Sentence examples for mysterious authorities from inspiring English sources

And while both novels set counter-rebels against mysterious authorities in the familiar Pynchon mode, the style tumbles through cultural references in an almost dutiful, tick-box way – as if Pynchon was both reassuring himself, and us, that he was an authentic hipster of that era.

The protagonist is the (land surveyor) named K., who struggles for unknown reasons to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village.

Warhol's art has a shattering and mysterious authority.

They are fetishes, totems, symbols of power, living entities to which we accord a mysterious authority.

But the movie wouldn't work at all without his enormous, mysterious authority and grace.

Beche is an impressive creation; suffering near-insanity when saved, and grieving for the loss of his wife, he becomes convinced that the mysterious Authority has ulterior motives.

Be a real person yourself, not a mysterious authority figure.

We never know because Jun Do is an average man who's missing in action, akin to K. in Franz Kafka's The Castle--someone who is somewhat lost and at the mercy of mysterious government authorities who frustrate his attempts to find his place in the world.

Kjaerlighedens komedie (1862; Love's Comedy), a satire on romantic illusions, was violently unpopular, but it expressed an authentic theme of anti-idealism that Ibsen would soon make his own; and in Kongsemnerne (1863; The Pretenders) he dramatized the mysterious inner authority that makes a man a man, a king, or a great playwright.

Television makes public officials seem more familiar and less mysterious, decreasing their authority while increasing their celebrity.

Mr. Renda is one of those people with a mysterious force of authority that everyone seems to accept without questioning its provenance.