Sentences with phrase «oblique reference»

• Interestingly, the budget only makes oblique reference to two huge K — 12 programs.

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

Readers who aren't familiar with Kahlo's life will want to begin with the appended quotes from Kahlo, the prose biography, and the chronology to glean more meaning from the poems» sometimes oblique references.

The work synthesizes oblique references to the body and the landscape on both macro and micro levels through form, color, and material.

The lyric, ribbonesque strokes and bleary pools of pigment that comprise the canvases invoke oblique references to literature, nature, the body, and current events, but are tied to no single object, no narrow translation.

And Patrick Coyle's year - long residency culminates in a publication which, like the exhibition, uses oblique references as well as unusual literary perspective, to connect the influences, incidents and his own experience of all the artists, artworks and events that have taken place during his twelve months at Wysing.

Challenging the conventions of display, institutional and otherwise, Djordjadze's pieces contain complex and often oblique reference — abstracted motifs from cinema, architecture, and literature can be found in her astute sculptural arrangements.

Don't expect anything but the most oblique references to the organization's excesses and dirty laundry across the years.

His work sometimes makes oblique reference to earlier 20th century masters; the dense mood - scapes of Mark Rothko perhaps or the eye - confounding monochromes of Ellsworth Kelly, or in the case of the painting exhibited here, the vertical «zip» so often associated with Barnett Newman.

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

Sun Xun, 31, another rising star, claims that his ideas about art are influenced mostly by German philosopher Martin Heidegger, although his stunning hand - drawn animations are packed with oblique references to traditional Chinese culture as well.

In an oblique reference to Trump and his social - media habits, Guajardo says policy - makers sometimes find themselves scrambling to respond to the thoughts of a superior shared publicly at 6 a.m.

The British politician did note that Brexit was able to win by reaching voters who had never voted before — perhaps an oblique reference to the idea that Trump is reaching working class voters who feel disenfranchised by normal electoral politics.

Bezos posted on Twitter, a not - so - oblique reference to his company nailing a landing of its suborbital New Shepard rocket a month ago.

In 1963, General Ivan Agayants, the famous chief of the KGB's disinformation department, told us that «Seat - 12» [the code name for the campaign] had materialised into a powerful play attacking Pope Pius XII, entitled The Deputy, an oblique reference to the pope as Christ's representative on earth.

Bultmann seems to be making an oblique reference to these changes in saying that «the decisive thing is not the results of scientific thinking but its method.»

There may be oblique reference to the problem in the charter's words on seminaries and priestly formation, but the bishops knew that the H - word is a media H - bomb, and they cringed at the thought of the almost certain headline if they had used it: «Bishops Mandate Witch - hunt Against Gays.»

In numerous other passages there is an oblique reference which may or may not be thus interpreted.

Its logo will feature an image of peacock bird as well as three feathers — an oblique reference to the three new owners.

NH That's not an oblique reference to me... CH I wouldn't have had Neil be ejected from politics in the way that he was, but had he not been, we wouldn't have had this amazingly rich tapestry.

The governor's use of the word «courage» here — and it's not the first time he has used it — is an oblique reference to the fact that Addabbo changed his 2009 «no» vote on same - sex marriage to a «yes» when the bill passed last summer, although he reportedly has recently flipped back to the «no» column.

The closest Edwards got to slamming the Democratic gubernatorial nominee was an oblique reference to his long - standing ties to the Albany establishment and a note that the budget has grown by $ 108 billion since his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, first took office in the early 1980s.

When Adam Skelos made an oblique reference to his work during a Feb. 24 telephone call with his father, Dean Skelos interrupted to say: «Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam.»

«We had all sort of unexpected situations develop,» Cuomo said, an oblique reference to the indictment and ouster of both Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, who started the year as legislative leaders.

In another, when presenting an award to a group of lawmakers, he said: «Just remember for every ribbon you get, you have to stay in New York for at least a year,» which appeared to be an oblique reference to the state's new tuition - free college program.

Draft State Energy Master plans made oblique references to the implementation of hydrofracking here, and prominently factored fracked gas in the state's future energy portfolio as a «bridge fuel».

In a statement, President Dick Iannuzzi makes an oblique reference to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's criticism of the education system for costing too much money, but offering little in the way of success when it comes to test scores and other indicators.

The document released by the governor started by making note of an unfolding scandal at the City University of New York and calls for greater financial disclosure from local government leaders — an oblique reference to recent arrests in Nassau County.

They raise concerns about how Trump may have used such information, if true, about the top prosecutor in his home state, and whether a jeering tweet from Trump's account five years ago was an oblique reference to the allegations.

«Various people, I think over time,» Bharara said in an oblique reference to Cuomo, «have given maybe 18 or 19 different explanations, depending on the time, as to what its powers were, what its level of independence was, or should be, as a practical matter or a legal matter, so I'm done sort of analyzing that.»

«It's not just about putting out a press release,» he said, an oblique reference to Cuomo.

The gr0up's original moniker was Breaker Morant, taken from the title of a 1980 Australian art - house classic; the name of its 2007 album All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone is an oblique reference from American independent - film maverick John Cassavetes» 1974 film A Woman Under the Influence; meanwhile, the song «Have You Passed Through This Night?»

Is this an oblique reference to the criminally stupid Silent Fall, starring Richard Dreyfuss as a therapist who takes in a mute orphan and his devious Lolita of a sister (Liv Tyler)?

It's tough to describe the film any further, as Costa's mode is one that favours a purposeful barrage of stark imagery, shocking juxtapositions, baroque compositions and oblique references to the classic Hollywood films he reveres so fervently.

It was an oblique reference to reimbursement payments to districts designed to ease the transition when students — and their tuition dollars — leave for charters.

I did search for this, and there are some oblique references to the sealant, but the full answer has come up that I can find.

Girard told me that the game would have some important story ties to both Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV, as both titles made oblique references to the imminent Industrial Revolution in the Old World.

So let's talk about Quiet with the agreement that I'm not going to spoil any of the story beyond her presence, her attire, and an oblique reference to a specific scene.)

Frame, another print on plastic, which the viewer likely saw last, was the only work in the show without at least an oblique reference to the human figure.

Taylor's works make use of household materials like broomsticks, Formica, and twine, and make oblique reference to others, such as bicycle wheels.

Here I had that so trendy figure of the 1980s, so properly postmodern for abandoning abstraction and Minimalism except as an oblique reference to modern life.

The works come under the heading The Spike Island Tapes, a title which includes both an oblique reference to The Nashville Tapes, a selection of songs recorded by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, and the name of a contemporary arts centre in Bristol near to Long's home, Spike Island, where he conceived, developed and proofed the prints for the exhibition.

Along with a myriad of murals along the East Coast, Lee's paintings are symbolically evocative whilst making oblique references to the archetypal mythos, the luminous colors, gestural expressionism and movement tie into his passion for portraiture and psychoanalytical imagery.

The artist samples from the history of abstract painting — a grid here, a zip or splatter there — but isn't afraid to shoehorn in text, speech bubbles, digital prints of cats, or oblique references to everything from Michael Jackson to the Iraq War.

[19]: 133 Two days later Time magazine noted the protest in an article entitled The Revolt of the Pelicans, [20] an oblique reference to Taylor's 1948 comments in the Atlantic Monthly.

There's been oblique references to Lacan's notion of «the Other», Butler's performativity of the body, and Barbara Kruger's work «Your body is a battleground» — anyone else?

There are seldom more than oblique references to the specific styles of the artists in question: this series of what Aguilera calls «Black Drawings» is more about the subconscious currents of history, the fluidity that brings together both artistic styles and hybrid cultures.