Sentences with phrase «really about abstraction»

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«My impression is that so much of the literature that has really dominated our thinking about the church derives from generalized abstractions about what the church ought to be or about what the evils of the church are by theologians who are at best uncomfortable in trying to apply that to particular congregations.

«A clock is a symbol of continuity; one that lasts a really long time might give people a sense of perspective, help them think about the year 3000 as more than just an abstraction,» Hillis says.

By the way, Jimmy - Given what Chris Roberts says here about not liking video game abstractions like lives / score counters, that really, really puts the combat sim intro of Wing Commander in perspective - must have seemed like a radical move at the time!

Let's have a chat about 8 - bit Adventure Anthology Volume 1 by General Arcade and Abstraction Games because really there isn't much else I'd want to GO →

The two - story room to me felt really locked together, it was this moment about material and abstraction.

I've been thinking a lot about cosmological orgies, about matter being created — they look like these messy sex scenes happening in space, but they're really just abstractions.

What's really of the moment about the work isn't its content as such, but its meta - abstraction — the treatment of figurative imagery and nonfigurative gestures as equal actors in an overall visual project defined by its mood rather than its meaning.

The Abstract Expressionists never really saw themselves as a group — they never wrote a manifesto — and one of the good things about this Royal Academy show is that it embraces a variety of approaches to abstraction.

«Something about what she was doing really reverberated with a contemporary sensibility — going back and forth between representation and abstraction, encompassing a broad array of references, incorporating mul - tiple readings,» says Smith.

And for most artists without such an intellectual background, in those days they were very dubious about making abstractions just for fear that they really didn't mean anything.

The paintings are really just about geometric abstraction.

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