Sentences with phrase «abstract language of»

Larry Bell's contribution, Pacific Red II (2017), a line of red and rose tinted cubes outside on one the terraces also operates along these lines, though of course through the austere, abstract language of minimalism.

In the world of art such realizations led increasingly to the development of abstraction and to the propagation of an abstract language of form.

After World War II, architects looked to the abstract language of sculpture as a way of investing their buildings with greater power and significance.

The universal abstract language of his paintings visibly influenced the abstract art but also the applied arts, graphic and product design as well as architecture.

Hepworth's graceful forms speak an abstract language of their own.

The perplexing abstract language of Maggi's tiny incised paper sculptures promotes longer viewing time and shifts our bodily relationship to an intimate viewing experience.

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In the process I seek an abstract language of self - expression through improvisational mark making.

Denny's work often refers to the psychology and abstract language of the new media economy, invoking «clouds» of big data and the constant pressure to «update» our lives.

Recognized for a diverse practice that draws inspiration from architectural space and natural materials, Moyer fashions compelling hybrids that abstract the languages of painting and sculpture.

In exploring the language of modernism Lee has moved through minimalistic representation of line and form to an abstracted language of kinetics.

With her new work, Sam Moyer will present hybrids that abstract the languages of painting and sculpture.

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A large component of MSCI's decisions is investors» experience of market accessibility, rather than merely an abstract analysis of regulatory language.

When the Oliners affirm that the language of care — of compassion, hospitality, and helpfulness — is overwhelmingly employed to express their motives, they clearly imply that face - to - face compassion is a far more salient motive for sacrificial and heroic moral altruism than abstract principles of equity and justice.

Concerning God, Clement pursued two fundamental principles: that God is beyond the reach even of abstract human language and therefore must be identified by what God is not, but that, at the same time, God must be understood as «the omnipotent God» (Stromata, 1.24): «Nothing withstands God, nothing opposes Him: seeing He is [42] Lord and omnipotent» (1:17).

Scientific language, although often purporting to be fundamental, is actually descriptive of an already rather late and abstract realm of objects lending themselves to demarcation by the crisp logic of mathematics.

Because all language involves a process of abstracting certain elements in experience out of the total complex in which they occur, it is necessarily analogical and therefore imprecise: a word never refers to an absolutely discrete entity.

(Robinson especially criticized many of the Marxists whose talks she attended, whose abstract language and sense of victimhood, she said, seem entirely out of touch with the real suffering of hundreds of millions of laborers worldwide today.)

Children are not capable of theological reflection about the meaning of stories, because all theological language is abstract.

The capacities for abstract reasoning, symbolic language, self - and death - awareness set mankind apart from the rest of the biological world.

And, although the five classical proofs may seem abstract and arid in these days, when we have grown unaccustomed to the language of metaphysics, they are neverthelessa reasoned statement of the conviction most men either hold, or wish they could hold; namely that things seen are the work of an invisible Creator.

Then, pious as it is to think of Him, while the pageant of experiment or abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more than a poetry of thought, or an ornament of language, a certain view taken of Nature which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.

Unless religion is merely the abstract statement of propositions and conditional arguments (as it was in several periods of positivistic religion), then the language of the church will inevitably and necessarily be the arts.

To speak in such abstract and exalted terms is to engage the language of hope, not optimism.

Our frequent mistake is to abstract one from the other, and in our everyday language and metaphysical thinking to misconstrue the nature of reality.

Thus, the abstract quality of language in itself is already an interpretive enterprise.

The program director for World Vision's work in South Sudan, Perry Mansfield, said: «When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry.»

In the abstract language here adopted for metaphysical statement, «passing on becomes «creativity In the dictionary sense of the verb creare, «to bring forth, beget, produce.»

There is an abstract nature to the language used about logical inferences concerning a necessary being, but the concrete actuality, described in terms of analogy and metaphor, is something each man finally intuits for himself.

We can hardly expect the Old Testament to tell us explicitly how Israel came to have a sense of history, for she was not given to think in abstract terms and did not have a language suited for it.

Perhaps we should read this turn to more abstracted religious language as a fulfillment or completion of the modern and sociological turn in anti-Protestant polemic initiated by Balmes.

For some, the danger comes from a gnostic direction — abstracting from a particular time and place, and simply expunging the specific traces of that particularity (such as language like «father»).

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

The size of the human brain expanded dramatically during the course of evolution, imparting us with unique capabilities to use abstract language and do complex math.

«These results suggest that our knowledge of language is abstract and amodal.

For example, reporting the cost of a chart - abstracted measure (eg, several Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program measures) might encourage developers to explore structured data or natural language processing.

Subplate neurons form the first connections in the developing cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

A variant of the gene that allowed additional cell divisions, Lahn surmises, gave some hominids the additional neural infrastructure that eventually let them develop abstract reasoning and language skills.

«When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry,» WorldVision's South Sudan Program Director Perry Mansfield said in a statement.

During development, subplate neurons are among the first neurons to form in the cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

When you're having a discussion in the abstract, it's easy to set people off without being conscious of it, since you miss the body language and other social cues that would normally inform your behavior, says Chris Mooney, co-author of Unscientific America.

Online contributors were asked a series of questions about each abstract to measure whether papers had a narrative style, including elements like language that appeals to one's senses and emotions.

The successes of Unix are intertwined with C, the first general - purpose programming language to combine the efficiency of assembly language with high - level abstract expressiveness.

Some neurologists think that what may go on in the savant may be a relative preservation and heightening of primitive perceptual and computational powers in the right hemisphere — powers of a sort that are normally inhibited with the development of abstract intelligence and language.

Although the separation actually weakens the description, it is an important feature of abstract language, the researchers note.

Many scientists are only fluent in their own language, and much of the peer - reviewed literature from francophone Africa and from Latin American countries is only available in the national language, with at best an abstract in English.

«Although I would certainly hesitate to call this a language, it certainly is an abstract form of communication,» he says.

Mike Green, a leading expert in string theory, one of the most abstract theories in particle physics, believes it is impossible to communicate advances in his field in ordinary language.

One candidate is our expressive speech — perhaps music is just an abstract form of language.

But Mangarevan and another of the daughter languages use object - specific counting systems — making them less abstract than the ancestral language.