Sentences with phrase «as microcosmic»

Kennedy uses elements of Brooklyn neighborhoods as materials (as one sees in Coat of Arms), and as microcosmic examples that bring light to the power and socio - cultural issues that exist worldwide.

Jeff Donaldson made paintings as both positive affirmations of blackness and as microcosmic depictions of utopian futures and dynamic black bodies.

The tantrics saw themselves as microcosmic reflections of the universe and understood the chakras as the controlling points of the various factors (solid, liquid, luminous, aerial and etherial) that the Cosmic Mind uses to create everything in the universe.

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As we have seen, increased complexity yields less extension (e.g., the number of pieces analyzable with the aid of common tonal practice is limited) but increased information in a microcosmic setting.

If the congregation views itself as merely the repository of meanings better expressed elsewhere, it fails to appreciate its genius, its microcosmic capacity to reflect in uniquely lived form the sociality of humankind.

In his perspective it is necessary to leave the plane of experience and go back to the ultimate microcosmic event - units, since it is only in the microcosm that the desired concept of an «actual entity» as an organic unity of process can find a place.

The rigid adherence to microcosmic ultimate event - units as the sole actual entities seems to us to be not only inadequate with respect to the [254] higher forms of unity, but also to introduce an inconsistency in Whitehead's thinking.

Hanging on to this concept would thus include recourse to such ultimate microcosmic event - units, so that in the end even the higher totalities could only be conceived as «societies» of such «entities.»

The fact that we begin theorizing as self - conscious persons does not, to be sure, entail the conclusion that the person is the microcosmic model for the macrocosm.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

As the Wiener quotations suggests, this process of communication has relevance at both the macrocosmic level («societies») and the microcosmic level («actual entities»).

God's superjective aim requires that a twofold harmony of interrelatedness must develop: first, the microcosmic harmony of each occasion, in which the occasions are enabled to incorporate as many elements in harmonious togetherness as possible, and second, the macrocosmic togetherness of the individual occasions, so that the individually attained harmonies might be interwoven in each new becoming.

But one has also to consider such microcosmic problems as poisonous snakes, being alone in the forest on slippery paths, or the occurrence of landslides next to the station.

Menashe as a whole is appropriately microcosmic, existing within a cultural center outsiders aren't normally allowed entry into.

Actor - turned - director Mawenn Le Besco's Polisse, a microcosmic look at an elite Child Protection Unit, delves into cultural taboos while operating as a first - rate cop - ensemble drama.

Director Larysa Kondracki and co-writer Eilis Kirwan fashion the screenplay as one woman's hunt for the truth and pursuit of justice, and it's unfortunate the movie loses that personal, microcosmic perspective to go after bigger targets.

Instead, the discussions generally begin as nourishing meetings of the mind, transform into indignant sparring sessions, and resolve as apologetic declarations of mutual respect — each a microcosmic demonstration of Davies's refined feel for human drama.

In her autobiography, which is published in paperback by Tate Publishing this September, Kusama describes her first exhibition: «I debuted in New York with just five works - monochromatic and simple, yet complex, subconscious accumulations of microcosmic lights, in which the spatial universe unfolds as far as the eye can see.

Annabel Osberg of the Huffington Post describes Honarvar's work as presenting «the human body at the center of microcosmic theaters of dichotomy in which irrationality permeates logic, serenity belies violence, and luxury secretes exploitation.»

In contrast to the verticality of traditional sculpture, these fountains descend into underground microcosmic topographies that recall the banks of a river or the bottom of a lake, as it reveals fictitious undergrowth uncovered by the removal of a few paving stones.

Focusing on humankind's obsessive relationship to computers and other virtual platforms, the works in this exhibition are microcosmic scenes that convey the varied nature of these relationships, such as obsession, escapism, isolation and sexual fetish.

Annabel Osberg of the Huffington Post perfectly describes Honarvar's work as presenting the human body at the center of microcosmic theaters of dichotomy in which irrationality permeates logic, serenity belies violence, and luxury secretes exploitation.

Using a complex combination of traditional and innovative mediums, Platnic's portraits, stylistically described as «after» the iconic Francis Bacon, come to life, moving within their frames as though existing within a microcosmic universe.

It doesn't say that it's anything but microcosmic, providing as much justification for massive reduction of CO2 emissions as the fact I just squatted a fly and that caused the local temperature to rise.