Sentences with phrase «arms about the form»

The traditional publishing industry was up in arms about the form... Continue reading So You've Decided to Self - Publish Your Novel?

The traditional publishing industry was up in arms about the form in the beginning, and self - publishing's legitimacy was rightly called into question.

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Diaz believes Republicans must look as if they care about keeping guns out of the hands of so - called homegrown extremists, while balancing issues of due process and the Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms that form the backbone of the NRA's opposition to gun control.

Johnson's thesis is that much of American literature and thought about war in the 20th century is of limited relevance to the typical forms of contemporary armed conflict and the changing shape of the international order.

A plaque on the wall, commemorating the first pastor, a Bengali missionary whose descendants still form a strong arm of the church, placed the date of its construction at about 80 years ago.

Though for more than a year, some players have been kneeling during the anthem before games as a way to raise awareness about racial injustice, yesterday marked widespread protests in the form of players kneeling, linking arms and holding fists in the air.

At one point last night, I was thinking it was just about typical of Arsenal's luck that Everton would get a shot in the arm of confidence and form and have the growing pressure on their struggling players and under fire manager relieved just in time to face the Gunners on Sunday.

This small stellar gathering gives astronomers clues about how these stars form and evolve — as well as giving hints about the structure of our galaxy's pinwheeling arms.

We have known about the sensors that starfish have at the ends of their arms for 200 years, but no one knew whether they are real eyes that form images or simply structures that detect changes in light intensity.

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, that famous sepia sketch of a nude, spread - eagled person touching a square and a circle with his extremities, asserted the eerie proportional coincidences of the ideal human form (arm span = height; height = hand length x 10) but said nothing about the face.

Your shoulders should form about a 90 - degree angle between your upper arm and torso.

I've written many posts about effective arm training that you can check out, covering topics such as effective exercise selection, workout structure, proper form and more.

Before you even think about training to do a one arm pull - up, you should be able to do at least 15 - 20 standard pull - ups with strict form.

Form: Exhale and raise your arms out to the side until you get to about 90 degrees.

Form: Exhale and lift your arm out to the side to about 90 degrees.

Form: Exhale and raise your arm up to about 90 degrees.

Form: While keeping your core tight, inhale and slowly lower one arm out to the side until it is about parallel with your body.

Actually, I feel whomever wrote those descriptions about apple shapes just threw in the «lean arms and legs» to give us something to work with even though they know we have the most challenging body shape to dress in the current forms of clothing that are made.

At 37 minutes, this story of an arms developer (Gary Sinise) accused of being an alien impostor, is fairly taut and suspenseful, if a bit Twilight Zone / Outer Limits in its resolution — which comes off that much more hackneyed in its ridiculously padded - out feature length form, which may be longer but is about a third as entertaining.

He said at the 1994 Palm Springs Writers Conference in response to a snarky question about BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY that America has to re-read A FAREWELL TO ARMS every 20 years or so in some form or other.

For a submission in any form of media that educates the public about the important role our military dogs play in our Armed Forces, including issues affecting their emotional and physical care during their training, active service and retirement.

But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.

Armed only with Lüpertz's manifesto, visitors to the Phillips Collection will likely come away with the sense that he is an artist primarily involved with the internal dynamics of the art form, making paintings about paintings.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Within the essay Lennon also describes his experience of making and exhibiting art; «My experience in a lifetime of art - making is one of intense activity followed by long pauses and stoppages, lots of moving about and making my hands, arms and body exert form, shape and colour in a vigorous activity.

The only thing compelling to me about these drawings are the layers of erasure that form a palimpsest of arms and legs in a few, reminiscent of old holy books or Abstract Expressionism.

Although the South is largely animist, western groups and NGOs attempted to portray it as a Muslim - Christian clash (only about 5 % of Sudan's population follow these forms of Christianity), and proselytizing groups did arm (and convert) people in the South.

As she looked over the form letter for the policy, she thought about her old, stingy, tightfisted one - armed father in - law.

Effective sex education arms young people with information about consent, negotiating proper boundaries, and forming healthy relationships.