Sentences with phrase «circumscribe what»

Its title, from a 1951 Robert Frost skit about the discovery of the New World, partly feels like a wry reflection on the museum's own mandate: an institution that has a duty to map American art, however provisionally, but is ever reluctant, and commendably so, to circumscribe what might constitute that tradition.

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When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.

the Christian whose understanding of the incarnation is so circumscribed will either embrace the one (Jerusalem) and hate the other (Athens) or try in vain to unite what can only remain strange (and strained) bedfellows...

The first person singular will often be circumscribed by expressions denoting humility while the first person plural, «we,» serves to indicate, often in sharp opposition to the outside, what the sociologist calls the in - group.

But the third commandment prohibits the use of «God» for entrapping, circumscribing or trying to control what the Divine One will be and do.

If this is so, then the question arises as to what meaning is to be attached to the term «God» and how this meaning is to be circumscribed by faith.

The Dolby 1.0 mono sound does what it must, granting room to the James Bernard score and allowing for subtleties in the foley work, like the skreeee of Frankenstein's scalpel circumscribing a skull.

Despite living in an age accustomed to rates of speed that were previously unimaginable, we are somehow nostalgically or even biologically conditioned to reproduce mostly images of what seems securely anchored or circumscribed right in front of us, controlled by our arbitrary framing.

While Lorna, Deep Contact, and other works (including many not in the exhibition) are structured around open - ended narratives, what they presciently anticipated is perception and experience skipping along the internet's seemingly infinite set of links — seemingly, because what Hershman Leeson's work also shows is how circumscribed choice (even on the web) can be.

In Robert Motherwell: Opens at Andrea Rosen (May 1 — June 20, 2015), the viewer can see what the artist does best, which is tease out meaning from a highly - circumscribed format that consists of a three - sided, linear rectangle, open at the top, juxtaposed against a monochromatic ground.

But it's what we have, so we use our crude visual and verbal tools to circumscribe, gibber, and gesture.

Yet as LeWitt moved from making systemic objects to wall drawings and eventually what can only be called murals, his use of plans, diagrams, and instructions emphasized the ideas that circumscribed his work and the nature of those decisions that constitute an artist's taste and aesthetic vision — or in LeWitt's case, those of the people hired to execute his work.

But there are differences — and in the context of the artist's uniquely circumscribed universe, the differences are major — from what we usually think of Albers and his tight, immaculate squares.

Should the lawyer for the lender be carefully circumscribing the terms of the opinion that can be given, in light of what is known about the rents and / or the lawyer's personal comfort with this area of the law?

[1] For best courtroom adaptation of a work of fiction, the award goes to the applicant, Clarissa Olenka Szakacs, who shamelessly feigned what she thought was necessary to convince the court to circumscribe access by the respondent to their almost - six - year - old daughter.

We believe that the determination of what is «necessary» will be fact - specific and context dependent, and should not be further circumscribed absent such specifics.

What is increasingly apparent is that treatment effects are relatively specific and circumscribed.