Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic interests»

The forward - thinking executive also encouraged his researchers to make time for their own passions, letting scientists pursue their idiosyncratic interests on the company clock.

This is especially the case when those decisions are rooted in idiosyncratic interests or biases.

Not exact matches

On a somewhat related matter, Arendt's near - total absence of study of Italian fascism may simply signify a lack of interest in dealing with the exceptional and idiosyncratic features of that system's totalitarianism.

The fact that interest in God's idiosyncratic reality and peculiar ways of being present are situated means, in short, that the conceptual growth they guide is always open to the suspicion of being in bad faith, of being more of an interest in using God for our own purposes than an interest in apprehending God for the sake of apprehending God.

To the contrary, precisely because of the idiosyncratic reality of God and God's peculiar way of being present, interests in liberation from oppression, realization of our full humanity, and the righting of injustice are mandated as an integral part of interests in God.

The capacities needed to apprehend God must be guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present and by God's idiosyncratic reality, not by persons» interests in realizing or fulfilling themselves; but the shaping and transforming of persons» identities this involves will in fact also bring with them movement toward fulfillment of their humanity.

In other words, if politics is reducible to technocratic competence then there is something benighted about the clash of interests — out interests seem to be little more than idiosyncratic expressions of our rationally indefensible attachments.

The discretionary nature of the best interests principle means that it is applied in an idiosyncratic way by judges... who are guided by their own biases about what is «best» for children.

Idiosyncratic and interesting, most will say.

I've curated this admittedly somewhat idiosyncratic... the not - particularly - interested - in - football personal assistant hired to help him out.

The universal quality you mentioned is interesting given the earlier films where the characters» idiosyncrasies are more pronounced — they still have universal themes below that — but this one seems less about heightened idiosyncratic characters and more about a universal fear.

The film starts in Paris at the Gare du Nord, Europe's busiest railway station (and a miniature citadel in itself, as explored in Claire Simon's interesting and idiosyncratic 2013 feature Gare du Nord).

More interesting are their more idiosyncratic picks: I co-sign Holden's Best Supporting Actress mention for Charlotte Rampling in «Life During Wartime,» and would never have predicted Scott's screenplay citation for «Green Zone.»

REACTICKLES Reactickles is a multiplatform and open source software application that uses everyday technologies to enable users to express idiosyncratic, emergent and body interests and to value these as triggers for communication.

Underneath that, the principal found idiosyncratic instruction pegged to textbooks and teacher interests rather than to the current state standards or the newly adopted Common Core standards.

I'd have to convince another editor to sufficient interest in my work, which is a deeply idiosyncratic process more or less lateral to the publishing house issue.

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.

Both artists share an interest in small scale, idiosyncratic color through low fire glazing, and highly considered, reductive forms.

Exhibitionism's 16 exhibitions in the Hessel Museum are (1) «Jonathan Borofsky,» featuring Borofsky's Green Space Painting with Chattering Man at 2,814,787; (2) «Andy Warhol and Matthew Higgs,» including Warhol's portrait of Marieluise Hessel and a work by Higgs; (3) «Art as Idea,» with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) «Rupture,» with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) «Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn,» including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn's intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) «For Holly,» including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker — acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.»

For the ground layer, she uses a variety of idiosyncratic toned and structured paper such as Bhutanese, Lokta and Arches to shape a landscape of interesting textures.

The series stems from an avid interest in cultivating relationships with artists, scholars and arts communities from around the world in order to draw connections between the city of Providence and other international urban contexts, and to provide Providence audiences idiosyncratic glimpses of innovative contemporary artists working in cities around the world.

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.

The surface of the photograph itself is a persistent subject of interest for Tillmans, and his careful combination of small and large formats, and framed and unframed prints, serves to underscore the notion of the photographic image as an object — subjective and idiosyncratic.

JAŠA plays with an excess of seemingly idiosyncratic proverbial visual associations — albeit, with Aesopian hints — that are taken to such extremes that the elemental parts fuse and the total atmosphere overcomes interest in minutiae.

Raised within a visionary family with his father being a painter and Fomenko adopting an artistic interest from an early age, his vocation was somewhat inescapable and presently applies his sharp eye and magnificent imaginative memory to his idiosyncratic style.

Yet Moore and Hepworth really are idiosyncratic British artists of mostly local interest, and the campaign to turn them into art gods tells a big lie about their true place in 20th - century art.

Melding precise attention to detail with an interest in the tokens of identity circulating among a growing postwar bourgeoisie in Italy, Gnoli's paintings reveal an idiosyncratic eye and cinematic sensibility.

The selected works reflect a shared interest in figuration, social conduct, familial relations, the efficacy of communication, and drawing as a personal and idiosyncratic language.

Maychack studied art in the San Francisco Bay Area, and absorbed its traditions of assemblage, trompe - l'oeil illusionism and personal mythology; but also the post-minimalist interest in imbuing emotion and presence into abstract structures; he cites the personal, idiosyncratic work of Jessica Stockholder and Martin Puryear as major influences.

Mellors has attracted international critical interest in recent years for a highly idiosyncratic vision and inventive multi-media practice combining visual art, music, theatre and text.

The book tracks his movement from an initial interest in signage (the early -»60s drafts for his iconic paintings of the 20th Century Fox logo, the Standard Oil gas - station sign, and «Annie» in the comic strip's type) to later images that are highly idiosyncratic, downright poetic concoctions («Thick Blocks of Musical Fudge» is the phrase in one 1976 pastel).

But although his concerns were part of a larger dialogue in painting that was going on in France at that time, he was something of a unique figure unto himself, similar to Robert Ryman here, a painter with concerns rather too idiosyncratic to really provide a direction, more simply marking a point where a number of problems cluster and are addressed in an interesting way.

In several ways, the exhibition is utterly contemporary: not only does it address our Internet - driven age (Wikipedia is, after all, the twenty - first century version of Auriti's utopian construct), but it also reflects a timely interest in idiosyncratic «collections.»

They often were interested in artists whom many others might consider obscure or in works by better - known artists that might be seen as idiosyncratic.

Of particular interest is that the age of these painters spans four decades — from 1928 to 1967 — giving a sense of the continuity and commitment to a working process and attitude that flouts trends and ploughs individual and often idiosyncratic paths.

-LSB-...] In an interesting twist to the climate change debate, communities and individuals once seen as quaintly idiosyncratic for their way - out views have now become mainstream and may yet provide some of the answers to the biggest questions we all face.

But since «10 Canadian legal ethics stories listed in no particular order but that I, for my own idiosyncratic reasons, think are interesting and significant» is not exactly catchy, I'm sticking with Top 10.