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Rorty looked forward to a culture -- he called it a "liberal utopia" -- in which the "Nietzschean metaphors" of self-creation are finally "literalized," i.e., made real.

www.Perublogs.com Todos los Blogs del Perú 2009

Speed Racer (Wachowski Bros.) [as demented narratively as it is visually; great fun]; XXY (Lucia Puenzo) [gathered festival props but not much else; absorbing both in its opening, a kind of literalized Cronenberg feast of meat being sliced and anatomies and wounds on display galore, then develops into a surprisingly sensitive and universal examination of inchoate teen sexual longing; the fact that it's about a hermaphrodite ultimately seems kind of irrelevant];

The House Next Door 2009

The opera's dichotomy of light and darkness was literalized by a massive industrial dome light that hovered over the production like an albatross.

Berlin Boos an Inert and Ugly 'Tristan' A. J. Goldmann 2011

The award-winning sculptor of found footage has become a contemporary ambassador of the technique largely thanks to his 2002 film "Decasia," which literalized its title by turning physically distressed footage into quicksilver sequences of eerie beauty.

A Filmmaker Mines History for Meaning Nicolas Rapold 2011

Unfortunately, the ideological collision of the two masterminds is something I wish Ritchie would have applied more heat to early on, as it simmers on low for too long, and is left undercooked by the time the figurative chess match they've engaged in for two films is literalized in a pay-off that should be familiar to anyone who's read Doyle's "The Final Solution," the only story where the two actually meet.

Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Zaki Hasan 2011

If there are good internal literary reasons why the author of Mark might have invented this story as the conclusion of his work, then the community that was the presumptive audience for the gospel simply may not have perceived the embarrassment that arose later, as other communities adopted and literalized the narrative invented in Mark.

Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

Funny enough, Dr. McGrath, some people don't care what George Lucas' intent was and have literalized his scriptures.

More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels: Messiahs, Wisdom and Jesus James F. McGrath 2010

"Ach" stands as the lower limit in German of voice enlisted, made letteral, as discourse, sound made not just sensed but sensible — what Agamben calls in the etymological sense "literalized" ( "Philosophy and Linguistics" 65).

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

Too often when an idea is literalized it loses its essential power.

Testing the Weird 2010

Note 297: In the following century, through the writings of Sebastiano Serlio and fabrications of Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi, the ideal city would be literalized as a civic setting for theatrical performance. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008