Sentences with phrase «conceit of»

Ponsoldt uses the increasingly common visual conceit of having people's internet comments appear on - screen in a cloud of digital pop - ups, as viewers react to Mae's every movement with judgments, support, leers, and narcissistic, attention - seeking non sequiturs about cheese.

On the other hand, the conceit of the AI programmers / researchers, is that law isn't opaque at all; rather, that eventually we will have adequate AI algorithms, that will eventually conduct legal analysis at a level equal to the best human analyst, and capable of doing it faster.

The basic conceit of our show was that in general defense attorneys are unscrupulous dogs, making huge fortunes defending the absolutely guilty with impunity; prosecutors, on the other hand, are stern and humorless guardians of justice, hamstrung by their own ethics and the regulatory impediments of the system.

Photo credit: wsilver via Flickr / CC BY Clean coal is friendlier - sounding euphemism for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), the technological conceit of snagging emissions belched out by coal plants and storing them under ground in order to keep them

It is tempting to dismiss NAAQS regulation of greenhouse gases as a conceit of leftwing extremism or rightwing paranoia.

Should this latest conceit of the extractive class see light of day, expect tax revenues to grow even as the economy continues to crumble.

The CAGW social mania is a «Precious Conceit of the Western Elite», but I use both «precious» and «conceit» in a somewhat archaic fashion, so I am rarely understood.

Understand now that Russia, India and China have no intention of depriving their poor people of energy just because of a mistaken conceit of the developed elites.

perhaps the environmentally warm and fuzzy conceit of climate change — about which we can really do nothing — is really just a subconscious expression of the much more stark and frightening former — and all too real issue: PEAK OIL.

The conceit of using segments this short at all needs some justification.

NEW YORK REVIEWS «Off the Grid» Lehmann Maupin By Alfred MacAdam The governing conceit of «Off the Grid» derives from electric power: those «on the grid» depend on the commercial generation and distribution of power; those «off the grid» produce their own energy.

Object - oriented wall pieces by Jean Tinguely, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and a pre-combine Robert Rauschenberg hint at how the conceit of Action Painting eventually led to Performance Art and Conceptualism.

«POSSESSED» WESTERN BRIDGE The conceit of «Possessed» - the overlap between the things that we own and the things that own us - is a common - enough curatorial theme, but this exhibition had no...

GLENN O'BRIEN ON RUDI GERNREICH THE IRRESISTIBLE CONCEIT of Austin Powers is nostalgia for futurism.

Khalili further develops the conceit of time in her mixed - media installation Foreign Office (2015), where the evocation of a specific place and time — Algiers, 1962 to 1972 — intimates the possibility of contemporary global solidarity.

Benning prefers not to identify as traditionally gendered, so this would be the most direct correlational reading of such a work, yet the artist's project shares with Mike Kelley's more blatantly irreverent ecclesiastical banners the larger task of deconstructing so - called universal (catholic) beliefs as really the refined conceit of status - quo thinking.

The result suggests, to me, the pleasant conceit of considering Rosenberg and Greenberg themselves as types of Abstract Expressionists, in discursive prose: Rosenberg lyrically impulsive, like de Kooning; and Greenberg as starkly decisive as Newman.

But the conceit of «Forever Now» is, I think, that something is different now, that Modernism's incessant ever - forward march seems so last century, so debunked, and with the combined knowledge of the known universe essentially in our pockets, more artists know about more art than ever before.

The conceit of this show is that it borrows a «display strategy» from the great 19th century anthropologist / archaeologist Henry Pitt Rivers.

Driving across most of the country's fifty states in an ordinary rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country's eccentricities and obsessions at the beginning of the twenty - first century.

«The conceit of the column is he'll write about art with the tone, with the language that artists themselves use to talk about art,» Mr. Fielden said.

He said the conceit of Nova, with its restrictions on how many artists can be shown, makes sense for younger galleries.

Playing with the conceit of image - making, perceptions are questioned as the viewer considers whether these repainted scenes represent a parallel universe, two different moments in time or a trick of the mind.

Alumni Brittany Campbell (Fiber» 13) and Zachariah Szabo (Photography) are part of the joint exhibition Brittany Campbell & Zachariah Szabo: The Conceit of Memory at Terhune Art Gallery.

She first came to attention with her debut exhibition Frank from Observation (2002) based on the conceit of Schutz as the last painter, representing the last subject «Frank».

I love the conceit of Poem 88's summer series Correspondences, a series of short exhibitions inspired by the Swedish scientist, theologian, and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg (1668 - 1772).

So such a show's implied conceit of presenting the best, newest, most relevant, most advanced or most commercially trafficked work begs for the basic hostility encouraged by any latently competitive cultural event.

In The Times, Rosenberg reduces his work down to the following, «Once you grasp the essential conceit of his art — that his costumes for the 19th - or 18th - century ruling class are made from 20th - century fabrics associated with Africa — the rest is window dressing.»

The animating conceit of Telepathic Improvisation, a film by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and the centerpiece of their first U.S. solo museum exhibition of the same title at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, on view through Jan. 7, is that viewers are invited to «participate» retroactively in the making of the film.

The conceit of the show was the show the diversity of L.A. as seen through the eyes of 11 very diverse photographers from an assortment of genres.

No, this is part of the main conceit of the game.

The variations unfold in welcoming profusion, though all share the charming conceit of clothing textures.

This time the conceit of riding around in animals was ditched and Hudson decided «fuck it: you all know this is supposed to be Mario Kart so we're just going to put them in karts.»

These games differ because they aren't grand adventures, but rather compact, intricately designed puzzle boxes where narrative and the central conceit of the plot pushes the game to be worth more than the sum of its parts.

The conceit of the game is that you're an explorer searching for valuable, ancient treasures.

The central conceit of this classic buddy team - up is that Shine offers much more than a way to dispense with enemies.

But Etrian Odyssey has never really been about keeping with the latest gaming trends — after all, its core conceit of exploring a 3D labyrinth that you must carefully map out harkens back to the very earliest days of PC role - playing games.

If I had to sell the central conceit of Horizon Zero Dawn to someone in two words, it would be «robot dinosaurs.»

There was, Price goes on, no sense at this stage that Kinect, a peripheral now inextricable from Microsoft's conceit of an always - online entertainment hub, would be for anything other than gaming.

Emphasis on «do enjoy playing», whilst the music isn't to my taste, the music on the whole left me puzzled with the whole theme / conceit of the game.

I always presumed that that was just a conceit of those from the wrong ocean.

Despite all of these odd qualifiers, it's pretty simple to see why One - Punch Man is here - its system of references are pure shonen, from the Toriyama look of its initial villain to its central comedic conceit of a hero that's so over-powered, so far along in the invisible serial of power accumulation of life, that absolutely nothing is a challenge anymore.

With that in mind I found myself musing frequently during the first few hundred pages whether she might have been better off basing her story on something a little shorter and less erudite, an English literature unit at a 2 - year - college, perhaps - because it didn't seem possible that she could maintain the conceit of her novel through a full 500 + pages.

Amis masterfully uses the essential conceit of the detective novel — the assumption that truth is ultimately fathomable — to create something so unhinged from formula that fans of the conventional mystery stayed away in droves.

According to Autocar, after the introduction of the Urus SUV later this year, Lamborghini is looking to expand its lineup further by adding a four - door sedan similar to the original conceit of the Estoque.

It's also the conceit of the Mazda Ice Academy, a daylong series of exercises designed to show how the brand's i - Activ all - wheel drive, which is engineered to anticipate tire slip on snow and ice rather than react to it, is the best possible system for removing an average driver's doubt he or she might not be able to handle patches of ice and banks of snow.

The bigger problem lies at the fatal conceit of the view of the NAACP and its allies in the ivory tower: That economic and racial desegregation will lead to improvements in student achievement.

Unions promote the conceit of a teacher shortage whenever they're seeking more money, which is basically all the time.

Director Herbert Ross borrowed the miniseries» conceit of having the stars — who include Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper and Christopher Walken — lip - synching to old standards throughout the story.

The conceit of the film is that Adèle can not deny her feelings: she's been awakened as if from a slumber by her ferocious desire for Emma.