Sentences with phrase «surfeit of»

No one works for nuthin», unless he / she is / are benevolent benefactors with a surfeit of capital and publicly spirited generosity.

There will always be a surfeit of working poor in ORE, all the time it is a purely commissioned - based, first - past - the - post all - or - nothing rat race in pursuit of commissions.

The result has been a staggering lack of coordination in service delivery, inadequate policy development and program evaluation, and a surfeit of redtape — all of which have contributed to poor outcomes and a lack of capacity to take corrective action when things go wrong.

Having suffered a surfeit of HIV - related life events — multiple bereavements, role disputes, and role transitions — they responded to IPT therapists» supportive encouragement to «live out your fantasies»: to change their lives and seek whatever they desired for however much time remained to them.

Spotify has launched «Discover», it's new social - enabled music discovery tool, aiming to cut through the surfeit of choice users encounter when they first face the streaming catalog.

You still don't get an AC power adapter in the box, though given the target audience likely has a surfeit of chargers (or that a USB port on your computer will suffice) we don't see that as too much of an issue.

The Roku Ultra remote also has a surfeit of buttons, although nothing is really extraneous.

But the the strategy has come under questioning of late, including by the journal Nature which noted that a surfeit of intellectual property pushes schools into «unseemly partnerships» with so - called patent trolls.

In order to sell Adidas, Asics, Hasbro, Nike and Samsung products, Amazon is asking for a $ 1,000 to $ 1,500 fee and a surfeit of paperwork according to CNBC.

But the surfeit of technology platforms can make it difficult for airlines to track and address complaints.

We have a surfeit of trained lawyers, but a huge deficit in access to justice — a situation which simply does not make sense.

But also because, despite the much talked about surfeit of lawyers and law students, there is a vast unmet demand for legal services.

South Africa, like many jurisdictions, has a surfeit of qualified legal graduates seeking training as attorney candidates; the firm hopes participants completing the programme will gain a deeper understanding of legal processes and a stronger CV, therefore increasing their chances of securing a candidate attorney position, or other roles, in the future.

But the surfeit of news satires is nonetheless a telling indication — and ought to be a clear sign to the media themselves — that not only are they not being taken seriously, they're viewed as part of the problem.

But I do not think that society should be structured in such a way as to produce a painful shortage of doctors, nurses and sheet metal workers and a harmful surfeit of lawyers.

It's as if the writer has a surfeit of creativity that, because convention demands an end at this point, must be tapped out in telegraphic form before the gate comes down.

There have been a near surfeit of reports recently looking at the greenhouse gas emissions of natural gas, most of which have concluded that, to varying degrees, we're underestimating emissions, the effects of methane leakage on those, and natural gas isn't always as climate - friendly as claimed.

Just as there are plenty of «units» established to «communicate» science, and a surfeit of media organisations intent on burdening the public with «information» about climate change, journalists like Black were ten - a-penny.

The West has a surfeit of balancing authorities, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Sure, that might be attributable to the surfeit of events and exhibitions, but rest assured there is far

Rather, there appears to be a surfeit of competing ideas for products and solutions, all of which demand investment and expenditure of money.

Meanwhile, below, what looks to be a shopping mall water feature overflows its tiled pool, filling the space with water, trees, shrubbery and a surfeit of frogs.

A fully illustrated monograph boasts an interview, an extensive chronology, and new essays alongside a surfeit of ephemera.

«For the past two and a half years, Tower, a petite woman with shoulder - length auburn hair, a surfeit of fierce opinions and a mannequin fashioned from old sofa cushions to look like a bodyguard, has ventured into abandoned local factories to continue crafting her «Workplace Series,» a nostalgic paean to the nation's vanished industrial past.

Often, group shows with a surfeit of work allow for little breathing room, but this small exhibit succeeds brilliantly by limiting the space and the number of pieces; the jewel like watercolors, pen and inks and gouaches hold their own.

This exhibition — which was co-presented by the K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, and co-curated by the latter's Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey — placed her work in conversation with Anicka Yi, Cao Fei, DIS, and others who have already received a surfeit of international attention.

But blockbuster retrospectives — as fashionable as they have become — while useful as reminders of the range and chronology of an artist's development, can be overwhelming affairs that render the viewer, who can at best expect to be left with only an overview, grappling with a surfeit of competing concepts, each vying for their attention, confused and dissatisfied.

Her photographs convey the experience of these locations, capturing the sensory overload triggered by the surfeit of kitsch — gaudy trinkets, cheap apparel, and glittering electronics.

On Monday morning, as snow flurries gave way to chilly rain, we braced ourselves for a busy week — and a surfeit of talent.

Robert's colour is vitiated by an unhappy blend of pseudo-science, mysticism emanating from Apollinaire's flights of fancy, and naturalistic thinking, and a surfeit of ideas incapable of pictorial realisation.

In this book, reviewer Christopher Masters states, Dorazio advanced his belief, perhaps with surfeit of optimism, that «abstract art could change the world... that just as science and technology were destroying the barriers between different cultures, so the new «universal style» would lead to a «universal civilisation».»

Other times, however, extra layers of aesthetic attention result from a surfeit of excitement at the prospects the initial composition opens up, the still widening horizons it reveals.

Perhaps it's the surfeit of hype that has surrounded her career to date, but though her ideas are often fascinating, they rarely translate into a proportionally arresting result.

Over the last week, the fair's greatest by - product has been the surfeit of exhibitions in the city's galleries and museums.

I have noticed in my pictures I either have a surfeit of light (for example, trying to fit a fire into an already - hot day, or icy glaciers against a slate - gray sky) or a lack of it (I made a film once of the lights of a ferryboat at night slowly going off).

Two spaces in Chelsea — the better part of three floors at 980 Madison Avenue and, next door, a bookshop and small gallery — would seem like a surfeit of real estate to most dealers, but not Larry Gagosian.

The comic - strip outlines and surfeit of flesh are heirs to Carroll Dunham, although with more attention to painting.

If the surfeit of exhibition openings across Mayfair and Soho, in west London, was not evidence enough, the ground floor of Marian Goodman Gallery's voluminous London home provides ample sign that summer has passed.

Since then, Mercier has shown a surfeit of goofy goblins at no - so - goofy institutions like Palais de Tokyo, Popidou, Musee d'Arte Moderne, and La Maison Rouge in Paris.

She employs a surfeit of images, incorporates text, and uses feverish editing to alter the normal flow of the narrative, while the presence of her own voice and the direct participation of the viewer — who is pulled into the thick of it and often invited to perform actions — eliminate the conventional distance between cinematic fiction and its audience.

Corse's new paintings are a surfeit of white.

It complicates its own most obvious readings of racial and sexual identity by cutting across love, sex, lust, and longing to illustrate and embody the excruciating surfeit of words — spoken and written, etched on porcelain in notational shorthand (in Valerie Piraino's wonderfully ruminative series «Simone,» from 2010), and silk - screened ever so faintly on canvas (in Pendleton's Concrete, from 2004, which ticks off evocative phrases such as «the smell of your neck in August» and «somewhere between forgiving too easily and not giving in at all»)-- that prop up and then ruin relationships, pure verbiage as a cruel mirage.

Mueck, in contrast, offers a surfeit of dismay and sincerity.

Along with a surfeit of fruit and flower pictures, there are many terrific works by well - known artists, from the 19th century trompe l'oeil masters William Michael Harnett and John Frederick Peto to Modernists like Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gerald Murphy, whose monumental - scale «Watch» (1924 — 25) represents the inner works of a pocket watch in a flattened, proto - Pop style.

At her worst, the daubs suffer from their regularity and a surfeit of red.

But nationalmuseum will be supercooled by a surfeit of air conditioning units.

Real bakeries and pinball halls offered the very same surfeit of pleasure.

However we now have a surfeit of Gormley images in London, literally spewing out (or should one say «tripping out») of the Hayward Gallery, loitering without intent on the roof parapets of surrounding high buildings, and generally perplexing the natives and commuters.

If the «contemporary» scene suffers from a crushing surfeit of concept and reference, which ends in tedium and irrelevance, the contemporary figurative scene suffers from a lack of internal criticism, from a failure to distinguish between what is well painted and what is good art, which ends in mediocrity and kitsch.

Paul Pretzer's painting reflects his deep observations of the history of classical painting; Velazquez, Goya, Munch, and even Cézanne's are his starting point but then his work has a surfeit of add characters and objects.