Sentences with phrase «immense scale of»

Re climate science and IPCC, I'll suggest that any internal biases that run counter to self - correction are small in comparison to the immense scale of the anti-science efforts arrayed against the discipline.

Of this work, Gregory Volk writes, ``... [c] onflating inside and outside space, nearness and distances, architecture and nature, a domestic setting and the vast world, contemporaneity and an immense scale of time, this is a risky, breathtaking work, and the apartment seems like a time - travelling capsule of sorts, visiting «remote pasts» as Robert Smithson once wrote, and also, perhaps, «remote futures» long after this current city has changed.»

Beyond the ways in which photographs can not capture the minute detail inseparable from the immense scale of Pindell's work, the exhibition builds a complex understanding of a way to view her work that draws us in by asking us to look deeply and closely at and beneath its surface.

That the daunting, seemingly immense scale of history can not only be made manageable but also enjoyable without sacrificing either gameplay or historical content.

Chinese artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei traveled to more than 20 countries for Human Flow, his film documenting the immense scale of the worldwide refugee crisis.

There's little menacing about it as the movie fails to deliver in visuals the immense scale of power it is said to wield.

Acclaimed director Zhang Yimou's influential wuxia is period martial arts on the immense scale of an Akira Kurosawa epic.

«The immense scale of this genetic study allowed us to analyze for the first time the complex genetic relationship between primary sclerosing cholangitis and IBD,» says Lazaridis.

Not exact matches

Ad - based models are not working, even for large digital players, because «publishers enjoy far less pricing power, and even the largest of us are dwarfed by those who dominate the field, players like Facebook and Google whose immense scale allows them to undercut everybody else.»

BuildaBazaar understands the requirements of a bookstore of such immense scale and all the intricate processes involved.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Seen from the viewpoint of our human experience and drawn to our human scale, the world appears as an immense groping in the dark, an immense searching, an immense onslaught, wherein there can be no advance save at the cost of many setbacks and many wounds.

Jon Sobrino has written that as long as there is suffering, poverty, exclusion and premature death on an immense scale — which is ever more the case in Latin America — there will be need for a theology (whatever its name) that poses the kinds of questions posed by liberation theology.

Contemporary humankind has now to relearn this — on a global scale, and with the benefit of immense scientific knowledge.

Not only are we faced with the immense edifice of Shakespeare scholarship, a massif that simply can not be scaled by any one mortal.

It was a small act of kindness, replicated on an immense scale.

It's an operation of immense logistical ambition on a scale never before seen in England (and only occasionally anywhere else) and yet, for all of that, can we really say it's been a success?

«However, while these statistics are encouraging, they still indicate the scale of the problem faced by drivers and highway authorities is immense.»

In the interview, Mr McCluskey said: «The scale of the task is immense.

The disaster Hurricane Harvey — now a tropical storm — has created is immense in scale, encompassing thousands of square miles of Southeast Texas.

Even for a country of China's size, the scale of the correction is immense.

For so many of us, the scale holds immense power.

Brad Pitt helped produce the movie, and considering its immense scale and enormous population (both live and undead), he appears on - screen a remarkable percentage of the time, playing one of those indestructible super-secret-agent guys customarily portrayed by Tom Cruise.

There is some clever use of scale that takes advantage of Thanos» immense size: when we first see him, he's holding Thor, who's no Jack Sprat, like a rag doll.

While the initial impression of this building is as something of immense scale which also signals its presence as an important place of learning, its internal spaces are designed to encourage both the formal teaching processes which it contains and informal, more chance encounters.

The obstacles are immense and the likelihood of these insights being applied on a large scale in the United States anytime soon are lamentably tiny.

«With 16,000 primary schools needing to become academies in the next five years, the scale of the challenge will be immense.

Its scale is so immense that I involuntarily hunch behind the wheel, very aware of just how microscopic even the mighty McLaren is here.

And the golf is glorious fun: undulating terrain on a grand scale; turf firm and fast with the spring of a dance floor; immense, immaculate greens; and cavernous bunkering at once rugged and artful.

The scale of the Alhambra complex is immense, covering roughly 1,000,000 m2, and during its heyday functioned as a city in its own right, completely separate from Granada below.

On this tour you fly over the lines in small aircraft, with opportunities for photography as well as to view the immense scale and precision of the figures.

Yes, there are missions and races and all that stuff, but the immense world map (which features most of the major cities in the U.S., though obviously not to scale) seems to encourage trying out the three vehicle types (planes, cars and boats) and just going «Holy shit, did you see that?»

Right out of the gate, Destiny sets you up for a seemingly large - scale story focused on a group of warriors known as Guardians, an immense, planet - sized orb called the Traveler and the many alien species set out to destroy it.

Players will wield the iconic Mjölnir, Thor's legendary hammer, to fight enemies of an immense scale while controlling the elemental storm powers of lightning, thunder and wind to vanquish enemies.

Features • Sci - Fi action / adventure combines aerial and on - foot combat for a totally unique third - person shooter experience • Will's jetpack delives total freedom of movement allowing players to race against UFOs in high - speed chases and rain death from above onto unsuspecting otherworldly foes • Speed and scale unmatched by any other action title: send Will zipping through tight corridors and then out into immense canyons and futuristic geoscapes • Gravity - defying vertical combat system, where moving up is the only way to bring your enemies down • Seemless transition between jetpack flight, ship - to - ship dog fighting and third - person shoot - «em - up action all exists within the same level — not broken up into different «areas» • Unique grip system that allows the players to scale walls by jumping from surface to surface and hijack UFO's while in mid-air • Huge bosses that require fast reflexes and aerial barnstorming manoeuvres to defeat • Developed by Airtight Studios, a new group featuring team members from the Crimson Skies series of video games

As in most open world adventure games, you have the ability to upgrade your free running abilities to the point where you will be able to scale immense buildings, and take down larger numbers of zombies with your bare hands.

From the immense reach of the sandbox campaign right down to the human - level drama of a single warrior on the battlefield, we're aiming for an unprecedented level of detail and scale».

From the map of the universe, to the solar system, to the destructible planets, to the ecosystems upon them, the scale was absolutely immense.

The experience and scale of Dark Matter is immense.

Yet the domestic and figurative roots of his work afford visual intimacy, even when he is working on a public scale, which he does with immense if wry conviction.

His paintings of immense scale conjure a complex visual dialogue referencing Dada, Futurism, Surrealism, and early Russian theater.

The drama of Eliot's lines proceeds, at least in part, from their treatment of scale, from their claim to reveal something immense by looking at something very small.

Iva Gueorguieva works on an immense scale and with a boundless energy and busy range that seem to encapsulate the whole history of abstract painting.

The pairing also highlights the different ways of representing the sublimity of the surrounding world, whether through a large representational closeup of an immense wave, or by way of the small - scale, quiet abstraction of a deep blue rectangle framed by fields of white.

OCY: Pipilotti Rist's design includes computer wire or Phyllida Barlow's pieces reminisce her immense scale sculptures of color and form.

They are immense swirls of redness, charismatic scribbles written in blood, on a colossal scale: perhaps the last great masterpieces of abstract expressionism.

Since an immense amount of labor would be rendered invisible, the artist decided to document the contents and curated a miniature exhibition in a scale model museum.

The scale of these works is vastly expanded from those of the 1960s, and the objects are fashioned to mediate the immense natural landscape in which they are situated.

The 21st century scale of China is immense.

Norton's immense scale, on first glance, recall the great painters of the 1950's — Pollock, Still, Dekooning and Rothko — with a further facile read, a more contemporary master, Richter.