Sentences with phrase «effacing yet»

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.

Once you reach your 36 week (for most pregnancies), your OB / GYN will do a quick exam to see if you are dilated or effaced yet.

Not exact matches

And yet, there are things that one can imagine happening to an apple (or a bone, or even a whole planet) that would efface it so completely, that no particles, atoms, bits of matter, or parcels of energy would remain that could meaningfully be asserted to have been the very ones that were once part of the original object.

Yet the great horticulturalist could be diffident and self - effacing.

Beautiful yet self - effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with

The artists in Tuttle share Richard Tuttle's affinity for familiar and discarded items, self - effacing assembly, and a demure yet cunning investigation of subject, methodology, and presentation.

As Zhang says, he is creating a «societal landscape,» one where, whether he is manipulating an image of a building in Chelsea or one half way around the world in China, his aim is not to efface but to meld disparate concepts and histories, disparate types of visual information, and make yet a third thing — a multifaceted, multi-media, object for contemplation.

The stripes have spread and deepened to displayed the painter's touch, and yet every hint of personal meaning has effaced itself.

Dynamic and brave, yet quietly luminous and reticent at the same time, the drawn marks demand recognition and then seemingly self - efface.

Louis has succinctly captured a particular essence of the man - made and yet his work simultaneously effaces its own moral seriousness, and temporal and mortal constructions.

He is not expected to be balanced at the NY Times, yet, he like other liberals still perpetuates the myth of self - effacing «journalistic balance» in the media.

Yet if the recognition of native title is to be ascertained by reference to Indigenous laws and culture then direct analogy to common law titles may efface the Indigenous character of the interest almost entirely.

It is a dictatorship, a banana republic dictatorship at its finest, yet most Realtors do not even realize what a bad, nonrepresentative, top - down, Soviet style rolling oligarchical band of in - house, self - effacing, deluded, south - facing elitists controls their communal fate.