Sentences with phrase «about illusory»

Long fascinated by the resilience of pop icon shapes, Plummer - Fernandez expands on his ideas about illusory images, material, and copyright to generate a new version of familiar faces.

«I think I am a painter who is a sculptor... For me the two things have somehow come together, so that I am making physical things that are all about somewhere else, about illusory space.»

The company, which has a long and contentious legal history with former Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, filed an updated claim on Thursday about the «repeated misrepresentations about an illusory investment opportunity» in the studio behind films like Henry Cavill's «Immortals» and the recent Zach Galifianakis comedy «Masterminds.»

Not exact matches

For example, the Protestant doctrine that we are all sinners is reflected in the Freudian - Marxist behaviorist - positivist claptrap claiming that there is no virtue, that all our actions arise from dark psychic urges, exploitative class greed or biological impulses — which supposedly proves that talk about good and evil, right and wrong, and certainly saintliness is illusory.

Such passages as the following seem to suggest that the evidence Whitehead offers for believing that CE is a unique kind of perception and that it is not illusory, i.e., supplies the subject with (more or less) accurate information about its environment, is primarily a particular kind of «experience.»

All immediacy, in spite of its illusory peace and tranquillity, is dread, and hence, quite consistently, it is dread of nothing; one can not make immediacy so anxious by the most horrifying description of the most dreadful something, as by a crafty, apparently casual half word about an unknown peril which is thrown out with the surely calculated aim of reflection; yea, one can put immediacy most in dread by slyly imputing to it knowledge of the matter referred to.

Mr. Jason (Sir), what you are talking about is illusory.

No one could think that unless he first believed that the whole realm of spiritual truths and values is illusory, so that it makes no difference one way or another what anyone thinks about it.

On the social level the contemplative easily intuits the roots of war: fear of self and others that springs from inability to trust God; the unrecognized self - hatred that we project onto others; the illusory view that our political ideals are purer than our opponents», and the accompanying moral paralysis that stems from an exaggerated sense of guilt about holding this illusion.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

The wider upheavals in the region clearly vex Blair, who, while somehow remaining an optimist about as yet illusory progress on Israeli — Palestinian matters, is very cautious about the results of the revolutions in the rest of the Middle East.

The illusory divergence of the meteors tells a great deal about their true origin.

Twelve years ago, about a dozen research groups from around the world announced that they had evidence for a lighter pentaquark known as theta - plus, but more detailed studies showed that all of the claims were illusory.

Such illusory perceptions evaporated when participants were first denied control but then given an opportunity to write about their most deeply held values, an activity that bolsters psychological security and quells feelings of helplessness.

Participants indicated that they felt roughly equally sure about their experience of uniformity when it actually did exist as when it was illusory.

Morrissey's complaint cuts through to the truth about modern journalism — as Spielberg does not — by exposing how what we consider «the news» has become the illusory practice of a primarily Left - centered, conspiratorial institution that operates to manipulate a susceptible public.

With little scholarship on Argento that's current and / or comprehensive, and with the director himself seldom asked about his steep decline, what's left is this notion that Argento wanted to escape the Hitchcock - derivative label (only to return to it after the spark had fled or, more likely, proved illusory all along), or that he wanted a psychic divorce from De Palma, whose career Argento's paralleled for a while in theme and execution.

He will have to confess the bonds he shared with her parents, the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge's illusory promise of a democratic society, and the truth about her father's end.

Buddhist ideas of no - self seem to resonate with what some modern philosophers are saying about the self — that it's illusory.

Funny, but I just saw an article about the Dunning — Kruger Effect, or the illusory superiority of one who's basically to dumb to know how dumb they are.

Or that all this stuff about «bestselling authors» is illusory, and people will always opt for the $ 9.99 e-book of Author McNoName's latest thriller over paying $ 14.99 for the newest Brad Thor or Dan Brown novel — after all, they're equally available and one is cheaper?

When speaking about her process, «My paintings are constructed using a rule - based system to generate a series of interwoven layers of meticulous repeating patterns of dots, dashes, and grids in highly saturated, vibrant and illusory colors.

Emerging from her studies about the time of the Op Art movement and that seminal exhibition, The Responsive Eye, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965 and organized by William C. Seitz, Rector could not help but be influenced by the hard - edge structures, dizzying lines, geometric forms and high key and high contrast colors that created optical and illusory effects challenging visual perception.

We humans appear to have an artificial, inflated view of ourselves due to commonly held beliefs in illusory cultural transmissions about the placement of humanity in the natural order of all living things.

There is nothing «illusory» about the warming due to UHI.

If domestic remedies have been illusory in most cases, what about pursing effective processes and remedies directly before UN bodies?

Most lawyers and other professionals I know like to think ourselves largely above the shallow allure of «branding»; smart enough to ignore the huckster - ish entreaties of marketers, and to make decisions about what goods and services to purchase, use, and invest in based on purely objective factors such as quality, product design, and value rather than illusory distinctions like brand names.

I worry about real estate representatives who consider standards illusory.