Sentences with phrase «oblique references»

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.»

p.s. And lest you think that I am being superficial, there is an oblique reference in my query regarding * all * things supernatural.

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

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.»

If NP was making an oblique reference to Onan, it's not quite accurate.

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 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.»

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)?

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

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

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.)

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.

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.

[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 is the oblique reference to the interval, the black space you add in video editing programs between frames, but a slug also engenders a form of resistance: a heavy blow, a bullet, a defiant sluggishness.

Less successful are Richards» other two works: «Untitled Merchandise (Lovers and Dealers)» (2007) makes oblique reference to AIDS victims through six knitted banners, while «The Screens» (2013) is a bizarre decision: a slideshow of people applying fake wound makeup.

In point of fact the exhibition's title «The Spike Island Tapes» could be seen as an oblique reference to The Nashville Tapes, which is a selection of songs recorded by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash 46 years ago.

Hardy employs faded, tonal layers of polyurethane foam as an oblique reference to the body.

This, he argues, justifies «a long - term thinning program,» an oblique reference to the Bush administration's Orwellian - sounding Healthy Forests Initiative, a program to log national forests.

A different scientist would have made all code and data available on line from the start, rather than maintaining the oblique reference to online sources, a practice that continued right up through the debate in the Annals of Applied Statistics, vol 5, number 1, March 2011, pages 1 — 123 (see especially the rejoinder, starting on p. 99.)

What the rings of Baillie's oblique reference are ostensibly showing is the catastrophic climate decline that took place at the very beginning of the Little Ice Age (14th Century).

The problems with ice cores (an oblique reference to Jaworowski?)

The Report of the Working Group makes only an oblique reference to a court, noting, «the systematic nature of the concerns identified indicated a need for systemic solutions, which would bring with them the reduction of the overall costs through enhanced predictability and a greater ability to control proceedings themselves.»

There was an oblique reference to the concept in Denton v White [2014] EWCA Civ 906, [2015] 1 All ER 880 where Jackson LJ succinctly stated: «What litigants need is finality, not procrastination.»

In a statement issued after the March hearing, Sinatra said that Elaine Wynn never told her there was an allegation of rape against Steve Wynn, but made only an «oblique reference» to a settlement, Sinatra said.

There is an oblique reference to this in the Colorado Real Estate Commission Position 19.

Not exact matches

Braithwalte extends the term to include all references to God, since he holds that these are likewise oblique ways of recommending attitudes.

Throughout the television coverage there was only one, oblique, reference to the potential health risks of bottle feeding (a paediatrician asked whether a sick infant was receiving formula milk, implying that it could be a factor in the illness; ER, 17 March).

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.

Key skills that students will use are photo analysis (including analysing photos at oblique angles), grid reference, compass skills and written description skills.