Sentence examples for iconic contact from inspiring English sources

His devotion to the concept of the archive — including archival footage — is based in a sense of the object's relic-like, totemic power that transcends evocation and memory to achieve a quasi-metaphysical incarnation of the past that restores its force through mythopoetic power, through the fact of its iconic contact with the past.

His devotion to the concept of the archive including archival footage is based in a sense of the object's relic-like, totemic power that transcends evocation and memory to achieve a quasi-metaphysical incarnation of the past that restores its force through mythopoetic power, through the fact of its iconic contact with the past.

What can be done when a play revolves around an iconic contact sport and requires a great deal of simulated action in order to get the audience in the mood?

"He's almost an iconic symbol of that first contact of the British Army with that massive German juggernaut crashing through Belgium on its way into France," says military historian Jon Cooksey.

A ripped Che Guevara poster in fluorescent pink and turquoise was my first contact with a so-called "iconic image".

Later, while examining my contact sheets, I am reminded of Capa's iconic photo of a French woman, from the end of WWII.

I wonder whether iconic crimes are the nightmare creation of those of us for whom daily contact with crime is circumscribed, for whom crime is a metaphor rather than a reality, for whom pursuing the noir is a creepy hobby.

It's stained with sweat and several threads have come loose, yet such signs of sustained contact with the star's body boost the value of this iconic piece of Jackson's wardrobe.

The only hazard to this libretto is that their conflict, which has become an iconic representation of the tension between top-down and organic notions of urbanism, was one in which most contact was indirect.

I saw it for the first time spread across the opening pages of Contact High, a new photography book chronicling hip hop's rise, told by photographers revisiting their contact sheets of iconic and little-known shoots.

Iconic film.