Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic experiences»

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.

In any case, I do not think others should read too much into my rather idiosyncratic experiences.

In a display of idiosyncratic experience, this exhibition presents a creative discourse between artworks through Carron's perspective, revealing shared concerns and principles of his native country's art.

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But most of these ideas — valuable as many of them might be — are idiosyncratic or based on personal experience.

With decades of experience investing in uniquely complex and idiosyncratic deals, the expertise and specialized knowledge at Fundamental allows us to capitalize on a fragmented and inefficient market.

Should investors buy or sell stocks experiencing unique (idiosyncratic) volatility spikes?

He has experience working with idiosyncratic personalities and defense is his calling card.

Think of it as Love Story meets Total Recall and Dark City, which doesn't quite do justice to the movie - going experience at hand, but comes close to describing the idiosyncratic, highly cinematic world writer / director George Nolfi generates here for his filmmaking debut.

The film is a true out - of - body experience, an idiosyncratic mainstay where Glazer calls to mind and reflects on the ways in which beauty and unsightliness play out in strange harmony together.

Urban is the least expressive of the actors to play Woodrow but Zahn fills Gus with a richness of character and experience and Val Kilmer brings an entertaining flamboyance to Captain Inish Scull, their idiosyncratic Yankee troop leader.

The way he so effortlessly constructs an imaginary world of quirky characters, and a visual experience so resplendent and idiosyncratic that I wonder how he can even function in this bland, banal world that the rest of us inhabit.

Tracy is immediately swept up in the idiosyncratic and spirited life Brooke leads, providing her with both life experience and writing material.

Shore is brilliant at aligning his own idiosyncratic touches with his director's, lending to an experience that, fittingly, lands left of center.

The alternative route between Bloemfontein and Cape Town - A spate of idiosyncratic towns will enchant you, as will the incredible scenery, windmills, hospitable people, corbelled houses and star - strewn skies - the likes of which you've never experienced befor...

The alternative route between Bloemfontein and Cape Town — A spate of idiosyncratic towns will enchant you, as will the incredible scenery, windmills, hospitable people, corbelled houses and star - strewn skies — the likes of which you've never experienced before.

Our UK flights open up the way to an abundance of idiosyncratic Britishness and cultural experiences.

Cuphead is an invigorating and rewarding experience — with each idiosyncratic boss boasting brilliant aesthetic and gameplay transformations that are a spectacle to behold — but there are far too many scenarios that simply feel unfair.

With a slew of charismatic characters that simply ooze idiosyncratic personalities, a bevy of exceptionally bombastic segments and jaw - dropping moments, and its fast and visceral dual - wielding gunplay that gives DOOM a run for its money, Wolfenstein II simply never lets up, crafting a violently addictive experience with a lot of heart.

Game makers have started developing more idiosyncratic, open - ended experiences, often without the help of a publisher.

The new paintings fuse, in Cranston's idiosyncratic way, her ongoing interest in color theory and how it functions within consumer culture vis - a-vis corporate marketing and branding strategies, as well as its relationship to personal and collective experience, with the aesthetics and history of high Modernist abstraction.

Jim Hodges: sometimes beauty provides a singular opportunity to experience Jim's complex, idiosyncratic, and nuanced devotion to ideas and ethics that are very personal, but easily accessible.»

He had recently explored the claustrophobia experienced by nomads in modern European society by mixing cartography with an idiosyncratic tribal portraiture.

This is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.

In other words, they construct the world they experience, making sensory information idiosyncratic and / or socially oriented rather than accurate, and people's perception of their world an ongoing film or performance.

The result is a thought provoking debate on the contribution of disparate vernacularities or idiosyncratic cultural experience to universal concerns.

His 1966 sculpture, Truro Series # 1, named for the town in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Huebler spent his summers, demonstrates this early interest in time and location as structural paradigms of the conscious experience, as well as Huebler's idiosyncratic brand of humor.

She mines her cross-cultural experience and Salish - Kootenai identity, and spans cultures with powerful, idiosyncratic results.

Together, these exhibitions divulge both the serenity and spectacle that arises from abstract gesture, positioning the viewer between these two worlds to experience this dichotomy, and rendering an idiosyncratic resolution to these depictions.

Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place.

But when Björk arrived onstage in Mountain View on Saturday, she still signaled the start of a mesmerizing — and absolutely idiosyncratic — live experience.

They experimented with new ways of teaching and learning; they encouraged discussion and free inquiry; they felt that form in art had meaning; they were committed to the rigor of the studio and the laboratory; they practiced living and working together as a community; they shared the ideas and values of different cultures; they had faith in learning through experience and doing; they trusted in the new while remaining committed to ideas from the past; and they valued the idiosyncratic nature of the individual.

Those prone to over-pluralization might presume to generalize from their idiosyncratic personal experience, but I'm not like that; ^ D. Actually, I am: it makes some sense that including a generous portion of daily fat would make being hungry easier, no 8 ^ ?

Some authors have argued that the nature of the child's disorder is not important in determining its psychological consequences, because children with chronic physical disorders face common life experiences and problems based on generic dimensions of their conditions, rather than on idiosyncratic characteristics of any specific disease entity (e.g., Stein & Jessop, 1982).