Sentences with phrase «more abstract language»

Dads use far more abstract language, which we know is really good for children's vocabulary development.

The more abstract language that some teachers use can be taken as fancy imagery to help guide your poses.

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When the Oliners affirm that the language of care — of compassion, hospitality, and helpfulness — is overwhelmingly employed to express their motives, they clearly imply that face - to - face compassion is a far more salient motive for sacrificial and heroic moral altruism than abstract principles of equity and justice.

Then, pious as it is to think of Him, while the pageant of experiment or abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more than a poetry of thought, or an ornament of language, a certain view taken of Nature which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.

The program director for World Vision's work in South Sudan, Perry Mansfield, said: «When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry.»

Perhaps we should read this turn to more abstracted religious language as a fulfillment or completion of the modern and sociological turn in anti-Protestant polemic initiated by Balmes.

As Spelke sees it, these cognitive tools underlie all the more complex skills and knowledge we master as we grow up — spoken languages, number manipulation and other abstract mental operations.

«When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry,» WorldVision's South Sudan Program Director Perry Mansfield said in a statement.

However, scissors, lizard, and Spock call for imagining hand gestures that are more abstract and iconic than those needed to grasp the visual objects, and suggests, says Andersen, that this area of the brain may also be involved in more general hand gestures, such as ones we use when talking, or for sign language.

Garland's screenplay is equally impressive, weaving references to mythology, history, physics, and visual art into casual conversations, in ways that demonstrate that Garland understands what he's talking about while simultaneously going to the trouble to explain more abstract concepts in plain language, to entice rather than alienate casual filmgoers.

But, on the other hand, they used a lot of very different language, more abstract, more challenging to children - so I think that might be one of the reasons why it had such a big impact on children's language and cognitive development.

ELLs do need to be able to converse informally, but they also need to be able to use more complex, abstract language in order to comprehend and use academic English.

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

These models help translate the rubric's abstract language into more specific, concrete, and understandable terms.

The definition continues: «Traumatic brain injury applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem - solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psycho - social behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.

Graphic tablet manufacturer Wacom has just given birth to WILL - otherwise known as the Wacom Ink Layer Language.Wacom announced on Wednesday that it has developed a standard abstract language for drawing and handwriting on the screens of mobile devices,... Read more

Even if your topic is more abstract, like computational theory or the Slavic languages, there must be a picture that will capture it and grab the shopper's attention.

Nintendo has a history of using fake languages to get around that problem and provide something more abstract and pleasing to the ear, and I wish they had stuck to that.

Susan is really looking at aesthetics right now and trying to sort out a new artistic language that allows her to maybe express things in more abstract ways.

Don Voisine is still more abstract, with his black diagonals wedged between colored horizontals, but the crosses become a sign language — as in a show last summer, «The Ghost in the Machine.»

And perhaps an abstract artist is more likely to achieve that ambition than a figurative one, because colours and shapes are a shared international language?

«Today, more than forty years after his arrival in the United States, Natvar Bhavsar is recognized by critics and historians as having extended the language of abstract painting.»

I wouldn't necessarily define myself as an abstract artist (if such boundaries really exist now), but more an artist who uses the abstract language as a tool just like any other medium.

Chamberlain's idiosyncratic approach to titling is indebted to the often quite abstract ways in which these writers interacted with language and, more specifically, with quotidian words, not only as referent but also as sound and mood.

Much of Cy Twombly's more abstract art was based on language and the process of writing, and he would often write narratives that lurked just beneath the surface elements of his paintings.

Many abstract artists have avoided language in an effort to keep their imagery «pure» and nonreferential, «Untitled» being one of the more unfortunate legacies of western abstracton.

Like enlarged versions of his paintings within paintings, the more abstract works in New Plants combine Wood's interest in painting from direct experience with his fascination with the many forms and genres found throughout art history, deepening and extending his investigation of the language of painting.

Abstraction, especially abstract expressionism, requires a personal language from the artist; a language that, more often than not, isn't spoken by the viewer, whether in the art world or not.

Michelangelo, with an eye trained to the material weight of color, might have been comfortable with this form of sculptural painting, even if Tsao's abstract language is more akin to the late 1950s New York School, with Pollock's spattering giving way — at certain turns of mood or emotion — to sublime color fields reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler or Ellsworth Kelly.

Some, stymied by the language barrier, tend to think about the physical act of the brushwork in the more familiar terms of dance or choreography, or to see the characters as abstract shapes.

In a new series of abstract paintings, Schoultz distills some of his familiar stylistic elements into a more formal language with subtler allusions.

Visual elements from the landscape, such as a branch, house, or road, are transformed into a more abstract visual language that vacillates between the recognizable, suggestive, determined and more poetic.

If it is going to make a point about how concerned abstract artists like Kandinsky and Mondrian were to invent a universal language, then the show itself should have been more imaginative about its presentation.

They cut into the shape structure more to become shapes in their own right, For me they are an affirmation of non objective colour painting that looks toward a new pictorial language and one which connects abstract painting to it's history.

Rail: That body of work opened up new possibilities in terms of different abstract language, without giving up the reference to landscape, that became more invested in legible form in the late»90s — I mean your installation at Andre Emmerich in 1997.

Good paintings, abstract or representational, transmute content, enfolding whatever subject at hand into its language — the more specific the painting language the more interesting the painting.

The abstract qualities are ramped up as - exploiting our familiarity with his language — Martínez is able to remove more of the pattern without reducing its impact.

While continuing the dance between abstraction and figuration found in her previous decade of works, the new pieces move away from a more direct narrative to a more abstract, open language about painting itself.

Rather than articulate universal visual codes for collective mobilization, these works reduce the specific lives and experiences of those represented in the images to a pictorial field for the artist to play upon; the fetishized beauty of documented protest rendered even more beautiful, and even less capable of stimulating social change, by its sublimation through the commercially - viable language of abstract painting.