Sentence examples for formal ambition from inspiring English sources
Like Mr. Perry's first feature, "Impolex," a surreal, bare-bones adaptation of a snippet of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," it shows startling formal ambition.
With hints of David Cronenberg and Michael Mann, David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick, it has a formal ambition that is rare for television.
At 37 he has amassed a body of work — seven feature-length fiction films and documentaries — that is remarkable for its formal ambition, ethnographic richness and moral weight.
By Emily Nussbaum Reflexively turning the ordinary into the alien and vice versa, "Hannibal" has a formal ambition that is rare for television.
Mixing pop savvy with startling formal ambition, Mr. Mann transforms what is essentially a long, fairly predictable cop-show episode into a dazzling (and sometimes daft) Wagnerian spectacle.
Published in such major literary magazines as Zhongshan, Shouhuo and Shanghai Wenyi, his stories, with their surreal violence and cruelty, seemed to deftly summarize China's history; their metafictional devices also spoke of a formal ambition rare among Chinese writers.
The only potentially interesting critical question that arises is to how the stereoscopic format serves the film's, ahem, formal ambitions.
Their reticently poetic realism bespeaks a commitment that is not only aesthetic but ethical, sacrificing formal ambitions to values of authentically experienced nature and domestic life.
Their great appeal partly derives from Mr. Morrisseau's marrying of an understanding of Indian spirituality with his own formal ambitions as a painter.
But Ms. Letourneur has such a light touch, as well as real formal ambitions and such a generous attitude toward her characters that the movie eludes any inside-baseball traps.
But the question isn't just whether the novel does justice to boxing; it's also how well the novel uses boxing to do justice to its own formal ambitions, how it employs character, action, scene, theme and language supplied by the fight world.
