Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic way of»

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

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

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.»

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.

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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

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.

Dean (Demetri Martin, who also wrote the movie) and his father, Robert (Kevin Kline), find their own (idiosyncratic, and painfully clever) ways to deal with the loss of Dean's mother.

There are also some fun roles for some idiosyncratic people they meet along the way, from a trip of game hunters who get involved in the chase, to a young girl and her father who get involved in trying to help Ricky, and a zany turn from Rhys Davies as a hermitic and completely off - his - rocker conspiracy theorist convinced the world is out to get him.

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.

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.

Anderson's idiosyncratic style of oddball, dialogue - driven humor is present, but like those previously mentioned films, it's the way that humor and those strange characteristics tie to the central thematic focus that make Anderson's work more than the sum of its eccentric parts.

Most important, they have no way of determining that introduction of the «similar approaches» was the cause of improvement, as opposed to being just present when other systematic or idiosyncratic factors promoted improvement in these several schools.

In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius, The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place.

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.

BlackRock writes that the iShares MSCI World Small Cap UCITS ETF (WSML) is a way for investors to express a nuanced view within their equity allocation, allowing them to take a building block approach to broad exposure but with a lower level of idiosyncratic risk than single stock investments.

Because of the generally idiosyncratic nature of financial prices, we must have a way of understanding the implications for our portfolio of abnormal market conditions.

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

Similarly, Silent Hill 2's way of determining your ending was so subtle and idiosyncratic and tied to weird, minor gameplay choices, it worked so much better than overtly branching narratives found in other games.

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

So you're dealing with a highly, highly specific property that's idiosyncratic to one persona and one person's point of view and the way in which they interpret sort of culture and Western culture and twist that back around into this super pure amazing property that has a tone that I think is unlike anything else that is out there.»

Butler writes: «At first glance, the paintings convey a sense of joy, in the same way that Paul Klee's idiosyncratic visual language does.

Alice Neel, a great American portraitist who died in 1984, fits this description to a T. Sixteen paintings from her estate, currently on display at LA Louver Gallery, provide a brief but satisfying introduction into her highly idiosyncratic art and - to put it mildly - into her unconventional way of life.

There's no way of getting to «Beverley's Little Car» from looking at the painted relief of that title, and any connection in the artist's mind seems entirely idiosyncratic, but cartoon - like associations do come to mind for me and those circular shapes could easily suggest wheels.

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.

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.

While the 1980s may have been idiosyncratic and highly specific in many ways, the revivification of works like Bender's, Bloom's and Wodiczko's proves that there's plenty in «Brand New» that's still timely, even over 30 years later.

Instead and pressingly, even with wild up and downs, flaws and all, the 2017 Whitney Biennial is the best of its kind in some time for the multiple ways it reveals how — selected as it is, without overdetermined political and aesthetic dogma, and curators remaining open to the exigencies of pleasure and the mysterious ways that art mutates but doesn't play catch - up — a show of artists simply at work, whether making expressionistic paintings, idiosyncratic functional constructions, casting the further shores of socially activist conceptualism, or documenting collapsing ecosystems or family dynamics — that artists are always addressing and channeling issues of the day.

I am often attracted to paintings of things the way they are found in nature, respecting its subtle tones and mysterious, idiosyncratic forms.

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.

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

Yet, far from an autobiographical study, the work evokes varieties of collective cultural memory, the contrasting ways in which different inhabitants of the landscape identify with its idiosyncratic character and atmosphere.