Sentences with phrase «slipperiness of»

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.

The metal backing comes with a ceramic - coated finish, which not only allows for a great feel in the hand, but also slightly helps counter the slipperiness of the metal.

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.

Road weather models predict the future road conditions, like road surface temperature and the slipperiness of the road.

As you can see above, keep the weight down and aerodynamics were top priorities, so Todd Reichert had to look at the road ahead on a LCD screen, which was no doubt lighter and less disruptive to the slipperiness of the bike than building a transparent windshield would have been.

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.

Repeated viewing subtly shifts what is understood each time, as Prouvost highlights the slipperiness of meaning and notions of reality.

This lead to further thinking about what is lost and gained in the process of translation, the slipperiness of words and how the lack of fixed meaning inherent to translation relates to other kinds of vagueness.

The setting serves both artists» concerns with the slipperiness of language and the theatricality of art.

It is the slipperiness of the male gender role that is disturbing in his work — the exposed closet of hair and clothing and attitudes which make it possible to challenge, mate, kill or control another human being.

The Jewish Museum's exhibition series bringing site - specific works of art to the Museum's main lobby continues this fall with artist Valeska Soares» Time Has No Shadows (2015), a work that attempts to give form to the passage of time and connect its ungraspable infiniteness with the slipperiness of language and the instability of meaning.

The barks and grasses themselves, as persistent physical elements from and of the place, offer a quiet but pointed challenge to the slipperiness of the «imaginary» that has lost the names of their weavers.

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.

Since she became renowned as an artist in the late 1970s, Cindy Sherman played with the slipperiness of identity.

This has been the very subject of Piper's work: the slipperiness of identity.

Foundation Chief Curator of the MDI, stated, «Drawing privileges research and discovery and gives a material trace to the slipperiness of thought.

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.

Her videos, which conflate poetry, painting, live action performance and stop - animation, enact the slipperiness of language in times of extremity with signifiers that swing from propaganda to elegy, and rhetoric to apology.

Is the slipperiness of abstract language anathema to politically motivated art workers?

Provoked and often even moved by Pettibon's work, one must confront the slipperiness of its suggested meanings and the unreliability of both the artist and the supposed speaker.

Within these installations, Dean plays with the slipperiness of language, combining words and the sculptural possibilities of typography.

It turns a unique event into three manageable but oversized group shows, sharing little more than a concern for still more postmodern theory — in the words of the curators, «the slipperiness of authorship.»

The game takes cues from the original all the way down to the slipperiness of control.

First of all, it has a nice aluminium back panel which covers most part of the rear side but is surrounded by matte finish plastic that negates the slipperiness of the metal back panel while giving a good grip.

It's that slipperiness of creation and that psychosis that finds us repeating ourselves by repeating images of ourselves (Multiplicity is a trickier flick than given credit for) which informs a trio of new science - fiction films reaching North American movie screens simultaneously (though only one is American in origin)-- we are the world's new cultural / emotional wasteland and the films of our new millennium reflect that status.

by Walter Chaw The rare film to encapsulate the macro and the micro with eloquence and no little existential disquiet, Andrew Jarecki's amazing documentary Capturing the Friedmans tackles issues like the nature of film, the slipperiness of memory, and the unreliability of identity in ways that are uncomfortable and prickly.

MULHOLLAND DRIVE Perhaps the most unsettling in the recent spate of realty - testing films, David Lynch's ode to the slipperiness of reality is beautiful and thorny.

Not much when you consider the slipperiness of DE and it's bioelectrical properties that Shepard toxic metals through our biology with little harm.

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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, 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.

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

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.

Though Kingsley's saturnine poise is much more interesting in roles which call for varying degrees of slipperiness (Death and the Maiden, Sexy Beast), he nevertheless manages to bring shades into the inherently monochromatic saintliness of the role with life - sized, profoundly felt gravity and dignity, all while executing that marvelous, peculiarly British trick (remember Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) of seeming to age from within.

The real distinguishing quality of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is that it is a big - budget biopic that acts as simultaneously a satire of, and adherent to, the familiar progression of the genre — the layers of self - reflexivity so multi-foliate and rich that it comes as no surprise that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation., Being John Malkovich) is the scribe responsible for its slipperiness.

Mario always had a subtle feeling of slipperiness, and this would always manifest itself at the worst possible times, like slipping off a ledge suddenly during a very tense moment.

Each sculpture is constructed pixel - by - pixel with hand - cut, hand - dyed strips of wood in an overtly laborious process that is in direct contrast to the slipperiness and speed of the digital world.

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.

The artist combines these seductive devices of brilliance, slipperiness, morphing and repetition with his own interest in the transgressive aesthetics of «body horror», found in manga and anime, as well as cult classics such as Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983).

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.

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..

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.

Flat screen offers realistic tactile sensation Tokyo and Kawasaki, Japan, February 24, 2014 — Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced development of a prototype tablet with a touchscreen that conveys a sense of slipperiness or roughness depending on the image being displayed.

Grabbing a case for it might be wise, especially if the slipperiness, fingerprintiness, or fragility of the whole glass sandwich thing has you nervous.

The back has an etched pattern with a soft rubber - like texture, which offers fantastic grip with none of the slipperiness found on other phones.

While I prefer the look of the M8's seamless body, the choice to engineer a seam into the body actually reduces the slipperiness significantly.