Sentences with phrase «of irresolution»

22) Reed, Middle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution, 103 — 104.

But despite its narrow focus and absence of timely work by contemporary artists, the show speaks articulately both to the process of making art and to the question of irresolution that artists are wrestling with today.

Bringing her paintings to this point of irresolution and wanting more, she allows us, as viewers, to be part of each work.

It is in the nature of big cliffhangers to be trapped in a state of irresolution, to be re-judged after their resolutions arrive.

Most people ask the big questions in times of irresolution, times when satisfying answers are scarce.

... Poor and mediocre jazzmen... often do not understand that the quality of their jazz will depend not on any resolution, however elaborate, but rather on the inherent intricacy of the irresolution.

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The gospel's sweetness, for example, is suspect; it looks too much like its caricatures: irresolution and readiness to compromise — often profitably — with the established disorders; the kind of popularity that easily camouflages betrayal; a certain interior, narcissistic complacency — the secret self - vindication of the ineffectual weakling.

In fact, scientific progress is much more a matter of pruning and reevaluation, wherein problems thought to be resolved come crashing back at us with resounding irresolution.

The homeless offer a strong visual contrast to the sumptuous banquets and high life of the art swells, but they are discarded as the movie wanders on to irresolution.

More precisely, their felt irresolution may be the active sign of a God who continues to encounter us.

The urgency is due first and foremost to the state of deep - seated irresolution created by our seeming lack of choice in face of the immense problems which Mankind must solve without delay if it is to survive.

But he also accused former President Barack Obama of enabling such violence with «weakness and irresolution.»

Zodiac may be the perfect meeting of filmmaker and subject --- an obsessive's portrait of obsession that is, finally, a monument to irresolution.

At its best, «Laurel Canyon» has the irresolution and delicacy of truth, as when in the middle of a difficult discussion, Sam touches his mother's toes, and we understand, without getting hit over the head, that there's a bond here,

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is conclusive in its irresolution.

The beauty of Marshall's body of work is that we can not say for certain and it is a credit to the curators and catalogue contributors alike that they honor this irresolution by refraining from excessive iconographic decoding.

«So Pasmore, in spite of his abortive pursuit of pure abstraction, joined the ranks of the British semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints of such, that keeps their work linked to the old English traditions of poeticised landscape reference»

This collection, through its lively, intelligent and controversial papers, discloses both irresolution over every sort of Charter issue and a tremendous intellectualism directed to the Charter debates.