Sentences with phrase «fleeting nature»

The murals here, seemingly simplistic, address pop culture as well as issues of race, class and the fragmented, fleeting nature of memory.

It is impossible for these events not to prove the ultimately ethereal and fleeting nature of artworks.

The abstract and impossibly fleeting nature of clouds played to his interest in form and texture, but even to Weston, clouds ultimately remain an elusive subject — free - association, subjective emotional reaction abound.

Standing to oppose the sometimes fleeting nature of drawing and sketching, Fisher makes a series of work that documents physical and emotional places he's been, and act as a road map to where they may lead him.

Its latest improvements explore users» fascination with the fleeting nature of content.

Because of the fleeting nature of nitrogen gas in liquid, it's hard to maintain tasty levels of the gas in packaged beers once you open them.

However, I'm leaving the links intact, as this helps illustrate the fleeting nature of social shares, and the importance and permanence of web pages.

And though the second man's eyes have been opened to the fleeting nature of the pleasures of sin, and he has taken steps to create new, real, lasting life for himself, we see in his story the destructive power of past sins to reach into a man's future, destroy any goodness it finds there, and drag him back by his own lusts.

Maybe I have inherited this fleeting nature, too.

I learned a lesson about the fleeting nature of love's promises that night, as I listened to her rhythmic sobbing until the pale New England dawn came and I finally convinced her to make the call so they could come for his body.

«This analysis allows us to determine the gender of this fossil, and gives us a window into the evolution of egg laying in modern birds,» Schweitzer says, although she adds that the fleeting nature of medullary bone means that finding more of it in the fossil record may be difficult.

The book deals with the fleeting nature of life and includes the famous passage, «For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heavens: A time to be born and a time to die; A time to plant, and an time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to break down and a time to build up.»

What's most fascinating about Afternoon of a Faun — and what the movie could spend more time delving into — is ballet's grueling and fleeting nature.

The film is a look at the fleeting nature of attraction, all done in stop - motion animation and with enough imagination to shame most of its live - action counterparts.

The film is a look at the fleeting nature of attraction and Kaufman seems to be dealing with a lot of personal issues in the screenplay.

A clever and poignant exploration of family and the fleeting nature of memory, Polley's film keeps changing and surprising.

Perhaps the best reason that J.C. Chandor «s Robert Redford - starring survivalist - at - sea tale earns such company is in its life - affirming status; as a sailor battles the elements, as expertly conveyed by the veteran actor, it is impossible not to be moved by his plight and the fleeting nature of all around it.

Capturing the fleeting nature of youth, while he's only got out of those shoes himself.

I also assume that Downey Jr., as the paterfamilias of the Avengers clan, will be playing the Stage Manager, the sort of spiritual guide through the play who gets some killer lines about, well, the fleeting nature of existence.

But the movie is contemplating, among other things, the fleeting nature of existence — the way that time, to quote «Life Itself,» slips through your fingers like a long silk scarf.

The other type of coming of age story deals with the fleeting nature of life.

The fleeting nature of ultimate performance has been brought into sharp focus.

Such is the fleeting nature of the hypercar game that the holy trinity's days at the top are numbered.

An acute and troubling awareness of the fleeting nature of fashion is one.

Not only did my boy remind us of youth's fleeting nature, the precocious lad recalled what we already knew but had forgotten: if Pixar is to keep this franchise stepping lively, it needs to ring in generation after generation of new viewer.

While it can be argued that this doesn't really constitute a literary device, it is part of the reading experience that the reader creates a story, which emphasizes the fleeting nature of memory, and this goal is achieved well by the fourteen units that fit together.

And, considering the fleeting nature of online attention spans, keeping that many people engaged is no small feat.

I think we like their (no puns) fleeting nature.

It's most assuredly one for the vocaloid's superfans and even they may be disappointed, given the fleeting nature of the experience.

Not only is it my birth season, but snow is just such a pleasure despite its fleeting nature.

Such is the fleeting nature of any experience with a video game at E3, the industry's annual get together in Los Angeles.

Due to the fleeting nature of cats, many of the images were taken with my iPhone.

Loher was inspired by the beautiful, delicate and fleeting nature of a bubble suspended in the air, only to dissipate and disappear forever within milliseconds of its creation.

Basquiat had an uneasy relationship with his own rising celebrity: despite his long - held desire for recognition and glory, he was aware of its fleeting nature and hidden dangers.

My contribution to the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail considers the notion of readymade color, the implications of the current Whitney Biennial, and the fleeting nature of symbolic and political meaning.

The works of John Miller, Paul McCarthy or Sherrie Levine resonate with the paintings of Josh Smith and David Ostrowski or the photographs of Roe Ethridge and Nathan Hylden, which, while prompting a reflection on vanity, feature a plasticity indicative of this ambivalence between the will to exist, the desire to please and a necessary derision of the fleeting nature of success and human existence.

The inventory of works on view will slowly morph throughout the run of the show as individual objects are switched out one by one in an effort to «model the fleeting nature of the content,» according to co-curator and Printeresting editor Amze Emmons.

Welty's precisely - crafted, colorful, and beautiful work addresses a wide variety of issues including consumerism, suburbia, narcissism, information overload, language, the fleeting nature of experience, the passage of time, and ultimately, life and death.»

Through a mixture of landscapes, scenes and self portraits, using a 4x5 camera and film, I explore the way we live and invite the viewer to revel in these moments and give permanence in the fleeting nature of modern day culture.

The fleeting nature of the figure's exhausted life is juxtaposed starkly with the effervescent colors floating above him.

The work describes an ethereal night sky, or, the moment a great wave breaks, as a perceptual meditation on the fleeting nature of time.

I look towards ruins and antiquity to contemplate and highlight the fall of empire, the fleeting nature of human folly, the futile striving towards platonic forms and the implicit mystery of antiquity.

Collectively they evoke the fleeting nature of perception and the loss implicit in memory, which Brown ascribes to a chapter from Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove.

This ephemeral installation mimics the fleeting nature of architecture.