Sentences with phrase «as oblique»

These paintings and drawings function as an oblique investigation, inspired by the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, into the essential slipperiness and ambiguity of language — an ongoing concern of Bochner's, and one that he has explored in many formats over the course of his 50 - year career.

Hardy employs faded, tonal layers of polyurethane foam as an oblique reference to the body.

These artworks take on a triple meaning: as historic artifacts, as oblique critiques of the present, and as stand - alone aesthetic objects.

In point of fact the exhibition's title «The Spike Island Tapes» could be seen as an oblique reference to The Nashville Tapes, which is a selection of songs recorded by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash 46 years ago.

Collectively, the suite functions as an oblique document of the artist's Lower East Side installation.

As an oblique commentary on the Liverpool Biennial, Open Eye presents photographs documenting art that are recognised as artworks in themselves.

Here I had that so trendy figure of the 1980s, so properly postmodern for abandoning abstraction and Minimalism except as an oblique reference to modern life.

Final Fantasy 4 and 10 are just as restrictive in terms of exploration, Final Fantasy 8 is just as oblique in its storytelling, and the abominable Snow and Serah are no more or less annoying than Yuffie.

As in the book, music is an essential part of the narrative, serving as an oblique reflection of Morvern's state of mind.

But whether serving a film biography or a solo theatre venture, Dickinson seems somehow to elude aesthetic capture, or maybe it's just that she turns out to be as oblique as the landscape of her most enduring poems.

All of those caveats aside though, To The Wonder is still a beautiful and rewarding film, and not as oblique as it may immediately seem.

But, the other parts of your core is neglected such as your oblique.

There is no doubt that crunches are great moves to shape your abdominis, mainly the upper part of it, but there are many other sections of your core, such as your oblique, that requires training.

The glutes work with the psoas of lifted leg to keep it from floating back, as the oblique abdominals allow the side of your trunk to bend.

V - Ups are one of my favorite bodyweight core exercises, and this split leg variation is great because it works both your abs as well as your obliques (the muscles wrapping around the your sides).

Bicycle crunches — To really finish off the abs, bicycle crunches are ideal because they hit the upper, middle, and lower abdominals, as well as the obliques as well.

A stronger core will also greatly improve your athlete's technique throughout any stroke as the obliques and hip flexors help control the movement of the upper and lower extremities.

This way we can work the entire core such as the obliques, lower and upper abdomen and lower back.

The circular, 360 - degree approach helps you focus on your lower, middle and upper abdominal muscles as well as your obliques.

By targeting your muscles this way, you will be able to activate all desired muscle groups — upper, middle and lower abs as well as obliques.

And let's not forget, it hits your side abs known as obliques.

And when people talk about the «core,» they're usually including several other muscles such as the obliques, transversus abdominis (or «TVA»), and serratus.

The captain's chair leg raise, usually available in most gyms, works the rectus abdominis as well as the obliques.

Not exact matches

You don't want to see a CEO avoiding questions, answering questions with oblique «convincing statements» (such as, «everything's great!»)

Do the stretches that work best for you, but don't be afraid to use the barre as a tool to elongate your hamstrings, hip - flexers, obliques, and lower back.

In something of an oblique way this article alludes to the 5th Crusade and the Sultan Malik s well as St. Francis Assisi and we must bear in mind (in all of this violent conflict) that the Mediterranean is actually the junction of three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) and that powerful empires have been bumping into one another since the beginning of recorded history (Babylon, Egypt, Persian, Assyria, Alexander, Rome, Carthage, the Moors, Christian Crusaders, El Cid -LRB-!!)

In 1963, General Ivan Agayants, the famous chief of the KGB's disinformation department, told us that «Seat - 12» [the code name for the campaign] had materialised into a powerful play attacking Pope Pius XII, entitled The Deputy, an oblique reference to the pope as Christ's representative on earth.

The rain this spring, here as in much of the country, has been heavy and regular, and so the ditches are full to overflowing, and gleam like silver when viewed at an oblique slant.

In a complex, structured environment, however, the brain of a man for instance, there would be myriad oblique entities which, for example, might be themselves the termini of routes of inheritance from all over the body, which would introduce to the concrescing central entity all sorts of new data from the complex supporting organism (such as hunger pangs, visual impressions, memory traces, sounds, etc.) which were not directly inherited from the dominant past entity.

When Paul makes his one oblique mention of Jesus» mother it is to point to her as a sign that he was indeed born, and so was genuinely human (Gal.

An oblique approach is not the trick of a coward; it is often the powerful vehicle of a man whose primary concern is not to appear every Sunday as Captain Courageous «telling them off» but to communicate with men who will have to continue after the sermon is over thinking their own thoughts, dealing with their own situations and being responsible for their own faith.

Orioles 1B Chris Davis (Oblique) is still on the disabled list and Astros C Jason Castro (Hand) is listed as probable, but check out our MLB injuries page for all of the latest news.

«We had all sort of unexpected situations develop,» Cuomo said, an oblique reference to the indictment and ouster of both Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, who started the year as legislative leaders.

Draft State Energy Master plans made oblique references to the implementation of hydrofracking here, and prominently factored fracked gas in the state's future energy portfolio as a «bridge fuel».

«Various people, I think over time,» Bharara said in an oblique reference to Cuomo, «have given maybe 18 or 19 different explanations, depending on the time, as to what its powers were, what its level of independence was, or should be, as a practical matter or a legal matter, so I'm done sort of analyzing that.»

After making some major inferences from the researchers purposefully oblique statements, Nakamura began exploiting a technique known as lateral overgrowth.

As an autistic savant, writer Daniel Tammet approaches numbers in a brilliantly oblique way.

But to visual neuroscientists like us, all this speculation begs the question as to why clock hands were set to oblique 8:20 / 10:10 positions in the first place.

One possibility is that oblique watch - hand orientations are best at keeping company logos uncovered — but, if so, horizontal positions such as 9:15 or 2:45 would be even better.

Different as they appear at first glance, they share basic structural features, according to a new study: characters with vertical symmetry (like the Roman letters A and T) and a preference for vertical and horizontal lines over oblique lines (like those in the letters X and W).

Such events can cause injuries and emergency room visits, but the changing climate also has oblique effects on health, such as reducing food security, altering the range of disease - spreading ticks and mosquitoes and harming mental health.

Neumann, an instrument specialist for the MESSENGER mission, helped to calibrate the altimeter's reflectance signal, which can vary depending upon whether the measurement is taken from directly overhead or at an oblique angle (known as «off - nadir»).

Instead, she suggests doing functional exercises that use the muscles in your core — abdominals, back, pelvic, obliques — as well as other body parts.

The landmine anti-rotation exercise increases your core strength, targeting the obliques as well.

«You have to also get the obliques, the transverse abdominis — which acts as a girdle — and the lower back muscles working together.»

Standing Hip Rotations Get your heart - rate and keep knees bent as you reach across your body, loosening your obliques while getting your heart rate up.

«Muscles used in this exercise include the middle and lower traps, rhomboids, pecs, delts, biceps, lats, external obliques, as well as the smaller muscles in those general areas.

Squeeze your obliques and focus on your abs as you crunch in.

The hanging leg raise works all the muscles of the midsection, including the obliques and rib muscles, but it hits the lats, quads and hips as well.

Squeeze in as you imagine wrapping your front ribs together, and engaging your oblique muscles and pelvic floor muscles.