Sentences with word «evanescent»

As it turns out, when objects are extremely close together, heat flows not just as electromagnetic waves, but as evanescent waves — exponentially decaying waves that have little effect at the macroscale, as they typically die away before reaching another object.

But they become as evanescent as clouds when you take them out to the career construction site.

(Sibony has a still more evanescent trace in «Walls»n' Things,» the summer group show at Nicole Klagsbrun, consisting of the shadows left on the wall from the tearing away of spray - painted cardboard.)

In a recent theoretical paper (Extraordinary momentum and spin in evanescent waves Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Aleksandr Y. Bekshaev, Franco Nori Nature Communications, 2014 DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms4300), a group from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan showed that momentum density in non-uniform optical fields has an unusual component, which is orthogonal to the propagation direction of light and is proportional to the optical spin, which means the degree of circular polarization.

Such stable unchanging self identity is an indispensable condition for the objects of knowledge, episteme, in the strict sense, as distinguished from the contingent, evanescent objects of opinion, doxa, the things which are ever becoming and never really are, to use the language of Plato's Timaeus (Tim.

While I admit that blogs and other evanescent forms of publishing provide some instant analysis, by their very nature they are not a substitute for sustained and careful analysis of an area of the law.

Abandoning her earlier gridded canvases in favor of uninterrupted vertical and horizontal bands, Martin began executing works embodying an ethereal, evanescent beauty in varying shades of gray.

In 1996 he described an extraordinary new evanescent particle called the bigon, a bowling - ball - size object whose existence might account for ball lightning, migraines, collapsed soufflés, spontaneous human combustion, and earthquakes.

«You lose certain kinds of waves, called evanescent waves, which don't travel far.

Evanescent shapes ease in and out of focus, meshed in an oceanic visual buzz.

Other highlights include a suite of photos from Ana Mendieta's «Silueta Series» (1973 — 78), in which she captures evanescent impressions of her body in sand and mud — some as they fill mournfully with seawater.

Often partially erased, the pencil lines present almost imperceptible veils of evanescent color.

The result is at once a strikingly resonant contemporary and yet evanescent image, that through the collage of canvas also engages with the history of distorted form and the constructive brushstrokes of post-impressionist painting.

The exhibition presents approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings from his early «metaphysical» works to his late evanescent still -LSB-...]

Highly - disciplined and sharp - tongued, with a love of poetry and the outdoors, Mitchell rigorously confronted each canvas with increasing confidence and bravado, creating evanescent paintings that brim with luminous color.

The unique and evanescent meetings with the risen Lord triggered off a new kind of relation which proved permanent.

Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter; irresolute like those who are afraid of all around them; grave like a guest (in awe of his host); evanescent like ice that is melting away; unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything; vacant like a valley, and dull like muddy water.

But tribes are tricky, at once so solid and yet so evanescent — je suis Marxiste, runs the apocryphal French graffito, tendance Groucho.

The works are a way of mirroring a seemingly evanescent present with a distinct patch of art history that seems to share much in common with the current moment.

I try to capture these vague, evanescent images of the instant and put them into vivid form.»

Today we bring you an article written by Andrew Tosiello on the kind of evanescent art made by Klein and its kin.

The exhibition presents approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings from his early «metaphysical» works to his late evanescent still lifes, culled mainly from Italian collections, including those formed with Morandi's help by his friends and by renowned scholars of his art.

The exhibition's inspiration is Felix Gonzalez - Torres (1957 - 1996), the Cuban - born, Puerto Rican - raised, New York City - and Miami - based artist who created evanescent works of rare visual poetry that suggested how sweet life can be as it passes all too quickly from us.

Such protections are provided not by evanescent «conventions» (in the traditional British sense), but, rather, by the willingness of an independent judiciary to enforce the prerogatives of the sub-national governments when, as is inevitable, the central government is tempted to overreach, perhaps because it refuses fully to accept the degree to which the traditional unitary state governed from Westminister is no more.

While human figures appear, the stories this artist - flâneur tells us focus on the interplay between the solid geometry of architectural forms and the transient, evanescent effects of light.

He then obtained his PhD degree in 2013 at the University College London (UCL) within the «Optical Tweezers» group with a thesis on optical manipulation of micro-and nano - particles using evanescent fields.

The two levels are connected by a rapturous two - story, 40 - foot long wall of illuminated images, depicting evanescent figures rising into a sulfurous sky.

Her many installations and evanescent sculptures have ended up not in the permanent collections of museums and art connoisseurs but in the skip.

Whitehead is claiming here that by its very nature, the essential creativity of a living occasion is too evanescent to be subject to the Category of Transmutation.

Under this description communities are kaleidoscopic, evanescent entities, assuming temporary shape and then dissolving once the problems that gave them their original purpose have disappeared or been resolved.

And they are surely evanescent.

The new article's authors claim the original scholar committed «classification errors» because some of the same - sex relationships were very brief, even evanescent affairs, and so what he should have done is what they proceed to do: toss out data until they get a handful of same - sex households where a couple stayed together at least several years.

For boys, a culture of poverty and scarcity offers evanescent self - esteem through sexual triumph.

The arthritis is accompanied or preceded by fever for at least two - weeks that is daily («quotidian») for at least 3 of those days, with one or more of the following symptoms: red rash (evanescent erythematous rash), enlarged liver, spleen or lymph nodes, and inflammation of the tissue lining (serositis) of the lungs, heart, or stomach.

Light can leak across the gap between the laser and the waveguide through an effect called evanescent coupling.

Other rovers have found evidence of salty ground water or evanescent puddles of brine.

Guerlain marries incredibly fine powders and subtle pigments to create Les Voilettes Evanescent Powder.

The second season of The Walking Dead follows in the footsteps of the first, presenting a quite evanescent gameplay and a plot that can only be assessed over time, but for now with a good impact on the fans.

An inviting but evanescent film that does have casualness, curiosity value and a lot of talent on its side.

It's all rather sweet but instantly evanescent.

An Englishman, Garfield's topic selections skew toward the British, but On the Map also includes chapters on the grid map of Manhattan and the mapping efforts of the Lewis and Clark expedition (with an interesting aside on Native Americans» evanescent sand maps).

Deep: Multiplayer games tend to be rather evanescent.

I hated Tinker Bell — her weakness, her sickening sweetness, her helplessness, her wispy, evanescent body (so different from my sturdy plump one), her pale hair, her plea to her audience to approve of her.

And, once one does, its floral doodles and evanescent shadows may look like a blurred version of Prekop's breaking up and layering of abstract painting.