Sentences with phrase «idea of absence»

The idea of absence is most plainly manifested in the two archival pigment prints by Steel Stillman, «E. (1973)» and «Buskirk (1988)» (both 2012).

Syed uses methods of control and spontaneity in the painting process to speak about loss and gain and the idea of absence versus presence on the painted surface.

Mia Friedlander's small installation, assembled from unopened crates, folders, and packing tubes that belonged to her late mother, Bilgé Civelekoglu Friedlander, embodies this idea of absence made present.

I became interested in the idea of absence and presence, which lead to the casting of ropes, because that's really what casting is - the solidifying of negative space.

It explores the idea of absence and presence and was inspired by the Veil of St. Veronica by Spanish painter Francisco de Zubaran (c. 1635).

This entire scene is built around the idea of absence, and the filmmakers get it across in an admirably simple way, by including a prominent empty chair in shots of dinner tables or school recitals, or by working a Barnum - shaped shadow into some part of the frame.

I love Chris» idea of the absence of good.

Themes of urban place and space narrow down to a particular focus on urban land use and the post-industrial human living condition, alongside ideas of absence and presence and longing and belonging in the contemporary city.

A related work, Desire as a Form of Energy (2015), also by Pirecki, questions ideas of absence and reproduction.

Not exact matches

The plan for acceptance of the award was viewed as a «both cool and funny» idea for how to deal with Butterfield's absence from the event, according to Slack spokeswoman Julia Blystone.

I don't think anyone disagrees with the idea that a low deficit with a modest stable debt / GDP ratio is sustainable in the absence of dramatic new demands.

And so a plausible case might be made, despite the absence in ancient Rome of direct resemblances of modern Western constitutional liberty, for a «Ciceronian» support of the idea, and of the lived sentiment, of values to be faithfully commemorated.

In regards to the absence of God, the idea behind it is that the individual chooses a life apart from God (essentially anybody who does not follow now).

Whatever idea or theory I might have is pure conjecture in the absence of evidence... as would be your own ideas or theories.

Our notions of location are a case where, in the absence of that criticism, common sense may lead us into mistaken and disastrous ideas and plans involving space and time.

The perfection of the subjective aim of an actual occasion is «the absence from it of component feelings which mutually inhibit each other...» (Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 256) One form of inhibition, complete inhibition, is finiteness and does not derogate from perfection.

It involves, not belief in the sense of personal opinions, but rather a set of actions (saying certain things, going to services, doing good works, etc.) that can be done in the absence of belief — indeed the nature of a wager makes it such that you fully admit you don't know, which is actually an agnostic atti.tude toward the idea of God's existence.

The authors challenge churches to recover the idea of the family as a locus of religious observance, to develop a «bilingual theology» that addresses the needs of intact families and also the realities of other family forms, to critically confront divorce as a sign of failure and yet support those who are divorced and directly to take up the issue of father absence.

The idea of flamini protecting us against Neymar, Messi and Suarez is terrifying (although credit to him thus far, he's do nt well in coq» s absence).

We have no idea if Kosc will be ready to play at the weekend, so I will not try and pick a back four, but I can see Alexis taking the left role, and Iwobi on the right, with Theo Walcott chosen to lead the line in the absence of both Olivier Giroud and Danny Welbeck.

Giving the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was the absence of the key players that contributed largely to the lack of ideas once in possession.

Some theories about this idea might range from the fact that this might be the only way to insert VDW and Auro Jr together, to the absences of Chris Mavinga and Justin Morrow.

Some say he's more suited to playing in the centre and the absence of Özil suggested he'd get that chance, but where I saw him play well was actually when he got the ball in slightly wider positions, so this idea that he's better in the centre wasn't unequivocally proven yesterday I think.

«We have had to deal with the absences and unavailability of too many players to really have an idea of the true strength of this PSG team.

Gerrard's only absences in the league would eventually come from a muscular injury; there was no attempt to rest him, nor any idea of rotation, Rodgers had decided to make Gerrard integral to Liverpool once more.

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Furthermore, since the impact of father absence on child development is often negative; since absent fathers can loom large in their children's imaginations, often unhelpfully as «heroes or villains» (Kraemer 2005); and, since father absence can cause their children substantial distress and self - doubt (Laumann - Billings and Emery 1998), current thinking is moving away from the idea of severance of unconstructive father - child relationships as a simple solution.

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

«The surreal nature of the exercise is enhanced by the curious absence of a big argument as to why this continues to be a good idea.

What this shows is the absence of a forward - looking spirit in France — the idea that the system can remain as it is, that the French will carry on with their «acquis» that already look outdated.

Absence of Ukraine in the Customs Union may undermine the very idea and make it less attractive to other CIS countries.

The second thing to emerge is the depressing absence of any interest in ideas.

The referendum process was stage managed by a government which had no intention whatever of campaigning for Leave, even in the total absence of anythin it could bring back by way of «re-negotiation», hoping it could just terrify voters into not disobeying — this discounts any idea that the government was pursuing an agenda that it itself wanted.

A hydrogen - rich atmosphere could cause such close - in planets to overheat because of the greenhouse effect, so its absence supports the idea that some of these planets may have habitable conditions.

Krauss: And, in fact, the unfortunate thing is that the absence of gravitational waves is also completely consistent with inflation, in the sense that there are two fundamentally different theoretical ideas, one of which suggests strongly gravitational waves should be big enough to be seen in the next generation experiment.

Despite the absence of a book, rumors of Copernicus's ideas spread throughout Europe.

The idea of an all - purpose fungicide did not sit well with many scientists, who wrote that it «invites increased, widespread use of this product... The environmental and biological impact of these uses in the absence of a disease threat may be considerable.»

(The absence of obviously hybrid fossils also supports this idea.)

Admittedly, in the absence of the real thing, the virtual particle can give some idea of a monopole's behaviour, but no more than this.

Here, we have shown for the first time that the unphosphorylated STAT2 could play an important role in RIG - G gene expression by interacting with IRF - 9, further reinforcing the idea that STAT proteins could function as transcription factors in the absence of tyrosine phosphorylation.

It's an interesting idea, however in reality I'm sure how much insulin your body needs to «sop up» those 50gm of carbs after a workout b / c hungry muscles will do this in the absence of insulin.

There's a book out called «The Epidemic of Absence» that explores the idea that allergies and auto - immune diseases are caused by a lack of parasites.

Some good ideas are spoiled by the complete absence of realism during the fight.

In almost any other movie, the idea of propping your story up through amnesia would be an absurd, risible narrative course, but Liman, aided by Matt Damon, make the absence of self feel paramount in the film and its spectacular action sequences.

No one will lament the absence of an extended shooting gallery sequence and a CGI-less bouncing ball scene, since they either fill in blanks that need no filling or needlessly elongate ideas already in there.

These absences of characters aren't necessarily a bad thing, but I think it's a good idea to go in, expecting Gwyneth Paltrow to take a back seat for most of the movie (she makes up for it, when she is on the screen, however).

In this noisy, stormy adaptation, an energetic and for the most part excellent cast marshals considerable resources of wit, discipline and timing in a struggle against the hectic inventiveness that is, characteristically for Ms. Taymor, either the vehicle for interesting theatrical ideas or a sign of their absence.

There are a few laughs, but in the absence of a sustained comic tone and consistently good ideas, the script relies on endless bathroom humor and such throwaway visual ideas as a baby stored in a high school locker.

In the absence of new ideas — and different policies — local districts will carry out predictable and harmful cuts that will hurt kids and impede achievement.

«I am struck realizing how much difficulty we have had making [his] ideas work,» Johnson said, citing the absence of a comprehensive performance - based pay system in American public education.