Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic uses»

Another classic Kaurismäki characteristic very much in evidence is his vivid and idiosyncratic use of color.

Lynch's idiosyncratic use of Los Angeles» iconic topography, with its distinct streets and sloping hills imbuing his vaudevillian freak shows with different kinds of evil, is as compelling in Lost Highway as it is in Mulholland Drive.

His sculptures employ lexicons of cabinet - making and functional design braided with an idiosyncratic use of color and appreciation for the sensuality of building materials and processes.

Basquiat's 1982 painting «LNAPRK» (for the Luna Park outside Milan)-- half turquoise, half black, with an idiosyncratic use of stretcher bars — presents a bristling stream - of - consciousness overlay of cartoon faces, a bull's head scavenged from Picasso, the phrase «Italy in the 1500's» and «essen» — eat in German — repeated three times.

His work combined subversive and playful aspects of Dada and Surrealism with an idiosyncratic use of Minimalism's refined visual language.

An idiosyncratic use of light also marks out the work: sleek moving surfaces periodically reflect the beams of Buckley's projections, creating hotspots and dazzling the viewer.

The spatial relationships that exist between these abstracted forms are exploited by the artist through her idiosyncratic use of bold planes of flat colour.

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Trailer Park uses an in - house composer to help create some of the idiosyncratic cover songs it has used in recent years.

Ironically, there will then be a greater and greater need for dual class share structures, even when they are not being used to protect the «idiosyncratic vision» of a company's founders.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

Volatility can be measured using raw volatility, beta, or idiosyncratic vol, to name just a few methods.

That's a fact, not an opinion — using your own particular idiosyncratic definition of «fact».

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.

Not only was the free use of network facilities and air - time too good to pass over, but the communication agencies had been conditioned to the acceptance of broad religious truths over idiosyncratic truths by the ecumenical movement.

I have my own objections to some of Ronnie's idiosyncratic phrases (for instance his frequent use of «have a mind to», instead of simply «want to»); but overall I still find his English magnificent.

He nods to the critical problems in reading the Gospels, but finds a way through the alternatives of credulity and skepticism by using a criterion of historicity that can only be designated «idiosyncratic aesthetic.»

The fourth definition is «the doctrines, opinions, or way of thinking of an individual, class, etc.» I used the term «ideology» in its usual, dictionary sense rather than in Strauss» idiosyncratic usage.

Until now, consumer legislation has dealt with the worst cases of fraud, but has been unable to handle cases where the offender used a private or idiosyncratic definition of organic,» Marshall says.

Jackie Brown was met with a level of disappointment when it was released; yes it had the cool ensemble cast, excellent retro soundtrack and prolific use of the «N» word, but where were the violence, idiosyncratic characters and quirky comic dialogue we were all expecting?

We used a statistical method that separated our estimate of overall effectiveness into a fixed component, which is stable from year to year, and an idiosyncratic component that changes across classrooms and across years.

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.

The smaller the number of test scores used to create value - added measures, the more important students» idiosyncratic performance is likely to be.

The pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness requires the routine use of myriad interdependent thought processes too complex and idiosyncratic to be evaluated by standardized tests.

Of course, I've always been a fool for idiosyncratic voice, which is one reason why I so enjoyed Daniel Kraus» The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch and its protagonist narrator's use of what he calls his «flamboyant elocution,» a hallmark of which is the polysyllabic.

Send us fiction with strong, idiosyncratic voices, creative nonfiction that honestly and eloquently strips all pretenses away, and poetry that uses language with power and precision.

«In the past, you would have had to use a 75 basis points to 1 per cent active fund and exposed yourself to idiosyncratic stock picking risk,» Cantrell says.

While the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) does have it flaws the general idea behind it is solid: an investor should not be compensated for idiosyncratic risk because you can eliminate it using diversification.

Well known for causing idiosyncratic (non-dose-dependent) anemia in people and dose - dependent bone marrow suppression in animals, its use in both human and veterinary medicine is increasing because of resistance to other antimicrobial drugs.

Dogs use body language for 80 % of their communication, so it's no wonder they view our strange idiosyncratic human tendencies with confusion.

Some cats add their own idiosyncratic words to this general vocabulary such as the sudden exhalation of air used by my own cat, Aphrodite.

This adorable apparition gives Mario the ability to capture a copious amount of different creatures and inanimate objects, each with their own set of varying gameplay mechanics; using their idiosyncratic attributes to solve intricate puzzles or overcome impossible obstacles / challenges is an astute element of problem solving, creative thinking, and experimentation that implores an avantgarde mindset.

To that end, Brischler has organized an idiosyncratic, densely hung salon wall of work from artists — both emerging and established — who use their studios as labs of transgression during times of personal or political upheaval.

Torkwase Dyson is a painter who uses distilled geometric abstraction to create an idiosyncratic language that is both diagrammatic and expressive.

Using references from popular film and television, the work presents an idiosyncratic reflection on contemporary life, in which live action is combined with CGI animation — a technique frequently used in children's films with animal protagonists.

Using an idiosyncratic language of found materials he engages with themes of exoticism, tourism and cultural commodification.

Gary Stephan (American, b. 1942), who used to show at big galleries like Mary Boone Gallery, Hirschl and Adler and Marlborough Gallery, is known for his idiosyncratic abstraction.

Many artists made use of the bed's idiosyncratic shape in their work, from Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Lucian Freud, and Yayoi Kusama to Jannis Kounellis, Antoni Tàpies, Rosemarie Trockel, Egon Schiele, Jürgen Teller, or Franz West, and Rachel Whiteread.

The act of making an idiosyncratic copy of a book cover is in essence a «cover of a cover,» to use the popular music term or a «cover version» as the title of the show suggests.

«Using juxtaposition, redirection, irony and his own idiosyncratic brand of humor, he confronted viewers with powerful symbolic uses of historical artifacts that put them in entirely new contexts,» the historical society's librarians wrote in a 2013 article about the exhibition.

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.

From July 15th through August 12th, the focus is on six artists who have overcome the challenge of working with different types of mediums using their idiosyncratic vocabulary and signature style.

Her works make use of an idiosyncratic visual lexicon, the directness of cartoonish figures, and a flattened perspective, but simultaneously betray a deep awareness of art history and painterly conventions.

Yet, despite this professed lack of theoretical concerns, Li's art frequently demonstrates a fresh treatment of time and space, as well as an idiosyncratic reframing of the technologies that we use in daily life, as with his camera's zoom.

One reason for this is that Dodd sometimes uses idiosyncratic shapes.

Using a distinctly gentle palette, he crafts an idiosyncratic blend of wit and longing.

This variety, and the ease with which the work slips between more and less referential imaging allows us to find that the edge of a mountain is similar to her idea of a line in space; or to track the use of idiosyncratic color combinations and compositional strategies over visually unrelated series.

Highly personal and idiosyncratic, this alphabet allows Koraichi to take typically Islamic forms, with their formulaic inscriptions, and subvert them for his personal use, an act of resistance that he sees as privileging the individual over the community.

Torkwase Dyson is a painter who uses distilled geometric abstraction to create an idiosyncratic language.

Many artists made use of the bed's idiosyncratic shape in their work, from Liliane Tomasko, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Lucian Freud, and Yayoi Kusama to Jannis Kounellis, Antoni Tàpies, Rosemarie Trockel, Egon Schiele, Jürgen Teller, or Franz West, and Rachel Whiteread.

Anna Rosen, with her use of the marbling technique, Nick Irzyk, with his incorporation of marble dust, and his idiosyncratic, jig - saw method of constructing and deconstructing paintings with foam core and plaster, and Nicholas Cueva, by painting against the irregular textures of a wide assortment of textiles typically used to make clothing, all use both art and non-art materials, alike, in order to set up material problems to resolve — but also to produce (5) enzymatic phenomenon to respond to in painterly fashion.