Sentences with phrase «personal affinity»

Indeed, despite my personal affinity for Windows, even I can see that Microsoft's approach to mobile devices has always been a mess, and there remains little evidence of a clear and cohesive strategy to propel its smartphone platform to success.

-- Encourage a personal affinity with the earth through practical experiences out - of - doors and through the practice of an ethic of care.

For Pablo and Efrain, Bernhardt depicts items both specific to the lush landscape of Puerto Rico and her personal affinity for novel and mundane commodities, such as cigarettes, headphones, sharpies and keyboards.

Working primarily in porcelain, Liu Jianhua's personal affinity with the traditional medium sprung from his 14 year long training in the art at the Imperial kilns of Jingdezhen.

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The artist works primarily in porcelain, after Liu Jianhua's personal affinity with the traditional medium sprung from fourteen years of training at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen.

Working primarily in porcelain, Liu Jianhua's personal affinity with the traditional medium sprung from fourteen years of training at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen.

Whether you have a personal affinity for specific breeds or merely companion animals in general, there are hundreds of organizations in Canada to choose from.

Bottom Line: The excellent Guggenheim site, although of limited use for classroom teachers, will be appreciated by art educators and those with a personal affinity for modern art.

«So, I have a personal affinity for Abyssinian.»

The apparent irrelevance of distance and the importance of particular personal affinities in the more striking stories about telepathy favor this interpretation.

Not exact matches

Manny Lopez, a philanthropist and the co-founder of MADD Coffee Company, has a close affinity to this program, given his personal upbringing.

A consumer lender with retail, consumer direct, wholesale, personal loan, affinity, and servicing operations.

Declaring myself «spiritual,» though, is simply an acknowledgement of the whisper in my heart — a personal, private affinity for metaphysical answers; a quiet hope, inside of me, that I might encounter a grand order to things.

Thus Lifton indicates that one characteristic distinguishing the rap groups from traditional therapy was «that of affinity, the coming together of people who share a particular... historical and personal experience, along with a basic perspective on that experience, in order to make some sense of it.»

Yet their scientific affinities grew out of profound personal differences.

Girls show an affinity toward personal styling from a tender age.

They already had an affinity for local alternative newsweekly and I thought we could create the next generation online dating and personal product by being hyper local.

Spark recently acquired MingleMatch which oversees 21 affinity - focused online personals sites, including DeafSinglesConnection, Interracial Singles Connection, Single Parents Mingle, and Prime Singles Connection - for online daters more than 40 years old.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

In heyday Hollywood times, a director's using the same actor or actors over and over again may have had more to do with studio contracts and who was available than with personal taste and affinities.

She mentions her affinity for thrillers, she promotes her series, and she wraps it all up with a few personal details.

With Miranda's affinity for senior cats and a personal interest in feline hyperthyroidism, we were happy to have Miranda join our team in April 2014.

There are affinity quests, designed to further a party member's personal story or to acquire new allies or shops.

As an Arisen, the player has an affinity with a race of creatures belonging to the Pawn Legion — humanoids devoid of personal ambition that exist simply to serve the whims of the Arisen.

While Morley's paintings invite the viewer to reflect upon the conflicts that have shaped humanity since time immemorial, they also echo the artist's personal experiences as a child during the Second World War, his cultural affinity with both England and America, and his lifelong fascination with models, from the plastic Air - fix kits of his youth to the paper cut - out varieties.

«Current Locations» also speaks to these artists» affinity with creating a sense of place (or places): painter Barbara Marks creates voluminous pictorial & interior spaces with her deeply saturated color palette; Elise Church paints intimate environments based on her travels in space in time; Colombian artist, Esperanza Cortés incorporates natural resources and folklore motifs from her homeland as a means of exploring personal identity; Kyle Vu - Dunn sculpts warped «natural» environments to harbor the self; and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey blends world maps (with emphasis on places she's lived) with morbid imagery from traditional medical textbooks.

These paintings, with titles that refer to inspirational affirmations (It's not going to happen like that, Devotion, Determination, Perseverance and Potential) are suspended between an analytical depiction of reality and a dreamlike dimension, between autobiography and imagination, with her own personal style and narrative, in which the attention to time and space is central, evoking at the same time an affinity between life and painting, both imbued with intention and with mystery.

The show reflects on a number of interesting notions: the ways in which postwar black artists have constructed their identity through their reliance on abstraction; the formal affinities between artists of different generations; and the role of non-figurative art as both personal expression and political impetus.

Hershman Leeson proceeds from the world of her dreadful personal secrets — compounded by the history of the Holocaust that she deftly interlaces into her own story — and emerges as a revelatory genius with an affinity for strong, productive, creative, and individualistic movers and shakers, giving them a voice and animating their lives in a series of brilliant, thought - provoking movies.

His work demonstrates an affinity for how architecture and sculpture intervene in personal identity and inform our movements and social mores.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (March 28, 2018)-- Exploring the warm, personal, and humorous strain of Pop art born in Chicago, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will present the first in - depth exploration of the Imagist artists» affinity for the object with the exhibition 3 - D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964 1980.

Elective Affinities epitomizes the feminising of artistic practice, in terms of both subject and substance, that is typical of Wilke's art, and as autobiography (the work was made in response to a particularly difficult romantic episode in Wilke's life), it similarly exemplifies the urgent dissolving of the private and public, and so the personal and political, that is also everywhere evident in her work.

Offering an extraordinary look at one of the world's most basic social concepts, this exhibition explores the differences and affinities within artworks relative to immigration and political repression, dislocation and diaspora, and personal memory and utopian ideals.

While the aforementioned affinities are obvious, there is contained and mediated anger and violence in these paintings; anger deflected by the use of a more playful or pop palette, which also helps create a deeply personal narrative for Norton himself.

His affinity for sharing what interests him and remarking about it anticipated the «share» culture of social media (he began making art in this spirit in the late 1990s), with one major exception: his media platform is a highly personal, handmade take on text / image drawing rather than the digital templates that readily accept the cut - and - paste of urls, jpegs, and keyboard - typed text.

Curiously, despite his training and his close contact with French painting there are few signs of French inspiration in his style of landscape painting which is quite personal and definitely English in its affinities.

It traces their different affinities with a way of working that went beyond modernism in terms of its interest in the personal and subjective, its rejection of a coherent style and its promotion of artistic freedom.

The varied abstract works by the artists in Bedrock each stand upon their own sort of logic, built out from a reverence for their artistic lineage, personal narratives, cultural conditioning, and affinity to natural phenomenon.

Marion Wagschal's paintings created between 1980 and 2015 reflect the artist's affinity for psychological portraits, the selected works are telling of her preferred subject: the feminine figure as a repository of stories both personal and universal.

Both Facebook and Google are trying to extract this data from your personal online community; to quantify this affinity, whether positive or negative; and then to provide you with a search product that is influenced by those recommendations.

It is imposed today (with some affinity modifications) upon all marrying here, regardless of personal faith or place or manner of solemnisation.

KC, I suspect your affinity for the dissent in Bruker is more based on your personal beliefs, and not so much an interest in reconciling the needs of our population, or even advancing the position of women in these situations.

I believe that my work experience combined with my unique personal perspective and affinity for facilitating and mediating discussions could make me a valuable member of the board.

Sell and underwrite personal auto, home and renters insurance policies to inbound callers responding to direct mailing through affinity relationships, direct television advertisements and internet lead aggregators

The California Association of Realtors (CAR) has entered into an affinity partnership with Toronto - based Guardly, a provider of mobile personal safety applications, to provide a smartphone app that helps Realtors stay safe on the job.

CREA may also disclose Personal Information of Members to third parties, such as lawyers, consultants, affinity partners or others who work with CREA to collect and analyze information from Members, to improve the products and services offered by CREA or to provide products and services to Members.

I introduce people to each other who I think might be a good match, either because of personal or business affinities.