Sentences with phrase «illusion of form»

Students learn to use light to create the illusion of form in an atmospheric space on a two - dimensional surface.

Today, his work follows geometric design principles of the old masters and he's currently «exploring the simultaneous illusion of form and flatness in space» and has a goal to «portray and better understand our various states of consciousness within ourselves».

The seemingly malleable sculpture is a combination of cardboard and washi paper, extending Cunat's work as an illusion of form and material.

One has trouble deciding what creates the illusion of form, whether the spikes in place of planes for Michael Richards, the more realistically modeled torso, or the spaces between.

I am trying to paint in such a way as to have diversity and sensitivity through looking, but not be tied to description or illusion of form.

The structure of Craycroft's installation borrows from early stop - motion animation techniques like the 20th century setback camera, which gave the illusion of forms moving through real space by filming animation cells on a horizontal glass plane placed in front of a miniature forced perspective set.

Not exact matches

«Much of the welfare state concept was always an illusion, one financed by lavish amounts of debt for which present and future taxpayers will pay in the form of higher taxes and reduced services during their lifetimes,» writes University of Calgary lecturer Mark Milke in a recent article.

«The later stages of the 2009 — 2017 bull market are a valuation illusion built on share buyback alchemy... The technique optically reduces the price - to - earnings multiple because the denominator doesn't adjust for the reduced share count... Share buybacks are a major contributor to the low volatility regime because a large price insensitive buyer is always ready to purchase the market on weakness... Share buybacks result in a lower volatility, lower liquidity, which in turn incentivizes more share buybacks, further incentivizing passive and systematic strategies that are short volatility in all their forms... Like a snake eating its own tail, the market can not rely on share buybacks indefinitely to nourish the illusion of growth.

In his book In Praise of Play, Robert Neale discusses in detail these perversions of play: when peace is «inaction»; when freedom is bondage to one need in our psyche which is dominant; when delight is turned into a work agenda; when illusion is maintained at the expense of other needs and is a form of mental illness; when the story is believed, the time limits ignored, and pretending becomes pretension; when a game is played at the expense of others, breaking the rules; when the risk of adventure is perverted and the gamble removed or fatalistically accepted; or when play is done in secret.

Wealth gets itself locked into illusions that tend to block any form of corrective reproof.

Determined materialists like Dawkins still insist that any perception of overall progress in the diversification of living forms is just an illusion.

Educated Europeans understand, she said, that Sigmund Freud was simply right: Religion is a childish illusion, and clinging to it a form of neurosis.

For Freud, faith is inauthentic, a form of illusion, because it is not educated to reality.

People overlook the fact that illusion has essentially two forms: that of hope, and that of recollection.

For Bonhoeffer, holy worldliness is the only genuine form of holiness possible for the contemporary Christian — anything else is an illusion.

But analysis discloses that this claim is what Kierkegaard might have called «an acoustic illusion»: it is actually the negative echo of the prior claim of classical theists that theirs is the only form of Christian theism there is.

At the same time, one must acknowledge that part of the special enchantment of the novel, considered as a distinct literary form, is the illusion it can create of a fully realized world; a truly great novel is like a magic mirror, whose surface reflects not only the appearances, but the souls of living men and women.

But concurrently in nuce and eventually massively, centrist, elitist, great - power competitors competitiors to people - power arose and flourished in various forms: robber - baron enterprises grew into modern corporations, a federal government that had discovered how to fight a civil war soon found new fields for the exercise of authority and control Concentrations of power in the political and economic spheres began to deprive the people of genuine political participation while keeping them in the illusion that they still possessed it.

Modern science, in the form of quantum theory, has shown us that nearly everything about our universe's reality is illusion.

Constructing a world by our own lights, without reference to God, building on our own foundation; refusing to acknowledge the reality of anything beyond the political and material, while setting God aside as an illusion — that is the temptation that threatens us in many varied forms.

So those who chose to continue with this crucified Christ needed to make new sense of the selves they had formed around this illusion.

As we have suggested already, the cross challenges the favorite forms of the classic illusion in our generation.

In this manner Duméry dispels the illusions of those who would like to reject the forms of expression in order to get at a religious fact in its pure state.

Tosun is under no illusions about the scale of the task Everton will face in trying to overcome an in - form Liverpool.

Here's something to check out: a former anti-gay-marriage activist is accusing the National Organization for Marriage of shady dealings on the internets, claiming that the organization formed a «SWAT team» of social media commenters to give the illusion of popular support to...

Takeovers are a form of corporate cannabilism that allows companies to perpetuate an illusion of growth without creating real added value through endogenous growth.

Basically, the illusion of «democracy» a form of is pacification.

By contrast, it features a different heat signature than its actual signature along the vertical axis, thus forming a different type of illusion, which is visible but not displaying the reality.

Penrose (who at the time was unfamiliar with the work of Reutersvärd, Piranesi and other previous discoverers of the impossible triangle) drew the illusion in its now most familiar form (left) and published his observations in the British Journal of Psychology in 1958, in an article co-authored with his father, Lionel.

This illusion, thought to be based on the lifter's cognitive expectations, and the fact that it is also present in blind echolocators, but not in blind non-echolocators, shows that echolocation is an effective form of sensory substitution for vision.

Prints formed in clay (like those at the Dinosaur Discovery Site) are preserved best, while those in drier sand often appear enlarged, giving the illusion of a bigger animal with shorter strides.

Rather, its existence is merely propagated by an entity known only as SIE (in this context THEY or THEM, not the polite form of YOU), which has conspired with authorities to create the illusion of the city's existence.

However Brahman associated with Maya (cosmic illusion) represents Ishwara (personal god in many religions) which represents the highest limit of the human mind since we need a shape or form to interact or relate to the infinite energy of Universe.

the form or shape of the garment can help you hide, or enhance parts of your body to create a visual illusion that helps overcome «problem areas».

Hug those curves in a form - fitting bodycon midi dress in soft muted colors, or pick one with sheer illusion panels that show just a peek of skin.

Personally, for me, it's allowing your body to make other forms and creating illusions of broadening shoulders or enhancing curves.

However, to the customer, the illusion of print remained in the form of graphic or textured fabrics including jacquards, laces and brocades, a move that was largely embraced by her wholesale partners.

Movies are a form of fakery after all, Welles is the first one to call himself a charlatan, and with great wit he takes us to this fantastic voyage of illusions, a house of mirrors.

The next wave of genre talents emerged in the form of Tristan Barr and Michael Godsen (the nerve - shredding, single - take illusion, Watch the Sunset) and Addison Heath (the bleak, beautiful The Viper's Hex, co-directed by Jasmine Jakupi).

Excellence in Short Form Design «Assassin's Creed» — «I Am,» Commercial (Patrik Milani) Elton John featuring Marilyn Manson: «Tiny Dancer,» Music Video (Sara Sensoy, Dawn Ritz) Katy Perry — «Chained to the Rhythm,» Music Video (B. Ăkerlund) «Miu Miu Women's Tales # 14: The End of History Illusion,» Short Film (Mindy Le Brock) P!NK — «Beautiful Trauma,» Music Video (Kim Bowen)

Most use magic to make fun of the art form, churning punch - lines out of the act of illusion.

As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.

Magic is an inherently cinematic art form, especially now when no illusion seems beyond the reach of a capable visual effects team.

As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies.

* Deleted Scenes (HD, 4 mins)-- «Pentagon», «Right Hand», «Helicopter», «Lewis and Dean» and «Norton Confesses to Dreyfus» * Omnicorp Product Announcement (HD, 4 mins)-- «Exo - Skeleton», «EM - 208», «ED - 29», «XT - 908», «Cruiser 1», «TSR - 6», «M2 Battle Rifle», RC - 2000 V1», «RC - 2000 V3» and «Next Generation RoboCop * RocoCop: Engineered for the 21st Century (HD)-- «The Illusion of Free Will: A New Vision» (8 mins), this featurette focuses on the differences between the original RoboCop and the new RoboCop, «To Serve and Protect: RoboCop's New Weapons» (6 mins), a brief featurette taking a closer look at the weapons used by RoboCop, «The RoboCop Suit: Form and Function» (15 mins), this final featurette looks at the design of the new suit.

«Freedom» like that can feel like slavery for the rest of us, when «choice» comes in the form of 40 brands of lipstick and gadgets that distract us from the degradation of our lives, while robbing us in the areas that count most, education, health care, the environment, the freedom to do work we care about, to hope for the future, to live free of illusion.

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There's a number of ways to dissect the writing craft — or any art form — and this article approaches the topic from the viewpoint of the art of illusion

In a recent interview, thriller writer J.C. Hutchins talked about the times where as he reviews his work he finds dreary stagnant stretches of dialogue, this is poor form in his action / thriller genre so he then injects the illusion of action by including some physical activity for the characters to do.

(It makes for a better story if Cora upon escaping the plantation at first thinks she has found freedom, but then «wakes up» to realize it is an illusion, and moves on, into something even worse...) All of these different experiences of racism, so well described by Edie, were not specific to any one state, but rather, they are all forms of racism that have existed in the South, and some of them in the North too, at different time periods — and all have their counterparts in our lives today.