Sentences with phrase «kind of renaissance»

In some ways, the city is experiencing a kind of renaissance, with more people moving in instead of out.

It's not as if the rest of British Politics is enjoying any kind of renaissance, either.

At art school in Sheffield, we were taught to draw in a kind of Renaissance tradition of line drawing.

Not surprisingly, the classic figures of the»70s are enjoying a kind of renaissance.

Selling 1,900 copies at 99 cents doesn't make for a mass medium either, exactly, but the hope is that the Singles model might allow for a kind of renaissance of the pamphlet, with benefits accruing to reported pieces.

Sometimes it's reminiscent of Affleck's earlier film The Town, a tale of bred - in - the - bone Boston criminality that bled real blood and inflicted tangible pain, but Affleck has stymied himself by trying to make Joe Coughlin a kind of renaissance crime lord.

And many saw it as some kind of renaissance he was undertaking, pleasing the Spanish fans who had forked out hundreds for international football tickets.

Not exact matches

In some ways Cage represents an attack on the whole Renaissance conception of self - consciousness, and an adoption of a kind of secular - mystical idea of self as an enemy that must be removed before one can delight in the world for its own sake.

Since the New Southern renaissance turned the spotlight on Charleston a decade ago, restaurants have been opening at a gold rush pace, garnering the kind of media attention and food world cred usually reserved for towns with, like, more than 125,000 people.

It's a Renaissance treasure, the kind of perfect church you used to see in Bing Crosby movies.»

I especially want to thank Governor Cuomo for his strong commitment to a project that has made the Aud one of the best facilities of its kind in the state, and that has spurred the economic renaissance of downtown Utica.»

The Mel Gibson one, whatever you may think of Mr. Gibson, the setting does have that sort of early Renaissance feel, you know, it's kind of gritty and the stone walls really do look cold and barren, whereas the Kenneth Branagh one is set in a much — it's like a much later Renaissance, even maybe 150 years later in its look.

It turns out that they date all the way back to the Renaissance age... kind of.

Lately I've also been crushing on dark floral prints; they channel that same kind of early Renaissance opulence.

Seemingly sprung from Rodin, Giacommetti and Italian Renaissance Gothic sculpture, Hill House is an elaborate theme - park castle, adorned with griffins, gargoyles and hundreds of mini busts of children, each of which looks like it's on the verge of witnessing some kind of terror.

While Disney's imminent ascent would come with a return to classic European fairy tales, it's easy to see similarities between Oliver's sense of humor and the kind of comedy housed in the Renaissance musicals.

Ambitious, eclectic, and kind of weird, Streets Of Fire was a box - office flop when it was first released, but has since experienced something of a renaissancof weird, Streets Of Fire was a box - office flop when it was first released, but has since experienced something of a renaissancOf Fire was a box - office flop when it was first released, but has since experienced something of a renaissancof a renaissance.

I'd hazard a guess that the popularity of the flipped classroom idea is one of the drivers of this renaissance of tools to make videos more flexible and useful for teachers, but any teacher could find a way to use this kind of functionality to add value for learners.

We have a renaissance club that recognizes students with T - shirts, Walkman stereos, and several other kinds of gifts.

I came away from my time at the Renaissance school thinking the physical and wilderness aspects of Kurt Hahn's philosophy were kind of missing.

There is renewed interest in cooperative learning, classroom discussions and individual study using books and magazines, so I believe we shall see some kind of educational renaissance soon in Finland.

Through the Urban Hope Act, our five Camden schools, serving grades PK - 12, will be Renaissance Schools: a new kind of public school in New Jersey that combines the autonomy of charter schools with a direct and cooperative relationship with the district.

Under Renaissance 2010, the system hopes to place different kinds of high schools — from selective enrollment to vocational education to, perhaps, single - sex education — across the city, he said.

Honda says CR - Z stands for «Compact Renaissance Zero,» a phrase meant to capture Honda's commitment to go back to the point of origin (zero) to take on the challenge of creating a new kind of compact car, one not bound by the values expressed by traditional coupes.

For a brief moment there was a kind of Camelot, a renaissance in the industry, where for a few giddy years the sky seemed to be the limit.

Demigod's Taylor: «PC Gaming Is Rediscovering Itself» «Gas Powered Games» Chris Taylor (Supreme Commander, Demigod) has been talking to Gamasutra on the renaissance of PC gaming, suggesting the sector»... is kind of rediscovering itself» after a «turbulent ten years», thanks to a massively increased, broader install base.»

It has the look and feel of an early 80s animated picture, filled with sorta - cutesy animal characters but contrasted with darker thematics, the kind that mostly went away with the Disney renaissance of the late 80s.

He continues: «If the Renaissance theorists were right, then we should believe that these kinds of paintings were in some sense inevitable, that sooner or later artists would get the visible world right and a Dutch still life would be the result.

But you get to a point where you kind of go through Northern painting, you go through Italian Renaissance, you spend all these periods really looking at it hard, and you go look at the real stuff and you just kind of run out of things to look at.

I've introduced a different kind of artifice into images of them, photographing them in poses taken from Renaissance painting, bringing together two very different codes of physical expression, each of which heightens the experience of the body in its own fashion.

If the politicized representation of bodies and language in the art world and beyond is one strand of the show — evident also in Frank Benson's 3 - D sculpture of the transgender - renaissance woman Juliana Huxtable (a Triennial artist herself), and in the installations of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who deals with «what it means to be a cosmopolitan Nigerian» — the other side of the exhibition features the kind of futurist imaginings embodied by Trecartin.

The curator, Marie Costello, interim director of the gallery, writes in her catalog essay that the woman is reminiscent of a Renaissance Madonna, and indeed the woman's broad - brimmed black hat appears as a kind of halo around her head.

This kind of tonal process - in which white or a light color is applied to a darker surface - was integral to many Renaissance techniques.

«We were simply operating within the already given theme of «Made in Los Angeles» — to take that at face value and to understand that within that, that announces a certain kind of heterogenic activity in the locale,» said Walker, director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society, a contemporary art museum in Chicago.

These young guys were spanning the spectrum of this history of art production in Los Angeles, and there really was a sense of a sort of renaissance, where not only were they receiving a great amount of attention but they were simultaneously paying a kind of a homage to a certain group of artists who had not received the international attention that they deserved.

However, unlike other similar artists, he worked basically within the framework of traditional Renaissance and Post-Renaissance conventions, even favouring a similar kind of scale.

Traveled to Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago (catalogue) 1968, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935 — 1995, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1994 Garden of Earthly Delights, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago Chicago Imagism: A 25 Year Survey, Davenport Museum of Art, IA 1993 Imagery, Incongruous Juxtapositions, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago 1992 From America's Studio: Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue) 1991 Distorted Figuration, Evanston Art Center, IL 1990 The Mary Jean Thomson Collection, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL Portraits of a Kind, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago 1989 Birthday Cake: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago 1987 Chicago Imagist Print, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago Drawings of the Chicago Imagists, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago 1983 Nilsson, Nutt, Paschke, Rocca and Wirsum, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva Contemporary Chicago Imagists, Merwin and Wakely Gallery, School of Art, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 1982 Chicago on Paper, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, Australia From Chicago, Pace Gallery, New York Hot Chicago, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1980 Who Chicago?

Francis» paintings are valued historically for their one of a kind aesthetic vision, but at the same time, his curious mind and spirit have won him an amazing legacy of a innovative renaissance man.

«Mercer is now such a controversial figure, that must cause all kinds of difficulties for the company,» said Nick Patterson, a computational biologist at the Broad Institute, who hired Mr. Mercer at Renaissance.