Sentences with phrase «by gradations»

The glorious jade of the sofa, side tables and flooring is built up by the gradations of duck egg and old white around it.

For him, as for Whitehead too, dualism of mind and matter is replaced by a gradation of higher and lower degrees of experience.

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Here's the rest of it:»... Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

By subtle, unnoticed gradations the presentation of old patterns of thinking slips over into twentieth - century categories and phrases.

Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.»

The differentiation between «implicit» and «explicit» ontologies is meant to be a gradation — from the statements about reality by the natural subject to those of the scientist and on to those of the philosopher.

By reason of this prior decision Whitehead is forced to interpret all those beings of higher order that manifest themselves as unities, such as living beings and humans, to be a multiplicity of entities, that is, to be a «society,» [253] or even more as a whole gradation of inter-compartmentalized «societies» and «subordinate societies.»

Anything in the universe is available for prehension by a subject and, if prehended, falls somewhere in the range of the gradation of «importance for that subject (PR 148).

By this move the hierarchy was further elaborated and the gradations within the clergy still more accentuated.

It was designed by Colleen Rivera as a beautiful gradation wrap that echoed the impression moonlight leaves on a midnight ocean.

There is no clear line between right and wrong here - only a messy gradation of greediness within rules set by MPs to suit themselves.

«You can't blend colors together on the painted surface, so gradations have to be made by laying down successive strokes of lighter or darker paint,» says Gifford.

The second algorithm uses existing techniques to identify the geometric shapes indicated by color gradations in an image.

By giving different odor molecules a place on the yardstick, we can distinguish fine gradations among them.

Then — because it was addictive, and the results instantaneous — I tried a classic smoky eye featuring gradations of greys and browns (boring, pass), a 1980s Boca Raton aqua liner moment (hideous, hilarious) and, also for kicks, a thick wing of fuchsia liner — one deft swipe across bare lids — again accompanied by that ultra (yet tasteful) lash.

Washington conducts a master class in acting by showing a man losing his sense of himself in fractional gradations.

The back - and - forth between the couple's in - the - moment honeymoon unease and their earlier acquaintance and courtship is subtle, as is the way in which character is defined by music — Edward's jazz set against classical for Florence (the gradations of the latter, from the optimistic expanses of Mozart to the tempests of Beethoven, are nicely caught).

At they same time, they're starting to suspect that there must be gradations masked by a five - star rating, just as there are high - 800 and low - 800 SAT scores, not that anyone complains if their kid is a low - 800.

By applying differing voltages, they are able to change the color of individual subpixels to red, green or blue — the RGB scale — or gradations in between.

Applications in these segments demand higher resolution than that offered by today's 160 - dpi displays due to the need to crisply render, with smooth gradations, engineering diagrams, illustrations, Asian characters, and other fine or intricate content.

This revolutionary technology is defined by maximum visual similarity between the display of the E Ink device and a paper page: the display is inactive, only indirect light is used.The screen, 6» E Ink ® Pearl, 166 dpi, with a resolution of 800x600 pixels, supports 16 grey gradations which allows the display of complex texts and illustrations.

Moody's Credit Ratings (Source: Moody's): The purpose of Moody's ratings is to provide investors with a simple system of gradation by which relative creditworthiness of securities may be noted.

Speaking at a press conference in London, the CEO of travelhouseuk.co.uk, Zak Chahal, commented, «We believe the two developments introduced by the airline; up gradation of its IFE facilities complemented with airfare discounts, would add to both, the airline's likability and revenues in the near future.»

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Of the blond of the sand in the blue gradations of the sea, but also garnet and orange to remind all the warm aspect of the building, nature abounds in chosen precious materials: tapestries «angel hair», carpets which are inspired by the tracks of waves on the sand.

Gili's land is surrounded by white sand with gradation of sea water from light blue to dark blue.

The break in a form is determined by multiple means: by an Albersian allusion to convex - concave manipulations of volume and plane, by a change in direction or by color gradation.

In these works, the expressionist brush strokes of his early paintings are replaced by the effects of a vapor evaporator, a piece of specialized machinery that allowed Bell to apply subtle gradations of translucent color.

The group is led by a meditative Homage to the Square, 1965 (estimate: $ 200,000 - 300,000) composed of subtle and sublime geometric gradations of grey.

The paintings on display are largely inspired by the artist's recent trip to Utah's national parks, referencing both the complex structure and rich gradation of the rock formations.

Through gradations of screen - printed color, they create a whisper - light physicality, reminding us of all of the flickering calls for attention that we pass by every day.

«The gradations of rust that result are enhanced by a variety of other hues, and the final product has the effect of a carefully composed painting.»

This resulted in his minimal «line paintings» and then canvases filled with fields of subtle gradations of color created by thousands of dots.

Viewers must cautiously walk the narrow and dark path between the wall and canvas, following the painting's soft fields of muted beige gradations, outlined and entangled by the white, red and black lines traced with her signature oil sticks.

Beginning on a background surface of medium grey, «windows» on two walls of the room are created by employing a series of gradations, one made of white and the other black.

The destruction brought to a work like Speechless (2013)-- the scraped and gouged surfaces punctured by the blanked - out faces of unidentifiable persons — is disturbed more by the buffed gradations and soft, whimsical applications of paint than the frustrated violence brought to bear on the pictures.

The strict blockade of windows is animated by subtle gradations of light and shade, reflecting the constantly moving metropolis that lies beyond the viewer's gaze.

To this end, we study gradation by producing so - called grey steps, grey scales, grey ladders.»

The Portugal Pavilion in Lisbon houses five exhibitions: Gradation curated by Garth Weiser; Personal Freedom curated by Johannes Van Der Beek; Insider / Outsider curated by Martin Lilja; California Dreamin» curated by Fred Hoffmann (Adjunct Video Curator Paul Young); and POINTS OF VIEW curated by Stefan Simchowitz.

The pleasures of minimal clarity combined with the powers of pure color are represented by the reductive encaustic work of Gail Gregg, Don Voisine's painting with its shifting bright planes, and in James Juszczyk's subtle tonal gradations.

Oliveira's works often have an almost shamanistic quality to them that is at once melancholic and mystical and which is intensified by the artist's loose, but thick brushwork and skillful manipulation of gradations in light and color.

Each is a different gradation of white, inspired by the names of actual towns, including White Cloud, Kan., Snowflake, Ariz., and Pearl, Ind..

Complementing these new pieces will be two earlier works — Twill Series (Jet Black) from 2009 and Twill Series (Imperial Blue) from 2010, both of which were inspired by a change in gradation from light to dark.

Particularly concerned with the study of chromatic interaction, in which visual perception of a color is affected by those adjacent to it, Albers writes, «To this end, we study gradation by producing so - called grey steps, grey scales, grey ladders.

The centrality of these gradations between black, white, and grey to Albers's overall theory of color is demonstrated by the inclusion of his first Homage to the Square painting, Homage to the Square (A)(1950), which inaugurated the series that would occupy him until his death in 1976.

With these elements, artists like Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luisa Lambri, Melanie Schiff, Walead Beshty, and Adam Ekberg create ephemeral works that explore the foundation of the photographic image: the play of light through half opened shutters; haunting seascapes reduced to a gradation of elemental material; and luminous circles of light formed by the interplay of sunlight and the camera's lens.

Heading downstairs to the exhibition space, «Daughters of Penelope» surveys the historic relationship between women artists and Dovecot: there's a strong sense of place ever present, from Moss circle / square (2010) in which Caroline Dear draws on her training in basket weaving, picking out grasses from her home on Skye which she dries and knots into tactile, perishable grids, to Naomi Robertson's Kantha Diaries (2011) produced after a trip to west Bengal, absorbing Kantha quilt designs into blue - white reproductions of daily rhythms, or a rug, Untitled (2013) created by Julie Brook and Dovecot, that mimics the gradations of tone in the British artist's burnt ochre pigment drawings, picked up while travelling through deserts in Libya and Namibia.

Greenberg wrote, «By contrast with the interweaving of light and dark gradations in the typical Abstract Expressionist picture, all the artists in this show move towards a physical openness of design, or towards linear clarity, or towards both.»