Sentences with phrase «ideograms of»

There are multiple literary references, from the ideograms of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy to a short story by the obscure and troubled early 20th century German writer Robert Walser that signal an atmosphere, a mindset.

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Fred Benenson set up a Kickstarter with the goal of translating all 6,438 sentences of the literary classic Moby Dick into Japanese Emoji characters, those charming miniature smiley faces and ideograms we can't stop sprinkling our texts with.

Theology of the Cross is a theology of Cosmic Tree, an ideogram in several cultures but particularly in Mesopotamia and Vedic Writings.

What can not be verified is stuff like Jonah being swallowed by a big fish yet the ideogram for Nineveh is the «house of the fish».

Then imagine that a number of Chinese - speaking people outside the room are able to present him with bundles of ideograms which the man must combine together according to the rules provided.

I'd never considered this idea until I caught a segment on today's Morning Edition looking at the role of Twitter in publicizing internal dissent in China, in which the head of a similar Chinese microblogging service mentioned the idea that ideograms can transmit more information in a small space than other writing systems can.

Here's a small but revealing example of how communications technologies can work differently once they leave the land of their birth: individual Twitter posts can express more information in Chinese than in English, because the Chinese writing system uses ideograms rather than an alphabet...

The three characteristics scientists use to identify a chromosome are readily visible in an ideogram: length; the banding pattern of the dye, which reflects the type of nucleotides concentrated in the chromosome; and the location of the centromere, a waistlike constriction required for proper movement during cell division.

It actually goes one step further to suggest a means of optimizing training intervals, an insight that could, in theory, translate into strategies for committing to memory the molecular structure of maitotoxin or a Chinese ideogram.

GLENN O'BRIEN — The way you put images together — did you ever think of them in terms of ideograms, like Chinese words?

The mark - ups come from a lecture on the same and, in recognition of this context, the specific modelling to be extrapolated from the ideogram should be adapted to fit.

After producing a series of 25 etchings in which he made reference to Chinese ideograms, he introduced a network of meandering lines into his paintings.

Sperone Westwater is pleased to present Pictography, a group exhibition of paintings posing as ideograms.

In the 1950s, the atomic - scientist - turned - artist, inspired by everything from Surrealism to ancient mythology, began creating a mind - bending body of work in which words and images become ideograms that border on the hallucinatory.

His own thing took the form of irregularly shaped wood panels, invented ideograms in shaped metal, and fragments of dyed, unstretched canvas, unpredictable, eclectic and hard to categorise, although he has generally been described as a postminimalist.

As Simon Schama has observed, «Twombly's creative energy erupts, turning out an extended series of untitled compositions in which pictograms and ideograms... swim and seethe in a broth of jittery action» (Simon Schama, Cy Twombly Fifty Years of Works on Paper, exh.