Sentences with phrase «like early attempts»

The attempt to set a threshold for consciousness with our limited definition is much like early attempts to establish freezing and boiling points without a thermometer or a good definition of temperature, he says.

Its elaborate exterior ironwork is painted battleship gray, and the windows are so large that the building looks like an early attempt at the International Style.

Not exact matches

Founded by three tech veterans, who between them have experience working early on at companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Foursquare, Oceans is attempting to help entrepreneurs steer clear of common mistakes.

His tweet got the instant like from Minister of Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad who had earlier warned the Facebook of taking «stringent action» if any attempt was made by them to influence the electoral process in India.

In his early failed attempts, «I tried to sound like what I thought they wanted.

It was unfortunate that the earliest attempts to liberalize Islamic theology were quickly followed, in the first half of the twentieth century, by the attempts of Muslim leaders like Ataturk, in Turkey, and Reza Shah, in Persia, to force their societies to emulate the secular West.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

But the early church, like everything else human, was mind as well as heart, and almost at once was seriously engaged in the attempt to understand this concrete meaning: «Why is Jesus so important?

Like someone who has moved on beyond early collective attempts on morality.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

We took on a few more regular cleansing practices like infrared saunas, enemas, skin brushing, yoga that focused more on stretching, twisting and breathing, meditating daily and semi-successful attempts to go to sleep earlier.

Buy a player early when season tickets are due and then make stupid attempts to potentially buy players i.e Vardy if you wanted him why activate his clause just bid above it and be open like everyone else and say you want him.

(if he can't get back because he's «injured» then surely he doesn't take off like that...) 76:46 Nouhou skies his attempt on goal 76:50 (at the earliest) ball is put back in play by SKC (ESPN is busy showing the replay not the action on the field) 77:01 long ball is played from the SKC defense down Nouhou's side

The governing bodies of the USGA and R&A are attempting to simplify the rule book to account for things like, you know, intent — but that won't take effect until 2019 at the earliest.

maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think

However, for players like Bellerin and Iwobi I think it is too early to write them of with certainty before a talented manager has actually bothered to attempt to develop them.

Its for such a short amount of time.Our evening routine consists of a bath followed by a feed then another feed etc. it could take up to four attempts to put him down.I know he's not hungry he's just using me as a comfort but i think its so special that i can offer him that, like i said earlier, its for such a shory time.

After George Osborne's Budget triumph, if the going gets rocky for the Prime Minister in the months ahead — in his attempts to re-negotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership, for example — the clamour from the Tory back benches for Mr Osborne to move next door from No. 11 to No. 10 Downing Street earlier than Mr Cameron would like will grow among those backbenchers who cheered his Budget wildly and waved their order papers in a frenzy.

It looks like there has been an agreement on Leveson in the early hours of this morning, so Peter Bone MP is going to be denied his attempt to make the House sit into the early hours like the good old days.

Never again, they vowed, would the planet be forced to sit by, powerless, while oil execs confessed — after the fact — that stopping a leak at such depths is like performing «open - heart surgery at 5,000 feet in the dark,» as BP America's chairman and president, Lamar McKay, told ABC News about the early attempt to plug the well by triggering the failed blowout preventer.

Crude devices a little like this already exist; years ago I helped Joe Rosen, a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Dartmouth Medical School, build one — the «nerve chip,» which was an early attempt to route around nerve damage using prosthetics.

If you're someone who likes the density that can often come with really healthy baking, you may have liked some of the earlier attempts too.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

The Alienist looks like the detective procedural got a gaslamp - lit makeover, with stars Brühl, Luke Evans, and Dakota Fanning teaming up to work as early criminal profilers in 1896, attempting to get into the mind of one of New York City's first serial killers before they hunt him down.

In the Nineties and the early 2000s, attempts to make black superhero movies tended to play like Blaxploitation - lite, running the gamut from intentionally hilarious (1993's Meteor Man and 1994's Blankman) or hilariously bad (Steel and Spawn, both 1997).

But per Schrader's Dylan Thomas title (fresh from its mantra - like use in Interstellar), Lake refuses to go gentle into that good night, intent on tracking down the Arab terrorist, Muhammad Banir (Alexander Karim) who kidnapped and tortured him two decades earlier in an attempt to unmask a CIA sleeper agent in his ranks.

Like Ross's own old - meets - new appropriation, the 1981 meta - musical Pennies From Heaven, in which Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken danced and lip - synched to Depression era - standards, Brewer's Footloose is an attempt to get at the heart of contemporary culture via slavish re-creation of an earlier time.

In the Good Dinosaur, she attempts to reach the same emotional depth as her earlier film while mixing in spiritual elements like The Lion King.

It now seems like he's attempting to blend those more mainstream sensibilities with his earlier independence as he's set to reteam with the star of his earlier films, Aaron Eckhart, as well as Ed Harris, for The Geography of Hope.

VanBebber's strategy of fabricating a new antique is in line with Guy Maddin's stated attempt to do the same — the distinction being that The Manson Family actually resembles what people were watching in Texas drive - ins circa the 1970s whereas Maddin's films look like the state in which modern viewers can see silent and early sound pictures.

It's clear that he suffers from substance abuse early on, but his desperate attempt to track down more hydromorphone feels like it comes from a different movie.

Following the huge misfires like the Aaron Paul vehicle Need For Speed, the late - 80s attempt to bring Super Mario Brothers to the big - screen, the recent Tomb Raider and even that early vehicle for Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, Doom (and countless others) Tinseltown hasn't quite managed to successfully transfer the allure of the source material to celluloid.

She was even thrown into a film that felt like it was ripped from cinema screens sixty years earlier — the musical dramedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, where she plays a scatterbrained American actress attempting to break into the business, as well as navigate relationships with three very different men.

Earlier this month, the President unveiled the $ 4.3 - billion jobs program that looked a lot like a measure the Democrats attempted to authorize during the waning days of the 97th Congress.

In schools like McKinley Elementary in Compton — where an early attempt to invoke the law fizzled after a heated court battle between the district and parents — and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sides.

Palmer says the new Maxima is an attempt to put some excitement back into the Nissan lineup, but it's a styling mess and doesn't seem to me like the car that will rekindle the days of the early 1990s when the Maxima was a Very Big Deal.

Early attempts at social reading focused on the sharing of insight and ideas about the text, something that was perfect for the academic market since it allowed students and professors to make comments within a user's book, much like margin notes.

HMS: It sounds like the early stages of many attempts at using new technology, when the issues are initially, communication methods between disparate groups.

Compared to a pure fundamental investor who got out of the market much earlier because of pure fundamental reasons and as such missed the ride of a lifetime, technical trend traders like us do not attempt to predict when the market bubble will pop.

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Seems like it's being released in 2016 in an early attempt to get Nintendo back in the game and make up for the disappointing sales of the Wii U.

Developed in direct response to the then - stratospheric popularity of Street Fighter 2, the weapon - centric brawler quickly outclassed earlier attempts like Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting; these would have the last laugh when SNK rolled both series together to discover the true King of Fighters.

But then there's some that trivialise parts of the game, like the fact that there's now no penalty to attempting Hammer counterattacks too early.

These earliest attempts at mixing real - life video footage with virtual reality are the best way to show people what it truly feels like to be inside of a virtual space so we're letting streamers and content creators easily share VR footage that's clear, understandable, and ready for mainstream viewers.

Nor do I think, like Sam, that «Red Label» is a flat image; I think it has, along with quite a bit of Smith's very early, freely - brushed but clearly structured work of the late fifties, more spatial «life» in it than much of the stuff that came later, work that attempted to wed painting to literal three - dimensionality.

His smaller works look like failed attempts to recycle wood scraps as picture frames, and indeed an early listing called his latest show «The New Picture Plane.»

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Being in a room full of Philip Guston's paintings is like time traveling — back to both the artist's own era in which the work was made, and to my first attempts to make abstract work, when I was in my early twenties.

Earlier this year Christie's held an auction that, rather embarrassingly, attempted to capitalize on the bad - boy reputation and aesthetic of artists like Guyton, Christopher Wool, Richard Prince and others.

In the early 1970s the African - American artist Al Loving (1935 - 2005) dismayed some of his admirers (and his dealer) when he abandoned his crisp geometric style of painting in an attempt, as he later told an interviewer, to find out «whether there is black art and what it looks like.»