fuentes before him, Herrera depicted the border as a kind of porous frontier, a threshold no less metaphysical than physical. In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z And so Shauf pushes this mundane Saturday night toward the metaphysical — the direction that life is always pushing us in if we loosen up and let ourselves be pushed. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z In Patricio Guzmán's almost metaphysical documentary "Nostalgia for the Light," Chile's Atacama Desert -- often described as the driest place on Earth -- is depicted as the site of all these explorations. "Nostalgia for the Light": A spectacular head-trip into Chile's Atacama Desert 2011-03-19T00:30:00Z A massive, anecdote-rich history, it enticed him to learn more, and he soon started visiting metaphysical societies in New York and Los Angeles. UFOs, alien abductions, the occult: to one man, the building blocks of scholarship 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z She argues that we should understand the will to power as a kind of psychological hypothesis about human motivation, rather than, as Heidegger took it, a metaphysical doctrine about the essence of reality. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z In some ways, “Sausage Party” is closer in spirit to “The Lego Movie,” which raised its own set of metaphysical questions. ‘Sausage Party’ Is an Animated Sex Comedy About Food ... and God 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z He is also more than happy to explain what the work means to him in more metaphysical, emotional terms. Venice festival: where dance comes to debate 2010-06-09T16:04:00Z The filmmaker’s narration nuzzles up to the metaphysical, and frequently anthropomorphizes the mountains that practically seal off Guzmán’s homeland. ‘The Cordillera of Dreams’ Review: From the Heights to the Depths 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z A breeze blows through these songs, metaphysical meditations on time and music and relationships mostly written by the Brazilians. Playlist: Albums From Las Malas Amistades and Cooly G 2012-07-13T16:43:05Z Mr. Nolfi has made assorted, um, adjustments to the original story — David’s world doesn’t disintegrate, it pauses like a stuck clock — though his largest shift is turning a metaphysical speculation into an existential crisis. | 'The Adjustment Bureau': Creepy People With a Plan, and a Couple on the Run 2011-03-03T20:00:07Z They spend a lot of time wandering the French countryside, their mostly silent days punctuated by spasms of violence and eruptions of metaphysical strangeness. ‘Hors Satan’: Minimalism wrapped in mystery 2013-03-01T00:12:51Z It also launched a loyal community of fans, drew critical attention from academics and journalists alike, and resonated strongly with Northwest viewers before ending abruptly in a metaphysical cliff-hanger after only two seasons. Best of the decade: ‘Twin Peaks,’ the Northwest’s pioneering mystery, returned to television — and North Bend, to court a new generation of fans 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z One-third Buddhism, one-third Augustine, one-third Nietzsche, and one-third Sartre, this metaphysical rom-com offers a conversion tale that bends and blends a recursive narrative of time, death, selfhood, nihilism, and attachment. How Many More Weeks (Years)? Watching ‘Groundhog Day’ Together 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Not all the paintings have quite as concentrated a metaphysical energy to them. You'll see emptiness inhabited in Susan Bennerstrom's captivating interiors 2010-11-19T05:01:00Z Of course, there's a distinction between these metaphysical concerns and Simón's ethical ones, but Simón's distaste for the business of philosophy seems larger than just a specialist's preference for one branch over another. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z Here, she imagines the ripple effects of a sister’s death across generations with metaphysical grace and hints of fantasy, straying from the plot-reliant mold of most human dramas toward something more haunting and powerful. ‘The Macaluso Sisters’ Review: Tragedy Across Time 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The film starts operating on a level which is metaphysical. Two Gates of Sleep: hitting the snooze button with Brady Corbet 2010-05-25T14:48:00Z "It's a metaphysical children's book and it deals with a lot of serious things in a really fun way," Carrey told HitFix. Jim Carrey to self-publish 'metaphysical' children's book 2013-03-26T14:20:00Z It’s when it pole-vaults into the metaphysical empyrean that the strain shows. The Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas at Toronto: Unique and Earthbound 2012-09-10T19:47:36Z Slowly but surely, though, scholars and performers are embracing Ustvolskaya’s music, which is, as she characterized it in that 1994 interview, truly new: grueling but cathartic, shockingly visceral and fleetingly metaphysical. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Frank McGuinness's new version is too bouncy but it taps into Ibsen's metaphysical mines. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z But whatever the metaphysical effects of the artist’s Japanese sojourn, that time in Kyoto certainly shaped her sense of design. Review | In the galleries: Artists make use of Asian iconography via paper and sculpture 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z In my analysis of the intersections of consumer culture and postural yoga, I found that postural yoga also shares a nondualist approach to the world and so reflects the dominant metaphysical mode of consumer culture. What most Americans don’t know about yoga 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Remember that “Game of Thrones,” like so many fantasy series, is constructed with a keen sense of metaphysical symmetry. Long live Ser Brienne of Tarth: An argument for a "Game of Thrones" knight's survival 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z La Tour rendered this carefully staged scene without recourse to any explicitly metaphysical devices. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z Wallace doesn’t simply set a scene and novelize his characters into facile life; rather, he makes an almost metaphysical commitment to see reality through their eyes. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Such is the duality and lesson of Sánchez’s art: It’s grounded in the material world but points toward something metaphysical. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Gagosian refers to it as sort of metaphysical dialogue with cultural history. Jeff Koons on his new Gagosian show, his MOCA award and what's behind those Louis Vuitton bags 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z It is an irony of materialist theories that such efforts to sidestep ghostly or supernatural accounts of the mind often veer into surreal, metaphysical territory. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z There didn’t used to be, back when she presented herself as a sentient, 24-7 artwork, singing about fame as if it were the most priceless metaphysical currency our civilization will ever know. Perspective | Hollywood brightened Lady Gaga’s star. Las Vegas will protect her from oblivion. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z His pieces, while ironic, are meant to convey a deeper metaphysical message. At Venice Biennale, Erwin Wurm Makes Sculpture ‘a Form of Action’ 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It presents a metaphysical paradox, but also lays out honestly the subject of its discourse. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z In a program note, Heartbeat’s young leaders express their desire “to birth productions that tackle urgent questions confronting our society today—questions of otherness, misogyny, cultural appropriation, and crossing borders both literal and metaphysical.” The Trailblazing Efforts of “Indie Opera” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Each sequence was a fiercely metaphysical portrayal of a dark night of the human soul. Skovhus/Vladar ? review 2011-08-15T17:45:01Z Total obliteration happens on an intimate scale, and the all-encompassing, metaphysical nature of the drama leaves room for gentleness as well as operatic cruelty. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z This final collection is made up of headlong prose poems that amount to sly — and heartbreaking — metaphysical parables about mortality. New & Noteworthy Poetry From James Tate, Jana Prikryl and More 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z His humour grew reflective and wry and a touch metaphysical. The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z A dark metaphysical thriller using advanced motion capture techniques and starring Ellen "Juno" Page, Beyond is director David Cage's latest attempt to elevate gaming to the status of "interactive drama". Current generation of consoles goes out with a bang 2013-01-06T00:07:54Z A true grasp of the metaphysical system of yin yang would draw on many schools of Chinese philosophy. This week's new tracks 2012-12-08T00:05:38Z It offers her a pathway to put an end to Sarah’s metaphysical reign of terror, by enabling her to dispel the ghost’s rage by telling the truth about Sarah and her sufferings. The Mild Horror of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z But Zed's resourcefulness impresses Cat and she asks him to join her in exploring the metaphysical realm. What happens after you die? TNT's 'Proof' examines the mysteries 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z He sticks to the visual and psychological conventions of war-movie naturalism in order to expose their limitations, and also to find metaphor, magic and metaphysical terror in the midst of grim realities. Review: ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ Engages the Horrors of War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z He conjured dreamlike, metaphysical fairy realms, as well as portrayed real-life subjects as radiant beings. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z It was a seriously thought through meditation on various social and metaphysical fissures spreading through 21st-century Japanese art and culture. Strong Showing at Museums, While Galleries Seemed Complacent 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z “It’s a blasphemous blood bath, a metaphysical action caper, stylized and splattery, that doesn’t have great depth but makes up for it with volume,” James Poniewozik wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Parts Unknown’ and the BET Awards 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The paintings in the Bronx, and their almost psychedelic palette, are as flesh-like and physical as O’Keeffe’s New Mexican work is stripped and metaphysical. O’Keeffe’s Paradise, Lost and Found 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Yet they cohere in tone, and intertwine in manners both physical and metaphysical. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z It is not surprising that Schumann was especially drawn to the metaphysical themes and poetry of Part 2. | 'Faust': Botstein?s American Symphony in Schumann?s ?Faust? 2010-04-11T21:16:00Z Our recommended titles this week are anchored by a sense of place, both physical and metaphysical. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z SAT Speakers to explore creativity, enjoy life, metaphysical topics, vendors including crystals, books, art, clothing, food; tarot and astrological readers, chiropractic services, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-25T16:35:26Z At times the metaphysical musings lead it wildly off track and deep into the rough, though there is always enough ambition and eccentricity to keep the journey interesting. Cannes 2013: The Congress – review 2013-05-16T13:42:34Z Yet for all the work’s mystical trappings and metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, it is a humane, wise and moving story of the imperious god Wotan and his dysfunctional family, who bring about their own destruction. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z According to this theory, Pollock – whose paintings are planes of colour – stands as a metaphysical revealer of what painting truly is. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z Ms. Jaoui’s films may lack Mr. Allen’s comic shtick, quotable one-liners and showy metaphysical angst, but they are precisely calibrated dissections of the pretensions and insecurities of the French chattering class. | 'Let It Rain': Agn?s Jaoui?s Comedy of Manners 2010-06-17T23:28:00Z It was a charming and ingenious solution to the opera’s metaphysical difficulties. Giving a Semi-Hearty Cheer for Semi-Staged Opera 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Manifesting sits alongside a smattering of belief systems — astrology, tarot, paganism and their metaphysical cousins — being resurrected by a youthful generation in the name of wellness. Manifesting, for the Rest of Us 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z “In perception, redemption,” Adnan declares in this assemblage of mystical, metaphysical ideas and aphorisms, often in conversation with the dead. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z A beautifully voiced choric nymph adds a dubious metaphysical dimension. Amphibians; A Doll's House; Julius Caesar ? review 2011-01-16T00:06:01Z It looks like a compilation of items from a website you started with some friends, a kind of clearinghouse for big, metaphysical questions. Rainn Wilson and Friends band together to support Mona Foundation 2010-10-20T23:54:00Z Six weeks later, Bowers lost a Republican primary for state Senate by 30 points to a man who insinuated that Trump’s defeat is part of a metaphysical conspiracy perpetrated by “the devil himself.” The Jan. 6th hearings: Was the finale just the beginning? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The director, most of whose previous films take place in Thailand, has a longstanding interest in the visual, social and metaphysical contrasts between city and countryside. ‘Memoria’ Review: In Search of Lost Time 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z "And so I'm interested in the mundane, but I'm always interested in how the mundane meets up with the metaphysical." "The OA" creator Brit Marling talks "Murder" and life's mysteries that sit "inside the questions" 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Books on the vortexes — what they are, where to find them and the unique energies you might experience at each one — line the shelves of the town’s many crystal shops and metaphysical bookstores. Mysterious vortexes are more popular than ever. Here's how to tap in without the crowds 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Think of this fantastically creepy offering as “Succession” with metaphysical twists, a wicked sense of comeuppance and blood. Is the real world not scary enough? Try these new horror and thriller series instead 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z But many Ukrainians remain suspicious of the church and whether it has fully cut ties with Moscow Patriarch Kirill, who has strongly supported the war as a metaphysical battle against Western liberalism. Ukraine’s parliament advances bill seen as targeting Orthodox church with historic ties to Moscow 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z It is a fantastic metaphysical store filled with crystals, jewelry, tarot cards and books. How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Justina Blakeney 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z This story is different in a sense that I think “OA” was more overtly metaphysical. "The OA" creator Brit Marling talks "Murder" and life's mysteries that sit "inside the questions" 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Reesé’s works use eerie childlike drawings that delve into the tumultuous mental and metaphysical struggles of adolescence. 13 L.A. happenings in October perfect for pulling up on your own time 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Haigh’s film, which Searchlight Pictures will release in December, takes place in a dreamy and melancholy metaphysical daze. At the New York Film Festival, a sluggish fall movie season seeks a higher gear 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z |
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