Sentences with phrase «pure exercises in»

Rosalind Krauss describes these works on paper, made by Morris with his eyes closed, as «pure exercises in touch».

While they may look like pure exercises in color theory and abstraction, Wilson's works have titles — Hollywood, Lantern, Extra Spicy — that gesture toward real - world aesthetic experiences.

And this leads us directly to «formalist» art and criticism.11 Formalist art (painting and sculpture) is the vanguard of decoration, and, strictly speaking, one could reasonably assert that its art condition is so minimal that for all functional purposes it is not art at all, but pure exercises in aesthetics.

«When we saw the new Mustang, we knew two things: It was the best we'd seen since the original, and we had to get our hands on one,» said Fabrizio Giugiaro, styling director of Italdesign — Giugiaro S.P.A. «We still believe it's important to show the automotive world pure exercises in style that interpret key models reflecting the history and image of important brands.»

(2) The UN population forecasts are a pure exercise in probability.

So I think CLE organizations could benefit from the creation and delivery of a blog, not so much as a pure exercise in social media, but as a complementary platform to raise awareness and deliver value.

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In addition to classes, Pure Barre also offers online workouts, equipment and exercise apparel.

With Pure Barre, Rachel started feeling stronger and becoming more toned in a way that hadn't been achieved before, even while consistently exercising.

For instance, Hamid speculates about a future political order, based on pure democratic assemblies: «How this assembly would coexist with other preexisting bodies of government was as yet undecided... [U] nlike those other entities for which some humans were not human enough to exercise suffrage, this new assembly would speak from the will of all the people, and in the face of that will, it was hoped, greater justice might be less easily denied.»

First, much of the mathematics that is so spectacularly effective in physical theory was worked out as an abstract exercise by pure mathematicians long before it was applied to the real world....

Ford speaks, it is true, of a divine «temporal freedom,» but this freedom wholly derives from the divine nontemporal decision and thus amounts only to the temporal emergence of a nontemporal freedom: «God's temporal freedom is exercised in his integrative and propositional activity, where he fits to each actual world that gradation of pure possibilities best suited to contribute to the maximum intensity and harmony of his consequent physical experience» (IPQ 13:376; my emphasis).

The ontological argument, an exercise in pure logic, is quite an impressive proof.

For example, Martin Heidegger argues that the whole modern view of the person as an active subject engaged in the process of knowing leads to the «nihilism» of Nietzsche, to the idea of knowing as the pure exercise of the will to power which has its fullest expression in contemporary science and technology (see, e.g., QT): In one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing onin the process of knowing leads to the «nihilism» of Nietzsche, to the idea of knowing as the pure exercise of the will to power which has its fullest expression in contemporary science and technology (see, e.g., QT): In one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing onin contemporary science and technology (see, e.g., QT): In one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing onIn one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing one.

In its more general sense, then, mysticism refers to that disclosure and experience of a higher, purer reality which one gratefully accepts without exercising control over it.

Mutianus wrote to a friend: «Today the apes of theology occupy the whole university, teaching their students the figures of Donatus, a most unintelligible thing; the figures of Parvulus, pure nonsense; mere exercises in complexities the silliest stuff.»

Rooted in a strong sense of «pure service,» Gentle Birth practitioners place the physical, psychological, and emotional well being of the mother - infant pair, above all other system considerations and they uphold the right of childbearing women to exercise full autonomy in their care decisions.

In order to achieve pure chest muscle stimulation, we've compiled a list of 8 exercises that will eliminate the need for a bench and help you reach new chest growth like you've never expected.

I added these in where I'd normally have my other Triceps exercises (I only did one pure Triceps exercise, Dips).

Preventing disease means having the forethought to eat your fruits and vegetables, drink pure clean water, order green tea instead of coffee, make the healthiest choice available, cut out fast food when possible, go to bed at a decent hour, keep a positive mental attitude, find abundant joy in the simple little things, and get some form of exercise each and every day.

Leg and bum exercises are two of the major times you will belly up to the barre in a Pure Barre class.

The exercises in a Pure Barre class not only focus on the stomach muscles to achieve this.

Pure Water — Essential for life and proper functioning, hydration is critical for achieving peak performance and in the recovery process after exercise.

I had the same thought when I first looked at the rep range but after see the link it made perfect sense, in fact I was quite surprised because I already do a similar program mainly with pure compound sets and I usually do 2 high warm up sets on each exercise and then 4 working sets betwen 5 and 8 reps so see the additional exercises some of which I will adapt slightly because of joint issues I was pleasantly ssurprise and very happy that this workout will give me some additional variety and hopefully growth to my training.

I wasn't getting that from Pure Barre and I realize now that I was really missing that aspect in my exercise routine.

The overtly «studio - built» films of that time were apt to be exercises in pure fantasy — The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1951) and Marguerite de la Nuit (Claude Autant - Lara, 1955) are both good examples.

The new musical The Greatest Showman avoids the pitfalls of typical biopics to become more of a fantasia of song and dance, a joyous exercise in pure entertainment that is made for the holiday crowd.

Instead it was an exercise in pure, visceral terror, with its low budget actually helping the film feel horrifyingly realistic.

Cleverly shot guerrilla - style in Disney's Florida and California theme parks, this offbeat thriller is an exercise in relentlessly inventive filmmaking, vividly proving that pure imagination can overcome a micro-budget.

But as Taken ably demonstrated, putting Liam Neeson in a pure genre exercise isn't a bad idea at all.

Finally, ScreenDaily's Tim Grierson was much less positive, claiming that it feels like «a soulless, mechanical exercise in pure kinetic showmanship» and that Berg «too easily undercuts the human element of his story,» preferring to render most of the characters in the film «ciphers representing bland notions of good or evil.»

As an exercise in pure technique, it is daring, exacting and will leave you head - scratching in a how - did - they - pull - that - off?

Once again ahead of his time and wise enough to look beyond current trends, he called this «cleverly constructed» film «an exhilarating exercise in pure filmmaking.»

Lady Bird frets over the made - up nature of her small, conciliatory roles; we see a theater teacher heartbreakingly lose himself in his own acting during an exercise; Lucas Hedges, playing one of Lady Bird's love interests, belts out a few bars of «Giants in the Sky» from Into the Woods in a moment of pure, cringey delight.

Mostly, though, Don't Breathe is just an exercise in pure, sustained intensity, kicking into high gear around the 15 - minute mark and then never letting up until the final frames.

Both of these films are exercises in pure empathy, using as they do the example of the social outcast or outsider (Joseph «The Elephant Man» Merrick and Alvin Straight, respectively) to show us how to better connect with our fellow human.

As for the Turbo S, it's an exercise in pure excess.

In those cases, the pure joy and excitement of being able to exercise our creativity on the job almost always snowballs into amazing results — including some wonderful surprises.

Whether the toy is catnip filled, catnip scented or pure catnip, the addition of catnip is very appealing to cats, with the scent creating a euphoria resulting in healthy play and exercise.»

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Of course, all signs indicate it surpasses the former's one - dimensional button bashing exercises while keeping up with Wolverine in terms of pure ferocity.

The first portion is an exercise in frustration, tedium, and sometimes just pure luck.

But none of that was enough to seriously challenge what is perhaps Sony's greatest E3 conference to date, an exercise in pure wish fulfilment that had the most jaded of observers wiping away tears of gratitude.

That is, even after cobbling together the best statistical assessment of likelihood of a strong warming event, taking that onwards to the projected negative consequences is an exercise in (literally) pure fantasy.

I am persuaded by the defendants» submissions that assuming without deciding that Al - Bakkal may have a cause of action as a pure matter of law, the concurrent jurisdiction of this court ought not be exercised given what I see in the circumstances is the required deference to the university's appeal mechanism.