Sentences with phrase «small figures against»

Formally Goodman is painting large areas against small passages, thick against thin, small figures against hulking abstract forms, raw emotion against the sheer material sensuality of the paint.

Not exact matches

These are tumultuous times for bankers, who either must reinvent themselves at the giant banking institutions being formed through a series of mergers and acquisitions across the country, or must figure out new ways to compete against those giants from their own smaller regional bases.

Mr. Gurley, who cuts a distinctive figure in Silicon Valley in no small part because of his lanky 6 - foot - 9 frame, went against conventional wisdom even before he became an investor.

That figure shrinks to insignificance when measured against the $ 70 million in small change that annually flows into the BGEA coffers, or the additional millions that his books, weekly newspaper column and speaking engagements bring in each year.

Although Perkins was often a liability in the first round against the smaller, faster Rockets, he should figure prominently into this series as the Thunder will need his toughness against the strong, talented and physical Memphis frontcourt.

«They are going after the same small donors, and we've simply got to figure this out, or else we are going up against each other the whole time,» Giles said.

Our job now is to figure out how to make immunotherapy effective against those tumors with small numbers of mutations.

How many thriller covers display a small shadow image of some running figure against a city backdrop?

As a small business owner who has a huge investment that didn't pan out and not much income for the next 3 years, will this service help me to figure out how to carry the investment forward for several years so that I can deduct the expenses of my business against future income?

In Betting on the Blind Side, Lewis excerpts The Big Short, which describes Burry's short position in some detail, how he figured out that the bonds were mispriced, and how he bet against them (no small effort because the derivatives to do so didn't exist when he started looking for them.

While annoying, I figured that was just one small quirk since once I was in a room I could face off against a friend for as long as we wanted to.

Both artists depict small human figures against large, and largely empty, cityscapes.

In Bischoff's earliest non-representational paintings the abstract shapes are large, still deriving from figures against a background; gradually, the shapes have become smaller and more fragmented.

Offered here is Peter Doig's characteristically brooding, dreamlike Camp Forestia of 1996, in which a Canadian log cabin gleams against a starry, inky sky and its uncannily perfect reflection in the still waters of the lake below is separated by a line of snow - covered, lime green grass and a small human figure (estimate: # 14m — # 18m).

The eye is drawn from an Agbodjelo muscleman against a red Vlisco patterned background to a small Yinka Shonibare figure which hovers overhead, wearing red Vlisco - like pants.

However, in the West, history painting came to require an extensive landscape background where appropriate, so the theory did not entirely work against the development of landscape painting — for several centuries landscapes were regularly promoted to the status of history painting by the addition of small figures to make a narrative scene, typically religious or mythological.

Sy Hakim's large landscape painting, Formations — Daylight, describes a beautiful yet challenging world, the small figure seems huddled against the power of the landscape, the outcroppings hang high above his head, a daunting climb but a great view from the top.

Smaller - scale deployments have occurred at a variety of locations, particularly such well - studied sites as the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa's Hawaii Ocean Time - series (HOT) station, where long biogeochemical records from floats (Figure 1) can be calibrated against shipboard measurements.

In their Figure 9, if the RMSE boxplot for a class of pseudoproxy is better (smaller) than the RMSE boxplot for the in - sample mean (intercept), then the RE statistic for the proxy reconstruction will not prove «significant» against that class of pseudoproxy.

The result for women apart, these adult figures, and the MPs voting choices, are almost exactly the inverse of those reflected in the, admittedly small, Youth panel survey - with around 80 % being against nuclear.

Among the small number at PCC15, as they called their event, were a number of prominent figures from the movement against the scientific consensus on climate change.

Even small changes in the lifecycle emissions figures for gas would eventually affect policy and incentives for the utility industry, and ultimately make a big difference in how gas stacks up against its alternatives.

We put the new iPhone SE up against the Sony Z5 Compact and the OnePlus X to help figure out which small phone is right for you.