Sentences with phrase «serves as a touchstone»

During the modern era, science served as the touchstone for intellectual rigor, and often for good reason.

The written format of our process facilitates reflection and the personalized attention from the LAL means that the experience is more likely to «stick» and continue to serve as a touchstone as applicants move into Leadership.

«Their work is a tremendous asset to us all and has served as a touchstone for many around the world.»

Classic film noir served as a touchstone for many visual touches, Deckard's world - weary characterization, and the femme fatale look and actions of Rachel (Sean Young), a replicant who draws Deckard's interest, despite his better instincts.

Facing History created the Pedagogical Triangle for Historical and Civic Understanding to serve as a touchstone for balanced program and lesson planning.

Their story of using data for meaningful change can serve as a touchstone to inspire others.

This student, described in the narrative below, has served as our touchstone as we have considered the topic of educational opportunity and how North Carolina can provide it, equitably, to all students, even those who are most challenging to teach or most at risk of failure.

In honor of this anniversary, Grove has published a special edition featuring a redesigned cover (although the original iconic cover has served as a touchstone for decades), hot pink stained pages, a new foreword by the creative director at Barney's, Simon Doonan, and the inclusion of Susann's 1966 article, «My Book is Not Dirty.»

As the characters grow from teenagers to confused college - age kids to more established adults, Eons & Empires serves as a touchstone for each.

You then say this image served as the touchstone for the discussion.

And this is one of the key reasons why this panel serves as a touchstone for many of the challenges that now face publishing.

JIMMIE DURHAM: AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD Art can be activist, and vice versa: Jimmie Durham's involvement in the American Indian Movement, downtown New York in the 1980s and identity politics in the 1990s serve as touchstones for an exhibition of more than 200 objects.

Science fiction serves as a touchstone for McMillian, who finds in it an analogy for history; both often reveal more about the present than the worlds of the past or future they seek to conjure.

Anyway, it serves as a touchstone throughout Milton's career.

What interests you about that painting, do you see it differently over time, and what other works or artists serve as touchstones in your work?

I understand intimately how an environment of instability and confusion can devastate, but also how these personal histories can be inspirational and serve as a touchstone for thoughtful exchange,» Britto says.

Soutine's haunting imagery, energized brushstrokes, and rich paint have served as touchstones for subsequent generations of artists, from Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, to contemporary artists such as Frank Auerbach, Cecily Brown, and Damien Hirst.

Odessa Straub, Ariel Dill, and Christian Sampson, all abstract artists, were asked to respond to the internal life of Gösta Peterson's image, which serves as the touchstone for the works seen in this show.

Science fiction serves as a touchstone for McMillian, who finds in it an analogy for history in that both often reveal more about the present than the worlds of the past or future they seek to conjure.

At Howard, Catlett iv absorbed elements of both traditional African art and European modernism that served as touchstones throughout her later career.

Wilson's longterm projects AIR (Auto Immune Response) and CIPX (Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange)-- from which Wilson's work in this exhibition derive — will serve as touchstones for the evening.

He uses abstraction as part of a larger vocabulary, in which installation, sculpture, painting and photography serve as touchstones for experience.

Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange)-- from which Wilson's work in this exhibition derive — will serve as touchstones for the evening.

As you said, there are a number of different paintings that serve as touchstones for these paintings, the large blue painting «Calif.» is reminiscent of Matisse» blue paintings, in color, but also in his way of making space, and distributing objects through the picture plane.

Everyone attending the conference will no doubt be inspired and provoked by their contributions, and the three presentations will serve as touchstones in the overall content, shape and tone of the conference.

Once approved, the document serves as the touchstone throughout the search to prevent engagement drift.

The document serves as a touchstone, defining all the requirements of the role, preventing searches from veering off course.

Terri serves as a touchstone for non-traditional families such as divorced, co-parenting, stepfamilies, and single parents.

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They tap the deep ethical principals they forged at Waldorf as a touchstone that serves them well throughout their lives.

In addition, he is the author of the best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition.

Bjarnason wrote his essay On Conferences last month, and it has served as an interesting touchstone of thought for some of us who are working on conference programming.

Who: Katherine Langford, Christian Navarro, Michael Sadler What: A 13 - episode series based on Jay Asher's YA novel about a high school student's quest to understand why his classmate committed suicide When: Premieres March 31 Where: Netflix Why We're Excited: Asher's stunning debut novel was a # 1 bestseller in the U.S. and a hit around the world, serving as an important touchstone for discussions of teen bullying and slut - shaming.

Sauna is a cultural touchstone, a focal point for life, serving as a base for births and coming - of - age rituals - and is traditionally fully nude.

The title references the period of high modernism but also, more specifically, the dates of two historical anecdotes that serve as conceptual touchstones for his current sculptures.

She currently has gallery representation at Touchstone Gallery where she also serve as Vice President of the Board.

traces the continual and deliberate evolution in the artist's work from his early to late career and reveals Gottlieb's constant willingness to reevaluate his paintings throughout his lifetime.The eleven works on view, created between 1948 and 1972, focus on three specific series: the Pictographs, the Imaginary Landscapes and the Burst paintings.As Lilly Wei writes, «All three serve as deeply meaningful touchstones, sometimes serious in intent, other times playful, to which he returned to time and again, in one formulation or another, all his life.»

Monuments are made to commemorate people or events that serve as important touchstones for history.

«By hewing to the statute, this Strategic Plan provides the Bureau a ready roadmap, a touchstone with a fixed meaning that should serve as a bulwark against the misuse of our unparalleled powers.»