Sentences with phrase «more oblique»

Confronted by serious questions from Stephen McIntyre, the dogged Ontario retiree whose Climate Audit website exposed the fraud of Dr. Mann's global - warming «hockey stick» graph, «Andy» writes to Dr. Mann to say not to worry, he's going to «cover» the story from a more oblique angle:

Using brightly colored patterns, he makes direct reference or more oblique allusion to the structure of each photograph The resulting images give rise to analogies, mirror images, and associations of surprising freshness.

Instead, Linder and Morales have selected an eclectic mix of serious work, ranging in decades and media, offering up more oblique and penetrating interpretations of the seemingly inexhaustible trope.

Some address the human impact on the natural world directly, while for others the relationship to the Anthropocene is more oblique.

This section of the show includes straightforward depictions as well as works that deal in a more oblique way with aspects related to the American territory, for instance questioning the way it is understood and represented in the popular imagination, or by presenting it as a beautiful and privileged spectacle ripe for plundering (by the movie industry and others).

Mark Wallinger's State Britain installation at Tate Britain was a rare example of a poised and poetic response to the curtailing of civil liberties that have taken place during the Iraq war, and is one of a number of more oblique responses to contemporary events that drag the discussion into the realm of art without compromising their efficacy as works of art (Alfredo Jaar «s and An - My Lê's works operate on similar levels).

I have done a few paintings specifically targeting that darkening reality, but I prefer more oblique references.

Beginning with inspiration from current news events, Schmidt pushes towards more oblique observations and an abstracted consideration of our relationship to the space that our events occur in: psychological space, political space, geographical space, and especially historical space.

I preferred the more oblique show upstairs, at Greene Naftali's 8th floor space, by Hilary Lloyd.

Matthew Darbyshire on the exhibition and commission: «In the development of this project, rather than getting too pop and «Twenty Twelve», I was thinking about the very real possibility of regression, and the potential for a more oblique commentary on the social, political and cultural implications of what's being built around us today.

The exhibition will feature contemporary works in which classical forms receive provocative new expression — such as the fragmentary bodies by contemporary artist Marc Quinn — alongside more oblique or suggestive uses of ancient themes, such as Bruce Nauman's landmark video performance, Walk with Contrapposto (1968).

In Dylan's case, the connection between painting and music has been expressed somewhat differently, perhaps, in a more oblique way, which is often typical of Dylan.

Niv Acosta, a black transgender performer, takes a more oblique approach to the issue of race, choreographing a performance that is, Acosta said, «a culmination of research on sci - fi, disco, astrophysics, and locating the black experience within that.»

In addition to the brute deformations with which the exhibition begins, the pieces on view also include a number of considerably more oblique, less easily digestible works.

Julia wachtel emerged at the same time as the Pictures Generation in 1980s New York, and her work shares a lot of the same concerns and strategies with regard to media appropriation and ironic juxtaposition — though with a slightly more oblique, cryptic twist.

The interpretation of such works is more oblique.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

The images are all precisely dated, and track in and out of the political and social changes of the time, referencing the war in Afghanistan, the rise and fall of New Labour, Section 28, ASBOS, as well as more oblique, personal, cultural and seasonal markers.

Her Biennale may touch on timely themes, but in a more oblique way.

Ulrike Müller makes the relationship between abstraction and the flesh even more oblique.

«I think it works really nicely in that last gallery where artists are struggling with those questions in a more oblique way, or even struggling with the question of what to paint.

His portrayal of «landscape» ranges from the straightforward to the more oblique, sometimes rendering scenes as diagonal, geometric abstractions; where notions of framing become intrinsic to the composition itself.

Picture books address this, too, though often in more oblique terms, offering the youngest set an opportunity to think about the great beyond.

Cole's bleeding heart is a bit closer to his sleeve, his detective career an outgrowth of his own childhood efforts to find his father, but Pike's emotional life is much more oblique and more slowly revealed.

Career choices There are well - lit pathways for young people who want to become doctors, lawyers, teachers and police officers — but those into tech and applied science are sometimes more oblique.

(The truth is more oblique here.)

Now he's back with his independently produced follow - up that features more oblique, but no less withering, commentary on his home country.

Not just because it seems ripe for either mishearing (an adult movie star lays down her life) or mistyping (one shrimp to save them all)-- but because its high - end chess reference suggests a treatment more oblique than the one this movie delivers.

Takeshi is even more oblique in his presentation of violent action and spends the middle of the film on a strange, rambling subplot involving a disgraced mobster (Takeshi again, this time in a supporting role as a fun loving brute with a penchant for rape) and his mission of revenge.

While the original movie was (depending on who you believe) an examination of either McCarthyist conformity or encroaching communism, the remake takes things into weirder, more oblique territory, lampooning the fallout from the»60s ideal with its lentils - and - beansprouts nature freaks and its bandwagon - jumping psychotherapy converts.

And yet this is not simply an exercise in dry cinephillic academia, but sees Tsai making simple (yet profound) observations about time, landscape, human interaction and how the more time we are given to look at something, the more oblique, untenable and (perhaps) strangely beautiful it becomes.

Like Fred Zinnemann's 1948 Czech - lensed post-war classic The Search, 1945 is a reckoning with the evil and horrors of the Holocaust that pushes emotional buttons with a far more oblique approach.

There are more oblique similarities between the pictures: both, for instance, feature comic Mexicans, running gags about their over-the-hill sleuths possibly losing their penises, and passing allusions to their former wives.

The lowest portion of the vastus medialis, closest to the inside of the patella, is thought to contain fibers that run in a more oblique direction than other parts of the muscle.

He took a more oblique, though unmistakable, swipe at Cuomo.

In meetings on Monday with trade officials, Cuomo made more oblique references to Cuba's human rights record.

And that usually been the time that the baby starts moving, you think the reflexes in to a more oblique or longitudinal position.

(A more oblique thumbs - down came from Warren Buffett, a longtime shareholder who reduced Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA) stake by 11 % not long after McDonald visited Omaha.)

Not exact matches

3, Sometimes they are oblique in relation to the surrounding strata, but more often they are perpendicular to it.

I feel a good deal more malevolent, oblique, phony, ironical, and, I hope, more entertaining....

Ever since, she has been writing of a world of sport that is somehow always at oblique angles from the more familiar contests and conflicts.

Scientists have long known that we can detect cardinal orientations more easily than oblique orientations.

Moreover, because our motion areas also have more neurons that prefer cardinal rather than oblique directions, here the arrow invokes a powerful competition with the FedEx name itself, so our perception vacillates between «FedEx» and forward momentum.

Johnson predicts that oblique impacts, or collisions occurring at an angle, may be even more efficient at producing molten plumes of chondrules.

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That makes this an «anti-rotation» movement, forcing you to engage your entire core: obliques, abs, lower back, glutes and more.

Before you park your butt down for fifty oblique crunches, though, consider this: «The more complex the movement, the more muscles involved,» Theodore says.

Adding the medicine ball (and a twist) to your lunge helps engage the abdominals and obliques in addition to the legs, making it a more full body move.

Do several sets of 20 reps or more and you can also add a few reps to each side and work the oblique muscles that smoothly connect to the lower abs.

Just as the hanging leg hip raise, the incline oblique crunch also relies on the added resistance of your body weight in order to make it more efficient.