Sentences with phrase «defined by nothing»

«I attempt to be defined by nothing and to defy everything,» says the artist.

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Noting that «every text is made more understandable, and interesting, by our shared attention,» the site defines its goal as nothing less than creating «the world's greatest public knowledge project.»
After spending the last four years largely defined by military service, it wasn't that easy to just let go of it, but there's nothing wrong with toning it down.
The document is indissolubly wed to the category «committed relationships,» which is in fact nothing but a loophole that can only be defined - oxymoronically - by the independent self.
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«As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,» he writes, «sodomy was a category of forbidden acts; their perpetrator was nothing more than the juridical subject of them.»
The footage serves as a plausible facsimile of the war as defined by the Pentagon; it tells viewers nothing about the origins and nature of an enemy that Republicans and Democrats alike have been ignoring for the last ten years, out of deference to the demands of Big Oil and in the hope that a world of six billion people might wake up one morning, consider the odds, and start bowing to Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, and the Goddess of Democracy.
1) Either you haven't shown this to be true or it is a «rhetorical tautology» around a «contingent enti.ty» and means nothing, i.e. if a contingent enti.ty is defined as an enti.ty which is dependent on something else, or has be caused, then by definition there would be no uncaused «contingent enti.ties».
First, the word belief has nothing to do with Christianity, it is a word defined as «something believed; especially: a tenet or body of tenets held by a group» (Merriam - Webster) Christianity is just one of thousands of belief's held by people all over the world.
Atheism is a religion by at least a few official definitions, by definition «faith» has nothing to do with religion, its loosely defined as «a group of people with the same beliefs».
By your standards of what can or can not be defined as a historic symbol, museums would be nothing more than collections of dirt, rock and water.
Mod is an action by a person in an environment, depending on legality or hinduism, illegality by hindu atheism, criminal self center ism, it has nothing to do with environment at large, as it is used today to define matters, because actions of a person are subject to scrutiny individually, not collectively, bases for call to treat individual acts as individually not collectively.
Expect nothing good from hindu, denier of truth absolute GOD, Deepak, he is a hindu ignorant from hindered gutter of hinduism, illegality called india, borne in hind, filthy of hinduism, racism and a hindu racist by faith, testimony to designation of hind, illegality, perfectly defined in language, word hindu driven from word of Latin, hindered, negative.
Indeed, the Dialectic of practical reason adds nothing to the principle of morality, assumed to be defined by the formal imperative; nor does it add anything more to our knowledge of our duty than the Dialectic of pure reason adds to our knowledge of the world.
Whereas the old Marxists believed in something, albeit something absurd and dangerous, New Labour believes in nothing; «nothing» as defined by John Lennon in his sentimentally pernicious imagination: «No heaven... no hell... no countries... nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.»
Without an objective view of morality (provided by one's religion), you really have nothing to stand on when defining what makes an action moral or immoral.
The word substance is used in this context in its classical meaning as defined by Descartes: «And when we conceive of substance, we merely conceive an existing thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist» (quoted in Whitehead 1930, 92).
Each particular part is defined by and dependent on the total context».42 In this ecological view of a nature which includes human beings, nothing is wholly self - subsistent.
By implicitly denying that abstractive sets have defining characteristics, he has constructed a pseudo-set which literally contracts to nothing: nothing ideal as well as nothing actual.
Celiacs Disease should be defined as: The GMO enigma surrounded by food with nothing to eat.
well to me its someone in place to manage our football affairs and work in line with clearly defined time - scale so as our priorities are met one - by - one with nothing left to chance: our transfer activities are poorly managed and appear left open to chance
This NCAA tournament has been defined by the unexpected, but there's perhaps nothing more surprising than K - State's run to the Elite Eight.
To see a mother in the midst of the most poignant life defining moment she will ever experience (as designed by the release of incredible birthing hormones to cause her to fight madly for the protection of her newborn AKA - survival) be told that she is not strong enough, fast enough, quiet enough, she asks to many questions, etc is nothing short of cruel.
These rules and their consequences should be very clearly defined and it should be understood by all involved that they are there for a very important reason and that they are «all or nothing
If Labour don't define themselves, then come the next election the Conservatives will paint the choice as being «the party that took the hard but necessary decisions while Labour suggested nothing» or «the party that took the steps needed to bring the economy back to health, opposed at every step by Labour».
They are smart in the sense that they can learn to adapt to new worlds, motivated by nothing but maximizing cumulative reward, as defined by the game score.
According to Neves, a black hole is not defined by singularity, but rather by an event horizon, a membrane that indicates the point of no return from which nothing escapes the inexorable destiny of being swallowed up and destroyed by the singularity.
In truth, I was defining myself so strongly by my academic performance there was nothing left to show.
Denis's color palette here is nothing special, focusing largely on neutral colors, and her setups don't particularly pay much attention to physical space (there's not much texture), whereas her previous movies were defined by their physical space.
Film Festivals are often most succinctly defined by their locations, and nothing is more distinctive than the glorious locale of the Provincetown International Film Festival, now in its» 13th year.
Mysteries reveal themselves, but nothing is resolved, as we realize that what makes Spider tick can not be summed up by one defining event.
They are essentially two - dimensional creations whose central characteristics are governed by events; their two sides are defined by pre-disappearance idealism and post-disappearance misery with nothing in between.
Proficiency, as defined by the law, ain't nothing but a number.
The lesson follows a step - by - step learning journey, in which students learn through: - Defining and exemplifying the key features of Shakespearean context; - Reading and comprehending key extracts from Much Ado About Nothing, relating them to the features of Shakespearean context; - Completing an essay style response in which they consider how the key features of social and historical context influence the events of the play.
But judging schools by the «performance» (however defined) of their former pupils several years after they've left school tells us nothing about the current standard of education in that school.
These two vehicles are slightly larger than the compact crossovers that are selling at every other major brand and look nothing like the classic shape defined by the RAV4 and CR - V.
Yet another trick by traditional publishers, defining the out of print definition carefully, yet when looked at in reality, it means nothing.
Backed up by 9 years of deploying e-paper signs in the field with a success rate of 100 %, Visionect has helped define best industry practices, aware of one simple truth: as the electronic paper technology transitions into mass adoption, nothing beats experience.
VA broadly defines seller concessions as «anything of value added to the transaction by the builder or seller for which the buyer pays nothing additional and which the seller is not customarily expected or required to pay or provide.»
-- Likewise the standards I hold a game to are defined by other offerings in that particular genre, and nothing else.
Defined by its creators as a high - intensity VR bullet hell, EVASION is nothing short of awesome.
The series is defined by a constant evolution, offering nothing less than the finest creative vision, graphical quality and gameplay system of its generation with every instalment, and FINAL FANTASY XIII will be no exception to its legacy.
True artists will always be free in their submission only to one cause - not fame or celebrity, not a career, not pieces of paper from universities, but to that of whether that colour can possibly be right, whether in saturation it is discordant with the image intended, whether a composite form is distractingly discordant to the whole, (as well exemplified in the Angel of the North), not the political agenda of Liberalism in all things - to do as one likes privately or publicly so call it art «because I say it is», or to be «relevant» to a «handout dogma» by revered establishment figures of any description: nothing, as Sickert put it, that follows a «finicky programme of social pieties», and again as he says, quite rightly, defining art as «what I do» - in essence a rigid and confining agenda of a politicised mind.
But since there is nothing new to be done in our age there is an increasing trend towards the revival of the movements of the past whether we call it influence, recycling, imitation, appropriation or simulacrum as defined by the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it's refreshing to visit a residency that isn't defined by those values.
As seen through the eyes of the Whitney, the last two years of American art - making were defined by an enormous amount of mediocre abstract painting, a complete lack of nuanced emotion, and sculpture that mostly looks like nothing.
The book is packed with great examples from history, ancient and modern, of how rhetoric (defined by Churchill, as Romm informs us, as «The subtle art of combining the various elements that separately mean nothing and collectively mean so much in an harmonious proportion») serves as the scaffolding of effective communication.
There is nothing to cite that the Natural Climate Oscillation is being altered by simplistic productions of «temperature plots» no matter HOW MANY supposed proxies are proffered and there is no value at all in wasting more time on the «hockey stick debacle», time to realise that the «hockey plot» is not proffering any worthwhile information on ANY Real process, and its entire «shape» was defined NOT by «data» but by an attitude of predetermination within the group of «experimenters».
Since NO ONE claims to be able to predict the variations in climate over ANY period, absent any anthropogenic contribution, attributing ANY subset of the observed variations in the «Temperature of the Earth (never rigorously and consistently defined)» to anthropogenic influence amounts to nothing more than ex cathedra pronouncements by Climate Experts.
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