Sentences with phrase «overt political»

Drawing an analogy to the world of fungi, Leavergirl compares protests and overt political action to the showy but temporary fruiting bodies of fungi — which most of us know as mushrooms.

I look forward to your even - handedness the next time someone posts a rant about how the IPCC and the work of climate scientists can't be dismissed because of their apparent or overt political orientation.

So your point is that neither the work of the Heartland Institute, nor the work of the IPCC should be dismissed because of apparent or overt political orientation and the potential for that orientation to influence their process of scientific analysis.

I can only guess that that would be the result of general disgust at the overt political machinations of Copenhagen, the failure of doomsday to arrive on schedule, and possibly some reaction to climategate.

No matter how clear the issue might be to those who follow this and similar logic - based web sites, the formulation of public policy seems to rely on overt political calculation and tailored science in the service of a political objective.

You would have it that this is an overt political act, because the original statements were quite clearly political.

These narratives do not make grand gestures or even overt political statements, but rather, like a kind of «daily feminism», focus on mundane domestic preoccupations; universal themes connecting us to each other.

Concentrating on video derived from performance — most often staged for the camera — «Video Acts» encompasses approaches ranging from structuralist experimentation and more or less overt political statement to the creation of idiosyncratic narratives and the amplification of personal myths.

In this country, artists have long enjoyed free speech hampered only by market forces and marginal hate - speech prohibitions; they have rarely faced serious consequences for overt political engagement.

Mr. Rosenquist's paintings rarely contained overt political messages, but his best - known work, the enormous «F - 111» (1964 - 5), was a protest against American militarism.

Mr. Rosenquist's paintings rarely contained overt political messages, but his best - known work, the enormous «F - 111,» was made in 1964 and 1965 in part as a protest against American militarism.

Recent years have seen «an overt political commitment» surfacing amid the artist's interest in celebrity, according to Hensher.

I was really taken by the power of live performance and its overt political messages.

His work had overt political and cultural messages: The Campbell Soup series was shown in 1962 and arranged on a shelf around the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

While museums often (and for their fiscal safety) are compelled to shy away from overt political statements, there is a question around what is a statement and what is historical fact, and when does one preclude the other in artistic institutions?

When the shortlist was announced in June 1997, some critics asserted that the all female line up was an act of overt political correctness in response to the 1996 all - male shortlist, which provoked fierce criticism.

Edwards» powerful and polemical abstract steel sculptures — both freestanding and relief — often incorporate chains and overt political references.

Büchel, however, differs from them in his overt political flourishes; in that way, he seems to share the politicized attitude of Thomas Hirshhorn, though Hirshhorn's projects possess more verve and a more positive outlook.

★ Whitney Museum of American Art: «Wade Guyton: OS» (through Jan. 13) Something of a rarity this fall season, a beautiful, thoughtfully staged show makes a cogent case for a young painter with no overt political ax to grind working in New York.

Mr. Wiley's champions tend to view his work in overt political terms.

The overt political and economic messages are, in many instances, «safely» re-inscribed within the «signature» of the artist, and this can be seen in the practice of site - specific installation work.

The walls of museums are permeable and curators seem eager to welcome into polite society artists such as Edward Kienholz, Tom Wesselmann, William T. Wiley, and Valie Export, whose overt political and sexual content once made them marginal at best.

Treading Water does not draw overt political or cultural conclusions, but it does hope to promote a dialogue recognizing the urgent need for action.

The closest thing to an overt political gesture came early, in 1968, when Bernard Pagés lay sticks in coiled metal fencing, like a homemade bomb.

Working with mediums traditionally associated with feminine labor, such as knitting, sewing, and crocheting, Gastaldon continues the tradition of feminist trailblazers like Judy Chicago, Mary Kelly, and Rosemarie Trockel, but consciously avoids overt political statements.

Although California law allows teachers to opt - out of the thirty percent or so of their dues devoted to overt political lobbying, they may not opt out of the sixty to seventy percent of their dues the union determines is devoted to collective bargaining.

There is only one way in which teachers can be union members, and that is to pay full collective bargaining fees and the overt political dues that fund union politics (like contributions to candidates and ballot measures).

«It's just not easily the case that you can separate between the unions overt political activities and the kinds of things the union negotiates for during collective bargaining.»

Despite its overt political themes, Brian De Palma's Blow Out is seldom cited as a political film.

It's kind of amazing that Disney let writer / director Ryan Coogler make this overt a political statement — it's the most openly political mega-budget movie I've ever seen.

This year's Oscars went in hard — to the point that it's difficult to remember anything that didn't have an overt political charge.

When you make a film with overt political satire, it seems like that casting can't be a coincidence.

Owing more to its overambitious breadth of material than any overt political agenda, The Kennedys necessarily compresses, stretches, distorts and otherwise crams itself into a soap opera that is occasionally elegant and even moving near the end.

The company also claims to beat Hellmann's in taste tests; and Tetrick's overt political agenda — he recently penned an open letter to the 2016 presidential candidates about the food system — makes purchasing mayonnaise a lot more interesting than selecting sandwich spreads in decades past.

Poverty researchers are seldom guilty of overt political bias, though most of them are liberals who would like a more generous policy toward the poor.

Not exact matches

To suggest to the churches, which, Negro as well as white, are already deeply involved in covert violence in this country and overt violence abroad, that they should violently take up arms against violence — that is, against themselves — is the height of political naïveté.

If we ask what overt result Jesus may have hoped for, the answer is not easy, because he issued no program of religious or political reform, any more than he laid down precise regulations for individual behavior.

The question of civic and social hospitality is key, but political liberalism is not ultimately capable of engendering and fostering hospitality toward people with overt, recalcitrant needs.

Through overt and covert means, political and religious leaders want to control religious impulses and reshape spiritual sensibilities.

This overt evangelical support for Israel aligns a branch of American Protestantism that traditionally has frowned upon religious involvement in political matters with the traditionally liberal U.S. Jewish community.

Viewing politics as communications, however, is an assertion that the specific content which should be most studied, described, and analyzed in order to understand politics is that of our political «conversations» — overt and covert, symbolic and concrete.

PR insured that political parties would be represented according to their actual popular support, while the educational reforms guaranteed funding for all schools, even those with overt faith commitments.

Being present is less political as it does not entail overt criticism of government policy.

The second observation is to recall how the advocacy of an overt smaller state argument by many in the Coalition would, quite apart from polarising British politics like nothing since» 83, risk seeing the Left falling once again into a framing trap that pushes the centre of gravity in political discourse even further to the right.

«The Brawl Begins», an article about the 2016 primaries in The Economist provides the most overt manifestation of how a discourse of sports has permeated contemporary political reporting.

Faced with an existential threat (i.e. a threat to their very existence of people in the society) from the right and overt symbolic and interpersonal expressions from members of right wing political parties that Muslims are not welcome, in a world with only a finite number of available political parties (even in countries that don't have a two party system), Muslims are going to tend to choose to join the left wing coalition rather than the right wing coalition.

This is Change we could almost believe in, if it weren't overt malfeasance of the political process.

That it was policymakers who sought young scientists» opinions in the first place «was really encouraging, and what really struck me about the Declaration [was] that it had support at the highest levels in Europe,» McDowell continues, adding that while there haven't been such overt moves in the United States, there are encouraging signs for increased political discussion there as well.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

Seemingly the director's most political film, what it embodies more than an overt condemnation of fascism is a near peerless use of space, light and shadow to mirror an architecture of the mind, wherein an Italian bureaucrat (Jean - Louis Trintignant) mired within Mussolini's fascist dictatorship must decide between playing by the rules or carving out his own identity.