Sentences with phrase «often verge»

As such, these sections can often verge on outright boasting - you need to sell yourself by listing your marketable achievements, usually using action words that will catch the attention of anyone reading the resume.

His works present a blend of readymade material and minimal artistic intervention, achieving unexpected, humorous outcomes that often verge on the absurd and challenge our aesthetic sensibilities.

Despite their ostensibly child - like qualities, the subjects» facial expressions often verge on the adult and deathly, and their stances on the aggressive and volatile.

I am also interested in the possibilities of the paint itself, with the result that parts of the work often verge towards abstraction.

These sessions often verge on a therapeutic experience for the student, and frequently provide material which he works through in his personal therapy.

Hence the pathetic, personal interpretation, so appealing to a number of modern writers, is really quite out of touch with historical probability, and often verges close upon the abyss of sentimentality.

Argument often verges on lament in this book, especially when Kugel is articulating his opposition to modernity.

The adolescent sexual awakening at the heart of first - time director Marielle Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel isn't always pretty or pleasant; in fact, it often verges on the positively dangerous.

Despite Deng's stating he is an abstract painter, his work also often verges on the figurative.

Although light and airy — often verging on exuberant — Kahn's compositions have something of a fog hanging about them.

The concept of «collaboration» has become such a messaging mainstay that it often verges on cliché.

Not exact matches

You often hear stories about a business owner that remortgaged his or her house and was on the verge of bankruptcy when they hit it big.

Even as its groovy formula for urban renaissance is repeated in cities around the world — often with explicit reference to the original — the back - to - basics affectations of Brooklynization verge on cliché.

As The Verge noted in its report on the new anti-abuse measure, the kind of restriction that Twitter has implemented with its latest move has a long history on the social web, where it is often referred to as a «shadow ban.»

Often one sees a restored building that verges on cuteness or on what Joseph Sittler used to call a Suburban Dress Shoppe appearance.

- runs with a small squad for several years, running players on the verge of breaking often with no backup available.

Pearl often comes across as an old woman's name but it is on the verge of a revival as Boho chic names take over and Pearl is a staple of Boho baby girl names.

Honestly, I'm no fan of companies patenting business practices that others may also have been developing in parallel (in August of 2011, several firms currently specializing in the practice had already launched or were on the verge of doing so), since it often feels like an unfair restraint on competition and the free flow of ideas.

«We are on the verge of a breakthrough today...» How often have we heard these words before in parapsychology?

BPD often manifests in «severe eruptions of depression,» distrust of other people that verges on paranoia, and «frantic» efforts to avoid abandonment, Dr. Cargile says.

He extorts money and valuables for his services, and is often on the verge of revealing the Jews» location.

Léaud has often played filmmakers on the verge of some kind of madness, driven there by a failed surge for glory: in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep, Christophe Honoré's The Pornographer, Serge Le Péron's I Saw Ben Barka Killed (as a semi-deranged Georges Franju).

Caesar, often seen half in shadow, seems on the verge of being consumed by his internal struggles.

In Lady Bird, the voice is wholly Gerwig's: dialogue that is sometimes astute and often goofy, visuals presented with piercing clarity and vivid colour, an overall style so smooth and polished it verges on hyperrealism.

Just as Sharon Stone was all wrong for the shallow, street smart gold digger in «Casino,» Ryder often seems on the verge of laughing in Franco's face as he attempts to manhandle and pimp - talk her.

I often found myself missing the often clever or satisfying mechanics of games available alongside Axiom Verge, or even from those it draws inspiration from.

I had that feeling I often get when I'm on the verge of a revelation or a major shift of some kind.

But a visit to see grandparents often means a road trip, and road trips can be long and boring, so «Dad says COUNT» to the eager yet verging - on - cranky children in the back seat.

Often, people get in trouble because the interest rates on some of their credit cards or loans are verging on predatory in the first place.

They often seem to be way cheaper (e.g. Victor Vran, Axiom Verge).

«People often asked me about the early days of Axiom Verge — about how I was able to make a game completely on my own over the course of 5 years of evenings and weekends while holding down a full time job,» says developer Thomas Happ.

It's not often that you get an alert that a video game is going to be rare before it is even released, but MonkeyPaw Games has put out the word that it's on the verge of sending Class of Heroes 2G for the Sony PlayStation 3 out into the world as a one - time, limited printing.

Often the intense firefights will put you on the verge of death unless you use the mechanic liberally.

In photographs, he often appeared to be on the verge of laughter; small, gleaming eyes behind wire - framed glasses and a sharp V of eyebrows added a sardonic if not demonic note.

In between come strategies of painting, often on the verge of Op Art, sci - fi fantasy, or «pattern and decoration,» but with the fiercer creatures of Judith Linhares invading the garden.

Often these transformations play out in anthropomorphizing landscapes verging on portraiture, where the geological and biological collide and collapse, raising questions about the nature of nature.

These dynamic shapes often related rather awkwardly to the picture rectangle, as if wrenching it to the verge of bad design.

And though the materials employed are not always «poor,» they are certainly self - effacing — often breaking down, or verging on something else.

Her works often explores the theme of instability: fragile and poetic, they often seem on the verge of collapsing or breaking.

And though the materials employed are not always «poor», they are certainly self - effacing, often breaking down, or verging on something else.

Wilke often placed these objects in compromising situations — hinged with pins or glued to walls and boards, placed freely on the floor, always seemingly on the verge of disaster.

Though there is an element of public sculpture in Shapiro's work — Verge (2003 — 08), a commission for the nearby 23 Savile Row, comprises four bronze cuboids that seem to hover above the street — for the most part its energies are turned inwards, creating private experiences, seemingly untroubled by the political ambitions that often breathe life into such projects.

Because the works «take by force a structure that was on the verge of asserting itself» (as Felix Guattari wrote on George Condo's paintings in an early text, 1990), they generate disquieted and often humorous images: incongruous, absurd, anachronistic, kitsch, regressive or hybrid works.

And though the materials employed are not always «poor,» they are certainly self - effacing - often breaking down, or verging on something else.

Lacy, gritty pieces made from materials such as Mylar, plaster and gold leaf are what you'll find at al - Hadid's first solo show at Ohwow, where images often hover on the verge of being apparitions.

The figures in Los Angeles - based Christina Quarles's paintings often look as if they're on the verge of motion.

The coveted «Head» sculptures bear Modigliani's signature look: elegant, often elongated figures that verge on abstraction and appear inspired by statues in far - flung locales like Africa and ancient Greece.

She often use both natural and industrial materials in sculptures, prints, and paper works to depict contrasting themes and textures on the verge of instability or confrontation.

Bernd and Hilla Becher already began taking photographs of mining and steel plants in the early 1960s, capturing images of machinery and functional architecture that was often on the verge of disa...

In the early part of the 20th century, European artists had also questioned accepted ideals of beauty, and the choice of Rossy de Palma, often referred to as «a Picasso portrait come to life» — her asymmetric features so impressed film director Pedro Almodóvar that he gave her a starring role in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)-- to model the latest Portable Art project collection is apposite.