Sentences with phrase «much as any artifact»

It was a sign of the times as much as any artifact I have ever seen from Rome or Egypt or even Tibet.

Not exact matches

Human beings and our artifacts are part of the environment of other organisms just as much as they are part of the environment for us.

It was Consalvi who had these two great artifacts and much of the rest of the Roman Forum excavated, as it was Consalvi who built a new wing onto the Vatican museums in order to display the art recovered from French looters.

But they are the very ideas that lead most of us to recognize that surgical sex «change is nonsense, resting as it does on the preposterous assumption that one's biologic constitution is as much a malleable artifact as one's dress.

Over the last decade, strained nanomechanical oscillators have emerged as an important paradigm owing to their anomalously high quality factors; however, this trend is not as much a design choice as an artifact of large stresses naturally produced at the nanoscale.

Those theories were always based on an implicit faith in the meaning of the artifacts — a faith as devout, in its way, as the prehistoric religion itself but lacking much scientific foundation.

But diffusion MRI suffers from magnetic field artifacts that can distort the actual location of tumors by as much as 1.2 centimeters or roughly half an inch — a significant distance when surgeons are attempting, for example, to assess whether a tumor extends beyond the prostate and into adjacent nerve bundles.

However I'm kicking myself, as I happened to miss pretty much every big winner (including Silver Linings, Seven Psychopaths, Artifact, and even Zaytoun).

In 1993, Graham Fuller went a step further, calling Tarantino «not so much a postmodern auteur as a post-postmodern one, for he is feverishly interested in pop - cultural artifacts and ideas... that themselves spring from earlier incarnations or have already been mediated or predigested.»

The hotly anticipated film is the culmination of a thread that's run through much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the end of 2012's The Avengers, with Thanos and his minions the Black Order arriving on Earth in a quest for the remaining Infinity Stones, powerful cosmic artifacts that, when assembled as part of the Infinity Gauntlet, will give him dominion over the universe.

What we're left with is this strange artifact that does as much as it can to proclaim its difference while not being very different at all.

There is simply so much for the discerning traveller to see and do and experience in the Village of Port Douglas such as a range of fine restaurants and cafes which showcase the very best in regional foods and wine, exclusive Village shopping, art galleries (including aboriginal art and artifacts), historic buildings and the Port Douglas beachfront Sunday Markets that offer genuine locally handcrafted products and produce.

Even just - hatched young are much more active than other hatchling Pituophis, and this innate tendency to «keep moving» may be an artifact of inbreeding amongst a small, insular population, or may have evolved as a beneficial behavior for feeding or predator evasion in their native habitat.

His initial evaluation of the green artifact was that it was a bead, but as the dust was wiped away, he could see there was much more to the jade head found in Belize.

As originally teased at BlizzCon 2017, the map is effectively a themepark stuffed full of artifacts and settings from Blizzard's multiple franchises — in fact, it pretty much looks like a partial replica of Stormwind with rollercoasters.

Described as ET and The Goonies meets Stranger Things, it tells the story of five friends who begin a summer much like any other, until an encounter with a strange artifact which allows them to travel between two different realms changes everything.

As in much of her practice, Kohlmann's installation oscillates between real and mythical narratives, constructing a fictional ethnography composed of artifacts that transcend the boundaries between traditional handcraft, pop aesthetics, costume, spiritualism, art and science.

The eighty Ektachromes that comprise Baumgarten's slide projection Unsettled Objects (1968 — 69) show artifacts at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, displayed much as they were when it was opened to the public in 1874.

The works are rife with clichéd symbols, such as Arabic calligraphy, fragments of ceramic artifacts, images of camels and political cartoons, in an attempt to create work that will meet Western expectations for a brand of contemporary Middle Eastern art much in the same way that smiling Mao and Panda paintings became the brand for post-Cultural Revolutionary art in China in the 1980's.

In a 2016 review in «Hyperallergic» of her solo show «Artifacts», Stephen Maine wrote, «Excavation is a potent metaphor for the artist's studio activity, and Mendelson's artifacts emerge from her subconscious as much as from her enthusiasm for her subjecArtifacts», Stephen Maine wrote, «Excavation is a potent metaphor for the artist's studio activity, and Mendelson's artifacts emerge from her subconscious as much as from her enthusiasm for her subjecartifacts emerge from her subconscious as much as from her enthusiasm for her subject matter.

His re-articulation of these artifacts leads to their reinvention, with his subject informing his process just as much as his process becomes his subject.

The final compositions are as much a result of Oppenheim's own editing processes as they are artifacts of the different apparatuses that produce them.

Kelley's work resonates much more comprehensibly as a gesamtkunstwerk, a totality of rather astonishing consistency ranging from his earliest bird house sculptures and performance artifacts of the late 1970s, still a graduate student at CalArts, to the terrifying beauty of the Kandors, small city models of the birthplace of Superman contained within glass bell jars attached by hoses to tanks of oxygen.

The pseudoscience folks refer to these as «Legacy Civilizations,» usually from the idea that the Pyramids are much, much older than they really are and various other objects are really «legacy artifacts» from vanished civilizations — Atlantis, Mu, etc..

Your fanciful SAW component is as much an artifact of nakedly assumed exponential trend as it is of record length..

And as for «wishful thinking», I'm not especially enamored of the «stadium wave» hypothesis; IMO the regularity they seem to find is probably an artifact of the short period under study, while it's much more probable that actual fluctuations are much more «random».

The Museum of York County has a wide variety of exhibits on things such as landscapes, animals from Africa, artifacts, and much more.