Sentence examples for emblematic scene from inspiring English sources

His preference provokes the film's most shocking but most emblematic scene: a peerless melding of cruelty and tenderness.

In one emblematic scene the camera watches motionless as father and daughter fail to communicate, their silence becoming that of an entire generation.

His first breakfast with Alma in his London town house is another instantly emblematic scene, in which the ordinary little noises that Alma makes at the table — the scrape of a butter knife on toast, the clink of a spoon in a teacup — drive Woodcock to a quietly insolent and insulting fury.

The Robert Lehman Collection contains one of the Met's many highly efficient visual encapsulations of early history according to the Bible: Giovanni di Paolo's "Creation of the World and the Expulsion From Paradise," which presents two emblematic scenes.

The story begins in the year 2010 with one of science fiction's emblematic scenes: a visionary entrepreneur exhorting humanity to leave its ancestral home and begin "populating the Galaxy".

I retain strong flashes of certain moments from much-loved writers: emblematic scenes such as when the eponymous hero in Elizabeth Bowen's marvellous story The Demon Lover presses his fiancée so closely to his chest that his military button bites deep into her hand, branding her so that she can't ever rid herself of his hold.

His "Lorca in a Green Dress" operates on much the same principle as Mr. Brooks's 1991 film "Defending Your Life," which is that the recently deceased are first transported to purgatory, where they get a chance to review emblematic scenes from their lives.

And, of course, the vast linked tracking shots along a traffic jam in Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend"—one of the greatest and most emblematic scenes of the modern cinema are sparked by rubbernecking after one of the movie's many calamitous car accidents.

Deborah Solomon views the works as being "based on lofty civic principles", but rather than dealing with the warring patriots, they present themes with "civic and familial rituals" for "emblematic scenes".

The silliest cinematic convention of recent decades has been the emblematic sex scene — the visual evidence to prove to viewers that the couple in question consummate their relationship and enjoy it.

Many emigrant diaries and memoirs feature an emblematic early scene in which the local clergy warns travellers against risking their souls among foreign heretics.