Sentences with phrase «emotional tenor of»

The new survey, based on the first nationally representative sample of young adults, highlights the many ways that divorce shapes the emotional tenor of childhood.

I take in the emotional tenor of the moment without becoming part of it.

Exploring the subtle movements of light and sky and the color, shape and emotional tenor of a particular place has informed and deepened her studio work.

In the lines of his best drawings, one can read movement, volume, weight, the emotional tenor of the artist and subject, the scientific knowledge of the time, and the artist's philosophy.

Rejecting the individualistic, emotional tenor of the then dominant German and Austrian Expressionism, the style harnessed the power of the «mutual relation of forms,» which could express a spiritual, even transcendental harmony.

I quote this 1957 poem to provide a whimsical counterpoint to the austere if not grimly resigned emotional tenor of Giacometti's work, but also because it introduces the issue of experiential scale that is essential both to Ferlinghetti's conceit and to Giacometti's view of the world.

The subtleties of their expressions carry the emotional tenor of the text, and the displaced, poetic language makes audible the inherent theatricality of political speech and public protest.

Though it tries too hard to evoke the journey aspect of the Lord of the Rings DVDs» appendices, failing to earn the emotional tenor of a conclusion in which the ramshackle postproduction facility is dismantled and crewmembers speak of starting families in the time it took to complete the film, it's a piece blessedly light on promotional affectations.

The dispute has many similarities with that over the Falklands Islands, but the emotional tenor of the Gibraltar issue is generally much lower on both the British and Spanish side.

Anxious individuals remember facts and details better, but they also tend to get the emotional tenor of the situation wrong more often.

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With each modulation Wagner purposely strains the tenor's voice more, the growing physical strain of the music conveying the emotional conflict within the character: although praising the goddess with his lips, his heart, or at least part of his heart, lies elsewhere.

The color change — from soothing green to a straight - up blood red — is no doubt calculated to raise the emotional tenor, as is the file - folder nav menu and the ragged, runaway - note feel to the heading graphic in the middle of the page.

Spoiler alert: Scientists can gauge a film's emotional tenor from the gasps of its audience.

Every single one of us should be praising the complexity with which Dee fights against and humanizes Scott's movin» - on - up reductivism (that slapping scene, a scorching evocation of a mother marking her territory and asserting her right to be heard, is of a volatile emotional tenor only Tilda Swinton comes close to achieving), but the almost racist rumblings echoing from certain circles suggest that Dee's miniscule screen time is not just a point of contention but a point of active resentment (must be all those size queens rallying behind Blanchett), and may work against her and the traction she picked up since her SAG victory.

The emotional tenor remains as soul - crushing and painfully insightful as any of Ware's work, but it's really insufficient to talk about what happens in anything he does.

Hugh Steers (1962 — 1995) was celebrated for his allegorical painting that captured the emotional and political tenor of New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the impact of queer identity and the AIDS crisis.

Works in the collection exemplify photography's intrinsic ability to document, whether by recording the social changes of a particular region or capturing moments of high emotional tenor.

Praised by renowned American art historian and critic Jack Flam as, «a brilliantly attentive and original reading of Jasper Johns» work,» this volume not only makes many aspects of the artist's work accessible for the first time, but also reveals an emotional tenor to the man whom so many critics have characterized, wrongly, according to Yau, as aloof or hermetic.

Each of these elicits different qualities from Katz's artistic vocabulary: woodcut, for example, yields an emotional tenor not commonly seen elsewhere in his oeuvre, as the traces left by chisel and burn are left legible and accepted by the artist.

The tenor of the emotional environment in which children are raised has life - lasting effects for them (Valliant, 2012; Waldinger & Schulz, 2016).