Sentences with phrase «individual marks assert»

The flat, unstructured formations of these layers wander over malleable and ethereal backgrounds; individual marks assert themselves and are instantaneously absorbed back into the canvas in a never - ending cycle.

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«All plots,» say Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, «depend upon tension and resolution, «6 and Kenneth Burke demonstrates the inescapable dialectic found in both fictional and historical dramatizations.7 Although we are socialized to think that tension marks an embarrassing and probably unnecessary failure in ministry (one recent book for pastors asserts that «conflict was not God's plan for humanity»), the agón of individual and corporate life is inextricable from a congregation's plot.

The exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, is a major solo show that presents four key bodies of work: Body and Fruit, Critial Mass, Allotment II and Clearing V. «Embedded in the context of Peter Zumthor's architecture, they challenge the fine line in the human psyche that marks the mental balance between asserting oneself as an individual and blending into the masses.»

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.