Sentences with phrase «precarious balance»

Some of the figures seem to exist in a state of precarious balance between floating and falling.

Katherine Tzu - Lan Mann uses acrylic paint, Sumi ink, and collage on enormous sheets of paper to create works that result in a «precarious balance of harmony and clangor.»

Jackson's explosive compositions are held in precarious balance by a tight surface tension and overall unity.

BALTIMORE — A glut of nitrogen washing over the land from car and factory exhaust and crop fertilizers is degrading water and air quality and even altering precarious balances in species diversity.

2010 Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s — 1950s, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY Precarious Balance, Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York, NY Different Strokes: Twentieth Century Drawings, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

The work's precarious balance also recalls Richard Serra.

[3] In 1975 Whitney Museum of American Art director John I. H. Baur praised Schueler's work: «They strike a more precarious balance between observation and abstract form than do most paintings that try to wed the two...» [3] Schueler himself commented in 1984: «The abstract is real and the real is abstract.»

Analytical yet playful, geometric yet organic, complex yet airy, her compositions teeter and constantly threaten to come undone, yet curiously hang in precarious balance while the individual parts work in tandem to produce an unlikely accord.

But these reactions might also be taken as evidence of a shared strength: the always delicate, sometimes precarious balance that each artist maintained between raw materials and aesthetic impulses, between improvisational process and final statement.

Precarious Balance examines the physicality of contemporary sculpture through the eyes of its greatest masters such as Richard Serra, Josef Albers, Alberto Giacometti and Arnulf Rainer.

Weeks ago, we observed Flanagan's precarious balancing act.

When he angers a young Taliban fighter, Parvana's father is arrested and her house is raided, destroying the simple life in precarious balance that her family was trying desperately to cling to.

If this precarious balance is upset, then crisis measures based on statistical methods of control are useless.

At the moment, there is a precarious balance between Muslims and Christians, with Muslims making up some 34 per cent of the population and Ethiopia being courted by some of the oil - rich Arab states.

He came to believe that he should perform his precarious balancing act for reasons that are complex and not wholly explicable.

Unfortunately, those very adults know nothing more than what they've been taught; and it becomes a vicious cycle of misunderstanding, misinformation, and a precarious balancing act between what we want so desperately to believe is true and what common - sense logic accepts as being true.

If one or two of the legs are taken away, the result is a precarious balancing act.

It is always a precarious balance of using products that don't pacify one skin type just to aggravate aggravate the opposite.

The precarious balance of that 90 - mph fastball tipped in the wrong direction, and Chen could never stop allowing dingers.

First, because he didn't actually hit Escobar; and second, because pitchers are walking clouds of potential calamity with faberge elbows, and you don't need to screw up that precarious balance by accidentally missing the butt.

As Wade put it, «It's such a precarious balance keeping everyone happy, that for many women, to start a long conversation about her own sexual satisfaction seems like a bad idea.

The precarious balance of edgy egos and vaulting ambitions was maintained by the allure of opportunities to recoup, re-strategize and rebound in the corridors of the Presidency which have now fizzled into a mirage.

Tuesday's special election between Mayer and Killian could tip the precarious balance of power in the state Senate, which Republicans now control.

It's perhaps fitting that Winter works in the shadow of Pohaku - o - Kane since his life, too, is one of precarious balance, and since he, too, oversees a landscape.

The precarious balance that I've held together over the last year and a half has been successful, in part, because I don't ask myself these questions anymore.

Still, if the island's health depends on the fossa's brutal care, then that is a precarious balance indeed.

«Our experiments emphasize how subtle and precarious the balance is,» says postdoctoral researcher and first author Yunyuan V. Wang.

«While this is lower than previous estimates, it confirms that ice is being lost from around the globe, with just a few areas in precarious balance.

Dr. Muller - Sieburg and her colleagues found that stem cell self - renewal is strictly regulated to successfully negotiate a precarious balance: too much self - renewal results in leukemia, while too little leads to bone marrow failure.

They're necessary for optimal digestive function, but sometimes an illness, a round of antibiotics, or even stress can throw this precarious balance out of whack.

During pregnancy, it can become a precarious balance between the weight gain needed to support a healthy baby (and mom) and too many extra pounds.

I feel like this outfit straddled the line between Willy Wonka - ville ridiculous and pretty cool, and it was the black cardigan that played the biggest role in keeping it in that precarious balance.

It's a precarious balance to say the least, particularly for someone who values conscious consumption.

For the few months she spends around Nick, Buddy, and their families, Naomi's presence upsets the precarious balance holding these two households.

On more than one occasion the film manages to strike a precarious balance of being simultaneously jaw - droppingly gorgeous and hilarious.

But there's a precarious balance to this world of us - and - multiple - thems, and K's find — which opens a new and, for him, more personal mystery — turns the film from a manhunt, or whatever you might call it that K does, into a character's search for his own past.

It's important to remember that our brains are always carrying out a precarious balancing act.

Egg and Spoon is a beautiful reminder that fairy tales are at their best when they illuminate the precarious balance between lighthearted childhood and the darkness and danger of adulthood.»

First vilified as killers in life and fable, then romanticized as symbols of freedom and environmental purity, wolves stir up love - hate relationships that may have little or nothing to do with their actual character and value to the precarious balance of nature.

They're necessary for optimal digestive function, but sometimes an illness, a round of antibiotics, or even stress can throw this precarious balance out of whack.

This creates a precarious balance between writing about travel, and actually travelling (so you have something to write about).

The hot vinyl seat was tilted forward and it was with precarious balance and tightly gripped fingers that I kept from tumbling forward onto the rickshaw - wallah.

Olsen has painted the subtle tones of the deserts in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the precarious balance of life and death surrounding Central Australia's Lake Eyre, and South Australia's Coorong National Park where he explored the complex inhabitants of the wetlands and the microscopic ecological drama beneath the water line.

Every puzzle game hinges on the precarious balance between Eureka moments and new challenges, and on this front, GNOG gets it right.

This makes for a precarious balancing act as gamers must find the b...