Sentences with phrase «in oblique ways»

Regarded as an environmental storyteller, he creates small Maine landscapes that are as much an allusion as illusion, referring to natural and human history in oblique ways.

Sometimes, college essay writing serves as the process of discovery in oblique ways.

It does not equate to physical strength (except perhaps in an oblique way).

In each case the artists link their work to craft and a social context, experimenting with very known means — photography, painting, and gallery installation — to arrive at something both familiar and strange, continuing in an oblique way the methodologies seen in the two exhibitions at Martin - Gropius - Bau.

Not exact matches

In something of an oblique way this article alludes to the 5th Crusade and the Sultan Malik s well as St. Francis Assisi and we must bear in mind (in all of this violent conflict) that the Mediterranean is actually the junction of three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) and that powerful empires have been bumping into one another since the beginning of recorded history (Babylon, Egypt, Persian, Assyria, Alexander, Rome, Carthage, the Moors, Christian Crusaders, El Cid -LRB-!In something of an oblique way this article alludes to the 5th Crusade and the Sultan Malik s well as St. Francis Assisi and we must bear in mind (in all of this violent conflict) that the Mediterranean is actually the junction of three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) and that powerful empires have been bumping into one another since the beginning of recorded history (Babylon, Egypt, Persian, Assyria, Alexander, Rome, Carthage, the Moors, Christian Crusaders, El Cid -LRB-!in mind (in all of this violent conflict) that the Mediterranean is actually the junction of three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) and that powerful empires have been bumping into one another since the beginning of recorded history (Babylon, Egypt, Persian, Assyria, Alexander, Rome, Carthage, the Moors, Christian Crusaders, El Cid -LRB-!in all of this violent conflict) that the Mediterranean is actually the junction of three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) and that powerful empires have been bumping into one another since the beginning of recorded history (Babylon, Egypt, Persian, Assyria, Alexander, Rome, Carthage, the Moors, Christian Crusaders, El Cid -LRB-!!)

A Thai friend recently told me he was «kin nam phrik jaak thuay derm,» literally, always eating nam phrik from the same bowl, an oblique way of saying that he was bored in his relationship.

In a statement, President Dick Iannuzzi makes an oblique reference to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's criticism of the education system for costing too much money, but offering little in the way of success when it comes to test scores and other indicatorIn a statement, President Dick Iannuzzi makes an oblique reference to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's criticism of the education system for costing too much money, but offering little in the way of success when it comes to test scores and other indicatorin the way of success when it comes to test scores and other indicators.

As an autistic savant, writer Daniel Tammet approaches numbers in a brilliantly oblique way.

While you may think twisting your torso on the ab rotator is the way to target obliques, you'll find that your dominant muscles in your arms and shoulders end up stealing the benefit from your abs.

Apart from targeting the upper and lower rectus abdominis muscles and both sets of obliques, it also hits the transverse abdominis, which makes it a unique and complete abs workout that effectively targets every muscle in the abdominal area, leading the way to a stronger core.

It is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve core strength in the lower back and obliques.

During the 100 repetitions that you are required to do for this test, you'll engage your obliques and serratas in a way that few other exercises can.

This works the lower glutes and obliques in a big way.

This is a way to increase the complexity of the side plank and add in some oblique training at the same time.

Brilliantly executed, Wong's peculiarly decentered violent sequences are actually more evocative of the battle scene in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight than they are of Leone's operatic showdowns, especially in the way they concentrate on ephemeral, oblique details rather than heroic spectacle.

One of its treasures is the oblique way it handles the subject of the 8 - year - old's race; the movie lives in a time when we have more or less gotten over the fact that someone else is of a different color, and can move on to more interesting differences.

Very early on in the process of doing last year's crossover, Greg Berlanti said there's probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can't increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that's a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.

Now, this approach doesn't exactly identify stressed situations on an industry basis except indirectly, as market prices tend to reflect the level of «stress», but in some sense it's doing the same thing in an oblique, company - specific way.

In the Jan 1, 1999 issue of the AVMA Journal there was a report on X-ray technique for diagnosing fractured coronoid processes and they found that a craniolateral - caudomedial oblique X-ray (not part of the standard views taken at most practices) was the best way to see a fractured coronoid process.

«I think it works really nicely in that last gallery where artists are struggling with those questions in a more oblique way, or even struggling with the question of what to paint.

Her Biennale may touch on timely themes, but in a more oblique way.

The popup is organized in a way which suggests a kind of historical narrative progression, in contrast with the nonlinear configuration of Vertical Elevated Oblique.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

They reveal the oblique ways that we repress historical trauma, burying it in the very sites of their origin,» says Simblist.

In Dylan's case, the connection between painting and music has been expressed somewhat differently, perhaps, in a more oblique way, which is often typical of DylaIn Dylan's case, the connection between painting and music has been expressed somewhat differently, perhaps, in a more oblique way, which is often typical of Dylain a more oblique way, which is often typical of Dylan.

«Flowers serve a metaphor and are used in oblique and surprising ways by contemporary artists,» says James Barron.

The project I've been so wrapped up in recently, called Seat Assignment, which was recently shown at Catharine Clark in San Francisco, has in some ways been an oblique response to this desire to work more with my hands.

This section of the show includes straightforward depictions as well as works that deal in a more oblique way with aspects related to the American territory, for instance questioning the way it is understood and represented in the popular imagination, or by presenting it as a beautiful and privileged spectacle ripe for plundering (by the movie industry and others).

There's quite a contrast between Curbelo's position and the shape - shifting views of presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio, who in 2014 said, «I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» and continues, at best, to offer oblique, meaningless replies when the issue comes up.

Here too there is a curious oblique Biblical resonance: the story of the escape of Israel from Egypt describes how the Israelites were guided in the wilderness: «And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light...» (Exodus 13:21) The natural «fire from heaven» reverses this supernatural pattern: by day the ground and sea receive fiery direct sunlight, while (as we shall see) a significant fraction of the nocturnal «fire» is provided by cloud.