Sentences with phrase «painting as an attempt»

But while the SNP's shift towards constitutional conservatism may be an awkward act to pull off, there is no doubt that the Conservatives will be wary of these reforms being painted as attempts to promote English interests at the expense of Scottish ones.

I set up exercises in painting as an attempt to do this: for the living room series of four paintings I worked with shifts in size and source.

It was characteristic that Frost explained the painting as an attempt to recapture the emotion he felt at a single moment of inspiration.

Not exact matches

Delta attempted to paint the move as an apolitical one and an attempt to stay above the fray in the gun debate, which has been reignited after this month's shooting at a high school in Florida.

The incredible * scramble * to then paint every PC sin as hers and hers alone (helped along by a healthy dose of old - fashioned sexism) should be recognized for what it is: an attempt to hold on to power.

Because your attempt to paint abortion as akin to the Holocaust is absurd.

as usual with your supposed absolutes you attempt to paint the universe in terms of black and white, while it is plainly obvious that it is not black and white, but a myriad of shades of every color.

If he tries to do so, he might quite easily be as foolish as a man attempting to determine the pattern of a carpet from examination of a single thread, a picture from a tube of paint, or a book from a box of assorted type.

It's merely an attempt to paint «evolutionists» as unfeeling people.

The couple was kidnapped in an attempt to force the «release of our captives who sit behind bars and suffer the paint of imprisonment, as well as being deprived of their basic rights,» a recording from al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said.

It is not a trial nor a witch hunt and any attempt to paint is as such is disingenuous at best.

The first hundred and fifty or so pages of his Leviathan show forth his attempt to paint that portrait of human being, but by almost universal agreement, he failed — that is, he could not both present human being as a part of the new nature and at the same time do justice to our direct experience of what it is to be human.

Its rigid compositional attempt to define a rational space is undermined by the floating figures and particularly by the raw application of paint, which sits on the surface of the canvas and reminds us of its autonomous nature as scraped pigment.

This view paints God as a helpless victim of evil, and though He wishes the world were otherwise, His only options are to choose between various evils, and when confronted with the choice, He chooses the greatest evil in a vain attempt to show how terrible evil truly is.

This attempt to paint Obama as a second coming combo of MLK and Lincoln is a huge stretch and ill - conceived.

Last season, they were overly reliant on perimeter shooting — as evidenced by the 37 3 - point attempts and only 10 points in the paint against Mercer.

Meanwhile, if I try let him cry for even five minutes, in an attempt to self - soothe, I risk my wife swooping in and rocking him for the rest of the night with me painted as the jerk who let him cry when «all he wants is to be comforted.»

The CCF's favorite tactic is to paint attempts to improve the health and welfare of Americans as interference by «Big Brother government bureaucrats and greedy trial lawyers» which «erod [es] our basic freedoms.»

(which was actually my backup idea as my stencil failed in my first attempt at painting the lanterns)

Sure, this test might not be the most scientific, but more than a few women have tried it, and it's been proven to be just as accurate, if not more so, than very early ultrasounds or other attempts parents - to - be have made to find out early on whether they should paint the baby's nursery pink or blue.

The simple fact is that Crosby's attempts to paint Nigel Farage's party as a bunch of «closet racists and loons» are working.

The first step is to attempt to paint Khan as a «pro-business» figure.

«We posed a big threat to the established parties and they clubbed together and did everything they could to throw mud at us and abuse us... This attempt to paint Ukip out as a bunch of old men with problems about the world frankly doesn't bear comparing to the truth.»

Their crusade against the public broadcaster has no basic standard of decency, and using its attempt at intellectual consistency as a way of painting it as a weak - willed terrorist sympathiser is apparently well within the rules of the game.

And if Cuomo pursues a presidential bid in 2020, as many have suggested, surely opposition researchers will attempt to use Percoco to paint Cuomo's New York as a swamp.

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

In an interview with TP in May, Umunna said: «This strategic attempt to try and paint us as anti-business is not credible any more.

Cichon emphasized his «outsider» role as a WBEN Radio newsman while attempting to paint Kearns as a «career politician.»

Balls is seen as extremely close to Gordon Brown, and as being opposed to the need for cuts (or at least, this is how the media currently see him and how the Conservatives will attempt to paint him)

Predictably, each side of Britain's crumbling two - party divide has attempted to paint the results as worse for the other.

Given that this was the decade that saw two whole parliamentary sessions without a single vote being cast against their whip by a member of the governing party, this observation was at least more accurate then than modern - day attempts to paint politicians as a bunch of spineless sheep.

According to Namdas, there was an obvious attempt to blackmail the National Assembly, paint it as an irresponsible institution, one not concerned with the welfare of the people.

There were gasps across the House as he said that 164 statements were significantly amended to remove critical comments about the police, that the police checked the criminal database for the deceased to impugn their memory, that the coroner checked all the deceased — even children — for their blood alcohol level, in an attempt to paint them as drunks.

Daughter of former President Rawlings, Dr. Zanetor Agyeman Rawlings has revealed to GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com that it will be prudent to ignore the attempts to paint her as an «outsider.»

The news comes as the shadow chancellor attempted to paint the government as financially irresponsible, accusing Labour of «bankrupting Britain» after figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed the country had narrowly avoided a recession for now.

Republicans attempt to paint Hillary Clinton as a has - been and Eliot Spitzer runs for New York City comptroller.

The ad also feeds into Lynton Crosby's attempts to paint the two Eds as career politicians with no experience of the real world.

(b) has already «decontaminated» the brand so that people (e.g. Floating Voters, LibDem voters etc) just do not see as credible any attempt to paint him as a Waving Wight Winger.

That's a big victory for David Cameron and his repeated attempts at PMQs to paint Mr Brown as unable to take decisions.

The report makes some key points which are sometimes overlooked as the hostile press and media attempt to paint as bleak a picture as possible.

«The New Statesman's attempt to paint Sayeeda Warsi's Tory critics as racist Main Labour MPs attack Jubilee celebrations as irrational and «a show of opulence by state elites»»

Legislator Patrick Burke, D - Buffalo, who is running for State Assembly, said he was offended by Loughran's attempt to paint legislators as complicit in a corrupt system when all sides agree reform is needed.

He dismisses Cuomo's charges of ultra-conservatism as the governor's attempt to paint him as the bogeyman.

Silver, charged with five federal counts of theft of honest services, mail fraud, wire fraud, and extortion for improperly using his public position to obtain nearly $ 4 million in illicit payments, and Skelos, charged with six federal counts of conspiracy, extortion, wire fraud, and soliciting bribes in connection with exploiting his public position in order to secure a lucrative no - show job for his son, have both declared their innocence, with Silver's legal team attempting to paint its client's dealing as par for the course in Albany.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has described attempts to paint his party as racist as «wholly unjustified and grossly unfair».

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«It's not very constructive to attempt to paint science as a threat to society — which it clearly is not.

I noticed that I had a lot of unexpressed angst inside of me, so I grabbed a giant piece of paper and began stream - of - consciously painting words as an attempt to transfer what was inside of me onto something external.

Amour suffers from some pacing issues, although these are largely the result of Haneke using «dead space» (such as a sequence in which his camera spends an inordinate amount of time focused on paintings or an interminable scene in which Georges attempts to capture a pigeon that has entered his home) to establish a tone or develop a character.

It is ineffably grimy, each shot marred by a patina of unease and an indescribable ugliness that paints every attempt at comedy as vaguely grotesque.