Sentences with phrase «acts as phenomenon»

The light in the paintings acts as phenomenon, and at the same time the abstract color creates an experience of light and place.

Titled «Ubiquity,» the exhibition frames the creative act as a phenomenon that exists in an eternal now, as if a work of art is always beginning, always in process and always completing.

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Rather than assuming that people understand their own interests and act according to them, the writers approach the negotiation process as a phenomenon that's only understood as a set of essentially irrational and emotional responses.

While Twitter and Facebook have had a more prominent role in the fake news phenomenon, Google also acts as a major news distributor and the sites masquerading as U.S. outlets have appeared in Google News.

It flourished as a social phenomenon in Russia during the reign of Alexander II, one of the most liberal czars, who was ultimately killed in a terrorist act.

However, the first order of business that Wilson's «traditional conservatism» needs to address is that which philosopher / political theorist, Eric Voegelin, referred to as «Western deculturation,» a phenomenon and a process that acts to destroy reason.

Love then, between a man and a woman, is a mimetic phenomenon in that it reflects God's reconciliation to man and nature; «For love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...»

If you want to use the broad definition of religion then you must use the broad definition of violence as being a global phenomenon, not a singular violent act averted.

Thus it is better to think in terms of an ongoing unconscious activity of representing; that is to say, an activity of minding, where images (and intuitions, ideas, phenomena, etc.) emerge as the results of acts of representing.8

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

The fullest extension of this phenomenon occurs in the peak experience of being one with the universe, which is the discovery that the individual act of becoming is «the universe incarnating itself as one» (PR 375).

Visiting Jerusalem, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday decried the recent wave of anti-Semitic acts in the United States as «reprehensible» and vowed his state was employing «extraordinary measures» to combat the phenomenon.

Visiting Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum, Gov. Andrew Cuomo today decried the recent wave of anti-Semitic acts in the United States as «reprehensible» and vowed his state was employing «extraordinary measures» to combat the phenomenon.

Spectroscopy may, for example, help exoplanetary researchers verify a phenomenon called the silicate weathering feedback, which acts as a planetary thermostat.

However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

Nitric oxide acts as a cooling agent at very high altitudes, promoting energy loss to space, so a significant increase in this compound can cause a phenomenon called overcooling.

That thin layer of turbulence acts as a lubricant that allows the rest of the air to flow smoothly all the way around the ball, minimizing the size of the turbulent wake and the drag — a phenomenon known as the drag crisis.

Results from Cassini have already shown Saturn's rings act as very effective detectors of many kinds of surrounding phenomena, including the interior structure of the planet and the orbits of its moons.

Through a phenomenon known as «superposition» a particle can be moving and stationary at the same time — at least until an outside force acts on it.

Occasionally, when the stars are aligned just right, this warping of the fabric of the universe results in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, wherein the strong gravitational field of a foreground object acts as a lens that «bends» light from an object in the background and allows scientists to catch a glimpse of what might otherwise have remained invisible.

... discerned through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing — matter acting as a lens by bending space and distorting the passage of background light.

John Mulchaey, acting director of Carnegie Observatories, part of the team of scientists that observed this particular FRB, has described the phenomenon as «one of the great mysteries of the Universe.»

Just as investing money in multiple stocks can provide more stable returns than investing in one stock, having multiple sub-populations that act independently can lead to a more stable overall population in a natural system, a phenomenon known as the «portfolio effect».

One might go so far as to assert that the entertainment industry's efforts to manipulate and numb those who consume its products, its relentless commitment to leaving reality unexplored, on the one hand, and the widespread commission of desperate, violent, anti-social acts (serial killings, school shootings, workplace violence), on the other, are entirely comprehensible at the very least as complementary phenomena.

If you feel as though you've been tortured by what the animated slate of 2017 has offered you this year, «Coco's» bold and vivacious wonders, that tell an engaging and captivating tale, is a phenomenon, acting as a piece of poetry, whose themes center on family and dreams.

And that was fine a decade ago when The Room was still in its first blush as a cultural phenomenon, but you can't keep up the act forever, not unless you want to turn into a joke that you're no longer in on.

As writer / director Christopher MacBride shifts focus in its third act to a truly frightening riff on found - footage horror movies, the film deftly comments on the filmmaking process and the unreliable narrator phenomena.

The street workers are constantly present among the area of Santa Maria Novella station, and this fact gives a wide and focused vision on the phenomenon of marginality in our city, allowing us not only to observe specific aspects (as characteristics of the target, relationship with services / associations and drug use), but also to act in a specific way to a specific person (a way shared with people, too) and to activate the already mentioned net.

This phenomenon would be expected to act synergistically to enhance teacher quality over time, as lower rates of attrition particularly would tend to increase the experience level and overall effectiveness of the teaching force, especially in large urban districts, and save funds on teacher training at the same time.

By «emergent phenomena» I mean what happens when people act as a group pursuing the same strategy.

Acting as conductor, composer, and instrumentalist all at once, the piece renders an in situ musical phenomenon that registers the daily activity of the stock market and plays it in song.

In the exhibition, Tate presents iconoclasm as largely a historical phenomenon, but in doing so overlooks acts of image - breaking that are taking place all too frequently today both outside and inside the gallery.

David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.

True to the effect of Neff's earlier installations, A Prologue proffers an uncanny phenomenon of viewing: the main gallery acts as a literal reflection of itself — a section of wall is mirrored in a photomural across the room, while other photographs depict Neff's poetic images posed here in the gallery space or in her Philadelphia studio.

The hypotheticals in the paintings can act as surrogates or narratives for phenomena that I feel are happening in culture.

Plato calls this phenomenon of something that simultaneously acts as both a poison and a cure a pharmakon.

Disparate phenomenon that I «ve conjoined to act as impetus for making art at this time: borders and birds — immigration and migration.

Through a variety of reproductive media, understood as acts of translation, Buechler addresses a variety of concerns regarding our relationship with historic and contemporary communication systems, the dis / functionality of language, and loss as both an ephemeral and material phenomenon.

Kurant probes the «unknown unknowns» of knowledge and the speculations and exploits of capitalism by integrating elements of science and philosophy, and analyzing certain phenomena — collective intelligence, emergence, virtual capital, immaterial and digital labor, evolution of memes, civilizations and social movements, artificial societies, energy circuits and the editing process — as political acts.

Abdalati also noted that the emphasis on NASA's role studying Earth dates from the Reagan administration, during which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act of 1958 was amended in 1985 to add as an objective «the expansion of human knowledge of the Earth» along with «phenomena in the atmosphere and space.»

It is highly likely that both thermal and mechanical phenomena will filter seismic signals, by acting as both low - pass and high - pass filters, so attenuating or completely losing the fundamental and higher harmonics is by no means unreasonable.

The talk presents the works of the Arctic Design Group that foregrounds design in the act of framing and re-imagining the potential futures of the Arctic, while offering ways of re-engaging with environmental phenomena as malleable design media.

In March 2005, Jan Veizer, one of Canada's top Earth scientists, published a comprehensive review of recent findings and concluded that «empirical observations on all time scales point to celestial phenomena as the principal driver of climate, with greenhouse gases acting only as potential amplifiers.»

This methylation is a chemical process that can act like an on - off switch for our genes, a phenomenon referred to as «epigenetic» changes because the gene itself is not changed but its function may change.

So, what did the Law Society do when told by Stratcom that some racialized members of the professions felt that» the very act of studying racialization as a distinct phenomenon may produce stronger perceptions of its importance than are warranted in reality» or, in simple terms, that the research may tend to cause problems rather than solve them?

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With this in mind, Bitcoin will probably still continue to grow, as market demand will increase by Bitcoin acting as the gateway to the space (a phenomenon predicted to decline towards the end of the year — see alt - coins and exchanges sections).