Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic way»

Each local government has its own extremely idiosyncratic way of calculating how much an individual property is taxed.

In his own idiosyncratic way, Qureshi combines these traditional motifs and techniques with conceptualism and abstract painting, and keen observations of current - day Pakistan are in evidence throughout this young painter's work.

Please join us: Music in Alternative Spaces # 6: Colin Clark Saturday, May 27, 9 pm, at Mercer Union FREE The Lions band will play verbal, graphic, and indeterminate scores by John Cage, Colin Clark, Christopher May, Michael Parsons, and Christian Wolff in their own idiosyncratic way.

(Which gets mis - subtitled in Prouvost's idiosyncratic way as «How may feeling a cow can always be in?

I find his canvases strange, but not creepy - strange because of the idiosyncratic way in which he applies paint.

Blurring the distinction between high and low, Platter's work appropriates, references, and filters, in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way, the enormous amounts of information available to us today.

In this disarming talk, he shares the journey of an artist, starting from age eight, and his idiosyncratic way of thinking and seeing.

It bends the museum's third - floor space in a totally idiosyncratic way and feels personal and coldly calculated almost at the same time.

In an idiosyncratic way Lee Ufan is a truly global figure.

Each of the artists employs his or her materials in an uncompromisingly idiosyncratic way.

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.

At the same time, I appreciate blogs that keep me informed about a wide range of art and art news, such as Hyperallergic; painter Sharon Butler «s blog Two Coats of Paint; and critical writing that does keep current with art exhibitions but in an idiosyncratic way, like painter Bradley's Rubenstein «s reviews on Culture Catch.

Abramowitz writes: «As is typical of his paintings, [Auerbach's] drawings often show many layers of built - up re-workings until there is a dense mangle of lines, each mark thought through, erased and re-considered until he is satisfied... His working process results in portraits that are both an expression of his reaction to the sitter, and his own idiosyncratic way of working, creating, destroying, and creating anew.»

And more to the point, you begin to wonder how, even over the creep of time and tradition, we could have come to a point at which authors are typically paid in such an industry - idiosyncratic way, at such odd intervals, with so little verification of what's owed and what's paid.

But through the layerings of sentimentality, irony, burlesque, and wordplay, in his own idiosyncratic way Rudolph critiques the debased civics and incoherent politics of the Clinton era, where everybody is on the make and has sex on the brain.

While Tim Burton was far calmer and more thoughtful than his appearance might suggest, Ang Lee, with whom Rickman worked on Sense and Sensibility opposite Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson (who also wrote the Academy Award - winning screenplay), had an entirely idiosyncratic way of communicating with his actors.

And you know that you're following your idiosyncratic way of doing things.

Along with Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda (Woman is the Future of Man, 2004) and Book chon bang yang (The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang - soo, 2011), In Another Country provided a welcome introduction to the South Korean auteur's idiosyncratic way with actors, repetition, and relationships.

Howard University physiology professor Mark Burke says the idiosyncratic way Harvey cut up the brain makes it hard to study, even with unbiased, state - of - the - art cell - counting techniques.

Henry (E. B) Ford recorded his debt to Huxley in his contribution to the Eugenics Society volume, albeit in a typically idiosyncratic way.

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.

All of this was certainly a very idiosyncratic way of reading the tradition of the Church, but we must not forget that the understanding of «dogma» was still in flux and not defined until sixty later at the First Vatican Council (1870/71).

He was always moving on to the next project, more often than not conceived of as brilliant but in idiosyncratic ways that both thrilled and baffled his friends.

Regardless, both films would make an ideal double feature on the idiosyncratic ways a filmmaker can re-invent the biographical drama and stir our perspectives during the process.

Some people learn in their own idiosyncratic ways, he said.

The combination of free will, abundant tools and a robust physical rule set allows you to achieve things in idiosyncratic ways.

Midwestern artists seem more likely to develop their own individual and idiosyncratic ways, less influenced by current trends.

Her sculptures, which she has said «interweave time and space and navigate information in idiosyncratic ways that search for something that is outside of language,» can be seen as the starting point and primary source for her painting.

Yuskavage and Currin undermine erotic conventions in their own idiosyncratic ways, while Cotton merely plays into them in a manner that's more pedestrian than provocative.

Known for her immersive and mixed - media installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost's work addresses miscommunication and moments lost in translation.

Her practice, which moves from sculpture to collage as well as video performance, considers the history of the found object and assemblage - redeploying existing materials or moments in unexpected, idiosyncratic ways.

Child custody evaluations apply — or more accurately, don't apply — principles and constructs from professional psychology in completely haphazard, random, and idiosyncratic ways based on the biases and personal attitudes of the evaluator, and there is absolutely no inter-rater reliability to the conclusions and recommendations reached by the child custody evaluator, meaning that two different evaluators can reach entirely different conclusions and recommendations based on the same data.

As far as the conclusions and recommendations from child custody evaluations, they just make up whatever they want based on their own personal beliefs and inherent personal biases, they then apply some psychological constructs in entirely haphazard and idiosyncratic ways to justify whatever biased and idiosyncratic conclusion was reached, and they usually take a middle - of - the road risk - management response of recommending the status quo with the addition of «reunification therapy» and an admonishment to both parents that the degree of parental conflict is harming the child and that the parents need to co-parent better.

The book is dense with revelations, from the unexpected popularity of certain sexual positions, to the average number of times happy — and unhappy — couples kiss, to the prevalence of lying, to the surprising loyalty most men and women feel for their partner (even when in a deteriorating relationship), to the vivid and idiosyncratic ways individuals of different ages, genders and nationalities describe their «ideal romantic evening.»

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This reading of Smith is also evident in James Q. Wilson's new book, The Moral Sense (Free Press), and is in no way idiosyncratic with Novak, as anyone who has ever read The Theory of Moral Sentiments well knows.

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.

Forgetting the idiosyncratic, unspeakably diverse crowds of strangers, we become drawn through television to the familiar faces, myths and visions of the American Way of Life, thereby putting ourselves in touch with a shared vision of the human order — a vision that engages our loyalties and makes sense of our world.

The way he elaborates them is at times idiosyncratic (for example, his understanding of the divinity that the persons of the Trinity share as analogous to a force field), but he shares these themes with many other theologians.

Smith and Denton regard this «recognizable religion» as a middle way between organizational religion (that of churches, denominations and seminaries) and individual religion (which is idiosyncratic, eclectic, syncretistic).

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.

Yourgrau explains Weil's antipathy towards the Jewish God in an idiosyncratic but convincing way.

The idea of the unequal glory of the blessed may run against our egalitarian instincts, but it is really a way of saying that individuals count, Saints are highly idiosyncratic.

Each child gives you pause to adjust, navigate, learn, accept, rage at, love or enjoy every little step; every idiosyncratic need; and every challenge or pleasure that comes your way.

The British have always been different in an idiosyncratic and quirky way, but so have the French, the Germans, the Italians and all the rest.

Through trial and error and ingenuity, modern artists have discovered ways of tapping into idiosyncratic aspects of the brain's primitive perceptual grammar, producing the equivalent for the human brain of what the striped stick is for the chick's brain.

However, the crime aspect of Pearce's screenplay in Beast is treated as background novice or a sinister way to place his already idiosyncratic couple at arm's length from the niceties of the townsfolk.

I chased those two commercial offerings with smaller, more idiosyncratic selections, both of which functioned, in their very different ways, as portraits of community.