Sentences with phrase «contradictory positions at»

Politics have also forced New York governor George Pataki into taking contradictory positions at times regarding schools and money.

Not exact matches

If only one can get it made manifest that all attempts at comprehending are self - contradictory, then the thing assumes the correct position, and then it becomes clear that it must be left to faith whether one will believe or not.

they are the only ones to have looked carefully at seemingly contradictory positions found in the bible, the problem of pain, etc. and to have discovered all the answers.

They said the mayor was taking «contradictory positions» by targeting the tribes while at the same time expressing support for constitutional protections of those looking to build a controversial Islamic center near Ground Zero.

Commonsense notions at the very heart of our everyday perceptions of reality turn out to be violated: contradictory alternatives can coexist, such as an object following two different paths at the same time; objects do not simultaneously have precise positions and velocities; and the properties of objects and events we observe can be subject to an ineradicable randomness that has nothing to do with the imperfection of our tools or our eyesight.

Posing as gallerists at the ready to explain the work on view, the performers instead took on six different characters, each with a distinct social position, and articulated a variety of contradictory relationships to the works.

Representing no single point of view, and in some cases presenting productively contradictory positions, «Trigger» assembles artists for their singular efforts in considering gender's capacity to represent a more general refusal of stable categorization — a refusal at the heart of today's most compelling artistic practices.

Representing no single point of view, and in some cases presenting productively contradictory positions, «Trigger» will assemble artists for their singular efforts in considering gender's capacity to represent a more general refusal of stable categorization — a refusal at the heart of today's most compelling artistic practices.

By referring to the most diverse of artists from widely varying eras and styles of the 20th century, he brings out individual positions that were arguably of unparalleled relevance to artistic practice in subsequent decades, while at the same time he links periods and ideologies that were often mutually contradictory.»