Sentences with phrase «tendency towards»

Anybody with that defensive a posture and tendency towards name calling needs a little smack down action of MY variety, assuming I can become informed enough to give a good performance.

These changes are accompanied by a tendency towards stronger winter polar vortices throughout the troposphere and lower stratosphere.

Air has to cool to precipitate, and less cooling aloft has a tendency towards less rain.

High - frequency associations (not shown here) remain strong throughout the whole record, but average density levels have continuously fallen while temperatures in recent decades have risen... As yet, the reason is not known, but analyses of time - dependent regional comparisons suggest that it is associated with a tendency towards loss of «spring» growth response (Briffa et al., 1 999b) and, at least for subarctic Siberia, it may be connected with changes in the timing of spring snowmelt (Vaganov et al., 1999).

Philip The long time scale favoured by environmentalists («think of the grandchildren») can certainly be linked to the decline of religion and a natural tendency towards the irrational when it comes to contemplating one's own mortality.

So the evolution of the tropical Pacific SST gradient across the various GFDL - CM 2.1 ensemble - members is not inconsistent with a tendency towards an SST «La Nina» - like state as shown in the Kaplan / HadISST products.

So while it is becoming more profitable to invest in alternatives to oil (ie, nuclear, coal, biofuels) the tendency towards crisis will continue because exploitation (human relations) hasn't changed.

However, the candidate wasn't just curious about the viability of the system as a way of reducing pollution, but also in what effects it would have on disease control and, even more importantly, what loss of life could come about as an effect of the local tendency towards tornados.

Another major feature of German art emerging from the early 20th century was a strong tendency towards producing works of a grotesque style [8].

In the last fifty years, within the common tendency towards the more personal, intimate and free, painting has had a special role because of a unique revolutionary change in its character.

[16] In December 2005, Village Voice art critic Jerry Saltz described «Day is Done» as a pioneering example of «clusterfuck aesthetics,» the tendency towards overloaded multimedia environments in contemporary art.

In these artworks, abstraction's tendency towards contemplative remove is used as an opportunity to look back onto the world.

Revealing a tendency towards staging and clear lines, Sozyone art explores the dark world of futuristic Anarchy through a magnifying glass.

Though entirely disparate, their work shares a tendency towards iconoclasm, stylization, cultural commentary, humor, and irreverent experimental bravado.

While the tendency towards organic abstraction was particularly visible in the 1940s and 1950s, it has continued to be one of many strains apparent in art and design since, in the work of sculptors as varied as Linda Benglis (b. 1941), Richard Deacon (b. 1949), Eva Hesse (1936 - 70), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Ursula von Rydingsward (b. 1942) and Bill Woodrow (b. 1948), and designers Ron Arad (b. 1951), Verner Panton (1926 - 98) and Oscar Tusquets (b. 1941).

The white and yellow minerals have been sourced from Iran and Utah, respectively, and together with the machinery, found in California and made by Esco, Caterpillar, Bobcat etc. — American companies with international reach — they evoke the global nature of a tendency towards endless progress and the necessary ruination implicit in that process.

Recently, there has been a tendency towards self - reflection among institutions and a heightened awareness of their function.

To the left of the entrance, on its own is the largest wall - based work, Screen Drawing 2015, demonstrating Byrne's increasing tendency towards a more complete abstraction.

Armstrong's use of stark saturated contrasts is offset by a tendency towards stylized hyper - color, creating both depth and edge that exceeds the muted tones of the real.

Vital juxtaposes the solidity and strength of a mountain by representing the subject in a material that is brittle and fragile, and in doing so, reinforces his tendency towards the bizarre or surreal.

Spicer writes that the «tendency towards introspection was a common theme in Romantic landscape art and, as A Dialogue with Nature illustrates, so too was the direct observation of the natural world... In the hands of the Romantic painters, however, landscape art took on a new depth of meaning... In the pursuit of accurate observations then, both German and British artists found common ground in a shared fascination with the most fleeting forces of the natural world.»

The four artists involved in our project can be typified by a tendency towards self - parody, pessimism and a cynical anti-personalism.

But aspects of its decoration also suggest a tendency towards the fantastical side of Japanese design.

The stage - like pictorial space, the cage - like constructions in the side panels and the tendency towards deformation and disintegration in the anthropomorphic figures are all characteristic elements in Bacon's paintings.

This tendency towards formal dissolution characterises Innes» abstract painting, drawing upon the legacies of both Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism to find a delicate balance between gesture and restraint.

While they may share common aspects of visual language, it is this rejection of ambiguities within data visualisation — echoed in a tendency towards an aesthetically resolved quality that buttresses against the chaos of the world — that marks the important point of separation between the two fields.

By looking at their individual approaches to making art, the exhibition reveals a shared tendency towards the obsessive and a collective interest in p...

The emphasis on formal elements of shape and rhythm as independent entities, along with the fragmentation of forms, creates a tendency towards abstraction.

In this context, the term Conservatism refers not to specific political interest, but rather to a tendency towards nostalgia, security and a historically inflected sense of national identity.

The collection includes many of Calderara's own works, plus more than 300 artworks by dozens of international artists with whom he had relationships of friendship and esteem, all joined together by a general tendency towards abstraction.

Ebony «The exhibition seeks to reflect [a] tendency towards shape - shifting, whether through complex relationships between linguistic and visual forms,» is a line that stood out to me in Stuart's catalogue essay.

Although Gueorguieva's work engages with the history of art in subtle ways, her work also evinces aesthetic similarities to many other Los Angeles - based artists, particularly in her use of a brilliant color palette, and her tendency towards thin, attenuated forms, in both her paintings and sculpture.

Playing on the tension between flatness and depth, The World is Flat is an iconic example of Bradford's tendency towards large and expansive scale.

The tendency towards societal retreat is explored in an ongoing project realised in collaboration with fellow artists, Chris Saunders and Gary Charles.

Entangled in their own internal and external struggles, the figures express frustration for the human tendency towards cruelty and lack of understanding.

Name: Sanitarium Platform: PC Developer: DreamForge Intertainment Publisher: ASC Games Originally Released: April 1998 Point and click adventure games have a tendency towards the strange.

You'd be convinced your marine has a nervous tendency towards firing his gun and it causes him to erratically flinch.

But I seriously doubt I'll ever be in a position to fully appreciate everything this game — in development, one way or another, since 2004 — given its tendency towards the demanding.

Point and click adventure games have a tendency towards the strange.

They built it WAY to high like the did for Zelda, and recent data shows that it wasn't as big as it was made out to be; numbers were inflated to make it seem like a substantially net positive when in actuality, there was a tendency towards indifference.

There is a slight tendency towards going overboard with the vamping of the interiors at Villa Bambuu Canggu.

Kuta still maintains that slight hippy vibe, although nowadays it is much more modernized and developed, there being less and less budget style accommodations, and a tendency towards affordable but pristine and trendy boutique style hotels, bars and night clubs.

Originally, I had not thought of Belize to be a place a single female solo adventurer with a tendency towards the safe side would travel.

«The atmosphere is like a school trip,» he writes, «competitive, cliquey, with a tendency towards booze - fuelled indiscretions and adolescent mischief.»

They have a greater tendency towards ulceration than do benign growths.

Symptoms include a heightened emotional state; a tendency towards small, furry cuteness; and impulse buying.

One of the pitfalls attending miniaturization of a larger breed is loss of substance often accompanied by a tendency towards toyishness.

Most domestic animals are emmetropic, with a tendency towards mild myopia in German Shepherds, Miniature Schnauzers, and Rottweilers.

Whether or not a Stafford with generalized demodicosis should be used in a breeding program is a controversial subject at the moment, however, the tendency towards the condition is thought be many to be an inherited one.

They will rarely back down from an argument and will often take on bigger dogs and have a tendency towards aggression if not socialised.