Sentences with phrase «glance at history»

A quick glance at history suggests that disastrous mistakes are more likely in autocracies — even if many autocrats started with the best of intentions.

A glance at history suggests that stock prices will return to normal valuations within a decade or so.

I have my own way of calculating ROIC but I use Value Line's measure as a way to quickly glance at the history.

However, a quick glance at the history books shows Porsche has raced at Le Mans with flat - four engines at Le Mans in the 1950s.

A quick glance at any history of small - molecule crystallography would have warned them: There used to be departments of crystallography in a number of American universities; now there are none.

A cursory glance at the history of the business proves that, yes, Levesque was worth a lot more than $ 52,000.

The philosopher does not work in a void; even a cursory glance at the history of philosophy would point out that the masters of modern philosophy have been men who had assimilated all the material of the sciences of their time.

A glance at the history of gold's real price suffices to show that this is precisely what has happened:

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At first glance, the history of the cosmos seems to bear this out.

Indeed, any new initiative like this is going to have a slow start, and some tensions and complications — a glance at (or better, a serious examination of) the history of all missionary initiatives or religious orders will reveal that.

Now even a glance at the long course of eschatological reflection among the Jews will reveal that it was concerned predominantly with the culminating event of history and only in a secondary sense and measure with the personal agent through whom this event would be brought to pass.

At first glance, no marriage in the history of ideas would seem more unlikely to succeed as an artificial union of opposites («arranged,» as it were, by Yenta the village matchmaker) than that between Jewish ethics and natural law.

As a novel it also invites readers to an indulgence: it offers a taste of adventure, a glance at art history and a sip of «sacred sexuality» in the form of spirituality lite.

A cursory glance at the table might suggest that this final day has very little to offer, and a quick glance back through the history books confirms that there hasn't been a final day so apparently lacking in drama since... oh, hang on.

For those of you who have forgotten the illustrious successes and hopeless failures via recent Arsenal transfers, a quick glance at Arsene Wenger's Arsenal Transfer History will highlight all of his transfer master strokes as well as his business blunders.

Volgograd at a Glance Population: 1.025 m Stadium: Volgograd Arena Number of matches: 4 Tunisia - England Nigeria - Iceland Saudi Arabia - Egypt Japan - Poland Due to its history, Volgograd is an iconic city inside of Russia.

A cursory glance at infant feeding history will reveal that the introduction of formula marketing probably contributed to this break down as well as the cultural expectations developed in the early 1900s that only specific health professionals hold all the answers for our bodies.

The ice offers a glance at hundreds of thousands of years of geologic history.

At first glance this might seem like a negative result, but Battams says «rather than mourn what we have lost, we should perhaps rejoice in what we have gained — some of the finest data in the history of cometary astronomy.»

You probably know that credit is a way to evaluate your trustworthiness as a borrower, using a credit report (documentation of your past borrowing and accounts) and a credit score (a three - digit number that represents your history at a glance).

And if you want to keep track of everyone you have been in touch with, then the activity feed displays your history at a glance.

It is within an 6,000 Years of Jewish history & legacy at a glance in a one - page infographic.

The weight of the history around them barely registers as they dutifully glance at each building and point of interest, as if clinically ticking off a mandated checklist.

At first glance, Barton Fink seems to be a tragicomedy about the worst case of writer's block in history.

At first glance, it sounds like another history lesson about the last four months in the life of -LSB-...]

Sing Street Year: 2016 Director: John Carney Sing Street spins art out of history, but you might mistake it for pop sensationalism at first glance.

This «at a glance» guide to the history of Art can be used to support A Level Art students during their studies.

This «at a glance» guide to the history of Art can be used to support GCSE Art students during their studies.

At a glance, you might think the history situation would've been tougher to handle.

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They glanced at my payment history, which was flawless, and doubled my credit card limit on the spot.

This is a moment in stock market history — and thankfully, not the norm in that long history, as any glance at stock market cycles will reveal.

At first glance, the «Payment History» chart looks daunting but don't sweat it.

A genogram is a schematic diagram of your family history that allows you to see recurring patterns of behavior at a glance.

I love CreditKarma because I can see at a glance which factors are helping my score and where I have room for improvement (my credit history is a little shorter than I'd like).

Aside from being absolutely free, an auto title loan with LoanMart will not be determined by the credit history of a customer, and may not even be glanced at in some circumstances.

The guys over at IGN have this new interactive site for you to get a quick glance for Rayman Video History.

At first glance, Tate appears to have one of the strongest exhibition histories of any contemporary artist.

I overlooked my share of artists, but the Whitney thrives on ugliness at first glance and Latin American art on a fraught emotional and political history.

Additionally, the complex network of lines in a Pollock or a de Kooning, however chaotic they may seem at first glance, form a perfectly enclosed system, one that is not inconsistent with the compositional history of classical European painting.

At a glance, it felt like perusing a chapter of a book on modern art history: primary colors, geometric shapes (or almost)-- everything was there.

Casting a Glance «maps the Jetty back onto its own... history — looking at and listening to its reoccurring changes.

The overlaid images can look at one glance like landscapes, at another like personal histories.

At the same time, the poses and attitudes of the subjects glance at other more esoteric reference points such Renaissance etchings of duelling positions and Natural History photographAt the same time, the poses and attitudes of the subjects glance at other more esoteric reference points such Renaissance etchings of duelling positions and Natural History photographat other more esoteric reference points such Renaissance etchings of duelling positions and Natural History photography.

For today's screening of casting a glance at the University of Utah, I anticipate a visual feast of color and sound, a history of the Spiral Jetty filmed over the course of a year and a half that delves much deeper into the earthwork's existence as its history unfolds and is retold from 1970 to 2007.

Gommaar Gilliams» large - scale paintings can not be described at first glance; they combine different materials, colors, gestures, and make generous allusions to art history and symbolism.

At first glance, these two exhibition «aberrations,» resulting from the close collaboration of museum directors Willem Sandberg (Dylaby) and Pontus Hultén (HON), as well as artists Martial Raysse, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Per - Olof Ultvedt, seem to defy serious analysis, let alone contribute to the critical discourse of contemporary exhibition history.

The next several hours I spent examining his art, and what I found was rather curious: the lenses that proved most helpful in understanding the paintings were those that at first glance seemed the least important, namely my own experiences as a European expat, my history as a lover of all thing classical music, and my scholarly expertise in a number of nonwestern art traditions.

Using multiple modes of representation, An Unnatural History draws attention to the real, the imagined and what it means to visualize biological life and phenomena that are often invisible to us at first glance.