Sentences with phrase «as phenomena of interest»

Donald Judd was a major figure in the Minimalist art movement in the 1960s when he and others sought to create a depersonalized art in which the physical properties of space, scale, and materials were explored as phenomena of interest on their own.

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«I think of it as a local phenomenon,» he said of real - estate prices, effectively ruling out the possibility that his interest - rate policy has stoked a national mania.

Rather than assuming that people understand their own interests and act according to them, the writers approach the negotiation process as a phenomenon that's only understood as a set of essentially irrational and emotional responses.

Just as debt deflation diverts income to pay interest and other financial charges — often at the cost of paying so much corporate cash flow that assets must be sold off to pay creditors — so the phenomenon leads to stripping the natural environment.

«Crowdfunding is building on this phenomenon, where the masses give their vote on whether or not there is interest in a project, as opposed to a couple of investors being the ultimate judges.»

Furthermore, the Fed would like to adhere to the so - called «Taylor Rule» (in spite of Professor Taylor's protestations that it is misinterpreting and misusing his concept), a mathematical construct that purports to make monetary policy more «scientific» by establishing an arithmetic rule for varying the administered interest rate according to the variance of «actual from target inflation» (note that «inflation» refers to the change in a price index in this case, not the phenomenon of inflation of the money supply as such), as well as the variance of economic output from «potential output» (i.e, the so - called «output gap» is incorporated in the formula as well).

Of course Père Teilhard had a full - length treatment in The Phenomenon of Man and an off - tangent discussion in The Future of Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in procesOf course Père Teilhard had a full - length treatment in The Phenomenon of Man and an off - tangent discussion in The Future of Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in procesof Man and an off - tangent discussion in The Future of Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in procesof Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in procesof man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in process.

Beyond this narrow academic interest, however, intellectuals and policy - makers generally dismiss the phenomenon as marginal to the major currents of political change in South Africa.

As Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieAs Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieas much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieas the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communities.

Inquiry is governed, not, as in the «Athens» type, by an interest thereby indirectly to come to know God, but by an interest to discover as directly as possible the truth about the origin, effects, and essential nature of «Christian» phenomena.

As students of the phenomenon of religion, we are legitimately interested in the developing sophistication of man's understanding of the divine, but this is not what the Bible itself wants to get across.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

The scholar should imaginatively enter into the activities and ideas of the religious community and ask about its interest and outlook, the phenomena as they appear to the persons involved.

Among the most common technocratic discursive practices are the use of legal and technical language, the emphasis on management, the scientifisation of socio - political phenomena and the (self)- representation of political actors as technical, impartial, neutral and interest - free (Mc Kenna and Graham 2000).

Fisher uses discussions of the science of everyday phenomena to show how they can open the doors to public understanding and interest as well as attract future scientists.

So while the phenomenon is interesting, it may not be as important a predictor of heart disease as other already established and modifiable risk factors.

Almost all the drugs of interest in terms of understanding brain phenomena such as consciousness, perception, mood and psychosis are illegal.

As a result, they observed an interesting pattern — that the same components could both turn on and off some of the steps in the sequence — a phenomenon called paradoxical signaling.

As a contemporary cultural phenomenon, selfies are of interest to psychologists, in terms of how people think and feel when taking, posting and viewing both their own selfies and those posted by others.

One could leverage this ability to control phenomena such as adhesion in nanodevices, drag on vehicles, and many other interactions of interest to the [Defense Department].»

Fluorescent or glowing proteins, which are substantial to molecular biology today, were developed from research interest in the phenomenon of glowing marine organisms, such as Aequorea aequorea (a jellyfish) or Noctiluca scintillans (a dinoflagellate).

Nothing crazy here but plenty of good advice that won't steer you wrong (plus some interesting tidbits that can actually help quite a lot - such as an interesting phenomenon about junk food and mass gain you may not know).

While sewists can use this phenomenon in a pleasing way to produce visual interest, most often we avoid it by continuing the pattern of stripes, plaids, or large prints across visible seams in as unbroken a manner as possible, aiming for a balanced, harmonious effect.

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But given the importance of mobile apps as a global phenomenon, SMI is launching its own mobile app next month, which will allow members to view each other's profiles, then swipe and connect online if there is mutual interest.

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

This scene could be read as either an arbitrary acknowledgment of Lincoln's documented interest in psychic phenomena or a brief opportunity for Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński to reprise their watery fishbowl motif from Minority Report, but it really serves the more interesting, ambitious purpose of establishing Lincoln as a comedy of the narcissism that binds prophecy with political policy.

The crisis of causation is of particular interest, as she is breaking new ground in cultural studies on a phenomenon that has become increasingly common in mainstream film and television.

The movie presents itself as being almost like a documentation of some weird medical phenomenon - which is hard to maintain interest in, given how many other «doomed pregnancy» movies there are out there.

There is an interesting phenomenon going on in the world that recently caught the clinical eye of researchers — as credit and debit card use is skyrocketing, so is the obesity epidemic.

«People seem to be happier buying something at 50 percent off for $ 50 as opposed to having it marked at $ 40 and there being no discount, which is sort of an interesting psychological phenomenon.

As the lack of foreclosure phenomenon begins to shape up, it will be interesting to see how the federal and local governments respond to the plight of taxpayers who have been financially wounded enough to file for bankruptcy only to be forced to pay taxes they can not pay.

The Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) of the Fed and other central banks is a phenomenon known as «Financial Repression,» which can be particularly frustrating for near - retirees and savers in general, who get little or no real return on their savings.

High costs of medical care in North America and substandard care in the developing world and a slew of other reasons create an interesting phenomenon known as medical tourism.

One of those interesting ideas is apparently coming to pass as an in - game meteor shower phenomenon is getting stronger, leading the community to believe that the Tilted Towers area of Fortnite Battle Royale's map may be destroyed by those meteors.

Just got sent a copy of a pretty interesting book, «Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time», which is described as»... examining the Halo phenomenon from every angle... from profiling the greatest Halo player who ever lived to providing a behind - the - scenes look at the making of the wildly popular, virtual - reality Halo movies.»

In the interest of accuracy, we here at Crunk Games have assembled a brief rundown of the series as a cultural phenomenon in Japan, dispelling rumors and shedding some light on what has made the games so successful.

These podcasts are interesting to me because I keep seeing well established psychological phenomenon coming up, but almost as interesting is when a psychological quirk doesn't manifest itself because the guys seem to be aware of its danger to the process and have taken steps to avoid it.

Two things strike me as interesting about the phenomenon of commercial galleries putting on historically important, museum - quality shows.

Trained as a composer, Tcherepnin became interested in the physicality of sound and psychoacoustic phenomena through his studies at Bard College with the composer Maryanne Amacher and the sound engineer Bob Bielecki.

Lipton's interest in the dialogue between artistic creation and natural phenomena was nurtured by a supportive family and cultivated through numerous visits to New York's Museum of Natural History as well as its many botanical gardens and its zoos.

Showcasing the artist's new Breathing Panels, among other works, this exhibition continues Ward's longstanding interest in the context and history of places in which he works, as well as the materials, objects, and phenomena he finds in those locations.

As in the best research, behind its intellectual analysis lies the observation of reality, and behind this observation lies a lively interest in the world of phenomena; but it is also artistic, asserting freedom and enjoyment.

These exhibitions continue a new - millennium interest in examining the international nature of the postwar avant - garde, something art history has treated as a primarily Western phenomenon.

Previously a student of physics, linguistics and aesthetics, he has long been interested in how natural phenomena such as light, rain and wind might impact his abstract paintings and sculptures.

His interest in various cultural phenomena such as alchemy, numerology, Kabbalah, and psychology was the result of his voracious investigation of collective knowledge.

With their naturally - based colours, these works reflect Innes» continuing interest in natural phenomena as well as his desire to test the bounds of painting.

During the 1980s there was a revival of interest in Pop Art - a phenomenon known as Neo-Pop (or «Shock Pop - Art»).

The gallery describes the thrust of his practice as «a longstanding interest in the context and history of places in which he works, as well as the materials, objects, and phenomena he finds in those locations.»

All the works are recent and indicate the current focus of the artist's interest in the vicissitudes of color as an optical phenomenon and physical embodiment as texture and material.