Sentences with phrase «curious form»

Ah, the cat headbutt, a most curious form of cat affection and trust.

Throughout his lengthy performance art career, Michael Smith (b. 1951, Chicago) has been known for his creation of his own world full of existential happenings in curious forms.

This is how the Church came by the designator Cultus sanctorum, by performing a curious form of sacramental necrophilism by which Christians give honor to their saints by clinging to their material vestiges: bone, hair, bits of cloth, scapulars, and their like.

It would involve a sacrifice of the intellect which could have only one result - a curious form of schizophrenia and insincerity.

Lowell's early poetry used Christian symbolism but in a curious form: he expressed his anger because the world was not as Christian as he thought it ought to be.

The result is, not surprisingly, a curious form of 20th - century American idealism, but with a chic twist: now we have a cultured, urbane Yahwist, Master of Irony, secularist sophisticate (one is reminded of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus — the Yahwist lives in New Haven!).

That is an explanation of the curious form in which Mark gives the words addressed to Peter, «You also are a Galilean.»

I've been aware of chia seeds for years, but only in the curious form of a sprouting chia pet.

It's a curious form of hara - kiri the Tories are pursuing.

Indeed, Rogiers's recent sculpted figures are clotted - looking masses that seem barely to hold their shapes against the forces of gravity and motion, and while plastic was more prevalent than metal in this show, these curious forms suggest creatures that might have crawled from one of Vulcan's crucibles.

What culminates in these curious forms is a duality of sentiment, a sarcastic laugh at the undoing of the pristine grid and a simultaneous nod to its persistence.

Martina Bacigalupo: «Gulu Real Art Studio» (through Feb. 8) In 2010 the Italian photojournalist Martina Bacigalupo spent time in the city of Gulu in northern Uganda, where she came across a curious form of portraiture.

Martina Bacigalupo: «Gulu Real Art Studio» (closes on Saturday) In 2010 the Italian photojournalist Martina Bacigalupo spent time in the city of Gulu in northern Uganda, where she came across a curious form of portraiture.