Sentences with phrase «precarious nature as»

Once completed, her sculptures have an impromptu and precarious nature as if caught mid-action.

There it was: a vintage Cadillac encased in a massive shell of concrete, sitting in an industrial wasteland on Chicago's West Side, ceding its precarious nature as art even further to dirt and moss built up along the passenger and driver sides, patches obtrusively mismatched and I - beam crutches crudely pushed underneath its chassis — irredeemable, one imagines, even to the entropic vision of Robert Smithson.

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Further, as I have said before, if this little precarious foothold upon earth is all that we are ever to know of conscious living, if in fact there is no life except the material and physical, those of us who are not particularly altruistic by nature would hardly think our labors and struggles worth while.

Is it not exactly this abstract level which is sooner and more appropriately to be defined as the «world» — as does even common sense thinking, which frequently confuses «nature» and «world» in a precarious way?

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

Spread betting tempts as there is virtually no limit on your proceedings, but its precarious nature makes it an easy pitfall for those who can not really bet responsibly.

Since the publication of Laurie Garrett's influential 1994 book, The Coming Plague, people commonly talk about pandemics as nature's retribution: something sprung on us as a penalty for disturbing the world's innate balance, for penetrating too deeply into forests and jungles, for disrupting the order of the Earth's precarious ecosystems.

Composed of interviews with some of the game's most famous brawlers, like Dave Semenko, Dave Schultz and George Parros, ICE GUARDIANS gives these players a rare chance to reflect on the precarious nature of their position as well the challenges they faced in trying to make it to the NHL.

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.

From an early age Canadians are made aware of the precarious nature of Québec as a province.

«It is as though he [Joan Miro] had decided to condense all that he loves most — women, the night, stars, birds, dewdrops at dawn, into small paintings, while emphasizing the precarious illusory nature of our existence.»

To exist despite the alienating and antagonizing nature of their surrounding environment — as if a precarious and utterly temporary agreement was struck between them and the molecular components of paint and canvas, lines and colors, even the space itself, threaten to engulf them,» says David.

He devoted much of his painting and printmaking to the exploration of these concerns, focusing on themes of violence and pain, as well as eroticism, self - sacrifice and the precarious nature of human life.

Might Chicago's effervescent car hoods, which were criticized by her teachers for rejecting the tenets of hard - edged minimalism, as well as Prince's evocations of the precarious nature of Americana, be partners in dismantling gendered or sexual norms?

Paperwork and the Will of Capital addresses the instability of executive decision - making and the precarious nature of survival, as well as the reliability and endurance of records.

As global ecosystems deteriorate and global warming alters water patterns — making economic growth ever more precarious — far - right global elites are counting on new technologies to spur economic growth: geo - engineering (to modify the entire planet to counteract global warming), nanotechnology (to manipulate the world at the molecular level to create novel materials) and synthetic biology (to create entirely new life - forms previously unknown in nature).

The precarious nature of Life Insurance Policies can never be undermined, owing to unforeseeable economic factors, as well medical emergencies.