Sentences with phrase «in austere times»

Even in austere times, there is public support for valuing the enormous contribution that kinship carers make in bringing up vulnerable children,» said Katherine Rake, chief executive of the Family and Parenting Institute.

Second, in these austere times the Ministry of Justice needs the money.

On a percentage basis, it does not seem very much (in Government terms anyway) but why would the Government scrap an easy and assured way of collecting revenue in austere times?

Eva Frankfurther @ Ben Uri gallery Eva Frankfurther uses a drab, dull palette of browns and greys — perfect for her paintings of refugees and working people in austere times, Dockers have a meagre lunch and families go about their day to day lives.

In these austere times, it is easy for the household finances to get out of control so you find yourself in debt.

Schools can talk about cuts in real terms and that's a reasonable case but a hard one to answer in austere times when other areas of national spend are seeing actual cuts.

Each single element came to smoothen and complement another and form a complete picture that reinforced a different idea of femininity while opening a whole new range of emotions and faith in promises yet to be fulfilled in these austere times that we are living.

Cameron's cheery optimism has always been a great electoral strength but some fear in these austere times it's not appropriate.

Do the Conservatives sincerely believe that fairness in austere times means cutting inheritance tax?

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But the momentum of events in Manchester — plus the lure of extra government funding in these austere times — have concentrated neighbouring council leaders» minds wonderfully.

The belt - tightening that individual UK residents make on their own charitable contributions in austere times makes it all the more important that government picks up the slack.

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Another option many travelers swear by is the simple but austere Anti — Jet Lag Fast, which involves not eating at all for 12 to 16 hours before breakfast time in the new time zone.

For a time, the stakes and the peculiarity of the situation arrest our attention, and so does the austere beauty of dawn as seen through the trees or the orange mist of candlelight in an old, dark house.

Béla Tarr's bleak and bitter film is a glacially paced nightmare in which the scare factor has been replaced with desperate melancholy; it is composed with his characteristic long takes, anvil silences and fiercely unsmiling faces, shot in undersea monochrome, and prefaced with Tarr's habitual austere titles in Times Roman.

The Fire Last Time: Lonergan's Austere Portrait of Razed Emotions in Chilly New England Kenneth Lonergan...

Just finished re-reading it tonight and this time was able to hear the austere dialogue spoken in my ear by Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit - McPhee, Robert Duvall, Garret...

DOMINIC COOKE: It's about a very particular moment, a particular moment in a couple's life but also a particular moment in history - 1962, before the kind of revolution of the»60s kicked in and Britain was still stuck in a very sort of repressed, austere time.

European in style without being austere (it's a textured, tendered film, even funny in places), beautifully lensed throughout, it's perhaps above and beyond anything else a ghost story about how the past can haunt and change us long after the fact, how time shifts and changes us, and how unearthed secrets can make you reevaluate everything in your life.

Written with the austere clarity that has made J. M. Coetzee the winner of two Booker Prizes, Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes, with unforgettable, at times almost unbearable, vividness the plight of a country caught in the chaotic aftermath of centuries of racial oppression.

Shown for the first time in the U.S., Gaillard's monumental work Artefacts (2011) imparts a reflection on the myth of Babylon takes form through a montage of scenes from post-conflict Iraq interwoven with images of the ancient civilization's antiquities, none more famous perhaps than the Ishtar Gate, reconstructed in an austere gallery of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin in the 1930s.

The Modern and Whitney shows share three Americans: Joseph Stella and Marsden Hartley, who both spent time in Europe soaking up advanced ideas before World War I, and Georgia O'Keeffe, who was spurred toward abstraction in 1916 by the austere terrain of the American Southwest.

There's a layer of time in the way Twombly's Bacchus paintings seem both to go back to earlier works, like the blackboard paintings that are in some ways so austere and cerebral.

Bathing his subjects in an austere light, and rendering them with strong, confident brushwork, Michaël Borremans executes paintings that seduce and hold at bay, keeping the history of art in dialogue while committing wholly to the iconography of our time.

In 2014, LACMA mounted a large - scale sculptural installation of Pashgian's work, which the Los Angeles Times called «elegant and austere, dramatic and sensual....»

An undercurrent of place in time and location guide viewers through the works as they situate themselves in the abstract and austere beauty.

This metamorphosis done from series that overlapped in time, with contributions from Kitsch, from graffiti, with evocations from Pop and employing popular culture colours, led him to some sort of baroque from which he later escaped when he worked on monumental scale works, to which polished, rusted or burnt steel gave a much more austere aspect.

Mr. Stanczak remained affiliated with the Martha Jackson Gallery until it closed in 1979, by which time Op Art had been largely superseded by Minimalism and other more austere kinds of geometric abstraction — at least within the confines of New York.

Taking cues from modern dance, and simultaneously playing on the repetitiveness in her painting practice, Otto - Knapp presents a series of large canvases that show overlaying scenes of animation: uniform figures at times suspended on austere backgrounds; at times floating in a moon - like landscape of indeterminate place or time.

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Tate Modern has opted for the austere work of Polish artist Miroslaw Balka for its major Turbine Hall commission, avoiding the funfair - like installations of recent years in these recession - dampened times.

It was the post-war era and the fresh designs were in stark contrast to the austere times and rationing.