Another limit on mercy was the trend
from indeterminate or unstructured sentences to structured sentencing guidelines.
These are ranging
from indeterminate, amorphous «blotches» to strident, sharp - edged signs, all produced, undirectly then directly by the artist's swift gestures.
In the past, the gallery has displayed Venet's monumental steel sculptures
from his Indeterminate Line series.
From that indeterminate, yet surely modest start we have seen growth in sales of over 20 % in 20125, 20136, and 20146, slowing down somewhat in 20157 but only after becoming the third most popular type of wine in the USA, now trailing only Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon7.
Instead of understanding God's effectiveness as in terms of the determinate past, I see it as coming
from the indeterminate future.
This device provides an analogy to the emergence of elements
from an indeterminate past toward determinate actuality.
Not exact matches
It subjects income derived
from pass - through businesses like Donald Trump's empire to a special 25 percent tax rate (rather than 35 percent or 39.6 percent, the individual rate), because owners of these businesses are special, in some
indeterminate way.
Apart
from such a scheme, these notions can have a meaning that is so
indeterminate that it is equivalent to no meaning at all.
In this new theory of becoming, the future is that which is fully
indeterminate now but will become progressively determinate as it moves
from future (undecided) to past (decided, determined).
There is no
indeterminate notion
from which the primordial / consequent contrast could emerge.
The view that the future is incomplete and
indeterminate only
from our finite perspective whereas it is complete and determinate
from the divine perspective is just the view which process theology rejects rather than affirms, though there may be more than one way of developing an alternative metaphysic available to process thinkers.
Whitehead had said in a discussion of the definition of mathematics that «the traditional field of mathematics can only be separated
from the general abstract theory of classes and relations by a wavering and
indeterminate line» (MAT 291).
The reference is formally
indeterminate: there is no locus of sense properties in perceptual space, nor can some such ensemble be inferred
from any actually existing ensemble.
Aegidius then took the crucial step: he refined Averrës thesis by identifying
indeterminate dimensions with quantitas materiae (quantity of matter) and explicitly detaching this attribute
from the determinate dimensions.
If the liberal religious tradition is to regain its place as a vital force in modem culture, the two tendencies of the postmodernist temper, which Nathan A. Scott, Jr., has isolated as «negative capability» (a «disinclination to try to subdue or resolve what is recalcitrantly
indeterminate and ambiguous») and the «self reflexive» (a «retreat
from the public world»), must be overcome.
A critic could conjecture that reality's structure and concreteness arose in some primordial instance of creation, though not
from the purely
indeterminate, which is Neville's dubious thesis, but
from absolutely nothing.
Certainly emotion is excluded
from such a life, although it might be appropriate if the future were
indeterminate.
But this power is given with regard to the transition
from a relatively
indeterminate to a determinate unity of self - concretizing occasions or of the relative actual world.
The cosmological story, too, can be told in terms of (1) disruption of a prior equilibrium, (2) transition toward an unknown outcome, and (3) reintegration into a renewed and transformed equilibrium — a process made possible by a directional but
indeterminate universe continually engendering new order
from chaos.
«In the
indeterminate and apparent freedom of an existence in which everything was possible but nothing made sense, he was enslaved by an illusory image of freedom: banished
from his true self and unfree in an utter lack of relationship that was founded on being distanced
from his own self, on separation
from the truth of his own self.»
Handed an
indeterminate jail sentence, Mr Walker could not be released
from prison without undergoing a parole course which was unavailable in his jail.
If there is any genetic basis at all to racial IQ test - score differences, it is
indeterminate and poorly quantified, with recent studies estimating IQ heritability to be anywhere
from nearly zero to over 80 percent, and strongly countered by other studies showing that environment counts most.
The condition, called CHIP (clonal hematopoiesis of
indeterminate potential), indicates chances of dying
from stroke or heart attack are 40 to 50 percent higher in people who have it.
We never learn his country of origin, which is a legitimate question, given his
indeterminate accent and shaky command of English (He insists he's
from New Orleans, to the belief of nobody).
The
indeterminate nature of leadership in the course of policy making, and the slippage that occurs as policy refinements accrue during implementation, help to explain how policies succeed or fail.243 Particular instruments used to reformulate policy are less important, according to this perspective, than understanding how a particular policy issue got the governor «s or the legislative committee «s attention in the first place.244 A third image, the practitioner perspective, emerges
from studies of publicsector administrators; it examines the tendency of administrators to seek flexibility and autonomy in interpreting policies, and ways in which this tendency affects the broader process of change.
Still showing signs of life were the department store, a corner store directly across the street
from where I was standing, the courthouse, the bar, an
indeterminate business a couple of doors down, and a large stone building diagonally across the intersection
from that.
This is the prevent existing offers
from sitting in limbo for an
indeterminate period of time and forcing a home seller to wait while a home buyer tries to lock in financing.
Through color alone — applied to suspended rectangles within abstract compositions — Rothko's work evokes strong emotions ranging
from exuberance and awe to despair and anxiety, suggested by the hovering and
indeterminate nature of his forms.»
The space, shapes, and lines
from the artist's original drawings are lost and the
indeterminate blur that he produces becomes the paintings» dominant aesthetic form.
They are on the cusp of an
indeterminate language, making an appeal for personal liberation in one form or another, even as Korea has emerged
from its military past to the democracy and corporate leader it has become on the stage of a new world order.
Using computers, Plensa begins
from a true subject
from life, often a woman, and then alters her face so that race and sometimes gender are
indeterminate.
Faith Holland is having a big online exhibition moment,
from her work in the AFC - curated Geographically
Indeterminate Fantasies at Providence College to her very NSFW GIFs in AC Institute's My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days.
Often arranged on the floor, spreading around corners in
indeterminate shapes, Apfelbaum's forms comprise intricate, nearly psychedelic layers of dyed fabric, as if myriad smaller paintings had sprung
from a cental cluster of colorful shapes.
Peter Schjeldahl writes in the October 9th, 2017 issue of The New Yorker, «The happiest surprise in Trigger is a trend in painting that takes inspiration
from ideas of
indeterminate sexuality for revived formal invention... Christina Quarles... rhymes ambiguous imagery of gyrating bodies with dynamics of disparate pictorial techniques... The wholes and parts of bodies in Quarles's cheerfully orgiastic pictures entangle in alternating styles of line, stroke, stain, and smear... called to mind early nineteen - forties Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, who fractured Picassoesque figuration on the way to physically engaging abstraction... Quarles playing that process in reverse, adapting abstract aesthetics to carnal representation.
A sense of uncanniness is played out in our recognition of the scenes, taken
from the eighteenth century Fragonard series, «Progress of Love,» and here given the Shonibare treatment — headless figures with skin colour of
indeterminate origin are clad in the colonial Dutch wax fabrics.
The sum total of all of these factors creates a condition that phenomenologist David Katz referred to as «film colour», 1 wherein the colour becomes disengaged
from the surface to which it belongs — it seems to float in an
indeterminate place between the canvas and the eye of the viewer.
Swaggering, curved lines
from beneath are held in check by streaming, blurred, white horizontals with blurred black verticals on top; and if that were not enough to disquiet the soul, Scully marches forth with another layer of ochre and pink striations at
indeterminate intervals, seamlessly putting each of them in place.»
Emotional dissipation continues as the central bold red outfit lessens his ruddy complexion, moving
from flesh to a cooler backdrop of
indeterminate foliage at the edges.
Their first Houston store featured a controversial and incredibly iconic «
Indeterminate Façade» with bricks crumbling
from the top as if the building were unstable.
A massive collection of terracotta sculptures showcase his forceful grip, applied manually, and frozen indefinitely as amorphous, flesh - toned objects,
indeterminate from first glance as human or something created by nature.
Vivid symbols sprayed directly onto the wall anchor tautly drawn cable, while an aluminum pipe provides a point to lift the cable away
from the wall, suspending the straight lines into a tangible albeit
indeterminate space.
As atypical authors of choreographic stories, the artist duo departs
from the conventional stage, venturing into other fields of representation while exploring
indeterminate and arbitrary spaces.
By the late 1940s, Rothko had virtually eliminated all elements of surrealism or mythic imagery
from his works, and nonobjective compositions of
indeterminate shapes emerged.
In Haze (2003), a work recently acquired for MCASD's collection through a grant
from The Annenberg Foundation, Donovan assembled thousands and thousands of clear plastic drinking straws against the walls, turning a gallery into an undulating space of
indeterminate color.
A quote
from Terry Eagleton on Beckett in the Guardian (2006), which fits van Velde's work as well, will introduce my final point: «A champion of the ambiguous and
indeterminate, his fragmentary, provisional art is supremely anti-totalitarian.»
Turning
from the hard edges of his representational and geometric abstraction, Demarchelier uses curvilinear paint strokes in bold colors to show
indeterminate puzzle pieces of reactive shapes moving in the dynamism of shifting systems, a technique that points to the role emotion plays in determining perception.
Taking cues
from modern dance, and simultaneously playing on the repetitiveness in her painting practice, Otto - Knapp presents a series of large canvases that show overlaying scenes of animation: uniform figures at times suspended on austere backgrounds; at times floating in a moon - like landscape of
indeterminate place or time.
Described by the curator John Elderfield as «think - tough, paint - tough» due to their imposing scale and vigorously expressive brushwork, the pieces
from the series include First Creatures
from 1959, an abstract,
indeterminate landscape exhibited here for the first time, and Mediterranean Thoughts
from 1960, in which Frankenthaler's looping skeins of poured paint create partitions of varying sizes, leaving very little exposed canvas.
By 1947 Rothko had eliminated all elements of surrealism or mythic imagery
from his works, and nonobjective compositions of
indeterminate shapes emerged.
Some of the bronzes
from the»60s, cast
from wax - dipped wire pieces, also transcend their own period quality, looking both like Surrealist - inspired modern work and archaic relics of
indeterminate meaning or function.