Sentences with phrase «oblique takes»

Mike Zunino was placed on the 10 - day DL Friday, and his strained oblique takes a bite out of the Mariners.

Stay tuned for deeper look into what happens when your external obliques take over (hello, neck pain and tightness!).

Filching the title of his New York solo debut from one of the best - known tales by cult horror scribe H.P. Lovecraft, Aaron Curry presents an oblique take on that story's strangely beautiful yet murderous extraterrestrial invaders.

Coded references to contemporary art abound: to Joseph Beuys (a sled); Sam Gilliam (a swag painting called «The Grand Galactic Cape»); David Hammons (an oblique take on race); and, I would guess, to Mr. Johnson's slightly older contemporary Edgar Arceneaux, who has a similarly funky, visionary way with pop culture and art.

Not exact matches

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

This will take the direct pressure off your core muscles and allow the obliques to safely strengthen, which you want strong because you will be using them to help push during labor.

He took a more oblique, though unmistakable, swipe at Cuomo.

This oblique image taken by the Viking orbiter spacecraft shows a thin band of the Martian atmosphere.

(Copyright 1998 by Calvin J. Hamilton) Martian Atmosphere This oblique image taken by the Viking orbiter spacecraft shows a thin band of the Martian atmosphere.

Neumann, an instrument specialist for the MESSENGER mission, helped to calibrate the altimeter's reflectance signal, which can vary depending upon whether the measurement is taken from directly overhead or at an oblique angle (known as «off - nadir»).

According to Ho, all it takes is one set of the Windmill to really work your obliques.

Developing your lower - back, abdominal and oblique muscles takes pressure off your spine and improves range of motion, both preventing and treating pain.

It takes about 5 minutes and it includes some truly efficient oblique floor exercises such as hip twist from plank position, side planks, laying leg twist, knee to elbow from push up position and torso rotation.

For example, if you catch it higher it trains upper parts better if you take it lower it has an effect on lower abs and obliques, as well.

You'll also target your obliques thanks to the turn you take with each move.

The specific training your oblique's is something that will take care of itself as you get stronger and it is the opinion of the writer of this article that it is not necessary to specifically isolate the oblique's.

Starting the art with the index finger, I took the red glitter nail polish and starting from the base of the nail made two oblique / slanted stripes.

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)?

But I really quite liked the slow, oblique approach in this film about a wanna - be skateboarder kid who relishes hanging out with the bigger skateboarders at the titular skate park — but there's a death not far from there, and it takes the rest of the movie to slowly reveal what exactly happened that one night near Paranoid Park.

As one character is obsessed with Elvis, it strikes as ironic that Elvis's blue - eyed soul reflects a lot of the same marketing success as The Commitments outrageously popular soundtrack album — making one character's line about the Irish being Europe's black folks interesting for more than just the realization that Parker is taking another oblique shot across the bow at America's race record.

While the original movie was (depending on who you believe) an examination of either McCarthyist conformity or encroaching communism, the remake takes things into weirder, more oblique territory, lampooning the fallout from the»60s ideal with its lentils - and - beansprouts nature freaks and its bandwagon - jumping psychotherapy converts.

If this all sounds a little oblique, Kates presents a dizzying whirlwind of visuals, which not only illustrate the argument, but also make the intellectual babble seem terribly exciting — re-creating a cultural moment when ideas still mattered and an aesthetic revolution was there for the taking.

His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial - killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

As Maria Popova — whom you may know better as the Brainpicker — took to the stage at Tools of Change to make a somewhat oblique case about the difficulty of supporting a career on the web, the «anonymous critic» whom Ingram mentions already had launched his challenge.

In the Jan 1, 1999 issue of the AVMA Journal there was a report on X-ray technique for diagnosing fractured coronoid processes and they found that a craniolateral - caudomedial oblique X-ray (not part of the standard views taken at most practices) was the best way to see a fractured coronoid process.

In the late 50's Kienholz» works became increasingly three - dimensional and figurative, taking the form of oblique interpretations of topical social issues.

These exquisitely crafted images are combined with oblique abstract constructions and texts like, «REMEMBER THAT NOWHERE CAN BE HERE,» taken from a letter from Roberto Matta to Gordon Matta - Clark.

An oblique, troubling narrative takes shape as you watch each of the separate films.»

Niv Acosta, a black transgender performer, takes a more oblique approach to the issue of race, choreographing a performance that is, Acosta said, «a culmination of research on sci - fi, disco, astrophysics, and locating the black experience within that.»

The group exhibition as the final outcome featuring Math Bass, Sara Clendening, Jonathan Fields, William Kaminiski, Devin Kenny, Nick Kramer, Adam Mason, Michael Parker, Sally Spitz, and Christine Wang took impressive, simple, and oblique and direct angles to «successfully» address their own personal, political, public relationships to privilege.

It is tempting to compare some of his methods and results to those of contemporary satirists and comedians — take Russell Brand's oblique comments to the U.S. electorate at the MTV awards when urging them to vote for Barack Obama.

These artworks take on a triple meaning: as historic artifacts, as oblique critiques of the present, and as stand - alone aesthetic objects.

Mark Wallinger's State Britain installation at Tate Britain was a rare example of a poised and poetic response to the curtailing of civil liberties that have taken place during the Iraq war, and is one of a number of more oblique responses to contemporary events that drag the discussion into the realm of art without compromising their efficacy as works of art (Alfredo Jaar «s and An - My Lê's works operate on similar levels).

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 image is oblique, meaning that it was taken from a sideways viewing angle from the International Space Station (ISS), rather than from a «straight down» (or nadir) view, which is typical of automated satellite sensors.