Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic ways»

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

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

Lawyers are notorious for the unique and even idiosyncratic ways in which they deal with their clients.

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

This is not only to be avoided with the subjects chosen for study, which should not be presented as isolated bits of information forever fixed in time; it is even more the case with our students, who are not to be identified as personality types or classified according to I.Q. without keeping in mind that they are living, changing individuals who encounter the subject - matter in highly idiosyncratic ways.

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).

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.»

See, Taylor and Landry are talented in idiosyncratic ways.

His recent furniture - like hybrid sculptures conflate (and confuse) form and function in highly idiosyncratic ways.

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.»

Still, we each have our own idiosyncratic way of how we like to plate our dinner: my daughter likes everything on one plate but no touching allowed.

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.

As they get past those first larval months, if you're actually paying attention to your baby's emotional and physical cues, you can start to make sense of what they need, because in their own idiosyncratic ways, they're often telling you.

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.

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.

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.

It's certainly a good companion piece to Dunkirk, these two British directors of about the same age grappling with their nation's most foundational modern history in their own idiosyncratic ways.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

They show his idiosyncratic way of working, his connectedness with the contemporary art world and colleagues, his sense of humour, his critique of society and hybris, comments on political attitudes, his mix of high and low culture, the idea of repetition in his work.

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

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.

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

Grand Openings» practice relates to these questions in an idiosyncratic way and opens them up for new discussion.

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.

Incorporating aspects of sculpture, drawing, video, collage, poetry, tapestry, and web, Cameron Platter's practice appropriates and filters, in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way, the enormous volume of information available today.

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.

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

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.

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.

For a lawyer these questions present a field - day (the standard source book, Child Support the Legislation 2007 - 2008 (2009 - 10 is still awaited), Jacobs & Douglas, Sweet & Maxwell at 154 provides six pages of recondite discussion on «habitual residence» interpreting the authorities, sometimes, in an idiosyncratic way).

It is up to the questioner to realize the misunderstanding or idiosyncratic way in which a witness has interpreted the question and rephrase so as to flush out the whole truth that they seek.