Sentences with phrase «ciphers of»

This also increases the attractiveness of the other, since we do not view our partners as static ciphers of our imagination.

Everywhere in the twenty - seven works of photography, video, sound, sculpture, and installation were those trace markers that function simultaneously as indicators of presence and ciphers of absence: photograms («that subspecies of photo,» according to Krauss, «which forces the issue of photography's existence as an index») showing hands

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, a leading art theorist, labeled them «ciphers of regression» — insignificant, backward daubers who would soon disappear.

1993 42nd Street Art Project: Victory Parade, Times Square, New York, NY Ciphers of Identity, University of Maryland, Baltimore, ME Dress Codes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Identifications and Desires, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT In Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York, NY

On the illuminated black dial, green ciphers of a new moon - One, two, three, four, five, six!

But money makes ciphers of them all — a poor return on any dramatic investment.

And as Severus Snape, the moral hinge and cipher of the series, Alan Rickman chews....

Maybe it's just harder to make this kind of film with a volunteer army: The path Swofford takes to the desert is delivered in a progression of winking flashbacks that collectively amount to that hill of beans, obscuring his character and making a cipher of his suffering.

But once we see James Franco in the orange prison garb, True Story makes a calamitous dip into obviousness: It required another cipher of an actor to complete its shame circle but instead got a cool Cheshire cat.

Jennifer is 17, a black - clad, metal - pierced, acid - tongued, death - obsessed, tattoo - inked, self - mutilating yet poetically inclined cactus of an outsider, at odds with her schoolmates, her self - delusively sunny mother (Carol Kane), her cipher of a stepfather (Michael McKean), and her aging hippie of a father (John Goodman).

He is a cipher of sorts, at times more of a representation of Joy's hopes and fears than his own self, but he is an engaging screen presence who faithfully fulfills his growth toward something quite different from where he started.

Of course, feeling for it is one thing, finding it is another matter (and not something to be attempted in six laps of Grandrive), but at least it seems the R32 speaks our language, that of mechanical grip, not the daunting, alien cipher of downforce.

Sony Santa Monica has done an astounding job of adding emotional depth to Kratos, often through the cipher of his son, Atreus.

Conflating Abstract Expressionism with the lowbrow sensationalism of the vintage romance novel, Prince illuminates two entrenched gender stereotypes: that of the macho American painter and the seductive cipher of femininity, the «naughty nurse.»

To illustrate my position, Dr. Lawrence Torcello, a philosopher at the Rochester Institute of Technology, put it succinctly: ``... Some issues are of such ethical magnitude that being on the correct side of history becomes a cipher of moral character for generations to come.

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Unfortunately, this preoccupation with numbers all too often reduced employees to the status of mere ciphers, thereby isolating the company from the creative energies of its work force.

There are times in history when the fate of a war and millions of lives depended on the strength of such ciphers.

The key to securing the future may be in the rediscovery of a cipher from 100 years ago.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

Once created, each Bitcoin (or 100 million satoshis) exists as a cipher, which is part of the block that gave rise to it.

In a new series of works, the artist Andy Bauch encrypted the private key to the cryptocurrency wallet, and anyone can receive digital money if he cracks a cipher.

if I didn't have questions, and rail about them, and be «tortured» because of them, then I wouldn't be thinking investigating ciphering s e e k i n g

Lincoln's education, which may strike us as haphazard, was largely a matter of being drilled in the basics of grammar, spelling, composition, and ciphering, as it was called.

Despite the assertion that God has favored Christians living in this present moment of history with the key to decode the prophetic ciphers, millennialists are unable to agree on how to read the message.

Any social structure that treated human beings as a commodity or as impersonal ciphers was a denial of Jesus» teachings.

The historically ecumenical churches have for the most part become ciphers in this respect, and uniting them is a matter of joining weakness to weakness, while the evangelicals and Pentecostals who do have political weight are un-ecumenical or anti-ecumenical.

She can explain the heart of each without ever mentioning Jesus, or by mentioning Jesus, but reducing him to a cipher for the one in whom Christians either do or do not find themselves.

Unlike with Hillary Clinton (to say nothing of a cipher like John Edwards), it isn't difficult to create a list of Palin's significant policy achievements.

Although Ezekiel stresses Yahweh's self - sufficiency, he is not a prototype of the extreme Barthian, the proponent of a theology in which man's role in redemption is reduced to a cipher.

On the other hand, the World is a creation of gods or supernatural beings; to unfold a structure of the World is equivalent to revealing a secret or a «ciphered» signification of divine workmanship.

Each one of these new valorizations is possible because from the beginning the symbol of the Cosmic Tree reveals itself as a «cipher» of the world grasped as a living reality, sacred and inexhaustible.

In accepting his presence in the world, precisely as man found himself before the «cipher» or «word» of the world, he came to encounter the mystery of the contradictory aspects of a reality or of a «sacrality» that he was led to consider compact and homogeneous.

However, since the «cipher» constituted by this symbolism carries with it in its structure all the values that have been progressively revealed to man in the course of time, it is necessary in deciphering them to take into account their most general meaning, that is, the one meaning which can articulate all the other, particular meanings and which alone permits us to understand how the latter have formed a structure.

It is the task of humanistic Marxists to explore this human - affirming principle and to use it to judge the activities of Marx's disciples — especially those who call themselves scientific socialists and who manipulate persons as dispensable ciphers.

The former wartime Land Girl on Lloyd George's farm, and translator of German naval ciphers for the code - breakers at Bletchley Park, went out in suitable style, however: throwing a farewell lunch party for 50 friends including Sir John Major in the Palace of Westminster — where she regaled guests with a song — before a final, majestic, pearls and fur - clad appearance in the Lords chamber to take the oath one last time, to warm cheers from her peers.

But though he has been in the public eye since he was elected to the State Senate in 1998, the progressive Jewish Democrat from Manhattan's Upper West Side has always been more or less a background player, and something of a cipher.

In communicating with the Government and the other missions and consulates of the sending State, wherever situated, the mission may employ all appropriate means, including diplomatic couriers and messages in code or cipher...

It would be easy to compare the film to the gangster - full works of Tarantino, but where Tarantino is skilful at getting inside the characters of his lowlifes and making you care, Drew's motley crew of social misfits remain just movie - video ciphers, rather than the anti-heroes of an insightful social drama.

But Sampson was reelected in 2008 with an astounding 95 percent of the vote, and his Republican opponent this year, Rose Laney, is a cipher.)

Beginning in 1941, the Germans also used Lorenz, a much more sophisticated cipher than Enigma, and to crack it required the first fully electronic computers, the famous Colossus machines, each of which employed several thousand vacuum tubes.

If any vestige of humanity remains many billions of years from now, and the universe's ciphers remain undecoded, our descendants might have only an all - encompassing abyss to stare into — not just space, but truly, the void.

The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies By Craig Bauer

The volumes on display include evidence of an Elizabethan form of cryptography: this rotating paper volvelle, which was used as a cipher disc.

They will build a network allowing users to send each other messages as virtually unbreakable ciphers, with privacy protected by the laws of quantum physics.

Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation

The mathematical quantities are ciphers, proxies for the tangible objects of the real, physical world and their measurable properties.

Without access to a much higher level of refined expertise, the secrets of our offspring's genetic code will continue to remain an unnerving cipher — or worse.

The keyboard, plugboard and rotors of the 1940s Enigma electromechanical cipher machine used by German U-boat commanders?

Instead of using a cipher to scramble text, the method involves manipulating the location of data fragments.

It centres on Tom Jericho, a brilliant student of Turing, who breaks one of the toughest ciphers, only to break himself after the end of a brief affair with a woman at BP.