Sentences with phrase «grand tradition of»

It was just over a year ago, that our fearless leader, Brandon Miniman kicked off what has become a grand tradition of short, gut - reaction editorials — TL; DR.. Now, with the release of the new Nexus tablet, Mr. Miniman's editorial has been thrown asunder, his hopes and dreams dashed against the unyielding stones of progress and consumerism.

The Pixelbook continues in the grand tradition of Chromebooks made by Google featuring ridiculously high - end configurations.

Eventually it will come to pass: someone will lament, probably on facebook in a few years, that modern communication practices are driving us all to lose our grand tradition of texting.

Helen is in the grand tradition of Canadian legal sales reps who really know their products and their customers and do everything possible to connect the two.

In the grand tradition of complex legal terminology, allow me to open this post with a polysyllabic word: paraskevidekatriaphobia.

In the grand tradition of the law, I turned to the small print.

In the grand tradition of Overheard in New York, Overheard in the Office and... Overheard at UOttawa?

In the grand tradition of corporations making tiny green steps in the right direction, Coca Cola has announced it will be deploying 185 hybrid electric delivery trucks in 2009.

That love, and respect, continues; I don't have the expertise to critique J Hansen et al's latest paper in detail, but certainly I'm worried by the fact that a paper in PNAS has the word «perception» in its title and its focus; this is «post-modern» «science», which I would argue is not science as understood in the grand tradition of science.

Katz on the other hand, honours the grand tradition of painting.

In using elements from popular culture that might be considered inappropriate or unserious in the grand tradition of painting, Fiona Rae looks to re-examine their meaning and expressive possibilities.

Drawing served as an essential means of invention and discovery in Picasso's multifaceted art, connecting him with the grand tradition of drawing by European masters of the near and distant past.

Enchanted and eerie describe Julie Heffernan's paintings, which use an array of styles and techniques from the grand tradition of European painting to achieve a dramatic, almost cinematic effect.

Working in the grand tradition of American documentary photography, Arndt is known primarily for his portraits of Midwesterners.

Boldly re-invigorating the grand tradition of Western painting in the service of those made invisible within the same tradition, Marshall's virtuosic mastery of the grand style demands that the absence of the black artist and subject be not only recognized, but immediately and irrevocably rectified.

Consequently, Salt's solo exhibition at the Ace Gallery not only reveals her prodigious aptitude at flawlessly laying down color in the grand tradition of both wall and Color Field painting, but also her unique place in such schools of the mundane.

Artist Stanley Lewis will talk about seminal figures in the grand tradition of landscape painting including Claude, Constable, Poussin and Ruysdael.

At the same time, Armitage, who graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2010, freights his images with allusions to the grand tradition of European painting.

She absorbs influences from pop culture as much as she does from high art, and I think sometimes she feels a bit divorced and distanced from the grand tradition of painting.

His commitment to a grand tradition of painting superimposes a value on his work that accretes history as if its challenges demanded that a position be taken and held, whatever the cost.

Influenced by both profound moments in her personal life and the history of art, her work belongs to the grand tradition of sculpture — in both their timeless aesthetics and mastery of the material.

Sublime and otherworldly, it fits into the grand tradition of German Romanticism, whilst its thick bands of color reference the sombre work of Abstract Expressionism.

Artists, public school teachers, art therapists, performance artists, graphic designers, architects and students from New York City, join in the grand tradition of mixed media artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson.

The Irish artist Kevin Francis Gray is a master carver of marble in the grand tradition of Michelangelo, Antonio Canova, Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux, and Rodin, among other great masters of that material — and what a welcome wonder to encounter such durable, «classically» inspired sculptures.

Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

In 2009, Thomas went on to have her first New York solo show at Lehmann Maupin, leading Art + Auction to report that she was «reinventing the grand tradition of painting.»

I like that they belong to a grand tradition of transcendental abstraction, but result from a humble process and modest life experience.

Though Eisenman has received extensive critical attention for her painting, this show reveals an abiding attachment and pursuit of, the grand tradition of classic printmaking.

In the grand tradition of offering the first taste for free, Microsoft and Verizon are teaming up to open the Xbox Live Gold service up to the unwashed, unpaying masses for a free weekend.

Electronic Arts» Madden NFL 13 continues the grand tradition of this obsession called football with another successful, creative remediation of the NFL experience.

Let's not forget that this game holds true to the other grand tradition of Mario & Luigi games.

Thankfully, this doesn't mean the game has been dumbed down; it remains the same hectic mecha shmup crossed with the grand tradition of screwing your friends with a lightning raid of tanks right outside their headquarters.

This landmark hotel reflects the elegant taste and grand tradition of the city.

Fraser Island's modern architecturally - designed beach houses will help you continue the grand tradition of Australian beachside holidays offering up stunning World Heritage views of beach and bush.

As it proudly joins the grand tradition of America's national park lodges, Cavallo Point Lodge also will serve as the launch home for the Institute at the Golden Gate, an environmental program of the nonprofit Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy in partnership with the National Park Service.

Well, I can't really answer that — but it's certainly within the grand tradition of tiny Irish resource companies taking on far - flung & dauntingly ambitious projects!

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs - a classic American story of self - invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny.

And in the grand tradition of naming schemes of my household, I have named it Freetouch, after Strongbow and Moonshade's daughter in Elfquest.

Meloy said the books will be his «humble paean to that grand tradition of epic adventure stories» by the likes of Lloyd Alexander, Roald Dahl and Tolkien.

Do you identify more with the grand tradition of Southern literature or with today's young literary writers?

The book opens in the grand tradition of coming - of - age novels distinguished by their hypnotic, first - person narrators, but while the voice of British teenager Holly Sykes can hold its own with those of Holden Caulfield or John Green's Hazel Grace Lancaster, it is merely the opening salvo in this multivoiced, harmonically layered narrative symphony that stretches — with occasional sojourns far back in time — from the 1980s, when Holly runs away from home, into the 2040s, when she is attempting to cope with an oil - depleted world descending into chaos.

As you'll see, the public domain availability of Project Gutenberg books and the grand tradition of British children's literature means that most of the selections are 19th - century books from the UK.

Ah, the grand tradition of Black Friday.

To achieve this level of performance, the GT - R is, in the grand tradition of its forebears, stuffed to its gills with the latest in technology.

But that car — in the grand tradition of BMW M5, Mercedes - Benz E63 AMG, and Audi RS6 models — costs silly money (try $ 80,000), something that the Japanese automakers still don't go for.

Following the grand tradition of «Man must perform a specific task under duress lest he perish» movies like

In the grand tradition of My Dinner with Andre, we listen in on one of the best dinner - movie dialogs in years among friends, lovers, intellectuals, and strangers, all gathered together at a crowded New York City bistro.

Others are pure shoot - em - ups in the grand tradition of Atari Star Wars and StarFox.

So in the grand tradition of internet lists, here's a look at my choices — many of which were surprises to me — for the best films of the year.