Sentences with phrase «effacing individual»

Before long he was covering the panel and effacing individual strokes — but hardly hiding them.

Color field painters efface the individual mark in favor of large, flat, stained and soaked areas of color, considered to be the essential nature of visual abstraction along with the actual shape of the canvas, which Frank Stella in particular achieved in unusual ways with combinations of curved and straight edges.

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In squeezing civil society and in effacing the distinction between levels of government, the President's vision would seem to leave little room for the development or maintenance of a rightly ordered relationship between the individual and the community.

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.

Preoccupied by collective memory and how history gradually effaces anonymous individuals, in this new body of work Avotins communicates subtly through the gaping absence of the human figure.

«Preoccupied by collective memory and how history gradually effaces anonymous individuals, in this new body of work Avotiņš communicates subtly through the gaping absence of the human figure.»

The reason they evince «climate skepticism» in responding to survey items on «belief in» human - caused global warming is that those items aren't measuring what people know; they are measuring «who they are, whose side they are on,» in a mean, illiberal, collective - knowledge - vitiating, individual - reason - effacing cultural status competition.