Sentences with phrase «as the sphere turns»

As the sphere turns, two tracking devices fire ultrasound beams at it from below and measure the Doppler shift of the echoes to determine the speed and direction of its spin.

Not exact matches

The amazing appeal of Chateaubriand derives from his ability to turn the privileging of nature (the great innovation at the end of the eighteenth century) into an argument for sacrality, and to legitimize the spheres of the emotional and the aesthetic as valid replacements for those of the rational and the social.
The idea is to leave as few non-individual players as possible in the private sphere, and to turn those few that are left into agents of the government.»
Prior to Galileo science thought of Man as the mathematical and moral centre of a World composed of spheres turning statically upon themselves.
The Yahwist turned the spotlight not on the sanctuary, but on the human scene of historical event, as the sphere in which the will of the God of Israel became manifest.
One thing not everybody seems to know: if you get the spheres around the outline of a formation, the entire formation will transform into rings instantly, including both the outer spheres that had turned red after you collected them as well as the internal ones you hadn't collected yet.
While well - meaning progressive educators might be willing to criticize the manner in which humans are turned into dead objects that Marxists refer to as fetishized commodities, they are often loathe to consider the fact that within capitalist society, all value originates in the sphere of production and that one of the primary roles of schools is to serve as agents or functionaries of capital.
She in turn, was caught by his ability to appear standing outside the sphere just shy of what she was accustomed to finding,... the familiarity of what she was bred to understand and what she originally felt she would accept as her way of living.
November 19, 2010 — February 20, 2011 Invoking what the philosopher Gaston Bachelard identifies as «working reverie,» each artist in this exhibition turns an extraordinary and precise attention to physical elements of the world and of landscape, opening spheres of thought and imagination that produce receptive quiet, free play, and deep reflection.
Invoking what the philosopher Gaston Bachelard identifies as «working reverie,» each artist in The Nameless Hour turns an extraordinary and precise attention to physical elements of the world and of landscape, opening spheres of thought and imagination that produce receptive quiet, free play, and deep reflection.
They defy easy description by design, such as the geometric sculpture of a cube turning into a sphere that is both yet neither, or a complex chain of linked metal rings that never tangles and can also be worn as jewelry.
Since the 1970s, the scarcity of his work and his reputation as a theologian and aesthete has turned this avant - garde artist into a semi-mythical figure; an artist with a formidable reputation but one whose work has rarely been seen in the public sphere.
Earth is a dynamic sphere and, it turns out, so is the planet's climate, otherwise known as the long - term trend of global weather conditions.
Strathy's comments were intended as a broader indictment of the crushing costs imposed upon litigants in an increasingly process - laden system but if the courts are ever to get a handle on spiralling fees in the criminal law sphere, attention must be turned to the daily grind of the local set - date docket.
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