Sentences with phrase «slippery nature of»

Admittedly, it looks very good, but it leaves you wondering just how well it will cope with drops, which are more of a «when» than an «if» given the slippery nature of the glass.

«The themes I return to again and again in my painting are the truncation of the body, the slippery nature of gender categories, and the construction of space.»

His practice explores the relationship between the photographic image and object, between photography and narrative, and the slippery nature of archives.

His paintings — depicting lush and evocative landscapes populated by figures and animals — are as much about colour, the slippery nature of memory and the visual pleasure of painterly mark - marking as they are about their often enigmatic subjects.

By strategically juxtaposing these images and texts, and placing them in a museum setting, Bacher reveals the slippery nature of perception.

As an artist whose primary subject is the slippery nature of perception, Therrien is especially involved in the matter of how his work is seen.

Additionally, surgery in the abdomen is made difficult by the slippery nature of the extra fat as well as impaired visualization of all the normal structures through the copious fat deposits.

And still further, surgery in the abdomen is hampered by the slippery nature of the extra fat as well as difficulty visualizing all the normal structures through the copious fat deposits.

One of the real crimes of the film is Jackson's mishandling of contemporary ideas on the slippery nature of facts at the hands of nefarious forces, which Denial all but misses the mark if you're not there to connect the threads.

Like «I, Tonya,» which was also based on interviews with its real - life inspirations, «American Animals» interrogates the slippery nature of truth and a sense of youthful entitlement, even as it manages to be wildly entertaining, funny and sad.

If there is still resistance to granting that a psychological offense is sufficient cause for modifying the use of language, then recall that lawyers have long been conscious of the slippery nature of the English male pronoun.

Not exact matches

And while it's an overstatement to narrate conversion in terms of a change in nature — Abram's becoming Abraham doesn't imperil the integrity of his human nature; nor still Sarai's becoming Sarah, or Jacob's Israel, Saul's Paul, and so ever on — equally slippery is gross understatement, or intimating that nothing of metaphysical interest happens upon conversion.

In the bigger picture, it is a slippery and dangerous slope away from God to doubt that the Word of God as available to us now in the entire Bible does not sufficiently provide the explanation of God's nature and grace and the means for our salvation through faith in Christ, and such a situation can not logically stand anyway.

With its assistance he can afford to relax a bit and let nature take its course, even at the risk of putting himself on the slippery slope to ignoble ease.

It is a slippery slope to go any deeper into this, as I am not sure 100 % on the philosophy of nature vs. nurture.

A new transparent, bioinspired coating makes ordinary glass tough, self - cleaning, and incredibly slippery, a team from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) reported online in the July 31 edition of Nature Communications.

Controversial study shows how hard it is for science to crack one of nature's slipperiest mysteries

So, the night before I always take a little bit of magnesium and water but then I do like a, I don't know if this would be considered a prokinetic or what, but I do a blend of turkey rhubarb root and slippery elm bark and marshmallow root, fennel seed, fenugreek, in this stuff called Nature Cleanse.

This agent added: «To us, this is a very slippery slope, considering the fickle nature of the business.»

The strength of Tiravanija's work lies precisely in its ephemerality, and the slippery ways it escapes definition, the way it takes the material of the every - day and re-stages it, allowing the viewer a perspective at once banal and deeply profound about the quickly fleeting nature of life itself.

For me, World Time Clock amplifies the slippery and political nature of time.

(Re) Collect, is an exhibition highlighting a selection of the Hyde Park Art Center's faculty whose work complicates notions of memory through embracing its slippery nature.

While her drawings are of a more intimate nature than the sculptures, they share a similar patina that is alternatively glossy, grainy, mottled, slippery, transparent, fragile, and bold.

A lot of that is just the iPad's slippery nature, and the fact that its glass face doesn't have a clamshell to protect it — it's Gorilla Glass, sure, but it's still glass.

I really don't like the mirror - like, reflective, fingerprint - grabbing back of the phone, either in appearance or in its somewhat slippery nature.