Sentences with phrase «more heat than light»

Religious discussions of the federal budget often generate more heat than light.

Often the arguments will shed a lot more heat than light on the issues we were arguing about.

Black dogs absorb more heat than lighter dogs as they do not reflect the light, but absorb it, so are more prone to heat stress.

Because dark things absorb more heat than lighter colored things, causing the dark ice to melt faster than white ice would.

Dark colours absorb more heat than light colours do.

Keep in mind that darker coats absorb more heat than lighter coats.

Unfortunately, the debate on the subject has generated a lot more heat than light.

Why is it that whenever politics or religion are discussed the move from issues to personal insults, which generates more heat than light, is almost inevitable?

So your dark color roof is absorbing more heat than a lighter colored roof, causing you to use more air conditioning during hot summer days.

In my experience polemics always sheds more heat than light on the issues that divide us.

But the bigger problem, he said, is that such a search would in all likelihood generate more heat than light for the harried physician, who typically has «15 minutes to manage six problems.»

I think trying to claim CO2 (or Albedo or whatever) is a cause in one case and a feedback sheds more heat than light on the subject.

But when parties debate each other, without any expert counter-point, there is often more heat than light as politicians are left to squabble about their competing positions or trade statistical claims.

But despite using most of her Oscar - winning team from The Hurt Locker, this time she provides more heat than light.

If I can make one final, general point: Education debates are often intense, and unfortunately sometimes involve more heat than light.

Black asphalt on roads and in parking lots is particularly dangerous because black objects absorb more heat than lighter ones.

This exhibition is a newly adapted iteration of Lewitt's More Heat than Light project, initiated by the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and Kunsthalle Basel, where heating circuits were installed in a similar manner.

The exhibition marks the third and final iteration of Lewitt's ongoing More Heat Than Light series, which saw previous installments at Kunstahalle Basel and The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Lewitt's exhibition More Heat Than Light opened in September 2015 at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco, before then traveling in 2016 to the Kunsthalle Basel, and finally, under the title Less Light Warm Words, to the Swiss Institute in New York.

Minimal in form and conceptually dense, More Heat Than Light by the US - American artist Sam Lewitt (b. 1981) features numerous large - scale heating circuits inserted into Kunsthalle Basel's overhead lighting grid.

Airbnb, in fact, is a preoccupation of the artist's — he previously rented a Chelsea apartment through the service for an installation of his piece More Heat Than Light, which rewires lightbulbs to heat sources rather than electricity.

CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE: September 10 — November 21, 2015 More Heat Than Light Sam Lewitt Location: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 360 Kansas Street (between 16th and 17th Streets), San Francisco Opening reception: Thursday, September 10, 2015, 7 — 9 p.m. Gallery hours: Tues. — Fri., noon — 7 p.m.; Sat., noon — 5 p.m.; closed Sun.

More Heat Than Light inserts a range of sculptures, texts, and images within the gallery space.

First and foremost, More Heat Than Light features 10 specially designed and manufactured flexible heaters that are attached to the gallery's track lighting.

But like many players in this fraught arena, they sometimes frame their positions in ways that create more heat than light (sorry).

The manufactured controversy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has generated a lot more heat than light over the past two weeks.

Streets and roofs are clad in dark materials like asphalt and bitumen, which retain more heat than lighter materials and natural surfaces like soil.

Unfortunately, neither of those threads was directed at the Velasco et al. and Roman et al. papers in which this theory was advanced, so, in my view, more heat than light resulted.

But that debate has for the most part produced more heat than light, with hyperbole on both sides obscuring rather than shedding light on the debate's central questions — questions like, «What could the proposed Fed Audits possibly reveal that existing audits and Fed testimony do not?

Unfortunately, if the politics of Douglas and the reporting of it are harbingers of things to come, suburban reform is going to be marked by a whole lot more heat than light.

Such obsessions invite far more heat than light, and focus our already sexually excited adolescents on discerning extraneous dimensions of their own sexual makeup.

There has been some debate, which may have shed more heat than light, about...

the use of unvalidated models explains a lot imo about the debate about divergences and why there is often more heat than light?

Now more than ever, conversations about race generate more heat than light.

Because darker surfaces absorb more heat than lighter, more reflective ones, if enough soot is deposited on snow and ice it can accelerate melting.

Cameron's personal involvement in the story has ensured that the debate over the use of tax havens has generated more heat than light, with little distinction being made between the mere use of tax - neutral jurisdictions to manage international investment, which in itself is legitimate, and criminal tax evasion.

Two years ago I wrote an article for The Christian Century on the language of hymns and the new biblical translations which I freely confess was more heat than light («Lord, Bless This Burning Pit Stop,» January 15, 1975, p. 36).

Otherwise you end up repeating yourself, generating more heat than light.

The rhetoric can generate a lot more heat than light.»

This has often generated more heat than light.

Although some contributions are more thoughtful, there is more heat than light, as usual in debates about criminal justice.