"Sameness" refers to things that are identical or very similar to each other. It means there is no difference or variation between them.
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Mixed media, oil, mirrored glass, string, wax, metal leaf on panel The more exactly he grasps, whether by instinct or through study, the existing element of
sameness in people, the...
Resists parental demands.Gives orders.Rigid insistence
on sameness of routine.
His insights have helped ambitious leaders accelerate innovation, and STAND OUT in a sea of
sameness by building companies that are hungry for change.
We discovered that it was
n't sameness, agreement, or compatibility that held us together, but our love for one another.
I love the feeling of security I get
from sameness, like the blankie I carried everywhere when I was 4 years old.
There can be a tendency
for sameness in modern book covers, with the author left out of the process by commercial demand for publishers to copy rather than be innovative.
McDonald's «heavy value messaging,» Wells Fargo analyst Jeff Farmer said in a note to investors, «was lost in a sea of
sameness as many competitors aggressively pivoted to promote low price points early in the year.»
In 1909 Washington State, fairness was synonymous
with sameness (thus «common schools»).
I tend to side with Pannenberg's «loose» sense of identity — continuity through time of an individual — as phenomenologically more adequate: it does express the subjective sense of
sameness through time of which persons are aware.
Sometimes, when we're sitting in silence and he looks over at me, it's as if I'm looking at myself, because there's so
much sameness and harmony and selfless desire in those eyes.
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That
Values Sameness by Todd Rose As reviewed by Mark Bauerlein
Haven't seen Birdman so I don't know the differences /
sameness between these movies.
Your eye and your voice are refreshingly unique amongst all the sea of
boring sameness of most of the other blogs.
Indeed what makes it even more difficult to speak of, is that in daily life, where it is right at home, double - mindedness, within limits, keeps comparatively to itself, so that a double - minded person, by being a little less double - minded than the others, claims distinction even though his degree of difference is quite within an
essential sameness.
In a time when even the best of big Hollywood movies all seem to be mired in a certain nagging, unimaginative
visual sameness, this one dares to take us to a place we haven't been before.
Much as the dull, safe,
corporate sameness of late 20th - century modernism prompted Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves and others to explore new and provocative structures and materials in design and architecture, so, too, was Springer driven to enliven his creations with fresh and alluring energy and sleekness.
Its material character extends to empty clothing from Troy Michie, screenprints on Mylar and fabric by Tomashi Jackson, painted nudes with eyes for flesh by Didier Williams, velvet curtains for
Unpacking Sameness by Christie Neptune, a nude ill at home by Devin N. Morris, seeming copies after John Chamberlain by Kennedy Yanko, and African American twists on art history by David Shrobe.
At the same time, I suspect King would note the enduring,
sickening sameness of white supremacist violence through arson, guns, and bombings.
And his firm would almost certainly be struggling in a sea of
sameness now.
Over at Front Porch Republic, Augustinian scholar James Matthew Wilson provides an important exegesis on «traditional conservatism» that «calls into question nearly everything that modern persons generally take for granted» and reveals the rather bland, indiscernible
sameness found in the liberal / conservative paradigm, the spawn of 18th century Classical Liberalism, as humbuggery of the first magnitude.
Within the
fundamental sameness of death, Jesus» death is unique because it expresses everything that a human death can really be.
The rise of franchise - minder figures such as Marvel's Kevin Feige and Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy in roles that are an unusual blend of producer, production chief and showrunner, initially looked to be pointing toward a
homogenous sameness from film to film in the name of quality control and brand management.
Love, of course, makes for creative difference and not for
flat sameness.
These works are terrifying in their Gestalt quality as your perspective switches between the two personalities, wondering if Wearing is trying to escape from herself or trying to make a broad statement about the
ultimate sameness of people.
I have to wonder why in universities so dedicated to diversity a student culture that insists on
intellectual sameness has developed.
They had been using it in a slightly different sense, not to describe a particular look but a general attitude:
embracing sameness deliberately as a new way of being cool, rather than striving for «difference» or «authenticity.»
In another move towards abolishing the
dull sameness of big art fairs, the second floor of Basel, hosting the more adventurous, less established and canonized art and artists should collapse and mix with its forefathers.
In some applications, including those in education, averaging can obscure important individual differences, lead to one - size - fits - no - one designs, and value
sameness over uniqueness.
He's the superhero we needed and deserved after years of toiling through
superhero sameness.
• Stephen Schaefer bemoans the broadcast realities and «cookie
cutter sameness» of critics awards in the 21st century.
The less
varied sameness is in dealing with the antagonists, which isn't exactly shocking since this is an ongoing case and the bad guys haven't all been fully exposed or even self - justifying in real - life yet, but which doesn't excuse the number of wooden, mustache - twirling supporting performances and their function in the story.
«There's a certain
sameness across much of the charter world,» they write, «and (save perhaps for virtual schools) not enough real innovation.»
The whole rhetoric of minimalism was about surpassing the games of highs and lows, where composition would stress some areas while underplaying others, and instead creating fields of robust
sameness where every section of a painting was affectively equal to every other.
Love the pairings and the various color choices, not all just blue and
white sameness!
This is not so much about improvement as the perpetuation of
sameness built on the assumption that the convergent direction schools are taking is somehow OK... just follow the research and collaborate more!!