Sentences with phrase «early compositions of»

Poons's early compositions of rectangles, diamonds, and other geometric shapes, went against the grain of prevailing tastes at the school, which favored various forms of late Abstraction Expressionism, in vogue around the world by the mid-1950s.

In complete antithesis to any mechanistic aura, Larry Poons's fourteen new abstract canvases at Danese and Loretta Howard Gallery, New York (closed 2nd March) maintained a studied wildness as volatile and hedonistically excessive as his early compositions of gridded dots in the 1960s were systematic and stringent.

To pass from the latest apostolic writings to the earliest compositions of uninspired Christian pens is to fall through such a giddy height that it is no wonder if we rise dazed and almost unable to determine our whereabouts.

Not exact matches

So there's been a lot of great work by NASA and other organizations in early exploration of Mars and understanding... what Mars is like, where could we land, what's the composition of the atmosphere, where is there water — water ice, I should say — and so we need to go from these early exploration missions to actually building a city.

A report put out in early 2013 by the accounting firm Rothstein Kass indicated that between January 2012 and September 2012, an index of 67 hedge funds owned or managed by women had a return of 8.95 percent — significantly more than the 2.69 percent return generated by an index «designed to be representative of the overall composition of the hedge fund universe.»

Combined with the unexpectedly early departure of the Fed's vice chair, Stanley Fischer, and the three pre-existing vacancies out of the seven seats on the Fed's board of governors, there has remained a high degree of uncertainty about the future composition of the central bank's leadership.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

The composition of the Ninth was delayed, as the harried composer revised the Eighth and compulsively revisited some of his earlier symphonies.

On the other hand the present form of the apocalypse of Mark 42 is held by some scholars to indicate its composition in the late fifties, and the emergence of the earliest gospel is widely held to have been most probable at a time when the first generation of Christian teachers was beginning to die out, c. A.D. 60 - 70.

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

Whilst these speeches are presumably Lukan compositions, many scholars believe that they include traces of the earliest Easter proclamation, preserved because they were remembered as being apostolic, and in spite of their «adoptionist» tone: that God has raised his pais (child) Jesus; that God has mode him both Lord and Christ.

This evidence that two separate Greek versions circulated in the early third century pushes the likely date for the composition of the Gospel of Mary back to the late second century.

This means that though the burial story may have been known somewhat earlier, the discovery story originated about the same time as the composition of Mark's Gospel.

But I think it is legitimate to point out, in reply to the view that the speeches in the early part of Acts are late compositions, that there is nothing in them which suggests that which is distinctive of Paul.

Given what historians and exegetes now generally take for granted about the composition of the New Testament, the distinction between «Scripture» and «tradition» breaks down; and one is forced to decide either for a traditional New Testament canon that one can no longer justify by the early church's own criterion of apostolicity or else for this same criterion of canonicity that now allows one to justify only a nontraditional canon.

We recognize here a set pattern of composition followed by early Christian writers, corresponding to the structure of their thought.

In effect, there is strong evidence that in an earlier stage in the composition of that book Whitehead conceptualized God without distinguishing between two divine natures, the primordial and the consequent.

More precisely, it seems that the third chapter of the first part of Process and Reality, while having been written late during the composition of the book, incorporates earlier materials that have been displaced from their initial location in the book.30 The passage from Process 32 discussed here would belong to that category.31 However, one should not, and can not, conclude, on the sole basis that the fourth full paragraph from Process 32 is an insertion, that this paragraph of has to be considered an expression of a second — chronologically speaking — concept of God as non-temporal.

In this explanation of why he is not a Christian, Keith Parsons discusses the role that Christianity has played in perpetuating suffering throughout human history, the bizarre doctrine of inflicting eternal punishment on persons for having the wrong beliefs, the composition, inconsistencies, and absurdities of the New Testament Gospels, William Lane Craig's flawed case for the resurrection of Jesus, the role of legendary development and hallucinations in early Christianity, and C.S. Lewis» weak justifications for the Christian prohibition on premarital se - x.

Quite clearly, mediating «things which are temporal» and «things which are eternal» (40) is God's main role, and accounting for that mediation was probably the reason why Whitehead mentioned and conceptualized God the way he did at an earlier stage in the composition of Process and Reality.

However, more evidence would be needed in order to show that at an even earlier stage in the composition of his magnum opus, Whitehead did conceive God as nothing more than a formative element, as Lewis S. Ford claims.

All the other habits of composition that Ford attributes to Whitehead rest on the two attributions we have just put into question; for we are told that the insertions of later writings into earlier ones, and the overall arrangements of writings in a given book, are meant to induce readers to disregard passages conveying abandoned doctrines or positions or, if the doctrines and positions are kept in modified form, to reinterpret them in terms of their final or mature formulations.

Passages from Process 7, 31, 32, 40, 46, and 93, among others, reveal that Whitehead had not developed the distinction between a primordial and a consequent nature at an earlier stage in the composition of the book.

[108] There are far fewer witnesses to cla ssical texts than to the Bible, and unlike the New Testament where the earliest witnesses are often within a couple decades of the original, the earliest existing manuscripts of most cla ssical texts were written about a millennium after their composition.

I loved his insistence on an early date for the composition of Exodus.

Earlier this month the Croatian Food Agency (HAH) sent samples taken from the Croatian and German supermarket shelves to accredited laboratories to be tested, finding differences in either the ingredient composition or price in almost 85 % of the products, including HiPP's «Rice with carrots and turkey».

A previous study highlighted infant nutrition as a major contributor to the early microbiota composition and function, with cessation of breastfeeding contributing the most fundamental shift in the composition of bacteria.8 A longitudinal study with more participants would allow us to determine the temporal dynamics of the effects of feeding practices and changes therein, as well as the persistence of the effects of both feeding and delivery mode later in infancy.

Tony Blair, who expressed unease in early 2005 about a «hybrid» house with elected and appointed members, pledged in the Labour manifesto for that year's general election to remove the remaining hereditary peers and to «allow a free vote on the composition of the house».

And, of course, the early 2005 descent of the Huygens probe through Titan's atmosphere for two and a half hours captured panoramic images and measurements of atmospheric composition, transparency, winds and temperature before the probe came to rest on the moon's surface.

With much the same size, mass and composition as our home, Venus was a lush jungle planet in the popular imagination of the early 20th century.

This NASA MARS 2020 approach of mapping the elemental, mineral, and organic composition of rocks at high spatial resolution with non-destructive techniques is now commonly used on Earth to provide unambiguous evidence for early life in its preserved nanoscale context.

His early experiments on the composition of hydrogen chloride and hydrochloric acid were published as a successful textbook, Elements of Experimental Chemistry, which ran to its 11th edition by 1829.

There were clear differences in the composition of immune cells in the wounds and the immune cells present produced higher levels of TGFß at earlier time points.

This light gives cosmologists their earliest possible glimpse of the infant universe, providing crucial evidence for its origins, age and composition.

The findings of the experimental study, presented in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggest that improving maternal DHA nutrition has a favorable programming effect on the fetus that influences body composition in early childhood.

In the early 1970s researchers discovered that Vesta's composition is unlike that of any other asteroid: it is made of basalt.

HERA will not be able to directly analyze the chemical composition of those early objects (such work is done with a technique called spectroscopy), but Hewitt said it will be possible to learn something about the characteristics of those early objects by studying their interaction with the hydrogen that surrounded them.

And by analyzing the light as it passes through clouds of gas and on its way to Earth, astronomers will glean the compositions of the earliest galaxies, Lamb adds.

Angrites are igneous rocks, many of which are thought to have erupted onto the surface of asteroids very early in the solar system's history and then quickly cooled, freezing their original properties — including their composition and paleomagnetic signals — in place.

She comments «This is the first report showing that diet can alter the nutrient composition of human uterine fluid, which nurtures the early embryo.

Scientists at the University of Soutahmpton's Faculty of Medicine have discovered that maternal diet affects the nutrient composition of fluid in the womb of women and thus may aid in the development of nutritional interventions to support the very earliest stages of pregnancy.

Changes in the composition and activity of the gut microbiome in early life can influence the immune system and these changes might indirectly lead to changes in asthma later in life,» said Dr. Anke Maitland - van der Zee, senior author of the study.

Previous studies of other volcanoes have revealed a change in gas composition prior to an eruption that could serve as an early detection mechanism.

When the magma forms bubbles, the composition of gas at the surface should change, potentially providing an early warning sign.»

And with the right tools, scientists can mine these traces for date details and chemical composition to get a rare snapshot of early Earth.

«It's linked to how well we know the composition of the planets early on, especially with regards to habitability,» Pontoppidan says.

Theoretical models of the Big Bang allow precise calculations of the composition of the early universe.

Given the chemical composition, temperature, and density of the gas, «the star formation in this galaxy must have happened at a rate five times faster than that in the Milky Way,» he says, which suggests why the early galaxies could form so quickly.

In the early universe, the differences might have created a preponderance of matter over antimatter that would account for the universe's current composition.

There are striking iconographic details such as the composition of the beard or the posture of the arms, which point to Iron Age depictions from the early 1st millennium B.C.