Sentences with phrase «galvanizing effect»

The spill also had a galvanizing effect on lawmakers who passed the federal 1990 Oil Pollution Act to help stave off a repeat of the disaster by increasing oversight, stiffening penalties, mandating contingency planning, and creating new research programs.

The unified theory he envisions would be as simple and elegant as the DNA double helix, and could likewise have a galvanizing effect on the field.

I had forgotten that they were all sniping at one another that summer, but building a deck in the record 109 - degree heat in Norfolk, Va., had a galvanizing effect on the boys.

Merely screening certain films at this moment, they say, can have a galvanizing effect — or a palliative one.

Both gallery and publication featured an international roster of artists, and Azimuth, while short - lived (11 months and two issues), had a galvanizing effect on the Italian art world and beyond.

Louise Bourgeois, the French - born American artist who gained fame only late in a long career, when her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on younger artists, particularly women, died on Monday at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.

Review: «remarkable... he is too little known, and his redisovery promises to have a galvanizing effect on young artists.»

«Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Aside from having the best title of the year, the show unfolded the galvanizing effect the Watts rebellion had 50 years ago on the L.A. artist's work.