Sentences with phrase «on eccentricity»

The curator, Douglas Dreishpoon of the Albright - Knox in Buffalo, even dwells on his eccentricity and failure.

Weeks briefly backtracks through history beginning in Elizabethan England to unearth the historical record on eccentricity.

It's hard not to compare it to Scorsese's Aviator, but Beatty's portrayal of Hughes doesn't focus mainly on the eccentricities of the famous billionaire, but also the interactions and relationships with the people around him.

Not exact matches

Downey received a tour of the SpaceX headquarters from Musk in 2007 and picked up on some of what he has described as «accessible eccentricities.»

Se √ ± or regards such faithful fans with amused tolerance, claiming that his only magic is hard work and a ceaseless attendance on the whims and eccentricities of his horses.

Referred to as «extreme KBOs» (eKBOs) by the authors, all of these have extremely large orbital eccentricities, in other words, they get very close to the Sun at one point on their orbital journey, only to swing far out into space once they pass the Sun, on long elliptical orbits that take these strange mini worlds hundreds of AUs away from the Sun.

«Step back and think about this: Small variations in the orbital parameters of the Earth — tilt and eccentricity and wobble — are recorded on the sea floor,» says Richard Katz, a geodynamicist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and a co-author of the Science paper.

Somehow the «oxygen of eccentricity» has to be kept flowing even if some choke on it.

If that's true and if it holds in the future — if people continue to defend other people's eccentricities because a) they think it's cool to live in a world of harmless eccentrics and b) for the sake of their own protection — then you would likely see a 51 percent or 60 percent or 70 percent dictatorship by a majority that insists on crushing intolerance.

By matching these isotope ratios to the astronomical cycle — Earth's orbit oscillates between an elliptical and circular path on a roughly 400,000 - year cycle — the researchers found that patterns of glaciation and ice retreat followed the eccentricity of our planet's orbitthey report in the December 22 Science.

Recent research has focused on MIS 11 as a possible analog for the present interglacial [e.g., Loutre and Berger, 2003; EPICA community members, 2004] because both occur during times of low eccentricity.

We show that a giant planet on a sufficiently eccentric orbit can excite extreme eccentricity oscillations in the orbit of a habitable terrestrial planet.

The alignment of obliquity and eccentricity due to precession is a much stronger effect than for the Earth, leading to «great» summers and winters on time scales of tens of thousands of years (the precessional period is 170,000 years).

Yet even in the absence of individual eccentricities, it is possible to study the distribution of eccentricities based on the distribution of transit durations (relative to the maximum transit duration for a circular orbit).

With 90 per cent confidence, we place an upper limit on the orbital eccentricity of 0.29.

This star is located about 224 AUs away on average (a semi-major axis of 14.39» at a HIPPARCOS distance of 50.87 light - years) with an orbital period around 2,000 years and an extremely high orbital eccentricity of 0.91.

Turning on planet - planet interactions results in the innermost planet's eccentricity dropping to about 0.1, still suspiciously high but not quite as bad.

There is a peak at 32 days with an even higher false alarm probability value, the fit does converge to a sensible eccentricity but it is going to be difficult to make a case for its existence based on such a weak signal.

«Using plausible interior structure models that include an ocean, we found it wouldn't have taken much eccentricity (less than 0.01) to generate surface fractures like we are seeing on Europa.»

Tobias Hinse: — basics of celestial mechanics; — practical hands - on with the free / open - source MERCURY orbit integration program on test cases: — compute the orbit of an asteroid (mean - motion resonance and eccentricity pumping); — compute the wobble - motion of the host star of an exoplanet system and the corresponding RV signal (using 1, 2, 3 planets); — compute the orbits of a Kepler multi-planet system using initial elements from a real AJ / ApJ papers.

On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c» with minimum earth - masses of 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) and 8.7 (+5.8 / -4.7), respectively, at average orbital distances of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) and 0.176 (+0.009 / -0.030) AU, respectively, from host star Gl 682, with orbital eccentricities of 0.08 (+0.19 / -.08) and 0.010 (+0.19 / -0.10) and periods around 17.5 and 57.3 days, respectively (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).

Notice on page 405 that the rate of change of w is extremely rapid when eccentricity is near zero, which is the case for objects spiraling outward from the Sun.

Indian scientists made direct contributions — ranging from designing algorithms used to analyse signals registered by detectors to ascertain those from a gravitational wave to working out parameters like estimating energy and power radiated during merger, orbital eccentricity and estimating the mass and spin of the final black hole and so on.

Expertly crafted in Italy from luxurious blue chamois leather and kid leather, these striking heels are the perfect balance between elegance and eccentricity, the pair also features a pointed toe, a branded insole, a slip - on style and a high heel.

And American grownups took pleasure in the palpable Englishness of the movies: the boarding - school rituals and rivalries; the crisp speech of the tiny and then adolescent actors; the mastery of such older performers as Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, and Michael Gambon, all of them drawing on stage traditions and a deep vein of licensed eccentricity going back hundreds of years.

The Popper role requires eccentricity, yet Carrey is contained and buttoned down, only cutting loose with his manic energy on a couple of occasions.

Edward's own dad Lionel is a gentle soul, nicely played by Adrian Scarborough; but his mother Marjorie, played with courage and attack by Anne - Marie Duff, is a talented artist whose eccentricities have escalated into mental disturbance due to a horrendous accident: being hit by an opening train door on a railway station platform.

Bateman does an effective job directing the movie, which is based on a novel by Kevin Wilson (with a script by playwright David Lindsay - Abaire), smartly opting for understatement from his performers, so that their characters» eccentricities have something to play against.

I found enough likeable aspects in it to keep me preoccupied from dwelling on the parts less interesting to me, and that's how I suspect the average moviegoer will view it... nothing great, but worth seeing for Bialystock & Bloom's slapstick, Ulla's sexpot antics, Liebkind's hilarious eccentricity, de Bris» goggle - eyed impression Reagan - in - drag, a procession of walker - clad ladies that would make Fellini proud, or, perhaps, leggy, female stormtroopers?

Perhaps contemplating his pension, Neeson is gruff and distracted; Zeta - Jones seems nervous and apprehensive beneath her slinky bravado; and only Wilson, by virtue of the slacker nature of his character (played memorably by Russ Tamblyn in the original as a cynic more interested in the value of the house on the real estate market), strikes an authentic note of eccentricity laced with fear.

Based on the play about six Southern women who become close friends despite their eccentricities and complicated lives.

And he's not just cute on the outside: Shane tolerates Sophia's eccentricities and makes himself available just enough to be sweet but not smothering.

While they are certainly not part of whatever «in - crowd» there may be at their school, their individual eccentricities have them on the fringes in a realistic way.

The eccentricities that have often characterised his public persona are on full display in this film, whether it be his unique art collection or peculiar choice of food and household beverages.

I don't think anyone on the planet can claim that they understand Tommy's artistic vision or thought process as a person, but Franco, as an actor and director, has a tight grip on how he behaves and how to elicit that eccentricity (an early scene has Tommy and Greg disruptively reciting play lines in a restaurant to hilarious effect).

It seems that all of these characters are on screen because they're interesting — they have unpredictable, confrontational personalities, and live in a rarely depicted, insular community where their eccentricities interweave and conflict — but not because Baker has genuine emotional insight on them or their circumstances.

Burt's eccentricities include urinating on his lemon tree and making brief references to male body parts.

Kline's performance is so gratingly obnoxious, written like some sort of raunchy cartoon character — engaging in depravity and eccentricities and contradictory exclamations — that it's shocking that no one in the editing process insisted on toning him down.

But the winner will be «Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were - Rabbit,» a head - on collision between eccentricity and whimsy.

The same reviewers also pointed out that there are redeeming aspects for people who can't get on board with the unabashed eccentricity.

The characters come off as fully lived - in with no eccentricities and faults tacked on by the writer to make them more interesting.

In the most supportive of the three top - billed parts, Robert Downey Jr. capitalizes on a flashy figure with his penchant for eccentricity.

Deservedly lauded at Sundance for its frankness and non-judgemental approach to female and young - adult sexuality, the film impresses on its own terms as a solidly - constructed character study of a mercurial, still - forming artist, told with a straight face despite the period eccentricities.

And should you need more Japanese eccentricity in your life, NIS America has you covered with their own press release: Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 will be released on February 28 in North America, with a European release on the 24th.

But when they put their two Canadian heads together, the results couldn't have more musical synchronicity, as can be heard from the suspense of «Fracture» and the Gilliam-esque eccentricity of «Tideland» to their Emmy - nominated work on the majesty of «Camelot» and the oil madness of «Empire.»

But whether focusing on Dean's eccentricities or on his latest pet project, the picture proves pretty fascinating from beginning to end.

Getting to know your colleagues, understanding their passions, and taking the time to connect on a personal level can help members gain mutual respect and look past perceived eccentricities in others.

Despite the pinging about of serious topics, there is no lack of mutually gratifying sex scenes (aka the dog - eared pages in your ancient copy) and even, on rare occasion, a laugh - out - loud bit of eccentricity.

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In her latest, she looks at her parents» lives, their eccentricities, their accomplishments and their unimaginable tragedies, from her mother's childhood in Kenya to their current home on the fish and banana farm they own in Zambia.