That sense of pressure and risk, of the fusion of the personal and the artistic, is the hallmark of the best of independent films.
Ma is an aspiring Marxist insurrectionist ("Ma collected Commies the way other women accumulate Tupperware") who thinks that being difficult is "the hallmark of the artistic mind"; Pop is a skirt-chaser and a drunk.
Simply put, a density of social and economic disparities has been a hallmark of the artistic city.
Many of the hallmarks of Sean's artistic career — his fascination with outsiders, his rebelliousness, his hatred of injustice, his suspicion of authority, his flirtation with heroics — are informed by the legends of Leo's life, of both his military and his political travails.
Cai Guo-Qiang's evocative exploration, now at Mathaf, of the ancient links between China and the Gulf is new and original.An absolute monarchy like Qatar is a hard place in which to encourage the daring, irreverence and subversiveness that is the hallmark of a truly artistic nature.
Biffy Clyro's new album arrives bearing all the hallmarks of A Very Important Artistic Statement.
The National's "Hamlet" is the work of Nicholas Hytner, who, as the theater's artistic director, has made it one of his hallmarks to promote various actors through the ensemble.
It is this special "shock of recognition" that inspires awe and demands response from the beholder when confronted with that deepest insight and most exquisite sensitivity, the hallmarks of truly exceptional intellectual and artistic endeavor.
(The first and only fire-eater I have ever interviewed!) He and a small group of colleagues, street performers of the Fête foraine de Baie-Saint-Pail, joined in orchestrating the marriage of cultures from the artistic and acrobat worlds which has become the hallmark of Cirque du Soleil.
A riot of color was also the hallmark of "Centripedalocity," by Anthony Cheung, Talea's artistic director.
