Sentences with phrase «see vague shapes»

Having only been able to see vague shapes, he was able to read the smallest of text!

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Under the combined influence of Science and History, and of social developments, the twofold sense of duration and collectivity has pervaded and re-ordered the entire field of our experience; with the twofold result that the future, hitherto a vague succession of monotonous years awaiting an unimportant number of scattered individual lives, is now seen to be a period of positive becoming and maturing — but one in which we can advance and shape ourselves only in solidarity.
«I would have had to board there, which my parents didn't want,» says Ticchi, who was born legally blind with limited vision — he could see some light and vague shapes.
This leads visitors back to a large charcoal drawing, «Untitled No. 18» from 1958, where you can see him sketching out vague shapes; then to several of his collages placed around the room; and finally to his paintings, which suddenly register as paintings sprung from collages, with their juxtaposed elements functioning, as Ms. de Kooning puts it, like «action caught at an impasse» to create «an art of interruption.»
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