Sentences with phrase «aura as»

Her book takes on an almost therapeutic aura as she welcomes you into her thought processes, resources, successes, and failures over decades of social change.

We pass from room to room: first, Me, Jesus and the Children, a monumental trompe l'oeil spray painting of Dan's chest, a Jesus piece, and cartoon cherub psychopomps who crash the viewer into its solid plastic face; then, Whatever, a 5» x 6» scene extracted from Pinocchio, where an extinguished candle lights a room; two walls of Confetti, the Moments Like These Never Last series, as varied in aura as they are in approach and technique; four walls of indomitable Trash paintings; four more of his Miracle works, oil medium and raw pigment powder conjurations so boundless they literally escape their backings.

She began this work in the spring of 2015 in the Doha and Gulf region where she was inspired by the massive city structures erected seemingly out of the sand and the scorching temperatures that made a hazy aura as heat waves rose through the air.

Baldly put, a work of art was said to emanate this aura as a result of the transference of energy from the artist to the art, an aesthetic variant of the law of thermodynamics.

By the»80s, notes Wood, Andy Warhol was marketing his own creative aura as if it were a perfume.

Situated on the edge of Thar Desert, this city of forts and palaces presents a bluish aura as most of the buildings are painted in blue.

It is also priced higher than the Kindle paperwhite 2 (both the ad and ad - free editions), the Kobo Glo and Aura as well as the Nook Glowlight.

I recently received Kobo Aura as a gift.

not sure if i really like the flush bezel / screen of the aura as it may make it more prone to catch scratches but the more flat design looks nice indeed.

There's also a new 6 - inch Kobo Aura as well (I posted a separate article about it).

Does it mean they plan to update classic Aura as well?

In the past, I've dismissed this BMW aura as marketing drivel, but I must say there's more to it.

As the book unfolds, we learn about «helicopter moms,» who «hovered above [their] progeny ready to make a rapid, vertical landing at the slightest provocation,» and «ripple kids,» the ones whom third - tier colleges eagerly seek out because their «coolness» and their aura as trendsetters will attract other students.

Without looking all that different beyond considerable weight loss, Phoenix adopted a whole new aura as the spiritually starved WWII vet, and spoke his lines with barks and snarls that seemed uncannily natural, as if a pit bull just happened to don Phoenix's skin.

The Big Sick was purchased by Amazon Studios at Sundance and has the same plucky contender aura as Little Miss Sunshine — a small movie that makes people happy to have seen it.

In one of the movie's livelier perfs, Justin Bartha gives off a suitably high - voltage aura as the Boys» stomach - slashing frontman Stiv Bators, with Rupert Grint as guitarist Cheetah Chrome.

Gosh, I should head back to my favorite colorist Aura as soon as I can so I can have my pastel pink hair back.

Become as familiar with your aura as you are with your face.

After three sittings — the film is bad and isn't picking up my aura as the photos develop, a sign I can only interpret to mean I have no aura and am doomed — an intense yellow halo begins to bloom on the Polaroid and my reading begins.

Certainly the sector does not have the same aura as the pharmaceutical industry, which is often seen to be in the business of «saving lives.»

Is Aura as clear as holding a phone up to your ear?

American born artist Susan Hiller describes her photographs of people surrounded by hazy auras as «metaphors for ourselves in the digital age».

Not exact matches

For most of my life, I pictured psychics as mystical, mysterious women who stealthily read auras and kept all - knowing tarot cards handy, living in magical, faraway places, usually covered in beads and crystal balls.

Coach has helped restore its upscale aura by cutting down drastically on online flash sales (indeed, its e-commerce sales declined as it continues to wean shoppers off those deals), < a href = «http: / /

Take Workday's app as an example; it uses bright, palette colors throughout its app and precise, formal design choices to demonstrate an aura of professionalism while still being friendly and approachable.

The program collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents, including footage from a Navy F / A -18 Super Hornet showing an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves.

He currently serves as a Board Member or Observer on the Board of Chiesi, Chiesi USA, Aura Bioscience and Minoryx Therapeutics.

This designation enables Aura to have more frequent interactions with the FDA throughout AU - 011's drug development process, as well as priority review of the New Drug Application (NDA).

Aura additionally announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted AU - 011 fast track designation for the treatment of primary ocular melanoma, also known as uveal or choroidal melanoma.

An aura of solemnity surrounded the federal judges in their courtrooms, as it did our senior partners in their spacious but simply furnished offices.

The same aura of silence that envelops everything else about Joseph also shrouds his work as a carpenter in the house of Nazareth.

It ought to be integrated into the system as a marginal case and thereby forfeit its aura of cult and ritual.

Some find that men are attracted to them simply because their aura of specialness as ministers» wives is a challenge, in much the way some men are tempted by virgins.

Stones that emit an aura poison to man and filled with explosive energy were being sown as seeds in the earth amongst the insects of the desert.

And when this happens do we not have to ask whether the Bible is highly regarded for its own sake or because it serves as a means of bathing our traditions in an aura of inerrancy?

Try as we may, our services of worship bear about them the aura of the theatre (mostly, I fear, a very amateur theatre!)

A political leader might cultivate an aura of celebrity, like JFK or Obama, or enter politics as a celebrity, like Ronald Reagan or Al Franken.

The artist's work exuded an aura of urgency and seriousness that he could only describe as «Catholic.»

I love Siedell's phrase about the «aura of urgency and seriousness that he [the art dealer] could only describe as «Catholic.

The religious dimension of a school is perceived by increasing numbers of non-Christians and non-churchgoers as adding to the aura of security.

The Communists doubtless see this as a way to give Cuba an aura of «tolerance» it does not deserve, but it is equally true that even bad Communist motives can not diminish the objective power of God in the public square.

But as soon as it took on the aura of permanence, it turned sour.

As Hannah Arendt pointed out, in today's media world it is not so much that power corrupts as that the aura of power, its glamorous trappings, attractAs Hannah Arendt pointed out, in today's media world it is not so much that power corrupts as that the aura of power, its glamorous trappings, attractas that the aura of power, its glamorous trappings, attracts.

Gradually the political rulers of Islam lost their religious aura and the rulers came to be replaced, as the conscience - keepers of the community, by the ulama or learned men, who had studied the holy law in depth.

An aura of mystery surrounds her, and many may want to imitate what they perceive as her glamorous lifestyle.

And because they gain so much visibility — take on such an aura of authority and religious «truth» — they lead people outside the church to conclude that Christianity really is irrelevant to the world and its problems, confirming them in their resolve to shun organized religion and go their way as humanitarians, free - thinkers or iconoclasts.

Christian moral thinking has accepted this and has given marriage a special blessing, surrounding it with the aura of divine approval even if it has not always realistically grasped the fact that marriage is not inevitably an ideal state and that to insist on its continuance when love is absent is to condone what in effect is legalized rape and hence hardly an appropriate symbol for the Christian idea of marriage as representing «the mystical union of Christ and his Church.»

Might as well threaten to «punch them in their auras»

Nothing one can do will convert Gregorian chant into a style as bodily and erotic in its center as various kinds of rock; nor can rock be made to sound as contemplative or as ethereal as chant, though it can indeed take on an aura of ecstasy.

It removes much of the aura from the paid - time broadcasters as a universally accepted and influential social force and suggests instead that the phenonemon of paid - time religious broadcasting is demographically much more localized.