Sentences with phrase «cheek didacticism»

Predictably winking but at times also unexpectedly personal and even wistful, Tom Sachs's recent solo show was figured as a kind of material autobiography: a trip down an artistic memory lane paved with a thousand different things, each subsumed within the systematizing logic of his famously relentless, tongue - in - cheek didacticism.

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Shen Kua was perhaps the greatest of early Chinese scientists, but his writings have none of the conceptual integration of Aristotle or his Muslim and Christian successors: «Notices of the highest originality stand cheek - by - jowl with trivial didacticism, court anecdotes, and ephemeral curiosities.»
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