Sentences with phrase «complex language by»

As the beings given speech or complex language by nature, we've been given excellences, responsibilities, perversities, and the potential for both good and evil not given to the other animals.

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A fatty outer coating for our trillions of nerve fibres, myelin is thought by some to be the key to our ability to develop complex skills like language.

By using this technical Whiteheadian language, the basic idea may seem more complex than it is: in fact, what is being said here was discussed earlier in relation to Dominic Crossan's idea that stories can either form world (myth) or transform world (parable).

The communicative enterprise would become a vast inductive project — a complex exercise in theory - building, leading tentatively and provisionally toward something which, in fact, the imputational groundwork of our language enables us to presuppose from the very outset.1 Only by using the resources of thought to free our communicative resources from the spatio - temporal processes of their employment can we manage to communicate with one another across the reaches of space and time.

People of every nation, color, language, belief, and condition are now known to possess in their body cells trait factors drawn by an inconceivably complex sequence of intercombinations from a common «gene pool.»

Every discipline develops its own symbolic language in terms of which it replaces the total complex situation by a model that represents those variables in which it is interested.

This slim but dense collection of Geoffrey Hill's recent essays is marked by a complex engagement with Anglo - Christianity and the English language.

The percolating squall is shaping up to be the latest in a long history of clashes over «new» land on the lakefront, all made more complex by the vague legal language that determines ownership.

The hysterical language being used (not least by those who like to think of themselves as moderates) opens Labour up to the charge of being self - obsessed at a point where the public expect politicians to be confronting profoundly complex security questions.

Such scores are based on student performance on English language arts and math assessments, and are generated by a complex formula that many analysts consider statistically unstable.

If information is challenging to acquire — whether it has a cost, is in a language not spoken by the family, or is too complex — low - income families often base decisions on easy - to - access information.

«The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors.»

By examining the correlation between humidity and the role of tone in more than 3700 languages, scientists found that tonal languages are remarkably rare in arid regions like Central Europe, whereas languages with complex tone pitches are prevalent in relatively humid regions such as the tropics, subtropical Asia, and Central Africa.

True languages get much of their power by breaking complex ideas into small pieces, such as words, which can then be rearranged to form innumerable new ideas.

The study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, analyzed the vocal sequences of seven different species of birds and mammals and found that the vocal sequences produced by the animals appear to be generated by complex statistical processes, more akin to human language.

«The Lobster» is the director's first English language drama with just a smattering of French and will be appreciated by a sophisticated audience that can appreciate both a complex story and the scathing trashing of our rigidly conformist society.

Not shitheels, exactly, the central characters have all been dealt bum hands by life, which make some of their behaviours understandable, if not forgivable - problems with authority, complex vocabularies of offensive language paired with an inability to meaningfully communicate, and possibly - related penchants for domestic violence.

In «Arrival» she plays Dr. Louise Banks, a brilliant, brave, and androgynous linguist whose empathetic and intuitive ability to parse the complex language of sophisticated alien visitors could save the human race from extinction; along the way, she bonds with her fellow scientist, played by Jeremy Renner.

By immersing students in arts education, you draw them into an incredibly complex and multifaceted endeavor that combines many subject matters (like mathematics, history, language, and science) while being uniquely tied to culture.

That method uses a complex statistical formula to attempt to isolate a teacher's effect on student performance by controlling for such factors as poverty and English - language ability.

A critical foundation to reaching advanced levels of literacy is that we begin by immersing children in academic language within the context of great stories where they can painlessly acquire the vocabulary and sentence structures, which can facilitate their understandings of more complex readings, and even support their ownership of these words.

Stripped of rhetoric, Respondents» explanation is that a complex computer program — the operation of which is not transparent as required by New York State Education Law § 3012 - c (2)(j)(1)-- which purportedly takes into account the effects of poverty, English language fluency, and learning disability in crude and undisclosed ways, 4 predicted that Petitioner's 4th grade students would score better than they did.

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

For teachers, it's a research - based, standards - aligned program that that complements your core ELA curriculum by building foundational reading skills — language, decoding, comprehension — along an adaptive pathway of increasingly complex texts.

The lessons of an English language arts teacher that promote literacy are lessons for students in using writing as a tool for learning, lessons in learning to write to express narrative or argumentative thinking or to explore a question, lessons in expanding and refining their thinking by revising their writing, lessons in learning to collaborate - to listen and speak to one another in order to deepen and broaden their individual thinking, lessons in learning how to question in increasingly deep and complex ways, lessons in creating meaning as they read, and lessons in exploring multiple interpretations of what they read.

Education policy conversations are ones that need to be held by all, not just those who aren't afraid of the financial risk or are capable of deciphering complex regulatory language.

By creating these environments, teachers enable students to achieve the vision of the Common Core English language arts standards — that students will learn to read carefully; think deeply, undaunted by complex texts; and use their minds to produce work of substancBy creating these environments, teachers enable students to achieve the vision of the Common Core English language arts standards — that students will learn to read carefully; think deeply, undaunted by complex texts; and use their minds to produce work of substancby complex texts; and use their minds to produce work of substance.

Throughout Lily Tuck's career, she's been praised by critics for her crisp, lean language and sensuous explorations of exotic locales and complex psychologies.

By law, retirement plans must spell out their costs, but with the complex and unfamiliar jargon, it can sometimes feel like you're reading a foreign language.

Dr. Valeria Vergara has been studying beluga behavior throughout northern Canada for over 18 years, and through her research funded by the Vancouver Aquarium Vergara has discovered that the whales» language system is so evolved and complex that each creature has its own name, or «signature,» that they call out to stick with their family unit when navigating turbid waters.

- Revelations 1 and 2 are based on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions - Joy - Con support with motion control and HD Rumble - Joy - Con share play is only available in Revelations 2 - all DLC is already included from the start - supports multiple languages in both voice and text - local co-op - Revelations features a 1080p resolution when playing on a television, and 720p resolution in portable mode - Revelations is 60 fps - by holding ZL on the Joy - Con, you can aim your gun with the right Joy - Con's motion control - use the left Joy - Con as a magazine to simulate a reloading motion - other motion controls include slashing horizontally to simulate a knife attack, and swinging for a quick reload - motion controls are optional and can be set to on or off from the options settings - motion controls are not supported with the Pro Controller - classic controls are also available - HD Rumble allows for more detailed and complex vibrations, meaning new kinds of rumble not available in PS4 / XB1 versions - Revelations 2 also runs at 1080p when playing on a television - Revelations 2 is not 60 fps - due to the fewer buttons available when sharing Joy - Con, the developers have said that it will have a unique control scheme

Though the works on view vary in execution and are separated by several decades, these films possess a shared thematic concern: the disruption of the conventional interpretation of the language of desire, offering in its place an interpretation that is considerably more layered, ambivalent and complex.

For 30 years, Petronio has honed a unique language of movement that speaks to the intuitive and complex possibilities of the body informed by its shifting cultural context.

, 1976 traces Acconci's early actions and performances, including FOLLOWING PIECE (1969), in which he followed passers - by on the street until they entered private spaces — SHADOW - PLAY (1970), in which he shadowboxed with a bright light shining behind him while moving in front of a wall — OPENINGS (1970), during which a camera focuses on Acconci's stomach as he pulls out his body hair, the film ends when Acconci is hairless — SEEDBED (1972), during which he audibly masturbated for eight hours a day under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York while visitors walked overhead — THE RED TAPES (1976 - 77), a three - part epic that merges video space with filmic space, evolving into complex amalgam of narrative strategies, photographic images, music and spoken language.

The inaugural exhibition at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel new complex in Los Angeles «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016» presents 100 works by 34 artists over the past 70 years, this ambitious undertaking traces ways in which women have changed the course of art by deftly transforming the language of sculpture since the postwar period.

The new series of work by Hull further articulates the complex territory of language, memory, history and sexuality.

Their grand scales, captivating fonts, and fluid meanings absorb the viewer into a realm of possibilities, initiated by the self - taught artist's complex language, yet later constructed distinctively by each viewer for experience.

Using a broad formal language inspired by Byzantine icons, Nineties - era Eastern European drug culture, the psychedelic - revolutionary aesthetics of the Seventies, minimalism, and art brut, the towels and drawings function as Trojan horses for a wide range of subtle, complex, and quietly rebellious erotic motives.

He made use of the rich visual language he had crafted while setting aside the narrative one, making for a collection of work that was more self - examining, unmediated by the complex symbolism of the Mounds and, in a way, liberated from it.

An essay by curator Sarah Suzuki uses an extended investigation of «Snow» (1964 — 1969), a complex book - sculpture, as a touchstone from which to further investigate Roth's use of language, iconography, technical innovations and relationships to other artists.

Painting in Italy 1910s - 1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art relays a complex historical account of the fraught relationship between art and politics in Italy during the interwar and postwar period, attesting to the bumps, curves, utopias and traumas experienced by an eclectic group of artists working to assert a new pictorial language by challenging the dominant tenets of their culture.

With their trademark mix of high and low culture, ribald humor and esoteric discourse, the collective addresses the complex issue of alphabet politics — the attempts by nations, cultures and ideologies to ascribe a specific set of letters to a given language.

The postmodernist issue is exacerbated by a continuing use of overly complex language.

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

Antoni Tàpies (b. 1923, Barcelona; d. 2012, Barcelona) has for six decades refined a visual language inspired by a wide range of sources that coalesce into a complex fusion of materials, gestures, and symbols.

Alessandro Diaz de Santillana has gone on to widen and enrich his own knowledge of the complex techniques of glass work, to «forget by heart» and translate those techniques in a lyrical and conceptual language of great intensity.

The thematic group exhibition Keywords and the power of eloquence, conceived by the free - lance curator Nadia Schneider Willen for Kunsthaus Baselland, deals with the complex relationship and interactions between language and power.

The associations are memories contained within and provoked by artefacts and rituals; the infinite possibilities of meaning contained within language; and the unexplored powers of the human imagination are all immensely complex subjects that are nevertheless rooted in our everyday and made accessible in Hiller's work.

in the seminal work of Pareto in economics, the works of Zipf [195] on natural languages, the study of Auerbach on the size of cities, the investigation of Lotka on the number of scientific publications and in the research of Willis on bio-diversity, all verifying that complex systems are often inverse power law and by implication scale - free.

With stunning graphics and an intuitive user - interface, the 2030 Palette contains the best current information available — carefully curated and complemented by powerful visuals and clear - cut language — to make highly complex principles memorable and accessible.