Sentences with phrase «effacing from»

The silent effacing from the nation's historical consciousness of the way England was typically seen as being the oppressor and tyrant in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the rest of the world is almost Orwellian.

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This self - effacing artist seems to conceive of himself almost as an anonymous agent: whatever is expressed in his prints comes from beyond him and is simply transmitted through him.

Whether in the form of totalitarianism or of self - effacing loyalty to political parties, it represents the desire of this age to fly «from the demanding «ever anew»» of personal responsibility «into the protective «once for all»» of membership in a group.

And of course I long for a world full of truthful human diversity and free from reductionist dilution that «effaces all [real] differentiation.»

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

Cullman, following Luther, would have us select from this rich array only the single image of sleep, a tidy way to dispose of the doctrine of purgatory and to downplay if not completely efface the cult of the saints.

Would it not make sense above all to ask questions from the point of view of adopted children as well as questions concerning the concrete consequences in their daily lives of the effacing of sexual differences?

Brian's been great lately at building the farm system, but there are areas where his judgment is questionable (although one can never be confident in assigning culpability in a front office where the owners seem to rely on self - effacing loyalty from employees; i.e., fall on your sword if you want to work here, and you didn't hear it from us).

Quiet and self - effacing, Linzmeier suggested that a major factor in her victories had been homesickness; after three years of training with the Mission Viejo team she had returned home to Visalia, Calif. last November for a three - month break from the sport.

But the decision by the self - effacing former physics professor to retire from Congress doesn't mean he's giving up his lifelong passion for science education.

Smith's self - effacing story of why he had altered his career plans — he graduated from Yale in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in American studies and became a lawyer before entering politics — was clearly meant to disarm his audience.

But despite Beatriz's big innocent eyes and meek, self - effacing appearance, she increasingly interjects herself into the evening's proceedings, interrupting their superficial banter about jet - setting vacations and making lots of money with her own reflections («I could feel the pain of the octopus,» she says, relating a story from her youth.)

It's up to individual viewers to decide the present - day relevance of a story in which a touchy, overweening president can be heard going after a newspaper he deems a personal enemy — «The Post» includes snippets from the actual Nixon tapes — or in which a working woman encounters endless, patronizing slights and condescension, only to come into her own with admirable, self - effacing resolve.

In a self - effacing attempt to save his father from a death by deterioration, a young man enlists his curmudgeonly boss and Kelis to perform a song, and a miracle.

But there's none of that winking, self - effacing verbiage that keeps the movie moving from one violent twist to the other.

Kudos to Channing Tatum for the kind of self - effacing star turn you wouldn't expect from an actor whose character is both eponymous and «magic»; cheers to Jada Pinkett Smith (as the troupe's hype - woman) and Andie MacDowell (as a wealthy society client whose chaste amusement ripens into something else) for stealing their scenes with the evident pleasure of consummate thieves.

Cronenberg matches this strange banality with a striking formal artifice: Rear projection is used conspicuously, no attempt is made to efface the rigidity of studio sets, and performances from reliably robust character actors seem stilted and plastic.

Dimension continues to impress with its dedication to providing a bursting special features package, including a nicely self - effacing (if mildly deluded) commentary from director Lussier and screenwriter Joel Soisson.

In his inimitably self - effacing yet still detached style, Reeves recalled his adolescent jobs — which included paper routes, landscaping work, sharpening skates at a hockey rink and «an underground Italian specialty food store,» where he enjoyed a five - or six - month rise from «sandwich creator» to manager.

The surprise of Rabbit Hole is that it is directed, with self - effacing sensitivity, by John Cameron Mitchell, whose previous films, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the full - frontal Short Bus, come from another planet entirely.

The pay - cable network was the original home of the series, which ran from August 1992 to May 1998, and starred Shandling as the titular, self - effacing talk show host.

Bob Hope was the snappy urban wiseguy with an easy line of smart remarks and a comic cowardice behind the confident front, a one - liner comic whose timing, self - effacing demeanor and audience rapport took him from stage to radio to screen.

He wasn't just understanding of my plight; he was genuinely kind, accommodating, and self - effacing in our first encounters — all this from a man with no need to be solicitous, possessing a stellar reputation and gaudy resume.

There are women of all shapes and sizes — up to a point — from Miss Tri Athlete, who runs in the 20 -25-year-old pack, wears Victoria's Secret underthings and is self - effacing about her own physical prowess to women who are probably in their sixties, perhaps even seventies.

Dr. Gray gave an excellent talk at the recent Morningstar conference with a somewhat self - effacing title borrowed from Warren Buffet: Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas.

In order to fill the time so as not to completely halt dramatic action, or, to help transition the mood from one act to the next, an «entr» acte» would unfold before a simple backdrop with a minimum of props; embracing the economy of the gap and the leverage of interval, the «entr» acte» occupies a space between denouement and spectacle, effacing and dispersing the subjective identification and vitalist discoveries often associated with theater.

In her paintings of censorship, Jenny Holzer has both silkscreeneed the text and effaced it herself — with some help from the U.S. government.

The juxtaposition of paintings from Shchukin's collection with selected works by the pre-Revolutionary Russian avant - garde will serve to highlight the remarkable role this self - effacing and quite austere man played in the modern movement by promoting the work of some of its greatest exponents.

James Young, in his book At Memory's Edge, describes these changes as «a metamorphosis of the monument from the heroic, self - aggrandizing figurative icons of the late nineteenth century celebrating national ideals and triumphs to the anti-heroic, often ironic, and self - effacing conceptual installations.»

In the main gallery, a series of concrete heads (cast from the inside of Halloween masks) lie on blankets, their partially effaced features reminiscent of the images of Picasso's proto - Cubist period or the shattered remnants from the conquest of some fantastic city.

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self - effacing, the...

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self - effacing, the handmade, the infra - mince.

Todd Kelly's and Morgan Mandalay's works reference paintings that are absent from their two - person exhibition — source material that is circumscribed and effaced rather than explicitly revealed...

Another painting, Insile (2013) built up from a photo image of Believers» Palace amid civilian buildings, activates its surface with painterly ink gestures, blurring and effacing the ruins beneath.

Among the «Free Abstracts» of the mid-1980s, Abstraktes Bild is the locus for Richter's recursive layering and effacing technique whereby the ground, in this case a random detail from a photograph of an early sketch, which is then blown up and serves as the ground for overpainting.

Given the pervasiveness of modern communications and the difficulty of effacing prejudicial publicity from the minds of the jurors, the trial courts must take strong measures to ensure that the balance is never weighed against the accused.

63 Immediately on the receipt of a poll return envelope, without effacing or covering any seals already affixed to it, the returning officer shall affix a seal prescribed by the Chief Electoral Officer in such a way that the envelope can not be opened without the seal being broken and shall take every precaution for its safekeeping and for preventing any person other than himself or herself and the election clerk from having access to it.

Pearl is self - effacing in conversation, making it easy to see where his modesty at branding himself comes from.