Sentences with phrase «takes ordinariness»

A documentary - style look at the lives of office workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, The Office takes ordinariness and turns it into comedy gold.

Not exact matches

The CSL's main problem in the current marketplace is one of mechanical ordinariness: that straight - six may have been taken out a few cc, but there wasn't any claimed increase in performance — it was timed at 7.3 sec to 60mph and wouldn't quite reach 140mph.
Readers want something extra that takes them out of ordinariness and into the realm of meaningful fiction.
As Schnabel explains: «It is about the power to take ordinary things, and by arranging them, to produce a transcendence of their ordinariness.
«It is about the power to take ordinary things, and by arranging them, to produce a transcendence of their ordinariness
The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.
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