Sentences with phrase «through fictitious»

Insightful, yet humourous, Geoffrey asks us to question what we think we know, society ís perceptions of us, and our preconceived notion of self, through fictitious construct.

Performing scripted narratives in rhyming verse, the artist — with her husband Patrick Kelley and various family members — explores historical periods through fictitious characters such as nurses, soldiers, prostitutes, and saltimbanques.

I have been scammed by the site through its fictitious female profiles.

Cash was allegedly embezzled through fictitious deals related to player transfers.

Not exact matches

History tells us that the power of story, even a fictitious one, can send shock waves through society — transporting an issue no one can really solve into a human reality from which no one can turn away.

Rather, it is a projection by a percipient subject onto a (fictitious) contemporaneous spatiotemporal manifold of certain highly refined and analyzed features of entities directly (but more vaguely and dimly) encountered in the percipient's immediate past through the mode of causal efficacy.8 The important distinction between true perception — what we might now in Rortyan jargon call nonmentalistic «unanalyzed raw feels» — and this second - order symbolic projection of select percepta characteristic only of higher - order conscious organisms is somewhat blurred by terming both equally «modes of perception.»

For the ideology has created a fictitious world, a set of glasses through which all are to see life, and once those glasses are removed, even momentarily, the fictitious world begins to crack.

The alternative to this fictitious ordering of life is made concrete in The Public Burning through the character of the Phantom, that «mysterious fearsome force,» to quote Uncle Sam, «which from time immemorious has menaced the peace and security of mankind and buggered the hopes of the holy» (p. 335).

The authors go on to illustrate that the remaining 20 cents of loan monies are used to finance white elephant projects, «ghost» projects» (i.e. fictitious roads, schools, soldiers, etc.), government salaries, ineffective development and infrastructural projects or it leaves the country through capital flight within the coming years — leaving little to nothing of actual development monies for the citizenry of these countries.

Participants simply check - in, receive a packet of information representing a fictitious household, and walk through a dispensing station to accept pretend medication.

Stapel took responsibility for collecting data through what he said was a network of contacts at other institutions, and several weeks later produced a fictitious data file for his colleague to write up into a paper.

All those demonstrations of people «walking through» imaginary buildings created by computers, and «picking up» fictitious objects while wearing sensor - gloves, are impressive until you realise how isolated an experience they are.

No girl is actually sitting there chatting with you, this is all done using fictitious females through the automated computer bots that they deploy on their site.

Although the actual events of the story are fictitious, as adapted by Jeffrey Caine (GoldenEye, Inside I'm Dancing), the world of Kenya and its politics is every bit as vivid in detail as if this were based on a true story through first - hand accounts.

Hanks is no Peter Sellers or Alec Guinness - style human chameleon, but he pulls off not only Viktor's thick Slavic accent (it probably helps that his native Krakozhia is entirely fictitious), but also pulls the audience through an improbable situation and keeps us focused on the openly sentimental story.

As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

Its powerplant is less fictitious than many here: a turbocharged 3 - litre inline six developing 541bhp through a six - speed sequential transmission.

Reading the book through my prism of someone who publishes print magazines and all forms of e-media, and who is always exploring potential new - media business models related to them, I made a note of that «brand extension» strategy of the book's fictitious magazine, Millennium, and how the book's author, the late Stieg Larsson, through protagonist Mikael Blomkvist, outlined (with a 2004 understanding) what today, he would have likely transformed into a Kindle ebook rather than PDF.

The fictitious (thankfully) Washington Democrat was gloating about how he had deviously maneuvered a bill through the U.S. Senate, but Underwood could have just as easily been talking about the process of buying a home and getting a mortgage.

Nomad's Land takes the reader on a fictitious journey through Kazakhstan while providing an artistic contribution to the understanding of this country's recent history, which has been marked by upheaval.

Through creating collections of impossible or fictitious monuments and artifacts imbued with elements from myth and minor history, I am suggesting the materiality and non-linearity of the past.»

Exploring our modern world through a recrafted lens, they create fictitious, re-envisioned, nostalgic, and comical memories and renderings of the past and present.

She uses processes and conceptual approaches through which images continue to evolve after being captured and printed, erasing the boundaries between the factual and the fictitious.

It draws a trajectory from the multiplication of the physical body and identity in the 70's (such as fictitious identities and surrogates), to the serial robotic body, finally to the flattening effect that the experiencing bodies and things through ubiquitous screens creates.

In her winning installation, the French artist sends visitors on a tour of her fictitious grandparents» house, winding through dingy rooms filled with clunky teapots, artworks — and eyeballs

The Dante Hotel invited the public to imagine the life of fictitious individuals through personal and other objects left behind in a hotel room.

Push Pops has organized a hip hop yoga CHAKRA workshop for youth of Stamford in collaboration with UNDAKOVA, which will culminate in a live - action performance as a kinetic sculpture embodying the rainbow of chakras and the celestial serpent of consciousness Two projects in Love Action Art Lounge one by Chloe Bass and one by Carmelle Safdie encourage visitors to connect socially through real, fictitious, and / or hybrid situations that include prompts and immersive design.

She is best known for her «fictitious» persona Roberta Breitmore whom she brought to life in the course of an artistic performance and through photography in the 1970s.

Taking this fictitious leap in time as their starting point, artists Marcela Armas, Carolina Caycedo, Julian Charrière, Andreas Greiner & Tyler Friedman, Jeronimo Voss and Pinar Yoldas are invited to investigate the characteristics of a non-human world through a range of newly conceived installations, videos and objects.

She is perhaps best known for her fictitious persona Roberta Breitmore, whom the artist brought to life through performances and photographs between 1974 and 1978.

Bearing this in mind, the exhibition There Will Come Soft Rains tests a particular experiential context by initiating a fictitious journey through time.

Through their documentary and fictitious interventions, Moon & Jeon navigate our imagination through the emotional capacities of the political present, where the recognition of our future is demystified by expanding a horizon of visual and narrative possibiThrough their documentary and fictitious interventions, Moon & Jeon navigate our imagination through the emotional capacities of the political present, where the recognition of our future is demystified by expanding a horizon of visual and narrative possibithrough the emotional capacities of the political present, where the recognition of our future is demystified by expanding a horizon of visual and narrative possibilities.

Werner aims to interrogate our conventional ways of seeing and representing through elaborate fictitious environments.

(fictitious) Corporate rights to free speech flow from the 1st amendment to the US constitution which, through the incorporation doctrine rooted in the 14th amendment also applies to the states.

They knew or ought to have known about a fictitious directors» loan account through which Shaid Luqman had transferred funds in breach of the various loan agreements; about sales of property to companies controlled by him and about his misuse of the loan funds held in two other accounts.

As the reforms have reduced opportunities for referral fees and escalating costs, the fraudsters have found ways to build their income through layering profit into multiple heads of loss with either fictitious or exaggerated elements of the claim.

There are some stark differences when it comes to damages and I think there is always room for improvement when regarding ways in which fictitious claims can be sifted through; claims are easy to make and are difficult to disprove.

The second issue in the competition dealt with a fictitious extension of the above scenario, where law enforcement officers were able to connect to the accused's unprotected home wifi network, accessed his home computer, and found a folder with the information obtained above through the scraper.