Sentences with phrase «greater ambiguity»

Kate Hoffman's Dream Home series, photographs taken from performative collage collaborations, has a malleable quality that emphasizes the viewer's own socio - political leanings; Samira Yamin's intricate patterns of Islamic sacred geometries cut into TIME Magazine photos of war oscillate between greater ambiguity and flirting with the didactic depending on the density of the cuttings; Sandra de la Loza's photographs of Stoner Spots underscore the politics of leisure through the exploration of pot - safe spaces, with a subtext of the not - quite - yet absorbed by development; Scott Short's «abstract» paintings replicate multiple generations of photocopying through the prism of Walter Benjamin; and Suzanne Wright will exhibit a deftly humorous Étant donnés-esque collage alongside mandala targets — each salves, in their respective forms, for our tumultuous zeitgeist.

I mean as much as it creates greater ambiguity, it also reveals both a sense of history of the layering of the paint while, at the same time, anchoring the whole image so that it doesn't float in the picture plane.

This is ABC's kind of science: one that strives not for an increased degree of certainty, but greater ambiguity — while at the same time painting a decidedly grim picture.

«The greater the ambiguity,» wrote author Milan Kundera, «the greater the pleasure.»

I will submit that though no decisive falsification is possible, the cumulative weight of evidence does count for or against religious beliefs, but with greater ambiguity than in science.

To be sure, each of these subjective features is more prominent in religion; there is a greater diversity of models, greater influence of interpretation on data, greater tenacity in commitment to paradigms, and greater ambiguity in paradigm choice.

As the idea of buyer personas grows, I'm seeing with increased frequency a blur between the two, resulting in greater ambiguity and wasted growth resources.

There are both great clarity and great ambiguity in the records as to the message of Jesus in regard to the Kingdom.

Not exact matches

And ambiguity is not a good thing for McDonald's, as evidenced by a tweet from ESPNW columnist and on - camera host Sarah Spain: While lovin» may indeed be greater than hatin», «Hatin» Beats Heart Disease.»

You have to change, often on the fly, and needing to deal with a great amount of ambiguity in order to succeed.»

We can see in many of the greatest Christian thinkers just this ambiguity or contradiction.

One of theology's main tasks is to help the community of faith in its search for practices that truly follow in the footsteps of Jesus of Nazareth, in the midst of a great deal of ambiguity and provisionality.

Such ambiguity endows the sculpture with greater emotional complexity: The composition is resolved, but there is no suggestion of the completion of an action.

Clearly, psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity in us for the toleration of anxiety and ambiguity.

In some of the greatest of the Church's teachers there has been a strange ambiguity.

This sort of research assumes away the rich social context and great social and practical ambiguities of the real world.

What I wish to offer here is the outcome of my own thinking, expressed in a simple and clarified form so that everyone may be able to understand it without ambiguity, and may criticise and (this is my great hope) correct and amplify it.

Our ambiguity oftentimes about our responsibility gives greater weight to God's judgment.

Even today, we long for that great miracle that will take all ambiguity and uncertainty away, and yet we have been given all that we need to believe.

Hence the ambiguity which (as I think) one can see running through so many of the great theologies.

When the available evidence is examined in its entirety, Pius XII emerges as neither a saint nor a Nazi, but as a complex, enigmatic figure who reveals a great deal about the troubling ambiguity that characterized the Christian world's response to the Holocaust.

Since Hitler could not face the searchlight that modern art turned on his personal madness, he was totally incapable of recognizing that in expressionism there was also a great deal of health — above all, the health of its extravagant affirmation of life despite life's ambiguity and tragedy.

With all the ambiguities that surround the records of his teaching regarding the Kingdom, it is clear that it embodies the goal of God's reign over the hearts and lives of men, and thus sets forth the great hope of a better world both now and in the world to come.

But even here the great stress of the Protestant clergy on the providential, indeed millennial, meaning of the American republic was on the triumph of «civil and religious liberty,» with all the usual ambiguity about that central term.

When mainline churches seek to use broadcasting to examine biblical Christianity in relation to society today, they run up against great moral ambiguity.

R. R. Reno cites Charles Murray and Mary Douglas for the compelling proposition that the abolition of clear social rules wreaks greater havoc among the economically and educationally weak than among the strong, inter alia because the latter have more resources to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty («War on the Weak,» August / September).

He felt that the opaqueness in chains of command and the ambiguity in roles and competences which he witnessed in the EEAS meant the organisation had not fulfilled its potential and would be overcome only by greater integration, although he saw little problem in France's unilateral intervention in Mali.

«There is also a great deal of ambiguity around what action an MP could reasonably have been expected to take to avoid the need for these payments.

The constitution is supposed to be the greatest law of the land, which guarantees certain basic rights for its citizens, divides and allocate power between organizations and institutions for effective implementation, why then should it be in a state of ambiguity, making it difficult to be executed?

Great images, but the ambiguity and slow pace were off - putting to me.

There are no real answers in The Leftovers, even as plot questions are resolved, and the series miraculously turns that ambiguity into its greatest accomplishment.

I like Josh Brolin a great deal, and I particularly like his performance in «Milk» — a courageous display of against - type delicacy and ambiguity that would be a worthy winner of Best Supporting Actor honours in most years.

Madden's film more interestingly swims in the ambiguity of whether such near - sociopathic means are acceptable for the sake of a greater good.

The complex relationships bred from that moral ambiguity is likely what helped Hillcoat attract so much great talent, but while the film boasts a killer cast from top to bottom, only a few (like Casey Affleck and Mackie) really stand out.

The film rates this high for me not just because of its technical skill (the ensemble acting is terrific, with Kelly Macdonald in particular doing great work in just a few scenes, and Roger Deakins's cinematography is as good as anything he's done with the Coens, and that's saying a lot) but because of its ambiguity: because the questions it raises about narrative and about society are as interesting as those raised by any other film (but one) of 2007.

It's that wit that propels a great deal of the surface pleasure of Cowboy Bebop with the archetype of the gangly American cowboy prophet / warrior, one referenced in a mid-film drive - in movie of High Noon attended by Jet and lent a certain degree of poignancy by the slow understanding that the picture (and the series that spawned it) is in love with nostalgia for a post-war age that, particularly for the Japanese, was fraught with ambiguity, shame, and tragedy.

The story focuses on Melanie (newcomer Sennia Nanua, in a great performance of ambiguity and wisdom), who is a prisoner in a military facility.

And despite great performers, there isn't a lot of moral ambiguity between good / bad characters.

It also contains one action sequence of great virtuosity, a villain of immense potential, and — dare I use the phrase — moral ambiguity.

While this provides greater opportunities, the ambiguity of the future and the myriad of choices available creates higher levels of anxiety and emotional challenges for our youth.

He has left a strange message for his son Talcott, a professor of law at a great university, entrusting him with «the arrangements» — a mysterious puzzle that only Tal can unlock, and only by unearthing the ambiguities of his father's past.

While most credit cards have uncertainty about which interest rate you'll get, when it comes to rewards credit cards the ambiguity is even greater.

There's a great deal of ambiguity and misunderstanding regarding positive training, which results in confusion among pet owners, training professionals and the general public.

You've got to make it through the rulebook first, though, which spans 20 - pages and isn't great at explaining how everything works, leaving a lot of ambiguities that must be waded through.

Picking sides in the civil war between the Empire and Stormcloaks is particularly interesting because there's a great deal of ambiguity to it.

Probably as a result of the marketing ambiguity which harmed the Wii U launch so badly Nintendo vowed to make a much greater effort with marketing, advertising and getting themselves and their franchises back into the public eye in 2014.

One of the great things about Dark Souls was the ambiguity, the mystery behind the lore and the opportunity to search out information if you wanted, ignore if you didn't and then use it all to determine your own understanding of the story compared to others».

There's simple reason behind the ambiguity, being that even when given a clear definition the concept is still terribly icky since it manifests as a agent that influences the greater part of our thinking.

Deborah Mesa - Pelly's staged photos have an ambiguity greater than in her latest imagined horror - film stills.

(It is not in this exhibition, but the method is conveyed by her 1957 «Seven Types of Ambiguity,» with its great gray splashes punctuated by peninsulas of red, yellow and blue.)