Sentences with phrase «highlighting absurdity»

In highlighting the absurdity of Google's interpretation in this case, the court provided the following hypothetical scenario to help illustrate the privacy interests at stake:

Thanks to Steve Patrick Adams for highlighting the absurdity of this in a way the average person can understand in the cartoon above.

As she «draws with a knife», you'll notice her knack for highlighting absurdity.

Lucas frequently employs a critical humor in her work in order to question conventions and highlighting the absurdity of the everyday.

University workshop rewarded from the Milan City Council: A thirty seconds advertisement for Milan's bike sharing service, highlighting the absurdity of driving the car in the city center Storyboard and relative video, realized with Mario Porpora, Pietro Righi Riva and

Highlighting the absurdity of the whole situation is that it is becoming increasingly clear that the textbooks that many towns have purchased with taxpayer funds don't even contain the material students are being «required» to know for the Common Core SBAC tests.

Weaving the story of Mary Magdalene through her own, Nadia reclaims the term «pastrix» (used derisively by some Christians who refuse to recognize female pastors) to highlight the absurdity and goodness of a God who would choose someone like her to be a «pastor to her people» — alcoholics, depressives, misfits, and cynics.

The Daily News uses the case of Faye Dunaway's $ 1,048 - a-month one - bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side to «highlight the absurdities» of city rent regulations:

Conor Burns uses his maiden speech to highlight the absurdity that potential English language students from overseas have to learn the language before they can come to Britain... to learn the language

Really, I think it highlights the absurdity of the American political system and how it functions more than anything.

It's confident that Saturday Night Live - level mockery is unnecessary to highlight the absurdity of what's being proffered to the American public — and what that public is eating up.

«This lawsuit highlights the absurdity of the evaluation system that has come about as a result of SB 736,» said FEA President Andy Ford.

«This lawsuit highlights the absurdity of the evaluation system that has come about as a result of SB 736,» added FEA President Andy Ford.

Wright's practice, which aims to highlight the absurdities and tragedies of the «everyday», carries the spirit of the contemporary.

Thus whereas Pop artists sought to highlight the absurdity of much of the media imagery relied upon by the Consumer Society, photorealist painters and sculptors aim to celebrate the integrity and value of an image.

Afterwards, consider attending the Hampton Theater Company's production of «Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike» by Christopher Durang, a madcap take on themes by playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov that highlights the absurdities and agonies of 21st century life.

Like all of Leung's works, it re-codes familiar signs to highlight the absurdity of human habits and the objects we cherish.

This exercise, while in principle is a good one, in practice only serves to highlight the absurdity of the «very high confidence» levels in this report.

It's not improper or a mistake, it's using a particular sequence of examinations (all non-crows, or non-moons first) to highlight the absurdity.

University of Colorado Boulder professor Roger Pielke Jr. highlighted the absurdity of their argument in a tweet:

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It moves the story forward, but highlights the humor and absurdity of what the drunk narrator is saying.»

To highlight the everyday absurdities that stand in the way of productivity, American Express OPEN is launching a campaign that features the real struggles we all face in the office with videos, social media content and a series from workplace expert Lynn Taylor on OPEN Forum.

When viewed in the context of the yearlong «Biblical Womanhood» project, it highlighted a strange absurdity.

«Once again this highlights the need for real ethics reforms, something the Senate Democrats have been calling on for years, and really shows the absurdity that there has been no talk in this budget process of cleaning up Albany and passing the strong ethics reforms,» said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference, a 23 - member group which is in the minority.

Schrödinger, a contemporary of Bohr and Einstein, and one of the founders of quantum mechanics, devised his famous thought experiment to highlight what he saw as the absurdity of Bohr's ideas.

Dear Editor, We are grateful to the analysts, commentators and media for highlighting the essential elements, oddities, illegalities and absurdities of the secret 1999 PPP / C agreement and the secret 2016 PNCR Exxon / Esso Agreement with Guyana.

Clearly what's needed is a pointed satire highlighting the inherent absurdity governing global politics today, and Coup d'Etat may just fit the bill.

Tommy's «acting» is uproarious (his Stanley Kowalski bit is one of the year's comic highlights), and the absurdity of it all is ever - present, but the film also celebrates friendship and the courage to follow one's dreams.

Perfectly capturing the pointless absurdity of war and treading the line between fantasy and realism, the novel's black humour serves to highlight the nightmarish everyday reality faced by Baghdad's residents.

But Blood Wars «screenplay (by Kyle Ward, who co-conceived the story with Cory Goodman) is clunky and uneconomical; for a film that runs 90 minutes, it frequently stops dead in its tracks so characters can narrate the action, or highlight their shallow thoughts and emotions to the point of absurdity.

The table above highlights the spectacular absurdity of the New Mexico Teacher Evaluation System.

Highlighting the utter absurdity of the entire event was the presentation of a 27 slide PowerPoint presentation that these public servants used to «educate» local school officials about how to communicate with students, parents, teachers and their communities.

The absurdity of this situation was highlighted by the way the discount window works.

They mastered the art of leaning into the absurdity of those puzzles, using comedy as a way of highlighting the absurd cartoon logic they relied on.

Among the exhibition's highlights are a photographic installation in which Waters explores the auras and absurdities of famous films, their directors, and actors; a suite of photographs and sculpture that use humor to humanize dark moments in history from the Kennedy assassination to 9/11; and Kiddie Flamingos, a 2014 video work of children reading a G - rated version of Pink Flamingos (Waters» notorious 1972 celebration of all things outsider and extreme).

To highlight both the absurdity of creating these lists for artists and also the contradictory desire within young artists to be part of them, Brooklyn gallery VICTORI + MO has organized a 30 - person group exhibition cheekily titled 30 Under 30ish.

A green screen, where one can take selfies with the work, highlights the potential absurdity of selfie culture in terms of viewing art.

The absurdity continues to abound as if Hecker is simply waiting for the laughter to rise, while simultaneously highlighting the centrality of idolatry in western history and consumer culture.

The collective is known for its absurd and anti-establishment creations that highlight the inherent absurdity and hypocrisy of contemporary global structures and ideologies.

William Powhida makes fun of the art world to highlight the paradoxes and absurdities of economic and social value systems that keep the sphere of visual art afloat on a tide of inequality.

Secondly, it highlights the mathematical properties of the posterior obtained from the Jeffrey's prior with respect to credible interval analysis, despite the apparent absurdity of the pdf.

The utter absurdity of climate change helps highlight President Obama in a less than flattering perspective.