Sentences with phrase «framing device of»

The exhibition focuses on contemporary artists who elevate every day, often forgotten (or taken for granted) items through the framing device of cabinets, shelving, and containers.

There has emerged a newish form, a kind of art whose pictorial values are meant to be understood, perhaps can only be understood, within the framing device of a magazine page, or a screen.

Here, Tyler uses a tight - knit framing device of successively smaller, dark rectangles to build the work's compositional thrust.

The story is set up in a framing device of a modern day biography with several characters and videos describing the actions of Lincoln Clay.

Okay, so the framing device of the plot is a little generic but thankfully this is alleviated somewhat by the often amusing script and quirky characters that populate it.

The animation plan brilliantly reflects the structure of setting the original story within the framing device of the Little Girl's awakening to what it really means to be a child.

Despite the interesting drama of the America segments, the Life of Pi-esque framing device of the film (in which Schreiber listens to Changez's life story in Pakistan to get possible information on a missing professor) actually comprise the film's biggest stumbling block.

Director Craig Gillespie and writer Steven Rogers rely on a framing device of interviews with the older versions of the people at the heart of this uniquely American, often - farcical tragedy, along with meta flashbacks and occasional fantastical interludes.

Logan Lerman voices Robert Conroy, Stubby's master, and Helena Bonham Carter offers voice - over duties as Robert's older sister, Margaret, though the framing device of the sister's narration, spelling out the emotional beats, is rather unnecessary.

As Carraway — whose reminiscences Luhrmann puts in an utterly gratuitous framing device of a sanitorium therapy session — Tobey Maguire is his usual recessive presence, barely registering as either a dynamic part of the events he describes or their watchful witness.

I can't keep them straight, honestly, though I do believe the framing device of little Liv and little Emma making a time - capsule pact was in Divine Secrets of the Ya - Ya Sisterhood and, er... Practical Magic?

The storyline is sort of held together by the framing device of Murphy's narrative, but while it does a job it's still a bit of a folksy irritant.

One thing I decidedly did not like was the framing device of Nick Carraway writing the story from a sanitarium, where he has gone to recuperate from the «morbid alcoholism» (I think those are the words we see on his diagnostic papers) brought on by the tragedy to which he was witness.

Taking over for Davis Guggenheim, the directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk largely abandon the framing device of Gore's lecture (which he and his international team of trainees continue to give regularly) in favor of a nimbler, more on - the - go approach.

Then, in an obvious gimmick, he couches his weak story inside the framing device of a faux - documentary.

Consider the Greek tragedy framing device of Mighty Aphrodite, the trip to Hell in Deconstructing Harry or the musical sequences of Everyone Says I Love You (which features a brave Julia Roberts churning out a song in a voice only a mother could appreciate).

Yet Werwie also opened up about the framing device of the film, which he believes allows Kloepfer's perspective and beliefs to actually rule the story.

Discounting the hokey framing device of host Robert Mitchum wandering through an attic full of Huston memorabilia, this two - hour plus film is a remarkable chronicle of a remarkable man.

The opening sequences of The Hobbit frame the backstory to the dwarven quest into which young hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is drafted — the fall of the dwarven city of Erabor to the dragon Smaug — and framing device of the new trilogy: the older Bilbo (Ian Holm) deciding to write the memoir of his big adventure.

Fetishising the domestic through related motifs and themes as best embodied in the bronze sculptures of Ricky Swallow and the paintings of Mathew Cerletty, the majority of this work elegises the bygone privacy of the interior, itself symbolic of an equally bygone, pre-Freudian interiority and privacy, an interiorization perceived in the framing devices of Sanya Kantarovsky's paintings.

The cutout techniques of collage and the framing devices of film, cartoon strips and Renaissance panels inform her compositions and repeated motifs.

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She says that while it's easy to rely on your technology devices to tell you where and when you should be somewhere, it's up to you to be mindful of arriving on time, prepared and in the right frame of mind.

CNET ultimately feels it «raises the expectation of what a portable storage device is capable of,» with TrustedReviews calling it a «desktop - class SSD packaged inside a portable frame.»

VSP Global, the vision services giant, announced Thursday that it's launching a new «smart glass» product called Level which can track steps, calories burned, distance, and total activity time through a device located in the left temple of the frame.

To start, Oettingen advises unplugging from your devices and getting into a calm and unhurried frame of mind.

Researchers already have identified malware capable of hacking a car through its infotainment system and warn that something as seemingly innocuous as a Wi - Fi - enabled digital picture frame could allow intruders to access a home's entire network of connected devices and private information.

The Halo device that will be on all F1 cars in 2018 is not a good - looking piece of kit, with fans comparing it to a flip - flop, basketball hoop or a Zimmer frame.

Rather than juxtaposing two different lens strengths in a single frame, Peyghambarian's device has special lenses that switch from close - to long - range viewing at the touch of a button.

But collaborative rendering lets the mobile device generate a rough sketch of each frame, or a few high - detail sketches of select frames, while the remote server fills in the gaps.

Photos and promotional video of prototypes show devices that bear a strong resemblance to the HULC, with rigid, hinged frames running down the legs.

The holographic device plays a 3 - inch projection at 15 frames per second, just shy of movie refresh rates of 24 to 30 frames per second, the MIT researchers demonstrated at the Society of Photo - Optical Instrumentation Engineers» conference on practical holography.

That information was added to the requirements for protecting the building frame to calculate the optimal size of the dampers and yielding devices and locations of their connections to the foundation and frame.

Columns of the steel - braced frame are tethered to the foundation by viscous damping and steel - yielding devices that allow the building to rock during a quake.

To enable a three - story building to rock, the columns of the braced frame are not anchored to the building foundation, but tethered to the foundation by dampers and steel - yielding devices.

Pollino's modeling suggests optimal sizes for two key components of rocking steel - based frames: viscous damping devices, which are akin to shock absorbers, and steel - yielding devices, which have been likened to electrical fuses because they limit the amount of force transferred to the rest of the structure.

The tiny device comprises a prosthetic heart valve made of pericardial tissue «stitched» within a self - expanding, polymer coated nickel - titanium (nitinol) alloy stent frame specially designed to prevent leakage.

A team of biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has developed the world's fastest receive - only 2 - D camera, a device that can capture events up to 100 billion frames per second.

With four molecular wheels and a carbon - based frame, the mini-roadster is a step toward devices that mimic the machinery of molecular life.

Back in the good old days of 2007, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, nobody had really heard about eBooks, less still grasped how popular they'd become, allowing old books a new lease of life; and how devices capable of holding entire libraries in their diminutive frames, and still capable of being used as — of all things, telephones — would be ubiquitous.

With that in mind, I created a set of «devices» designed to reduce friction and maximize work output over a 15 - minute time frame.

However, you may not frame the Website in a manner that may cause confusion to South Moon Under customers, nor may you interfere or attempt to interfere in any way with the operation of the Website, including without limitation through data mining, the use of any robot, scraper or other automated device, or circumvention or attempted circumvention of any website security features.

With a lot of devices, you come to know whether the individual you time frame on the internet is the right individual or not.

The fires, explosions, and fisticuffs are merely devices that frame the pure transition of vengeful son to the «Prince of Gotham.»

The ironic distance derived from the film's framing device and fourth wall — breaking helps emphasizes the drab ordinariness and the utter acceptability of such cruelty.

Yes, he constructs various shots as paintings in a frame, but he does so with such a stylish, subtle touch the device never feels forced, and works on an almost subliminal level to enhance the richness of the film's scope.

This, with variations, is a tried - and - true plot device, but juxtaposing Sidney's disorientation with her new vision and the things for which normally sighted people have no frame of reference is a nice twist.

First, they'll just be a couple of cameos used as a framing device, so that Professor X and Magneto are looking back at the events of the new movie.

Though Nickerson is the one recounting the tale of the Essex's demise, the movie includes moments from Chase and Pollard's perspectives that Nickerson's 14 - year - old self (played by Tom Holland) simply wouldn't be privy to, which makes the whole framing device pointless.

From this framing device, we jump back to Colby, Texas circa 1869, where the railroad has finally come, with, according to tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), the promise of progress.

In the aforementioned framing device, Ben Whishaw, playing a far too soft and obsequious Melville, shows up at the inn of pickled, traumatized Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson, typecast) one dark and stormy night seeking raw material from the former Essex cabin boy for his upcoming novel about whalers.