Sentences with phrase «agglomerations of»

John Kriz: Most of all, we look at these companies as businesses, not agglomerations of assets.

Since the 1990s the work of Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão has been centered on how heritage in her home country is structured by extensive agglomerations of people, culture and civilizations from across the planet.

Three decades of sculptures by Hassan Sharif — colourful agglomerations of banal objects with coils of rope, elastic and rubber tubing — sit in the following gallery on shelves that could have been borrowed from the artist's studio, or a supermarket aisle.

One might ask, too, whether her agglomerations of junk and rubbish were circumscribed by the display conditions - the inevitable qualms about health and safety regulations - available at Tate Britain.

He finishes by adhering agglomerations of plastic crystals and purple goop — a touch of kitsch for an otherwise kitsch - free installation.

Subsequent layers of paint — added over periods of several weeks — decrease in size, leading to the striped effect that characterizes the works as well as thick agglomerations of paint that evoke the material's physicality.

Her agglomerations of junk and rubbish proceed, like Brown's work, by an intuitive process of ordering that, once identified, leaves one little the wiser.

Employing the boldest colors — primarily reds — she uses pastry bags to build up near - sculptural agglomerations of acrylic paint.

The second consists of more overtly abstract agglomerations of opaque, hard - edged shapes — some in rich color, others in darker or more muted tones — that bring AbEx master Hans Hoffmann to mind.

Including casts of her sons and of animals, videos of children at play and people praying, agglomerations of domestic objects and works in unfired clay, Wright's art is mostly concerned with relationships — between people, humans and animals, and between the living and the dead.

An event that started as a few days of local jam bands in 1987 Austin, Texas has grown to The South By Southwest Conference and Festivals (affectionately known as SXSW, or just «South By»), one of the largest and rangiest agglomerations of entertainment on the planet: over a week of film screenings, seminars, concerts, comedy, and gaming and tech demos.

Yet others are ellipse - shaped agglomerations of mature stars, virtually devoid of interstellar gas or dust.

Oddly, the meteorites are magnetic, which is strange because the planetesimals were supposed to be just large agglomerations of rubble.

Conroy suspects that violent conditions in the early universe — such as galaxy mergers — shocked and compressed gas and dust in particular areas, creating agglomerations of thousands of stars in particular areas.

Recent space missions have shown them to be surprisingly loose agglomerations of pebbles that can barely hold themselves together gravitationally.

Perhaps only when we study huge agglomerations of matter, in galaxies or clusters of galaxies, will we spot the elusive phenomena that can take us beyond Einstein and Newton.

The only explanation cosmologists can offer for this structure is that the enormous galactic sheets must themselves be embedded in even larger agglomerations of dark matter.

High - risk activities need agglomerations of companies, so that labour mobility is neither too costly to employee

«We know that the growth model of China — which is an agglomeration of a lot of messiness, but is based heavily on infrastructure, exports and heavy industry — is running its course,» notes Tiberghien.

But GDP is an almost meaningless agglomeration of crudely adjusted prices.

Descriptively, the portrayal of the whole economy as no more than an agglomeration of economic men is deeply inadequate.

The description is hence a deepity, a haphazard agglomeration of words pretending to be an insight.

One of Santorum's strengths is that he understands that a nation isn't just an agglomeration of individuals; it's a fabric of social relationships.

We realize that there is something more there than a mere agglomeration of quantitative parts.

Surprisingly, this agglomeration of strangers has achieved a 15 - 5 record.

On African safari with his son in 1950 he bagged an agglomeration of big game ranging from an oryx to a rhino.

In addition to gutting the Big 12, that mass exodus would have guaranteed the Age of the Superconference, a behemoth agglomeration of schools designed to wring maximum dollars from television networks.

Many people trace the intensification of religious bigotry in Glasgow between the wars to the importing of Belfast shipyard workers during World War I. Belfast is the headquarters of the Orange movement, the agglomeration of fanatically anti-Catholic «lodges» committed to preserving the memory and significance of the victory won by William of Orange over the dethroned Catholic James II of Britain on the banks of the Boyne north of Dublin in 1690.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

The fundamental problem is that the WFP isn't a real political party — it's an agglomeration of public - employee unions dedicated to pursuing union interests, and to hell with everybody else.

«The question is: Does some critical mass of people and some agglomeration of tech talent want to be there and do something there?»

A large agglomeration of matter (Earth, say) curves space - time around it.

That is because the network is an agglomeration of local systems patched together to exchange relatively modest quantities of surplus power.

The agglomeration of copper or silver atoms in a matrix of noble gas atoms to form small clusters may be accompanied by the emission of visible light.

It's hard to know how they formed: The brown dwarfs seem too heavy to have formed from the slow agglomeration of material, like jumbo - sized planets such as Jupiter.

SAN FRANCISCO — In its final encounter before incinerating in the atmosphere of Jupiter next year, NASA's Galileo spacecraft has shown that one of Jupiter's innermost moons is a lightweight agglomeration of icy rocks.

A galaxy is much more than a radiant agglomeration of stars.

McKinnon has one idea: If the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn could pin down the nature of Titan's interior, researchers would know whether it formed hot in violent collisions — which would have produced a rocky core — or it formed cold through the quiet agglomeration of primordial debris.

Time can mean many things, but Hillis's machine needs to track a particularly messy version: Earth - surface clock / calendar time, which is based on a byzantine agglomeration of astronomical rotations, orbits, and perturbations of hugely varying lengths, overlaid with arbitrary cultural whims about how to divide it up.

The reason is that the loose agglomeration of sand grains often collapses into a hole under the weight of a vehicle's wheels and provides too little traction for those wheels to roll back out.

After all, what is «Lady Bird» but the agglomeration of dozens of perfect scenes?

Fiat long ago became Italy's privately held answer to British Leyland — an agglomeration of pretty much the entire Italian car industry still standing.

The marque would go on to become part of the now - defunct Premier Automotive Group, Ford's well - intentioned but money - losing agglomeration of luxury brands (with Aston Martin, Land Rover, Lincoln, and Volvo).

Also, we withness an agglomeration of e-readers on the 6 inch market, a sign of reawakened competition, after two years of Amazon (Kindle) and Rakuten (Kobo) quasi-exclusive dominance.

This large - scale agglomeration of juvenile fish species is the main reason why migrating whale sharks visit the area every year, rising from the depths to feed on this abundance of food.

Benefiting a major institution such as SFMOMA, FOG is an agglomeration of many interests, which understandably requires tact and caution, along with posing certain limitations on what is shown here.

Indeed, so much of the material poised to shock at the fairs here looked like retreads of past revolutions: at Fondation Beyeler, the Toiletpaper Collective plopped bunches of freshly cooked spaghetti over a mannered agglomeration of trailer - trash kitsch.

The nagging feeling that this agglomeration of peeling paint, poured plaster, oozing resin, splintered wood and crayoned rags was destined for the metaphorical dustbin was reinforced by the contrast the next day at Sotheby's and Christie's tandem viewings of upcoming sales of contemporary art, which offered gorgeous works by Rothko, Richter, Bacon, Twombly, Kelly, Diebenkorn, Polke — on and on — that left most of the Frieze offerings in the dust.

And, as with any large agglomeration of events in a particular space and time, there are unexpected connections to be made and chance encounters to be had.

American culture is a serious hybrid — an agglomeration of all of the different immigrant groups and nationalities.