Sentences with phrase «often startling»

Every time I read something you've written I learn something that is often startling and always insightful.

But «The Invented World,» a compact yet surprisingly comprehensive exhibition at the Rule Gallery (where she has shown since 1988), compellingly demonstrated how relevant the Connecticut - born artist's imaginative, often startling installations and photographs can still be.

As the American critic Dan Cameron describes a significant aspect of Juan Uslé's work, «Behind the often startling playful textures and opacities is an artist on a deadly earnest mission to restore validity not simply to abstract painting, but to painting itself.

This combination of abstract geometrical landscapes and architectural components result in Scheibitz fresh and often startling vision of reality.

Despite his often startling transitions, whimsy plays a very small role in his process.

The narratives provide firsthand details about the subjects» tools and techniques, weave in a wealth of biographical detail, and contain often startling glimpses into the philosophical and psychological underpinnings of a work.

Utilizing pop - up illustrations, hand - dyed silk pages, scrolls or materials made out of everything from bamboo to aluminum, international artists found new and often startling ways to reimagine not just the physical format of a book but also the ideological essence of the content.

In the galleries, the works move in roughly chronological fashion, in distinct, often startling series, presenting an artist who seems to become younger and more vital with each decade, as her work becomes more spontaneous and grounded in reality.»

Their choice of disguise is often startling.

Like Lanagan's 2006 Printz Honor Book Black Juice (2006), this compelling, often startling collection of sf / fantasy stories mesh the familiar and the bizarre, with tales that (among others) imagine a futuristic work - study assignment and a society in which pent - up emotions link to obesity.

Aided by crisp, often startling images shot by Christian Berger, the film - maker weaves his web of storylines with a traditional voiceover, a linear narrative and fine period detail.

The film is, as I wrote in my own review, an immaculate and often startling piece of work, and while I think Haneke has made richer, more satisfying films in his career, I'm already looking forward to revisiting this one.

, leaking breasts, sleep deprivation, self - doubt, body image issues — and just the huge, often startling transition into motherhood.

Reflecting her «collage» technique, Field adorned Fisher in fashion - forward and often startling combinations of clothing and accessories from some of the world's most internationally renowned designers, including Balenciaga, Marc Jacobs, Christian Louboutin, Zac Posen, Miu Miu, Salvatore Ferragamo, Prada, Todd Oldham, Gucci, Dior and Alexander McQueen.

Whenever I need to clear my head, I take a long walk around the lake and marvel at the ever - changing and often startling beauty this little lake provides.

My father's pathological congeniality — he often startles strangers (tollbooth attendants, for instance) with effusive greetings — is as embedded in his character as, paradoxically, his volcanic temper.

«M was a little wiggle - worm as an infant, and he'd often startle himself to the point that he'd cry.

At the end of this period, contractions begin and the Mom is often startled into wakefulness.

This exotic custom, which often startles visitors from other universities, is perhaps the most visible sign of an ongoing transformation in departmental culture that, in less than 2 years, has made safety a central concern of daily life in these labs.

In fact, Millennials» use of technology and their building of online communities where they are always plugged into their friends, often startles previous generations and when Neil Howe and William Strauss coined the term «Millennials,» they predicted the generation's preference for nonstop, digital communication.

This will often startle the other dog, making them back off.

They often startle the eye and require a degree of interrogation from the spectator.

Lying on the ground or hanging limply from a pole in the corner of a gallery space and speaking in anxious, angry or even hysterical tones, these disturbing little effigies with their lifelike faces often startled passersby.

Not exact matches

But often lost in the back and forth between the two well known personality types is a startling fact — most people are neither.

Let me also say that, in reflecting on those days, I often noticed a startling disconnect between the quality of the intellectual discourse and the actual living of integrated lives.

That comparison proved prophetic, as Hendershott exposes the racial politics of abortion and the influence eugenics plays in abortion ideology» reinforced by the startling facts that black babies are aborted three times as often as white babies, and 78 percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods.

These experiences were not distressing, although they were often disconcerting and always startling.

In New Yorker magazine, she argues for it with startling clarity: «Response to edible insects is often a good indicator of one's level of intercultural competency».

Many of you have already seen on TLT's Facebook page today's New York Times blog account of a New York City fourth - grader named Zachary who secretly filmed the lunches at his public school cafeteria, often revealing a startling disparity between the school menu's glowing description of the meal and the dismal food actually served.

A research says tha t Young babies often tend to startle themselves awake mid-nap in the early months.

Swaddling also helps to tame the startle reflex which often causes babies to wake themselves, instead their limbs press up against the cloth, just like inside of mama.

Baby also has no way of stabilizing himself against your body, leading baby to the moro reflex of being startled often.

One of the most obvious is the Moro Reflex (often called the Startle Reflex).

This is because your baby has a startle reflex when they enter active sleep, and it often wakes them up.

They fell asleep faster and were startled less often throughout naps or night time.

In a world where so often Goliath wins, Heather Shumaker tells a David and Goliath tale that will startle, frighten, and delight you in both its threat and its humanity.

It is often referred to as the startle reflex and is your baby's attempt to protect itself from any danger.

It calms the startle reflex that often wakes newborns from a deep sleep, and it certainly doesn't hurt that it transforms babies into adorable, delectable human burritos.

Bub is so comfortable in it that he often goes to sleep and there is no startling him awake with velcro as there is none.

Cuomo's revelation is startling for Albany's long criticized and often secretive budget process.

Under pressure from the Kyoto Protocol, which went into effect in February for just about every country except the United States and Australia, people elsewhere have actually begun to think about such questions, often in ways that are startling for their scale and severity.

People with PTSD may have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their trauma, may experience sleep problems, often feel detached or numb, and may be easily startled.

«My observations from wild chimpanzees show that while unexpectedly encountering a snake or snake model may trigger a startle response, they often then investigate the snake, but do not necessarily show signs of fear,» Crockford said.

I've always had pretty gnarly allergies, but this year has been killer — I sneeze far more often than my co-workers and my easily startled cat would like and am constantly reminding myself not to screw up my mascara by rubbing my eyes (apparently, it's not just me, as climate change is making allergies worse for everyone).

This type of throwing often reveals a startling lack of athleticism in athletes who can snatch and clean and jerk astonishing numbers, but can barely sequence a medball toss against a wall.

Blue eyes tend to be very startling which means that you can often work with very little to really bring them out.

People with PTSD often have an exaggerated reaction when they're surprised or startled, especially if the intrusion — a sound, smell, noise, or sight — reminds them of the original trauma.

Most people don't look at you and are startled by your lack of accessories, more often they're startled by too many.

JESUS» SON is the intense, edgy, often hilarious story of a young man's circuitous journey from drug dependency and petty crime to a life redeemed by this startling discovery of compassion.

This mischievous ethos has rarely been better displayed than on this often uneasy listening set from Berlin - based, old - school activist DJs Graef and Astro who, after name - making solo careers, came together last year to form their Money $ ex imprint as a platform for their woozy marriages of obscure vinyl sensibility and startling aural foraging.