Sentences with phrase «number of allusions»

By using the face, Tony Oursler opens the way to a large number of allusions ranging from elements deriving from areas ranging from the media via mass communication to psychology.

There had been a number of allusions to this, but, in the earlier Dialogues, Margaret had been mainly concerned to bring out how our participation in the «passage of nature» gives us a bare sense - awareness which is much richer than that presupposed in other empiricist accounts, notably the sense data account.

The painting contains a number of allusions to the number three, (perhaps symbolising the Trinity).

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You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

A number of especially romantic paintings are notable for their brushy, atmospheric depths; they depict more - or-less real objects overwhelmed by preternatural forces... Experienced together, the paintings conjure a vibrant, eclectic mysticism, based in fertile allusions and buoyant color and texture.

A number of other themes such as mirrors and pattern, repetition, and geometry are touched upon in various pieces, creating a dense web of allusions and associations.

In the Quogue Gallery show, for example, there are a number of words and numbers inscribed in the complex textures of the paint, from the Biblical «33» to the word «wu» itself and allusions to Jacob's Ladder and bird imagery related to the story of Noah.

Like the photographic and sculptural works in Accumulations, Number Sixteen reveals a complex network of accumulated inspirations, cultural allusions and visceral histories.

Donna's drivel is replete with stupidity, strained allusions, confused analogies, leaps of logic, trivia and bad faith (and what the hell is with the numbers??).