Sentences with phrase «as idiosyncratic»

Although any presumption cries out for the exception in an area as idiosyncratic, and, as Judge Mack points out, [FN198] as important custody law, the benefits of limiting judicial discretion can outweigh the disadvantages, provided the standard adopted relates directly to the child's welfare and is not applied by rote.

For example, if one spouse has difficulty planning ahead, while the other enjoys creating itineraries for daily life, they can balance each other out as long as these idiosyncratic behaviors are accepted rather than maligned.

Henderson warns us never to treat any aspect of the way a national high court delivers its reasons as something minor, to be shrugged off as an idiosyncratic accident of whim or personality.

They often were interested in artists whom many others might consider obscure or in works by better - known artists that might be seen as idiosyncratic.

In a career that spans three decades, Steve DiBenedetto has established himself as an idiosyncratic artist who has brought the pursuit of painting into the unpredictable chaos and flux that categorize the Postmodern world.

The title functions as an idiosyncratic presence that both acknowledges and extends the metaphorical implications of the work.

Bonami's show works best as an idiosyncratic look at contemporary painting that forgoes a linear argument in favour of a contextual one.

Thus, the works can be described as idiosyncratic and autonomous characters that lure us to a close - up view, allow insights, yet simultaneously keep their distance.

The brilliantly delineated head, a motif that continued to underpin Basquiat's work for the rest of his brief career, stands as both idiosyncratic self - portrait and skull - like talismanic call - sign.

Frieze is seen as an idiosyncratic fair with the DNA of the co-founders running through it.

When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest.

Her choice of materials and dimensions for a piece often vary as much as the idiosyncratic waters she finds so intriguing.

The bodies of work I have made resulting from this methodology function as idiosyncratic, partial or «loose» adaptations of these books.

Yet, despite this professed lack of theoretical concerns, Li's art frequently demonstrates a fresh treatment of time and space, as well as an idiosyncratic reframing of the technologies that we use in daily life, as with his camera's zoom.

Each kit should be just as idiosyncratic as the maker who constructs it.

Many of the 160 artists included aren't artists so much as idiosyncratic scholars and collectors.

The show was organized as an idiosyncratic retrospective, with Keegan remaking sculptures dating from 2006 to 2015, initially fabricated in Sheetrock and steel, in cardboard.

However, instead of trying to establish a pedigree that approximates the emergence and development of modern art in larger metropolitan areas like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, with its requisite local variations of welded steel sculpture and lyrical abstraction, the historic past proposed in this exhibition is one that is just as idiosyncratic as the present it influences.

«The Art of Alice Neel,» a traveling exhibit organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and opening at the Whitney on June 29, stands to reveal the painter not just as an idiosyncratic voice but an influential one.

This is what academics refer as idiosyncratic risk (that is, risk unique to one company).

He draws the minor characters as idiosyncratic without sacrificing authenticity; each one seems to be a real - life (if somewhat peculiar) individual that readers could well have met.

As to my personal choice, I'm going to surprise even myself and single out Washington in «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» The film is undeniably uneven, but Washington's performance as an idiosyncratic idealist is thought out in such detail, and so different from the characters he usually plays, that it won me over completely.

But watching her stand tall against her initially abusive husband (played by Ethan Hawke) and discover her blooming talent as an idiosyncratic artist is all the more rewarding and uplifting in this tear - jerking true story.

Best known to the public as the idiosyncratic author of Ghost World, Daniel Clowes stands as one of the most storied authors — of comic books or any other medium — working today.

While that seems fair enough given this particular crisis, the movie begins to take on miserablist qualities common to Sundance, and what began as idiosyncratic and fresh starts to feel more familiar.

Pesce undeniably has a vision and a mastery very much his own; this is as idiosyncratic a genre - tweaking debut as Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Late at Night (Eyes could almost be retitled A Girl Stays Home Late at Night).

What could be a relentlessly grim procedural (again, «The Killing») is instead a compelling drama that works (so far, at least) on a number of levels: as a mystery, as an idiosyncratic buddy story, and as a textured sociopolitical treatise.

This is what is known as idiosyncratic toxicity and is a big headache for the pharmaceutical industry, as it tends to be detected in late development stages of the drug and even when it is already on the market, often causing the drug to be withdrawn.

The dictionary I consulted define delusion as an idiosyncratic belief of position maintained despite being contradicted by reality.

Not exact matches

But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

But most of these ideas — valuable as many of them might be — are idiosyncratic or based on personal experience.

Liew said that with the wide variations in credit quality across emerging markets, from non-investment grade countries such as Argentina and Venezuela, to single - A rated ones, such as Malaysia, GIC was looking for «idiosyncratic situations,» in emerging markets which were likely to converge with lower - yielding developed markets.

Second, people often focus on a CEO's most idiosyncratic trait — such as Steve Jobs's temper or Richard Branson's flair.

In this regard, our surveillance has been closely monitoring for any signs of liquidity strains associated with the recent increases in spreads for high - yield corporate bonds, as well as for idiosyncratic events affecting particular funds in this segment, such as the events surrounding the abrupt closing of Third Avenue Management's Focused Credit Fund last December.

Additionally, as recent headlines illustrate, one can not ignore idiosyncratic risks in the different countries (for example the passing of the Thai King, or the impact of Samsung's woes on the South Korean market).

After all, we're cranky and idiosyncratic — as you may have noticed.

They identify idiosyncratic volatility shocks as large deviations from the volatility predicted out - of - sample by a regression model that accounts for market, size and book - to - market effects.

MiFID II is expected to result in less sell - side research coverage of companies, which potentially increases pricing inefficiencies and idiosyncratic volatility, as information may not spread through the markets.

This reading of Smith is also evident in James Q. Wilson's new book, The Moral Sense (Free Press), and is in no way idiosyncratic with Novak, as anyone who has ever read The Theory of Moral Sentiments well knows.

Delusion — An idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accecpted as reality.

To the contrary, precisely because of the idiosyncratic reality of God and God's peculiar way of being present, interests in liberation from oppression, realization of our full humanity, and the righting of injustice are mandated as an integral part of interests in God.

Far from being private and idiosyncratic, Lewis» métier was the public, as in universal.

For all of their idiosyncratic talk of plant and animal souls, the ancients at least would have recognized a twelve - week - old baby moving in his mother's womb as a person with a soul.

Though early Christian exegesis may on first reading appear idiosyncratic and arbitrary, it arose within the life of the Church and was practiced within a tradition of shared beliefs and practices, guided by the Church's faith as expressed in the creed.

Indulging in shabby polemic, they dismiss as «idiosyncratic private views of the universe» what is in fact the product of careful moral reasoning they have not bothered to understand.

The way he elaborates them is at times idiosyncratic (for example, his understanding of the divinity that the persons of the Trinity share as analogous to a force field), but he shares these themes with many other theologians.

Smith and Denton regard this «recognizable religion» as a middle way between organizational religion (that of churches, denominations and seminaries) and individual religion (which is idiosyncratic, eclectic, syncretistic).

delusion diˈlo͞oZHən noun an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder: the delusion of being watched.

The representation for Turkey may serve as an example of the somewhat idiosyncratic selection process.

His roots are idiosyncratic, and few contemporary novelists are as thematically ambitious.