Sentences with phrase «as inessential»

Motherwell's sense of abstract art developed early, his desire was to peel away what he viewed as inessential, leaving behind the bare essential.

The first person style of filming is also problematic as it renders almost all of Frank's victims as inessential nobodies whose only purpose is to be killed.

What makes any religious tradition a tradition is that it has an essential meaning or motif which can be criticized as inessential only by abandoning rather than appropriating the tradition itself.

Not exact matches

This is where the prognostic value of otherwise inessential productions such as happenings, flux and mixed media shows, is to be found.

However, some philosophers of time like Herman Weyl, Adolph Grünbaum, and J.J.C. Smart, who are preoccupied with problems of chronology and chronometry as they emerge in physics, take temporal passage to be either an inessential or a nonsensical feature of time.

And how inessential in the eyes of God must be the small surplus of the individual's merit, swamped as it is in the vast ocean of the common merit of mankind, dumbly and undauntedly doing the fundamental duty and living the heroic life!

Rad Rogers never rises to the level of the games it's aping, which renders it inessential, because what's the point of an homage that's not even as good as its inspiration?

In the superb half - hour documentary extra, containing the pith of the full interviews which appear on the bonus disc alongside mostly inessential extra material, Spall tells us how, over two and a half years of art lessons from artist Tom Wright, he showed some aptitude and ended up «as good as he [Turner] was aged nine».

Winnie's father (Victor Garber) is a rather distant man, as befits the form for this genre, in which the women are plucky and the men are either sinister or inessential, unless they are cute teenage boys, of course.

And if you have already played Resident Evil, the only worthwhile additions in Mercs 3D are portability, a present - yet - inessential skill system and the opportunity to play as several characters who have never been in a modern RE game — hardly $ 40 worth of additions.

So in addition to helping paint a gritty picture for the rest of the game experience, this kind of sexualized violence against inessential female characters is exploited by developers as a sort of cheap one - note character development for the «bad guys».

The PlayStation Camera, which adds Kinect-esque motion - sensing to the gaming mix as well as, more usefully, voice - controlled menus (with a simple «PlayStation...» order) is a nice, inessential piece of kit.

Using mods affects your credit bonuses at the end of each race, and despite adding colour to individual events I found myself forgetting about them as they felt like an inessential obstacle.

As in Shi's earlier seascape paintings or her recent Mars and Sand series, grass is one of the motifs the artist keeps returning to, eliminating all that is inessential and to further distill its essential characteristic.

You've got the same tools as Callesen available to you nearly all of the time, and it might even help you think about work as you snip away the inessentials to reveal a thing of near beauty.

As mentioned, there's a button dedicated to jumping you to a small suite of custom Michael Kors apps, which are stylishly presented (of course) but inessential.