Sentences with word «slipperiness»

Add Kazuo Shiraga, one of the leaders of Japan's postwar generation of artists, to this list: He was the first to come to grips with the inherent slipperiness of paint.

Runners or area rugs throughout your home can help with slipperiness and will also give them a more comfortable surface to lie on.

The fact that you can comfortably wrap the Alpha in one hand also keeps the aluminum's inherent slipperiness from becoming too much of a problem, an issue many One (M8) owners can probably attest to.

This product is not designed for use in most manual transmissions or tranaxles with synchronizers, as extreme slipperiness may cause shifting problems.

When closed, aerodynamic slipperiness increases, but when opened you get more air coming through to cool down the engine.

Meanwhile, I, Tonya's slipperiness doesn't really extend to the open question of what Harding knew or didn't know about the plot against Kerrigan; the film takes her insistence that she wasn't in on the scheme basically at face value, because to do otherwise would risk complicating its depiction of her as a victim of bad luck, a worse social circle, and relentless class snobbery.

Three Billboards» initial appeal lies in its tonal slipperiness between a somber drama of small - town intimacy - bordering - on - claustrophobia and a chatty fantasy of Tarantino-esque hyperviolence.

Recaro bucket seats, now upholstered in Alcantara to reduce slipperiness, hold you in place under almost all conditions.

The in - hand comfort is exceptional, and Honor has managed to sidestep the common problem of slipperiness too.

The finish on the back is pretty attractive, with a very slightly rubberized plastic feel that will help to give the device a good in - hand feel that also negates slipperiness.

University of Michigan plastic surgery team develops «Slipperiness Score» to identify what days are most risky for slips and falls.

Warning: Do not use mineral oil on the steering wheel, pedals, or any other controls where slipperiness could pose a hazard.

As emblems of sexual tension, divine retribution, meaningless chaos, metaphysical inversion, and aching human guilt, his attacking birds acquire a metaphorical complexity and slipperiness worthy of Melville.

Everything is slightly heightened — from the titular character (played with a kind of rattlesnake slipperiness by Matthew McConaughey), a man encased by self - styled mythologizing and a code of ethics that doesn't extend to killing gangsters, to the way Nichols» camera glides glacially along the river — but that's because life in the south is heightened too, everything is sweaty and sticky and slightly rusty.

Excellent gear and synchro protection, balanced slipperiness for easier shifting in cold climates

Audi's e-tron Quattro has bonnet vents that open and close to add slipperiness too.

I believe silk and water do have something of the same fluid slipperiness.

The arrangement appears to be provisional — and this apparently unfinished state of much of Rebecca Warren's work, the deceptive crudity, is analogous to its underlying conceptual and thematic slipperiness.

This retrospective catalogue, with some 80 images, reveals the scope of Oehlen's his investigations, as well as a bravura slipperiness.

Working contemporaneously to such continental Op artists as Victor Vasarely and Julio Le Parc, Riley was included in the landmark exhibition «The Responsive Eye» at MoMA in 1965, which emphasised the active role of the viewer and the potential slipperiness of seemingly objective geometric forms.

She posits slipperiness as a tool for survival in a postcolonial setting and, in the space of her canvas, allows forms and colors to embody two things at once and contradictions to survive simultaneously.

All this is the pleasure of Tyson's work - the humour, the mental slipperiness, the giddy invocations of the complexities and unbiddable, unpredictable randomness of the universe.

These paintings and drawings function as an oblique investigation, inspired by the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, into the essential slipperiness and ambiguity of language — an ongoing concern of Bochner's, and one that he has explored in many formats over the course of his 50 - year career.

People living in homes with stairs run the risk of falling or slipping from a variety of hazards, lighting, clutter, slipperiness etc..

Despite the overarching slipperiness — which I'm told doesn't affect the hard - to - find glossy «jet black» variant — it's a comfortable fit in the hand.

Most remarkably is the device's slipperiness when placed on soft or unlevel surfaces like a couch or window sill.

In the Honor 9, you're getting a lot of phone for the relatively low asking price of # 379, with caveats around the overall slipperiness of the thing, the camera's low - light performance and EMUI itself, which through significantly improved of late, remains a far cry from Google's vision of Android.

The only real negatives here are the tendency for glass — even reinforced glass of the kind Huawei is using — to scratch more easily than a metal backplate, as well as the general slipperiness of the this year's Mates compared to their immediate forebears.

There were a couple of things about last year's M8 that held me back from using it more, however: The anxiety - inducing slipperiness of the curved metal body, and the generally disappointing Ultrapixel camera.

Notes: This product is not designed for use in most manual transmissions or tranaxles with synchronizers, as extreme slipperiness may cause shifting problems.

The massive kidney grille houses active air vents, which shut when they can for extra aerodynamic slipperiness and open again on demand for more cooling air flow.

The result is an underlying anxiety or slipperiness in the paintings that reveals itself in a delicate alliance between layers.

Most annoyingly is the device's slipperiness on many surfaces, which can cause it to slip and fall from dangerous heights when not attended to.

While the gallery clearly prods us to view the latter as providing the exhibition's heft, the lighter pieces hung in the hallway hint at what the leaden centerpieces lack; namely, the lubricant image play that gives rise to slipperiness of meaning — between personal memory and collective history, perhaps — that has animated Bailey's art in the past.

Opposition to the ordination of women relies heavily on the strain of Christian thought that, despite the slipperiness of the term, still insists upon the «ontological» difference between men and women.

Once it loses its slipperiness, spray Osmosis Clear Plus Activating Mist on and continuing massaging to help drive the product into the skin.

And a wiggly, soapy baby adds to the challenge of slipperiness.

There can often be a slipperiness from «about more than income» (which is valid) to «income not that important».

That could overcome one of the biggest drawbacks of graphene and nanotubes, in terms of their ability to be woven into long fibers: their extreme slipperiness.

The slipperiness of the syndrome is in part because «it's diagnosed based on exclusion,» says Judy Mikovits, director of research at the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro - Immune Disease in Reno, Nev., and co-author of research on the retrovirus findings published online today in Science.

The slipperiness helps determine how quickly the ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

Scientists working for the U.S. Geological Survey examining samples from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth have reported that these slow - moving sections contain talc, a soft mineral, which may account for their slipperiness.

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

New research shows how a layer of water on the surface of ice — even at temperatures well below freezing — can influence everything from the slipperiness of a skating rink to the electrification of thunderclouds

Aerodynamic slipperiness would be another key factor.

The GM designers, for example, wanted a long, rakishly slanted windshield that would have added nothing to slipperiness but would have allowed sunlight to flood the interior, increasing air conditioning requirements.

Of course, the slipperiness of the slope depends on our views about the beginning of human life and the propriety of experimenting with it.