Sentences with phrase «on circuitous»

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Alain Locke Finally Gets Proper Burial at Congressional Cemetery In the Washington Post, Frances Stead Sellers reports on the circuitous 60 - year journey of the ashes of Alain Locke (1885 - 1954), considered the dean of the Harlem Renaissance, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Howard University professor was an avid supporter of artists.

A boyhood glimpse of the Wild Man of Borneo (at the Coney Island Midway, of course) set him on a circuitous and rocky course — one so movingly charted by a new film biography.

You are placed on a circuitous track.

You could theoretically use your horse to take you to your destination (which will help it earn experience points and gain new attributes), but you'll have to do it manually since the auto - run feature takes you on circuitous routes (hopefully this is a bug so the Day 1 Patch eliminates it).

Galileo blasted off on its circuitous journey aboard the shuttle Atlantis on 18 October 1989.

Getting my Ph.D. was the first step on my circuitous route toward a professional life that I could never have imagined.

When service is requested at a place so distant from the evaluator's headquarters that a total of one - half hour or more is required for the evaluator (s) to travel to such place and back to the headquarters or at a place of prior assignment on circuitous routing requiring a total of one - half hour or more to travel to the next place of assignment on the circuitous routing, the charge for such service shall include a mileage charge administratively determined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and travel tolls, if applicable, or such travel prorated among all the applicants and certifying agents furnished the service involved on an equitable basis or, when the travel is made by public transportation (including hired vehicles), a fee equal to the actual cost thereof.

Luther was taken on a circuitous route blindfolded.

Haze Motes, the central character in Wise Blood, sets out to be a preacher of anti-religion and yet in spite of himself, Motes seems to be moving on a circuitous journey toward redemption.

Not exact matches

Jillian Manus, a managing partner at Structure Capital and a judge on «The Pitch» podcast, had a circuitous path to venture capital.

Through circuitous routes, the idea caught on among conservative Christians worried about the militant secularism promoted by the public schools, and mainly among evangelical Christians who, unlike Catholics, did not have a school system of their own.

More theologians, concerned with excellence of an imaginative cast of mind, need to struggle in the «circuitous and tortuous» no - man's land of a style of theological reflection which is highly imagistic, experiential and confessional on the one hand and coherent and consistent on the other hand.

During an overly long, circuitous debate, Chairman Ken Ronk declared he had never received anything in writing from minority counsel on the subject.

On average, the driving moths reached their target about 2 seconds behind the walking moths, although their paths were more circuitous.

Using it, ships and airplanes can cross the oceans along «great circle routes» that look circuitous (when displayed on a flat map) but which in fact follow the straightest, quickest way across.

I came to work on microRNAs by a circuitous path.

Furthermore, while these stressors can have a direct impact on the brain, just as often they affect the brain through a more circuitous, systems - based mechanism that involves suboptimal metabolism of factors such as glutamate, norepinephrine, and cortisol plus cardiovascular dysfunction and, because it is so under - appreciated it may be the most notable, gastrointestinal dysfunction.

Here it is: details on how to understand more personally your liver and its long, windy, circuitous path to continuous and sacred detoxification.

I know you see the Circuitous Cardi ($ 128) on me as well but I'm not quite ready to review it yet.

After ten years of circuitous one - upping one paint - by - numbers plot after another, INFINITY WAR ends on a note puzzling for fans, infuriating for critics, and simply unimaginative.

I took a very circuitous path to get to where I'm at, having started on G4.

Expanding on — and more expediently dramatizing — the philosophy of monotony that characterizes his earlier film El Custodio, Moreno wanders the streets, apartments, and rural suburban roads around the Argentine metropolis by way of a scrawny flaneur protagonist, Boris (Esteban Bigliardi), who's ejected from his terminally bored girlfriend's loft in the daintily circuitous dialogue of the opening sequence.

Opening on a contract murder that plays like an American gangster picture dropped into dusty slums outside Tehran, the film takes a circuitous route to outline the workings of a totalitarian state that intimidates and terrorizes its intellectuals and dissident writers.

While Stoker does seem determined to explore themes of grief, burgeoning sexuality, and fate through the incestuous triangle of India, Uncle Charlie, and Evie, the nuances of these themes never quite make as much impact as the stylish direction, which overwhelms the story's mystery with its too - heavy leaning on brooding looks, gothic atmosphere, and vague, circuitous dialogue.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

Getting an eBook from a library is often a circuitous and confusing process; so confusing that libraries have to create tutorials on how to do it.

I tested this out on the Entitle website and the report appeared to be correct, though when I followed up with Batten he noted that there is a (somewhat circuitous) way to download:

Her circuitous path to this role began on Capitol Hill, weaved through management consulting, and made an obligatory stop at a dot.com before a 10 - year stint running the operations for a cryptography company.

It's a bit circuitous, but there's a system of dirt roads and tracks on the headland that lead to the fishing village tucked away on the far side of the headland.

Our plan was to take a circuitous route starting from the north at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in the Purcell Mountains, head due south along Highway 95 and ski Kimberley Alpine Resort, then turn due east and back into the Rocky Mountains and take on Fernie Alpine Resort, before returning north to Calgary to catch our flight a week later.

Sometimes, a person on a mileage run will fly to a destination (oftentimes via a circuitous route to get more miles while underway) and turn around and fly home without even visiting the destination city.

NEWS Enduring a circuitous 60 - year journey, the ashes of Alain Locke (1885 - 1954)-- an avid supporter of artists who was considered the dean of the Harlem Renaissance — are buried at Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13, after being stored in Howard University's archives for two decades.

But it's also a reminder of why Guston moved on to fleshy, cartoonish figuration in the last decade of his life — this show inadvertently makes the case that abstraction became a dead - end, or perhaps circuitous cul - de-sac, from which Guston desperately needed an exit.

His focus in laboriously building the circuitous patterns in his paintings — sometimes working on a single canvas for years at a time — is for the expressed purpose of enticing viewers in for a closer look.

The Financial Times recently published an overview of the artist's circuitous career, featuring each of the series on view at Frieze and naming American conceptual artists, particularly Ed Ruscha, and Land art as her major influences.

Focusing on the latter symbiosis, this exhibition examines Mr. Pettibon's circuitous path toward art.

Over the past 12 months, they've brought a circuitous running track, Positive Pathways (+)(2016), to the European School of Management and Technology (a location for fellow collective DIS's Berlin Biennale) and to New York's Mitchell - Innes and Nash (which newly represents GCC) in a commentary on the growing pervasiveness of wellness culture among Gulf elites; they've digitally renovated an oil sheik's Paris manse, now complete with a hidden elevator for his perfunctory Lamborghini, in a video work at London's Project Native Informant, which looks critically on the racially - and culturally - charged attacks on oil - rich Gulf expats who have bought up some of the West's best addresses over recent decades; and they've launched a branding agency for an undisclosed nation from the region, the services of which it has then licensed to citizens via an app for a solo booth last year at Art Basel in Miami Beach.

In each of the Underground's 270 stations, Wallinger placed a uniquely designed labyrinth, an ancient symbol representing spiritual and imaginative voyages akin to the countless circuitous journeys made on the Tube.

The long, circuitous history of Evangeline's Acadian forebears, through the Hudson Bay down to Louisiana, forms a rich backdrop for her reflections upon and responses to current political questions, especially those centered on the gun.

I stumbled on this blog from a fairly circuitous route but feel very fortunate to have done so as it has changed my thinking about how and why the visual arts, including museum visits, may help people with a dementia.

It rose in the circuitous and unexpected manner of a viral video, rather than one that had been calculated to game YouTube's algorithms by seizing on interest in breaking news or tragedy — it had no catchy headline, no recognizable personality, no vast theorizing.

«The circuitous paths that many of these cases involving same - sex couples have taken will all come to an end with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on same - sex marriage,» McDevitt said.