Sentences with phrase «seeming irrelevance»

Arnoldi's art, in Modernism's compact survey, suggests that viewers» resistance to abstraction will come today neither from unfamiliarity, nor from its refusal of topicality nor even from the seeming irrelevance of painting itself to graver human concerns.

Not exact matches

but in attempting to make that large number seem problematic, you actually both defeated your other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.

This would seem to imply that there would be neither congruence of the type leading to positive value nor the clash producing negative value, but a relation of irrelevance of object to subject.

Unfortunately, many churches today seem to have replaced militancy on social issues by a bland irrelevance.

He merits sympathy rather than blame; and if he keeps his connection with the church enough to support it by his attendance and contributions, in spite of what must seem to him the irrelevance of many of its activities, he deserves much credit.

Most voters seem to think the Lib Dems were more of an irrelevance...

I'm enough of a movement veteran that these things just flowed by me at the time, but in retrospect they seem the worst sort of hectoring irrelevances designed to make the Party's candidates seem like eccentric loons.)

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

The fact that its auto» box, which it shares with the Maybach, has just five widely spaced ratios seems almost an irrelevance.

Surprisingly, I found myself lusting for more — not from the powertrain, but from the exhaust note, which seems muffled to the point of irrelevance.

It's fair to say that BlackBerry is targeting fleets and businesses with this device, an angle the company seems to take by default given its current irrelevance in the wider consumer space.

However, when it comes to asset management firms, all investors seem to focus on is AUM growth, plus the ongoing switch from active to passive management (despite its basic irrelevance for private equity firms), so the slowdown / halt in FIG's AUM growth in the past year (or so) has been punished severely.

I'm sorry that I fixate on these things, but we seem to have a sexual fetish and an obsession with our own dullness, irrelevance, and how boring we are.

Given that we are constantly confronted with digital images and the instant access to multimedia, I can understand how the very act of painting might seem outdated to the point of irrelevance.

Given the total irrelevance of volcanic aerosols during the period in question, the only very modest effect of fossil fuel emissions and the many inconsistencies governing the data pertaining to solar irradiance, it seems clear that climate science has no meaningful explanation for the considerable warming trend we see in the earlier part of the 20th century — and if that's the case, then there is no reason to assume that the warming we see in the latter part of that century could not also be due to either some as yet unknown natural force, or perhaps simply random drift.

The Archer - Schmidt view of CO2 hanging around for centuries seems based on a model of residence time having what I see as at least three problems: fallacious appeal to paleoclimate, irrelevance of average residence time per molecule, and neglect of disequilibrium coefficients.

Justice Graesser ruled that White's size was a neutral factor, drawing an analogy to the irrelevance of skin colour that does not seem particularly apt here.