Sentences with phrase «by surfeit»

Her photographs convey the experience of these locations, capturing the sensory overload triggered by the surfeit of kitsch — gaudy trinkets, cheap apparel, and glittering electronics.

But nationalmuseum will be supercooled by a surfeit of air conditioning units.

I try to think of other cars that have such effortless, any - gear, any - revs pull, and oddly enough it's the non-turbo Merc C63 that springs to mind first — the ST330 has that same sense of a large, weighty car made to feel much lighter by a surfeit of grunt.

I live surrounded by a surfeit of stories like that one.

Human happiness is little improved by this surfeit of consumption and possession.

-- OAKESHOTT As will one day be elaborated in a dissertation, Machiavelli's eponymous Prince lived — and killed — by surfeit of this virtu; Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet....

As will one day be elaborated in a dissertation, Machiavelli's eponymous Prince lived — and killed — by surfeit of this virtu; Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet killed and died out of deficit.

Not exact matches

The surfeit of commissions awarded to Rubens was managed by a businesslike outfit in Antwerp, where specialist assistants in landscape, costume, flora and fauna collaborated to produce large - scale panels and canvases that were ultimately certified as Rubenses by the final enlivening touch of the master's hand.

One could argue that the recent spate of books on the stresses of motherhood amounts to just so much whining by a bevy of privileged, highly educated women with a surfeit of professional options and material wealth.

Many of us are surfeited by superficial contacts with many people, but impoverished by a lack of depth relationships.

After a crazy year around Europe and an amazing 2014 World Cup there are a surfeit of candidates, but here are the most five obvious candidates who can feel hard done by.

Yet despite their surfeit of defenders West Ham were still carved open by Palace's first real attack in the 24th minute.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings posited, «As we hold this dialogue to plot an agenda for a positive performance in 2020, we have to take due note that the re-organisation is a process that involves embracing our party's core ideals and ensuring that we are not swayed by the crass monetization of Ghanaian politics, which used to be alien to our party and which unfortunately, has contributed rather notoriously to the surfeit of negativity and divisiveness plaguing our party.»

The former President also called on the party not to be swayed by the «crass monetization of Ghanaian politics which used to be alien to our party [NDC] and which unfortunately has contributed rather notoriously to the surfeit of negativity and divisiveness plaguing our party.»

He said: `' we hold this dialogue to plot an agenda for a positive performance in 2020, we have to take due note that the re-organisation is a process that involves embracing our party's core ideals and ensuring that we are not swayed by the crass monetization of Ghanaian politics which used to be alien to our party and which unfortunately has contributed rather notoriously to the surfeit of negativity and divisiveness plaguing our party.»

Although that marker, called IL21, had not previously been associated with autoimmune diseases, the gene that produces it sits right in the stretch of DNA known to make these mice vulnerable to diabetes, suggesting that IL21 might make a drug target, says Sarvetnick.Furthermore, by giving the animals a shot of dead bacteria — similar to an immunization in humans — when they were newborns, Sarvetnick and her colleagues prevented a surfeit of CD4 + and CD8 + cells.

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It's instantly clear that Howard, along with returning screenwriter David Koepp, has learned nothing from the relative failure of both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, as Inferno, for the most part, chugs along at a lackadaisical pace that's compounded by an overlong running time and surfeit of underwhelming subplots.

Precision cutting and flowing camera movement would come to define the action film, blowing away the tension - based American system with a surfeit of bullets, preferably fired by a man clinching a match in his teeth, firing two handguns at once it a vain attempt at exorcising his existential pain.

So obviously confused by The Thin Red Line's surfeit of stars, he left Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman, Mickey Rourke, Bill Pullman, Billy Bob Thornton and Viggo Mortensen on the cutting room floor.

Or a surfeit of cringe - making shtick by too many presenters, including the distaff principals of Bridesmaids.

The test car, supplied by Norman Brothers Datsun, Orlando, had a sticker price of $ 22,970, which covered a surfeit of appointments and gadgetry, not to mention a potent 3 - liter V - 6 engine with fuel injection and turbocharger.

The test car, supplied by Norman Brothers Datsun of Orlando, had a sticker price of $ 22,970, which covered a surfeit of appointments and gadgetry, not to mention a potent 3 - liter V - 6 engine with fuel injection and turbocharger.

Quite the contrary, a surfeit of doomsayers saw in the arrival of eBooks and eBook readers — the sales of which dropped by eight million last year — the end of print or at least the demise of given literary forms, like the novel.

Along with a surfeit of fruit and flower pictures, there are many terrific works by well - known artists, from the 19th century trompe l'oeil masters William Michael Harnett and John Frederick Peto to Modernists like Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gerald Murphy, whose monumental - scale «Watch» (1924 — 25) represents the inner works of a pocket watch in a flattened, proto - Pop style.

It complicates its own most obvious readings of racial and sexual identity by cutting across love, sex, lust, and longing to illustrate and embody the excruciating surfeit of words — spoken and written, etched on porcelain in notational shorthand (in Valerie Piraino's wonderfully ruminative series «Simone,» from 2010), and silk - screened ever so faintly on canvas (in Pendleton's Concrete, from 2004, which ticks off evocative phrases such as «the smell of your neck in August» and «somewhere between forgiving too easily and not giving in at all»)-- that prop up and then ruin relationships, pure verbiage as a cruel mirage.

Over the last week, the fair's greatest by - product has been the surfeit of exhibitions in the city's galleries and museums.

Robert's colour is vitiated by an unhappy blend of pseudo-science, mysticism emanating from Apollinaire's flights of fancy, and naturalistic thinking, and a surfeit of ideas incapable of pictorial realisation.

This exhibition — which was co-presented by the K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, and co-curated by the latter's Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey — placed her work in conversation with Anicka Yi, Cao Fei, DIS, and others who have already received a surfeit of international attention.

Often, group shows with a surfeit of work allow for little breathing room, but this small exhibit succeeds brilliantly by limiting the space and the number of pieces; the jewel like watercolors, pen and inks and gouaches hold their own.

This education of sensibilities is commonly pursued by accompanying surfeit consumption with the study of other people's opinions; or, pairing the digestion of one's individual aesthetic experience with the voices of influential critics.

But the the strategy has come under questioning of late, including by the journal Nature which noted that a surfeit of intellectual property pushes schools into «unseemly partnerships» with so - called patent trolls.