Sentences with phrase «effacement as»

The Brucennial 2012, billed with some measure of self - effacement as «the single most important art exhibition in the history of the world,» opened big last week, with visitors standing in light rain for up to 2 hours to get into the show's beer - fueled launch party at 159 Bleecker Street in the West Village.

He is a man of few words, and he means their repetition and effacement as acts of recovery.

Not exact matches

But as labor begins, your cervix softens, shortens, and thins, and that, my friends, is called effacement.

As your due date approaches, you may experience mild contractions that help prepare your cervix for delivery: It becomes soft, stretchy and thin, a process called effacement.

As labor begins, your cervix softens, shortens and thins (effacement).

In women with preterm labor symptoms in the late preterm period, SMFM recommends waiting for evidence of true preterm labor, such as a cervical dilatation of at least three centimeters or effacement of at least 75 % before treatment with betamethasone.

This person — truly as smart and thoughtful as they come — in what I think was genuine self - effacement, lit up, smiled half - sheepishly, and said, «We progressive technocrats just don't think like that.»

Because of this, the passages about Danticat's own childhood never fully snap into focus and she can only gesture toward her feeling of abandonment when her parents move to the U.S.. For at least one reviewer, this self - effacement compromises Danticat's honesty with the reader, especially since she was writing acclaimed novels and winning literary renown as the book's events unfolded.

Take two artists at such opposite extremes as self - display and self - effacement, conceptual art and painting, political art and abstraction.

Paper — its role as support, its propensity to effacement, to abstraction and inscription — provides the model for such a thing as will be written, and read, out of existence.

Viewing Hiorns» canvases, our numb digits slowly warming, we might interpret the washes of brain matter as an allusion to both the blinking out of consciousness at the moment of death, and to incidences of Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in abattoir workers exposed to bovine cerebral tissue — an effacement of the self by the violence of Capital.

One can see it as object or abstraction, self - reflection or self - effacement.

As they become obstacles to Creed's sprinters, the art lovers» self - effacement is revealed as a kind of narcissisAs they become obstacles to Creed's sprinters, the art lovers» self - effacement is revealed as a kind of narcissisas a kind of narcissism.

This self - effacement was no mere act of modesty; it doubled as a subtle send - up of the overly large wall labels.

Each such work, like the captivating «Wall Drawing # 280» (1976) on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's fifth floor, exists first, and even after its effacement, as a set of instructions.

Of this act of effacement, the artist explains, «I wanted to destroy images as symbols.

However, since these inclusions are moderately novel, we are still undecided if they truly help the effacement of discrimination, or if they do the contrary, drawing even more attention to the fact that these groups are seen as outcasts (we discussed this issue in one of our previous articles).