Sentences with phrase «elegant riposte»

Though initially born as an elegant riposte to the painterly gesturalism that dominated the New York art scene at that time, the cosmic sublimity of these mesmeric compositions positioned Kusama as heir to the Abstract Expressionist practices of Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.

In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic.

Until then Sir Malcolm Rifkind has proposed an elegant riposte to the creation of the Scottish region in the EU — but one without teeth.