Sentences with phrase «thousand points of light»

The genius of President Bush's «thousand points of light,» is that it celebrates the enduring strength free individuals over the deceivingly simple - minded «certainty» of a state's single torch of truth.

Platou has exhibited and performed internationally in such projects as Desert Guitars, Thousand Points of Light, Joshua Tree, U.S. (2014); Platou's Cave, Noplace, Oslo, Norway (2012); Nothing is Nothing, Kurant, Tromsø, Norway (2010); and Jonny Winklers Kanon, Obrestad Light House, Varhaug, Norway (2010).

The name stemmed from President Bush's comparison of volunteers around the country to «a thousand points of light.»

But I'm glad for the thousand points of light.»

«Bush talked about a thousand points of light, and I'm happy to say that in Alzheimer's researcher there are also a thousand points of light, and we don't know which of those will become mainstays of medicine in the future and which of those will be replaced by things that are better,» he says.

What begins with only a few stars visible against the glare of the moon slowly turns into a thousand points of light as the eclipsed moon darkens.

«Stay the Course, A Thousand Points of Light» is not a winning strategy.

Bush Sr.'s thousand points of light, if you remember.

One can not simply shine a thousand points of light on deep structural problems and expect them to disappear.

It is indicative of the scotoma operating in our collective field of vision that many commentators on the acceptance speech professed themselves to be utterly baffled about what George Bush (or his speechwriter Peggy Noonan) could have meant by the «thousand points of light.»

This is America: the Knights of Columbus, the Grange, Hadassah, the Disabled American Veterans, the Order of AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Business and Professional Women of America, the union hall, the Bible study group, LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), «Holy Name» — a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

This sounds like a warmed - over thousand points of light crap George HW Bush came out with many years ago.

Perhaps he understood George H. W. Bush's «thousand points of light» solution to social problems like the lack of affordable healthcare.

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

Not exact matches

Pull down the idols of the tribe, debunk the status of the proud and powerful, desanctify the saints and desecrate the holy places: as the blinding sunlight of their glory fades, the gathering dusk reveals a hundred thousand points of lesser light each with a glory of its own.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

«Using really good mirrors that are pointed at each other, we can trap light for a long time while it bounces back and forth many thousands of times between the mirrors,» explained graduate student Nathan Schine.

According to Fotini Koutroumpa, lead author of the study and researcher at the UvA's Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), the results point to future research on the tiny but complex moth brain, which will shed light on how the diverse pheromone systems of the thousands of moth species has changed throughout evolution.

He points out that it would take light some five years to travel even to the nearest star and back, adding that the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way (Andromeda — one of the «spiral nebulae», as he calls them) is more than several hundred thousand times as far away as the nearest stars.

A simple point of light could be a dim nearby star or a brilliant one thousands of light - years away.

The compound eyes of most arthropods contain thousands of tiny lenses, each of which resolves light to a point on a photoreceptor behind.

By implementing either superresolution structured illumination or by dithering the lattice to create a uniform light sheet, we imaged cells and small embryos in three dimensions, often at subsecond intervals, for hundreds to thousands of time points at the diffraction limit and beyond.

The points of light which can be seen in this image are a few of the fifteen thousand globular star clusters which belong to the galaxy.

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Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

Bonus points if it's a mirror surrounded by, say, hundreds of spotted pumpkins or thousands of twinkling lights.

Still abstract, these paintings nevertheless looked like landscapes made from thousands of points of light — perhaps befitting a Washington Color School drop - out.

The second question is, postulating that the temperature record from satellites is absolutely accurate and unfudged, and in light of the fact that climate changes historically occur naturally with periods of hundreds to thousands of years, do you think that the 31 annual data points available from the satellite record are adequate to establish long term climate trends and that the trends are a consequence of human activity?

The interior experience of the Seed Cathedral sounds just as magical as viewing the exterior structure, «Visitors will pass through this tranquil, contemplative space, surrounded by the tens of thousands of points of light illuminating the seeds.»