Sentences with phrase «extraordinary series of»

By the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to the Springs on Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of lush pastorals.

During his long career, Roy Newell (1914 - 2006) created an extraordinary series of abstract paintings characterized by obsessive reworking, according to the Pollock - Krasner House.

In the months before his death, he was hard at work on an extraordinary series of 25 sculptures incorporating a surprising new material, Perspex.

His extraordinary series of miniatures discuss contemporary and highly topical issues.

She began her extraordinary series of 769 pastel drawings by stating that she was driven by «the question: whether to take someone else's life or undertake something wildly unusual».

He outlined his requirements to curator Alfred Pacquement, when discussing his extraordinary series of works which were shown in the grounds of Versailles in 2014.

A fantastic mix of luxurious materials and natural history, it is part of the extraordinary series of Piedi (Feet) made between 1968 -71 that Fabro exhibited at the 1972 Venice Biennale.

The other focus of this exhibition is an extraordinary series of images taken shortly before Hartley's death in 1943 by photographer George Platt Lynes (1907 - 1955).

In his early 20s in the late 1950s, Frank Stella created an extraordinary series of monochrome paintings, now on view at L&M Arts.

He then had a quantity of screens made from images of all sorts — current events and daily life, science and art, photos he'd taken himself as well as ones lifted from sources such as Life and Sports Illustrated — and began combining and recombining them over the next two years into an extraordinary series of paintings in which the lightness and near - bodilessness of the silk - screen ink, with which he never had to struggle, gave the compacted iconography a persistent flash of instantaneity.

Structures of Existence: The Cells focuses on the extraordinary series of sculptural environments Bourgeois created in the last two decades of her life.

Laugh and scream in an extraordinary series of around 20 multi-sensual environments filled with unique special effects, atmospheric sound fields, ultra groovy music and amazing, spectacular illusions that appear to go all the way to infinity.

The Vatican is working through an extraordinary series of events related to child sex abuse.

«He had dominated fundamental physics from 1905 to 1915, with an extraordinary series of insights,» Wilczek says.

In an extraordinary series of photographs of Gordon Brown's last moments at No 10 by the Guardian's Martin Argles, Andrew Adonis appears twice: as a small, pale visage peering over Peter Mandelson's shoulder at the Browns and their children taking their leave, and earlier, while the inner circle waited for Nick Clegg's final decision.

This is an extraordinary series of events.»

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JK Rowling's talent of creating memorable characters who, despite being wizards and witches with extraordinary powers, go through the same triumphs and tribulations of any Muggle adolescent, is just one reason why the Harry Potter series will forever be a YA classic.

Charan, who recently visited Toronto for the CEO Global Network's speaker series, says he owes his extraordinary career to a knack for «listening, searching for the viewpoints of different people, and learning.

The past six months have been an extraordinary period for Chinese politics, with a steady series of high - level events and major changes unprecedented in recent history.

Polish firm CD Projekt, best known for its The Witcher series of video games, has convened an extraordinary meeting at which it proposes to introduce what appear to be a number of takeover defenses.

The extraordinary lawsuit from Benchmark Capital against Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, its most valuable portfolio company, boils down to a series of ugly claims that Benchmark said shows Kalanick's «gross mismanagement.»

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

Jesus freaks tend to forget their religion was founded on the basis of a series of rather extraordinary theories.

So, after this very rambling discussion, I end with the query included in my title: Faced with this extraordinary impasse (or rather not one but a whole series of them), Does Process Thought Help?

In 1999 Alan Moore created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which pulled characters from a number of classic (and public domain) novels and placed them together as a sort of super team (this innovative series was scrubbed into an abysmally average 2003 film).

Italian history has produced a continuous series, century after century, of men larger than life, extraordinary as intellectuals but above all as moral virtuosi.

They've outlasted each and every one of the other 19 Teams in the Hoops League to add another bullet - point to All Sports Series» largest resume... Getting to 9 - 0 and being the final Undefeated Team in the League is an extraordinary accomplishment but to really make history (Regular Season history of course) they'll need to win 4 more Games when we get back in 2016..

The Kentucky Derby winner (left) had undergone a series of extraordinary life - saving procedures at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center (inset), but myriad ailments, including laminitis in three hooves, led to the decision to spare the colt further pain.

He played a big part in England's defeat of Australia in last year's Test series and, in the regular county, or club, season he hit an extraordinary 80 sixes, 14 more than the previous record, which had stood since 1935.

The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan is investigating Crystal Run Healthcare, a Hudson Valley company that received an extraordinary $ 25.4 million in state grants following a series of campaign contributions to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

-- FEDS INVESTIGATING MAJOR CUOMO DONOR — Times Union's Chris Bragg: «The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan is investigating Crystal Run Healthcare, a Hudson Valley company that received an extraordinary $ 25.4 million in state grants following a series of campaign contributions to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Connected by a series of bucolic parkways and broad avenues lined with elegant homes, Buffalo's parks system remains an extraordinary urban amenity.

A series of extraordinary discoveries over the past decade has transformed our ideas about the evolution of early animals, and of the world they lived in

Science News» extraordinary coverage of the 2017 total solar eclipse included a series of stories examining what we can learn from the natural phenomenon.

► This week, AAAS launched the XX Files, a video series that «takes viewers into the extraordinary worlds of extraordinary women scientists.»

The study was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23 HD054720), Flora Family Foundation, UCSF Catalyst Award, UCSF Resource Allocation Program, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, Stanford University Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Spectrum Child Health & Clinical and Translational Science Award and the Extraordinary Brain Series of the Dyslexia Foundation.

Most of the snapshots turn out to be duds, but on March 15 he announced that one series of them had captured something extraordinary: the farthest, coldest object in the solar system and the largest new member of the sun's family of planetlike objects since the discovery of Pluto in 1930.

Working with data returned by NASA's Cassini Orbiter spacecraft, Benson has created a series of works showing Saturn and its extraordinary ring system.

Dr. Frank says he came up with the idea for the series because he «wanted to expose people to the idea of sustainable wellness — that ordinary things like music, movement, and yoga have an extraordinary healing power.»

New SERIES POST «6 THINGS I LIKE» full of inspiration little details that make the daily life extraordinary and make me happy!!

While this is hardly the first complicated sibling relationship in a TV series, this one has the overlay of unspoken things both men apparently felt extraordinary circumstances had forced them to do.

Now the ambitious «Profile of a Writer» series examines Borges's extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memorable stories and rare interview footage with the author at his Buenos Aires home.

Members of the extraordinary ensemble cast moved on to three spin - off series: «Lou Grant,» «Phyllis» and «Rhoda.»

This unique television series features some of the most extraordinary homes from across North America and Europe.

Holland, the Polish - born director of «Europa Europa,» «Washington Square,» and episodes of the TV series «The Wire» and «Treme,» brought together an extraordinary group of Polish and German actors, including Agnieszka Grochowska and Benno Fürmann, and she works them up to a pitch of rage and anguish that leaves the audience shaken.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

The series served as a more serious version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that saw literatures famous horror characters brought to life through Logan's eyes.

• Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam • Read It and Weep • Jonas: Rockin'the House • Dadnapped New: Newsies • The Smurfs and the Magic Flute • Home on the Range • Clue Tyler James Williams: Unaccompanied Minors Courtney B. Vance: FlashForward: The Complete Series • Extraordinary Measures Alex Desert: Boy Meets World: The Complete Third Season Brandon Mychal Smith: StarStruck Nicole Sullivan: Scrubs: The Complete Fifth Season Perfect Harmony • Step Up 2 The Streets • Footloose • The Fresh Prince of Bel - Air: The Complete Sixth Season

Set in the late - 1960s, the series — which will be produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Marvel Television, with 20th Century Fox handling the physical production — follows a young special agent who learns that a power - hungry woman with extraordinary abilities is working with a clandestine society of millionaires — known as «The Hellfire Club» — to take over the world.

In this series of interviews, the actors - alongside director Rian Johnson - open up about their roles in this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved world.