Sentences with phrase «kind of alertness»
John Walsh, then director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., described Ms. Tucker in especially apt terms in a 1993 article in The New York Times: «There's always been a social conscience in Marcia that's impatient and results in a kind of alertness you can just read across her forehead like a Jenny Holzer sign.»
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Their commitment to the idiosyncrasy and unpredictability of their characters creates an unusual kind of suspense, a slightly uncomfortable kind of increased alertness.
This combination can produce a kind of a suspense, a heightened sense of the present and it is this state of alertness that I am interested in exploring.»
He described «the idea of a new kind of freedom, a freedom of expression, a very democratic kind of principle» which had taught him, through the Black Mountain community's alertness to new ideas, that art could be anything.