Sentences with phrase «on an ambiguity between»

Both motifs play on an ambiguity between suggestiveness and emptiness: does Brandon derive some primal satisfaction from his excesses, or are they just a screen for some unpleasant emotion, like, you know, shame?

Hobbs also plays on the ambiguity between inside and out.

Not exact matches

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

Like much of the research on how diet affects health, the research on the link between meat and cancer has enough ambiguity that it's possible to cherry - pick a research list that supports either position, but many reviews of research on the best - established link between meat and cancer — colorectal cancer — find, as this 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition does, that there is a convincing association between meat eating and colorectal cancer.

John McAteer's study of ambiguity in narrative along with Phil Tallon's witty dialogue between three fictional characters on a Tarantino set illustrate this ambivalence quite well.

In contrast to the rigorists» heavy stress on the New Age, these Christians point to the realities of the Old Age or to the ambiguity of life between the ages.

What has been discovered... is that, on one main point at least (the choice between the three propositions), religion at its best was literally and philosophically right, and theology was but a first approximation, vitiated by ambiguities or inconsistencies.

He could then recognize without the present ambiguity that Christian theology and Christian philosophy are distinguished by their focus on the particular and on the universal, but that no sharp line can be drawn between them.

But the resistance of backbenchers to development on their patches, the ambiguity of the Liberal Democrats (some of whom are pushing More Garden Cities Now), the lateness of part of the Treasury push and the long timetable for building houses conspire against the Chancellor getting big housing growth in the little - more - than - two - year - period between now and the general election.

A little of that is okay, but there's a fine line between ambiguity and obscurity, and he comes up on the wrong side.

Yet the film remains true to McEwan's intellectual preoccupations with different kinds of love, and has lost none of the novel's most memorable elements: the plays on the ambiguity of the title, the arresting first scene, and the strange dynamics of the relationship between Joe and Jed.

There's a tender core to the movie's central dynamics — between Maleficent and her raven Diaval (Sam Riley, On The Road), and between Maleficent and Aurora herself — that completely undermines the movie's intended ambiguity, but lends a genuine gravity to proceedings, even if one can't help but feel they've seen it all before.

However, it's still a good idea to have them on hand, just in case you need to clarify any ambiguities or if you're having trouble deciding between the top choices on your list.

It seized my attention from the first sentence, «When I found out the girl I was going to marry was murdered...» in a paragraph that continued on, setting a dark emotional tone of futility and despair as well as conveying an ambiguity about the relationship between the girl and the narrator.

Kate Hoffman's Dream Home series, photographs taken from performative collage collaborations, has a malleable quality that emphasizes the viewer's own socio - political leanings; Samira Yamin's intricate patterns of Islamic sacred geometries cut into TIME Magazine photos of war oscillate between greater ambiguity and flirting with the didactic depending on the density of the cuttings; Sandra de la Loza's photographs of Stoner Spots underscore the politics of leisure through the exploration of pot - safe spaces, with a subtext of the not - quite - yet absorbed by development; Scott Short's «abstract» paintings replicate multiple generations of photocopying through the prism of Walter Benjamin; and Suzanne Wright will exhibit a deftly humorous Étant donnés-esque collage alongside mandala targets — each salves, in their respective forms, for our tumultuous zeitgeist.

In this early stage, Pape explored the degree to which she could introduce spatial ambiguity into the notion of painting by making elements of the work three - dimensional and experimenting with either hanging the work flat on the wall or setting it off against it in such a way that it appeared as a hybrid between painting and sculpture.

Andy Goldsworthy plays on exactly that ambiguity, between construction and destruction.

Bik Van der Pol describe the project as a process of «uploading with circumstantial evidence», a method that proposes a new circle of communication between different types of «reflections», based on premises of ambiguity.

There is an ambiguity in the photographs between the natural and human realm, reflecting the complex phenomenon of humanity's geological impact on earth systems today.

The act of painting further amplifies the ambiguity between loss and lingering presence: through his act of meticulous transcription on a grandiose scale, Stingel not only redoubles the photographs» quality of «pastness», but also imbues their subjects with a contrary sense of immediacy.

There are other works (interestingly, many of which spring from the word «train») that retain their ambiguity through abstraction, such as the intensely blue, self - explanatory «AS THE CROW FLIES (the distance between my studio and the Drawing Center (3666 miles) drawn on scale 1/1, 5900000 lines of 39.37 inch» (2014) by Kris Van Dessel; the colorful, hard - edge monoprint silkscreen from the artist known as HENSE, «Shape» (2014); and Carl Fudge's black - and - white woodcut «Bricklayer 1» (2014).

But the ambiguity of the wording, and the wimpiness of politicians, seemingly incapable of asserting the very real and plain differences between hemp plants and marijuana plants, have allowed the lumping together of hemp and marijuana to continue, thus allowing the DEA to keep wielding an iron fist on agricultural matters.