Sentences with phrase «obdurate hand»

Overall this book turned from an exciting window into the world of genetic engineering to one of bombastic predictions and obdurate hand - waving in the face of genuine concerns.

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Chelsea are the cleverest, most pragmatic, most effective, most cynical and most obdurate team in the PL hands down.

He is inclusive and hopeful to the extent that he extends a hand to the most obdurate and reactionary shelter director much as he would to a grumpy, badly behaved dog.

What does it mean to craft these obsolete machine objects by hand, to cobble them together in clay, to paint them colors the Princess designers never dreamed of, to render them obdurate — and useless?

Even dedicated fans of his work have inevitably faltered at one or another of his forking paths over the past twenty years, while Bradley, on the other hand, shifts gears without pause: from starkly minimalist to gestural abstract paintings with stops in between, from discomfiting assemblage sculptures to boldly graphic silkscreens, and from jagged, sometimes comic drawings to obdurate geometric sculptures.

And yet, the works maintain an obdurate sense of object - ness, translated to schematic abstract forms: «There's a spatial or temporal proximity that induces the mind to perceive it in relation to its surroundings, while on the other hand [the work is seen] as a complete volumetric structure on the surface.»