Sentences with phrase «offset by the sense»

In Cabrito, the oddity of an anthropomorphized goat practicing archery in the mountains among sheep is offset by a sense of familiarity with the scenery and the harmony of the photograph's formal elements.

Their fantastic quality is offset by the sense they give us that we've already seen them, or something like them, in the world beyond the painting.

Not exact matches

The use of this model has been tuned using the latest advances in remote sensing and geometallurgy and has been used by Aruma to recover some $ 3M in R and D tax offsets in six years.

My mother explained that blind people develop better hearing because God made sure that the loss of one sense was offset by the improvement of another.

If a mild coronary or other physical illness forces them to slow down for awhile, and if this gives them the occasion to take stock in themselves and they realize that they have been forsaking the important things in life for the unimportant, then any physical pain and any damage done to their career would be more than offset by their recovery of a proper sense of values, by their recovery of their self.

But if we have to treat food / ag - spending as a zero - sum game — any increase in one program must be offset by cuts in another — it would make much more sense to cut stuff like corn, soy, and cotton subsidies than to attack conservation and hunger programs.

And it should send an alarm to every American, that when we have to have a conversation about covering disaster costs by finding offset budget lines to cover those expenses, you know, that's an alarm that every American should sense to say: We truly are in a fiscal crisis.»

The conventional wisdom, though, is that if you watch your diet and get aerobic exercise at least a few times a week, you'll effectively offset your sedentary time... this advice makes scarcely more sense than the notion that you could counter a pack - a-day smoking habit by jogging.

It's a rare balancing act that Cianfrance has pulled off, with moments of utter joy brutally offset by a vivid sense of anger and betrayal.

Refurbishment of building fabric and installing new energy efficient equipment also makes a lot of sense, particularly since there a number of financing options available for schools where the repayments can be entirely offset by the savings on bills.

Available active safety features include adaptive cruise control with collision warning and the reverse sensing system (though they might be offset by the electronic line - lock — a tool that helps you achieve a smokey burnout — in the eyes of your insurance company).

There are times when it makes perfect sense to use an offset printing service, which involves lithography and a commercial printing process (the same process used by major brick and mortar publishers).

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While there may be income tax benefits of buying a home, these can be more than offset by the combination of maintenance, real estate taxes & the costs associated with buying and selling a home (appraisal, inspection, real estate commissions, etc.); thus in most cases it only makes sense to purchase a home if you intend to live in it for many years — preferably for the period of the loan or longer.

-- I'd agree with management's assertion that «much of the capital expenditure in recent years focused on larger infrastructure projects which take a longer time to reach maturity in their returns», so I think underlying ROCE is a few % higher (though that may still remain offset by continued investment) & management's 20 % + ROCE target continues to make sense.

The $ 33.5 M increase in cash and cash equivalents was primarily attributable to the net cash proceeds from the sale of its investment in SEN, offset by cash used in operations.

The picaresque or make - believe mood of each picture is thereby offset by an insistent realism, a sense of the tangibility of things.

* the amount of bird deaths, bat deaths and the small comparative amount of CO2 actually offset by the use of wind turbines does not make sense.