Sentences with phrase «elaborate displays of»

The New York Times began its article with, «Besides their deadly serious purpose, the Paris climate talks are also an opportunity for elaborate displays of performance art,» and explained the «Wanted Poster» targets with this report:

Between the elaborate displays of shiny new clothes and earrings at department stores and Main Street shops, you can get overwhelmed with the many options for what you should get your girlfriend for Christmas.

«The responses of men and women to the threat of infidelity range from intense pangs of jealousy to elaborate displays of attention to woo their partner back.

A French denier, Robert Faurisson, inaugurated these technical speculations, though it was Fred Leuchter, an American entrepreneur dealing in execution equipment for states with the death penalty, who provided Faurisson's theories with elaborate displays of pseudoscientific «proof» in The Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdenek (1988).

They pulled out an elaborate display of illustrated cardboards, depicting incidents from the Bible.

Baranski is a total hoot in the role as she smothers her grandkids with cool gifts, turns her daughter's house into a winter wonderland complete with elaborate display of all the objects in the «12 Days of Christmas» song, brings in the Chicago youth choir to accompany them in a caroling adventure and generally takes over.

The most elaborate display of their individual works to date, Young Blood includes painting, film, sculpture, and installation, weaving varied mediums together with precision and fluidity.

The choices for center pieces are endless — from an elaborate display of foliage, to a traditional cornucopia spilling over with gourds, pinecones and fall leaves, to a beautiful basket of fall vegetables.

Not exact matches

Neha Mahajan, IDC senior research analyst of devices and displays, referred to U.S. PC market as having a «strong last quarter of the year» partly because of «impressive growth in the retail PC segment,» which IDC didn't elaborate on.

Beijing's Belt and Road Summit and Gala last week was not just an elaborate dinner party and display of theatrics — it was China's version of an invitation to the global community to engage with its most ambitious trade and infrastructure project yet --- the US$ 1 - trillion Belt and Road Initiative.

Still, over the long haul, the evolutionary story clearly displays a trend toward the emergence of more and more elaborate entities.

The panpsychism displayed in Whitehead's elaborated accounts of temporality, causality, perception, and the subject - object correlation is a frequently noted and discussed aspect of his philosophy of organism.

Chelsea Football Club displayed a gross lack of class as they interrupted Sunday's Premier League game against Sunderland to pay an elaborate tribute to Blues legend John Terry.

Most of the displays incorporate fruit and vegetables, often from breakfast and lunch produce scraps, to create elaborate animals and fun themes.

Male palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) in northern Australia refashion sticks and seedpods into tools that the animals use to bang against trees as part of an elaborate visual and auditory display designed to seduce females.

But at the same time they have societies, divisions of labor, males with elaborate mating displays that females choose among.

An implicit assumption of this hypothesis is that males that can afford to produce more elaborate carotenoid - dependent displays must be healthier individuals with superior immunocompetence.

Jumping spiders are known for their excellent vision and the elaborate body language they display when encountering other members of their species.

Wendiceratops pinhornensis, also from Alberta and described in PLOS One in July, has its own distinctive display: an elaborate assemblage of massive horns and a frill with dramatic, curving hooks.

WEDNESDAY, February 8, 2012 (Health.com)-- The elaborate courtship displays found in the animal kingdom — a peacock spreading his feathers, the hissing of the Madagascar cockroach — aren't always appropriate in an office or classroom.

Still, there's something unsettling about the downbeat chronicle of a ruined California dream at the movie's core, especially if you consider how Catherine's despair over her failed motherhood and disability is juxtaposed with the lascivious display of healthy women's bodies and the elaborate mating rituals that take place at Starbody.

Following the recent arrival of promotional materials in retail stores, it should come as no surprise that these were followed by more elaborate displays, as well as game cases with placeholder box art used for pre-order purposes.

Tsui Hark's 1991 film starts with a dragon dance, one of the most elaborate and colourful displays of traditional Chinese culture.

The two have used the Wick movies to display their love of silent - film comedians like Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, building scenes around elaborate stunts.

From Jordan Raup's Sundance review found on The Film Stage: «Aster displays proficient skill in eerie tone - setting, elaborate production design, and the type of scares that will leave a pervasive imprint on the mind.»

We get not one, not two, but three veeeeery long sex scenes in the first 20 minutes, featuring plenty of Wiseau on display (in case you were wondering whether the film was a vanity project) alongside elaborate candelabra and water features that mysteriously disappear when the montages finally end.

A process - oriented eLearning template can be used across the course to represent, elaborate on and display continuation of the various phases in the process.

Unlike Samsung and LG, Motorola hasn't focused on whizzy curved displays or elaborate skins; indeed, it has not only committed to a «pure Android» experience in its own phones, but seems to have persuaded its partner Verizon to tone down the level of skinning in its Droid phones.

The food hall, open seven days a week, offers a cornucopia of gourmet English treats, and the window displays are some of the most elaborate «shows» in the West End.

Stroll to nearby Omotesandō shopping street, home to some of the world's top fashion brands, and visit the Samurai Museum, which displays the swords and elaborate costumes of Japan's military nobility.

Cairns features a variety of conference venues from the large and luxurious Pullman Reef Casino or The Sebel Cairns that can host many hundreds of delegates along with Exhibitions, Trade Displays and elaborate Gala Dinners, to the business class hotels with well respected names such as Rydges, Novotel and Holiday Inn that are well suited to smaller conferences, training programs, strategy meetings and seminars.

Instead of elaborate floral displays, cascading throughout every corner of your wedding venue, simple hand tied displays and single flower arrangements and the less is more approach are making their way into contemporary Weddings.

Before long you've got an elaborate structure reaching for the sky, with several displays of physics - defying placement.

In this episode, Barry and David discuss an early version of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric under the working title Sonic Synergy and take a look at concept art of elaborate in - store Sonic Boom displays.

Its specific constellation of reference includes everything from vernacular or anonymous urban architectural elements, product display design, and the accidental cumulative aesthetics of, say, the garage, as well as an elaborate, on - going discourse regarding the sculpture and its pedestal that goes back to Brancusi.

On the other side of the island, Scotland + Venice have taken over an elaborate Venetian palace where artist Graham Fagan has developed a carefully choreographed display which leads visitors through opulent rooms of Murano glass chandeliers and views over the Grand Canal, culminating in a multi-channel video installation entitled The Slaves Lament.

The linear march of time is playfully and thoughtfully elaborated upon, often with the help of obscure stories and the diverse collection of objects on display alongside the video.

It takes the form of an elaborate time line, snaking around the gallery walls, a display case, and some reproductions.

Using bare concrete or lurid painted bronze, Trayte's installations echo familiar sites of consumption, from haphazard market - stalls to carefully orchestrated supermarket displays and elaborate dinner tables.

Past shows at PaceWildenstein have displayed drawings of elaborate landscapes in huge piles of ash and constructed a 32 - foot - long sleeping giant out of cowskin, steel, wood, and foam.

Reminiscent of the classic potato clock displayed at student science fairs, Nom Nom Ohm dilates this experiment to an elaborate extreme.

The exhibition will display key work he did in the postmodern vein as part of Memphis, the Milan - based design collective — a group whose work was all about elaborate juxtapositions of bright colors and wild shapes.

Themes are densely elaborated; verbs buckle under adverbs; and as the show's title (copped from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost) suggests, much of the visual vocabulary on display oozes with innuendo.

Reflected in an elaborate spatial scenography, the manifestos are displayed alongside photographic incunabula of their authors.

In 2007 - 08, an elaborate retrospective of her career, from the 1940s onward, was displayed at the Tate Modern in London, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Love Fashions the Sidereal Body... (2016) elaborates on Bove's consistent questioning of the relationship between methods of display and ontology.

His mature style typically displays an elaborate build up of tiny calligraphic signs which are both serene and luminous in appearance.

His works prioritize displays of personal innocence and acts of kindness within surreal landscapes and elaborate draped environments that reimagine the social boundaries imposed on male interactions, platonic and otherwise.

There's jellyfish type artwork in cases, wall - hanging pieces and elaborate floor displays with intricately crocheted artwork that brought back memories of my time snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef.

Creative, inexpensive centerpieces — like fresh foliage from your yard, mix - and - match ornaments, or holiday potpourri — can take the place of elaborate displays while keeping your table cozy and comfortable.