Sentences with phrase «peculiar features in»

Sanditz's paintings obsess over peculiar features in the post-industrial American landscape such as circular farms, shopping malls, trees halved by power lines.

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We should expect alien visitors, were they not so frequently featured in such films, to be deeply puzzled at this peculiar human ritual.

Yet we understand the Hebrew doctrine of «the peculiar people» in terms not of its identity but of its distinctive feature, and this is not far to seek.

The team discovered the galaxy's peculiar features while conducting a Hubble survey of distant galaxies unleashing powerful blasts of radiation in the throes of galaxy mergers.

Together NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 form the system Arp 269, which is featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

This allows it to take advantage of the peculiar features of quantum mechanics (such as superposition, in which a quantum element can exist in two distinct states simultaneously) to store data more efficiently and securely.

Otherwise, HD110432 and gamma Cas share similarly peculiar X-ray and optical characteristics such as high X-ray temperature, erratic X-ray variability on timescales of a few hours, optical emission lines, and submigrating features in optical line profiles.

The set spotlights three movies: «Tokyo Mighty Guy,» starring Akira Kobayashi as a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district that brings him women and trouble; «Danger Pays» stars Jo Shishido in a feature about the heist of one billion yen and the various people trying to get the stash; and «Murder Unincorporated» with Shishido in a wild tale about an assassination agency that highlights some rather peculiar killing tactics.

As in that foreboding classic, Phantom Thread features an imposing, specter - dusted manse inhabited by what will become, by the end of the film's first act, a peculiar trio.

Following Frank's half - hearted self - introduction, we get his backstory: a boyhood visit to the 1964 World's Fair, where he presents his homemade jetpack; an encounter with a peculiar young girl, Athena (Raffey Cassidy), who tells him «I'm the future»; and a trip on the «It's a Small World» ride, which debuted at that World's Fair and in which — I promise I am not making this up — young Frank discovers an inter-dimensional portal to a futuristic metropolis in the middle of a wheat field, featuring flying «hover - rails» and the aforementioned building that looks just like Space Mountain.

As the Coens guide us through a fictional dream factory, «Capitol Pictures» (also featured in their condescending and morose Barton Fink), nostalgic fantasy and frivolous satire create a peculiar glow, then cancel each other out.

There are no special features, just a trailer that makes the movie sounds worse than it is (it has one of those portentous voice - overs peculiar to bad action movies made in the 1980s).

There's a block of new and repertory features from India, a new film from Werner Herzog, Phantasm: Remastered and the world premier of Phantasm: Ravager with special guest Don Coscarelli, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Tim Burton in attendance.

In earlier work we highlighted the peculiar incentives for retirement built into these plans (see «Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys,» features, Winter 2008).

While running on a 600 MHz processor and Android 2.3 Gingerbread and bearing the same name as its predecessor, the Motorola Fire (Dual SIM version) is expected to features a 240 x 320 pixels TFT capacitive touchscreen display as well as a QWERTY keyboard that looks pretty much like a photocopy (rip - off) of the keyboard peculiar to the BlackBerry Bold range by RIM (Research In Motion).

The fact that this breed was created by mixing a wide variety of dogs resulted in a very peculiar, Dingo like appearance, that features versatile coat color patterns.

Have specific details in mind (a scar or peculiar feature) that will identify your animal.

Another of Bounty's signature features are the peculiar «bird cages» in which sexy dancers climb into and dance away.

In a peculiar turn of events, Youtube user Johnny Mac uploaded a remade version of the Final Fantasy X soundtrack featuring protagonist...

While not immediately apparent in Super Mario Bros. 2, Birdo seems to follow the peculiar yet almost distinctly Mario trope of featuring a star character whose name doubles as that of their species.

Aside from the peculiar beauty of rusting hulks on forgotten battlefields, anemone - covered battleships on the seabed and cars being consumed by forests, these images introduce us to unusual stories: how a car standing on its nose in the Nevada desert has inspired an artist into making a design feature from junked cars, a Canadian schooner that sank in 1885 and rests preserved to this day in a harbor in Lake Huron, and a space shuttle left gathering dust in a hangar.

Culture Type - For Your Summer Agenda, 49 U.S. Exhibitions Featuring Works by Black Artists The International Review of African American Art Plus - A Look Inside: Eliza's Cabinet of Curiosities Art City Asks: Fo Wilson Wisconsin Gazette - A cabinet of curiosities in a cabin Art City: Using objects to explore, reimagine a slave's world Arts Without Borders: A «peculiar curiosity» lurks in the Lynden Scupture Garden's back woods

Tuesday, October 13, 8 pm THIRD MAN TRIO Han Bennink, drums Michael Moore, reeds Will Holshouser, accordion $ 12 General Admission Presented by Ars Nova Workshop Since the demise of the legendary and critically - acclaimed Trio Clusone - featuring Han Bennink, Michael Moore and Ernst Reijseger - in 1998, the jazzcommunity has been anxiously awaiting a vehicle for composer Moore and the raucous Bennink to carry on with their peculiar melodic, harmonic and rambunctious work.

Jockum Nordström simultaneously evokes a sense of nostalgia and unfamiliarity in Back to the Land (2008), which features three peculiar characters in a rural scene of underbrush, trees, and cloud formations.

Ajay Kurian went small, as well, in peculiar new wall - hung sculptures that resembled maquettes for dystopian playgrounds at 47 Canal; one featured a Tootsie Roll bunker.

Here, his works engage some familiar and peculiar architectural and display features (floors, shadows, frames, walls, views) he's encountered in various historical and imaginary, current and future museums in the Arab world.

As the artist recalls in her autobiography, Infinity Net, «Deep in the mountains of Nagano, working with letter - size sheets of white paper, I had found my own unique method of expression: ink paintings featuring accumulations of tiny dots and pen drawings of endless and unbroken chains of graded cellular forms or peculiar structures that resembled magnified sections of plant stalks.»

These works, featured in his solo TATE show are from his celebrated Tree series and reflect El - Salahi's fascination with the Haraz tree, indigenous to Sudan, which has peculiar and inspirational characteristics.

«each striking feature on a long record is, therefore, no evidence of the persistent recurrence of peculiar irregularities, but is simply the residual scar or imprint of some unusual event, or a few which have been fortuitously combined at about the time in question.»

Indeed, one needs to appreciate the very peculiar features prevailing in the pharma sector and the potential conflict between competition law and IPRs, which results from the fact that - as a rule - pharmaceutical firms enjoy patent protection.

For Android purists, it's a rather gimmicky take on Google's OS, with the standard theme featuring some rather peculiar UI design alterations that in some ways make it feel more like Apple's iOS rather than Android - especially the brightly coloured gradient - heavy app icons.