Sentence examples for philosophical voice from inspiring English sources

Commenting on her travails, the craggy-voiced fish (Pierre Lebeau), the movie's philosophical voice, periodically punctuates the soundtrack of a movie whose strategy is to surprise us by taking abrupt surreal sidetracks.

But Smithson was the driving philosophical voice in large part because of the strength and inventiveness of his writing: essays that almost seemed to parody art writing but came in the shape of the experimentation that he promoted.

Utterly rigorous, yet wonderfully non-academic, his philosophy is permeated by a distinctive philosophical voice - witty, erudite and humane - and by a sense of his own humorous and tragic view of life.

He vehemently condemned the enslavement of Africans (and gave a philosophical voice to the slave); he challenged his era's views on religious celibacy and forced vocations (in a tear-jerking pseudo-memoir of a sexually abused nun); and he entertained the possibility that his cherished materialism denied us free will (in his novel "Jacques the Fatalist").

From this point on he became widely recognised as the foremost philosophical voice of political radicalism.

Her philosophical voice, she insisted, was merely an elaboration of Sartre's.

A philosophical voice-over by Luis Aguilar, a frequent passenger, lends the film a cosmic perspective.

In so far as it has made widely available the most important demanding philosophical voices of the age, in so far as it has filled German bookshelves with the presence of that German Jewish intellectual and nervous genius which Nazism sought to obliterate, the Suhrkamp initiative has been a permanent gain".

With the swing toward conservatism and nationalism in the late-Meiji period, philosophical voices such as that of Inoue Tetsujirô advocated not so much a faithful return to Confucianism per se but to what Inoue called kokumin dôtoku, or "national ethics".

Their rise is engineered by a talent scout with the nickname Batuta (baton), who also delivers some mock-philosophical voice-over narration.

Like Clive James, who we will also have to say goodbye to soon, Richie Benaud was the philosophical, ironical voice from the land beyond the Fatal Shore, a man whose urbane sophistication flew in the face of all the Oz stereotypes we were familiar with.