Sentences with phrase «beautiful study of»

For instance, her early mimetically painted images of flowers and birds, framed by penciled grids, paint swatches, and tonal scales, struck me as an incisively beautiful study of the contradiction between image making and the physical reality of paint.

The exhibition title is a quotation from the artist Walter Sickert, whose beautiful study of a woman from 1906, her forehead patterned like a diamond, is the earliest work on view.

The artist Ai Weiwei is coming to DocDays in person for a Q&A on 5 December to discuss his feature Human Flow, a monumental and beautiful study of human migration.

Andrea Arnold's free - flowing and beautiful study of the kids in America is one of my favorite films of 2016 (my # 9 if you're counting) and a film that fell just short of the attention it deserved this awards season.

Not exact matches

«This new dinosaur is one of the most beautiful, but saddest, fossils I've ever seen,» Dr Steve Brusatte, a professor of geoscience and one of the researchers at the University of Edinburgh that studied the fossil, said in a statement.

A leading mind in creating functional, beautiful, and simple wearable technology, and a visionary for the future of human - computer interaction, Matthew studied mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo and robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

This sort of work is difficult and beautiful in its own way, but it is not at all self - evident in the manner of a falling apple or an elliptical planetary orbit, and it is very sensitive to the same sorts of accidental contamination, deliberate fraud, and unconscious bias as the medical and social - scientific studies we have discussed.

But in the intervening years I have come to appreciate - with no little help from studying Hans Urs von Balthasar - the inextricable entanglement of the three transcendentals - the good, the true, and the beautiful.

«What is unique about the ITI is our philosophy of the students living here on campus, a distinctly beautiful and Catholic environment, a life of prayer, study and community — the three pillars of the ITI.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

A new study shows America's current approval rating of Congress stands at a dumbfounding 5 %) but Cox is hoping others will join his rogue mission to keep our national beautiful.

The study of God is to be enjoyed for its own unique subject: the One most beautiful of all, most worthy to be praised.

The movement spawned beautiful thoughts and eloquent phrases aplenty, but, after the shouting began to subside, serious studies of the effectiveness of these groups revealed little permanent improvement in the members and sometimes substantial damage.

Once more, withdrawing to the small but beautiful estate of Tegel near Berlin, he turned scholar and hermit and devoted the remaining years of his life almost exclusively to the comparative study of languages.

To Conrad Cordatus and Nicholas Hausmann he wrote triumphant letters on 6 July: «I am tremendously pleased to have lived to this moment when Christ has been publicly proclaimed by his staunch confessors in such a great assembly by means of this really most beautiful confession», and «Our confession (which our Philip prepared) has been, publicly read by Dr Christian [Beyer, Saxon Chancellor], right in the palace of the Emperor... There is no one in this whole Diet whom our friends praise more highly for his peacefulness than the Emperor himself... all are filled with affection and applause...» He had heard from Jonas that he had studied the Emperor's face during the reading of the Confession and there was a certain humanitas in it.

That comes as no huge surprise as far as student life goes, but new studies show that the benefits of being beautiful go further than just sitting at the cool kids» table.

wow i hope this isn't what my taxes go to write here this is the dumbest article in the world why would you even bother to publish this cnn its plain and simple people God created sex a beautiful and amazing thing that a husband a wife could come together as one ann have covenant together and if you look in the old testament and study out the blood covenant you will see that one of the steps of the blood covenant is sharing blood and if the girl is a virgin that you marry trust me she will have no problem sharing her blood with you.

The rest of the story has been an amazing flow of synchronicity, meeting amazing people and studying beautiful modalities.

More a beautiful character study than a plot - driven novel, Shine On is worth reading simply for hours spent with Colwin's exquisite descriptions of the physical and emotional world.

Her love of gardening and drawing led her to study the shapes of the seed pods and find ways to translate these into beautiful pieces of jewellery.

In the place of textbooks, children create beautiful main lesson books alongside their block studies.

This is a beautiful well researched article that explains carefully what the problems are and the lack of any known mechanism by which they would work — and the lack of any study or evidence to show that they do work, plus potential dangers with their use.

While it may be tempting to put the baby right into his or her beautiful new nursery, studies have shown that sharing a room with your newborn for the first six months can significantly reduce the risk of SIDS.

In recognition and appreciation of his contribution towards the transformation of the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) into a modern university for Professional training, Prof Joshua Alabi the former Vice Chancellor was honored yesterday, Friday, at a short but beautiful ceremony in Accra.

The earwig «is a beautiful example of how nature uses slight extensions to ideal mathematical origami to do something amazing,» says Itai Cohen, a physicist at Cornell University who wasn't part of the study.

«If we are right about how this person had died thousands of years ago, we have dramatic proof that living by the sea isn't always a life of beautiful golden sunsets and great surfing conditions,» says John Terrell, Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at The Field Museum and one of the study's authors.

«This is a beautiful observation,» says astronomer Peredur Williams of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, who has studied WR140 for nearly 30 years.

Shirley Meng, a professor at UC San Diego's Department of NanoEngineering, added, «This beautiful study combines several complementary tools that probe both the bulk and surface of the NMC layered oxide — one of the most promising cathode materials for high - voltage operation that enables higher energy density in lithium - ion batteries.

The Sydney Harbour is renowned as a beautiful landmark straddling our thriving city but a new study has shown it is also a source of significant carbon emissions, which requires careful management as the city is poised to double its population by the end of the century.

And their geologically abrupt disappearance makes them the perfect fossil to mark the end of the Ordovician, or so think geologists like Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester who has spent much of his professional life studying the beautiful shapes left behind by these long - gone animals.

Reviewers found the piece beautiful but, as with the behavior of the birds Clayton studies, a bit mysterious.

Dr Greg Edgecombe from The Natural History Museum in London, a co-author on the study, says: «Evidence of symbiotic relationships are rare in the invertebrate fossil record, and this beautiful example shows how these associations began to develop as ecosystems became more complex in the Cambrian Period.

Marc Hero, an ecologist at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, says it is a beautiful study, demonstrating an amazing degree of developmental plasticity in tadpoles.

Marcio Pie, an evolutionary biologist at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil, calls the study a «beautiful piece of work.»

The program has already found some new features of the fruit fly brain, said study coauthor Hanchuan Peng of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va. «We can see very beautiful and very complicated patterns,» said Peng, who presented the results April 9 at the 51st Annual Drosophila Research Conference.

«It makes for a beautiful story, but it's not very likely,» says Piet Hut of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.

Fascinatingly, however, the Cambridge - Sheffield study has now shown that exactly the same gene also influences the extremely bright and colourful patterns of Heliconius — the name given to about 40 different closely - related species of beautiful, tropical butterflies found in South America.

«ECAS was pleased to work with community scientists to study the long - term effects of this beautiful lake and the birds that depend upon it,» said John Reuland, volunteer coordinator for the Lake Abert study.

Study author Mauricio Hoyos from Pelagios Kakunjá (a Mexican NGO) said «In Mexico in the eighties, the sea of Cortes was one of the best places to see these beautiful and majestic animals but at present it's hard to see even a few.

McKellar, working with Phillip Currie, studied beautiful cache of 11 such pieces that had been recovered from Grassy Lake, Canada many years earlier.

The study is «a beautiful example of the use of isolated populations to study human genetic disease,» observes geneticist Val Sheffield of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, but he cautions that it's premature to talk about a cure for the disease.

Dr Nick Lane (UCL Biosciences) who led the study said, «I find this work just beautiful — it constrains a sequence of steps going from the strange cell that seems to have been the ancestor of all life today, right through to the deep division between modern cells.

The only difference was that the originally designed brochures featured a beautiful, professional photograph of wind turbines, while the look - alike brochures created for the study swapped out the photograph with a cartoon.

«This study is a beautiful integration of analytical chemistry, clinical medicine, and biostatistics,» says chemist and toxicologist Mark Viant of the University of California, Davis.

Society and culture may call us ugly, but that's only because society hasn't yet gone to the trouble of comparing our faces to the Golden Mask, which was derived by studying faces that society deems beautiful... which would seem to me to invalidate the whole ball of wax.

«This study is a beautiful example of how relatively simple bioinspired robots can address [questions] that are difficult or impossible to test in living organisms,» says Brandon Jackson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, Missoula.

Both are single - celled, and both include many species with beautiful pearly shells that fossilize nicely, making them a favorite target of researchers studying the prehistoric oceans.

«This is a beautiful little study,» says molecular neurobiologist Ron Davis at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

The ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a beautiful image of a planetary nebula known as NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, as part of a wider study attempting to unravel the processes that give these vast cosmic clouds of dust and glowing gas their distinctive shape.

Fred Spoor at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, a competitor and proponent of a busy family tree with many species disagreed with the study's overall conclusion, but he lauded the Georgia skull discovery as critical and even beautiful.