Sentences with phrase «tour de force at»

«The Encyclopedic Palace,» Massimiliano Gioni's tour de force at the center of the 55th Biennale di Venezia, is an amazing show about fixations, obsessions, the...

Urs Fischer has enjoyed some great shows at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, the New Museum and a tour de force at the Peter Brant Foundation.

It stars a troubled teenage boy who closely recalls the central figure of Fast's tour de force at dOCUMENTA 13, Continuity (2012).

It was a technological tour de force at the time, featuring all - aluminum construction and everyday civility.

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As a tour de force of semantic gymnastics, Casey has few equals in the annals of modern jurisprudence; it is, next to Roe itself, perhaps the starkest reminder of the extent to which our Constitution has become, at the hands of the Court, a thing of almost infinite plasticity.

I had seen pictures of his great Vence Chapel (in the hills above the French Riviera) but because I was so convinced, a priori, that this could have been only a tour de force, I did not really see what I was looking at.

Dr Greg Farrelly, back by popular demand after showing off his teaching skills at London Bridge, headed up our lay - led summer meditations on the nature of the human person, and our very inspiring six autumn talks on «Love», led to the now famous (see Faith Magazine January 2015) post-Synodal tour de force by Jaqueline Stewart.

Yet there does seem to be some ability to recognize their legitimacy when they are propounded to those at lower levels of development, and once they have been understood and appropriated, the process can be reversed only by a tour de force.

Stephen Durfee, former chef at the renowned French Laundry, turned this campfire classic into a tour de force using our 3 oz bars.

But if you want to take about incredible stats look no further than Kevin De Bruyne who after the disappointment of a failed spell at Chelsea — thought whether this was the fault of him or Jose Mourinho is up for question — has gone on to be a quite spectacular tour de force in the Bundesliga.

In total, she tallied four first place finishes on the day at the West Alameda County Conference finals on May 11, further cementing her status as a track tour de force for 2013.

This transformation was reminiscent of the legendary Johan Neeskens, who began at right - back before turning into a midfield tour de force.

He has often been criticised for lacking substance, but today's tour de force was aimed at showing the world that he has got ideas in his head and they come from the heart.

The result is at once a technical tour de force and an unsettling puzzle.

The findings, described in two related papers published online April 5 in Science and The Lancet, were called «a tour de force» by David Sullivan, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, who was not involved in the new research.

«It's a tour de force,» says George Church, a synthetic biologist at Harvard University.

«This study is a tour de force,» said Andrew Stewart, MD, the director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who is unconnected with the study.

«It's a tour de force of molecular genetics and a wonderful use of the full genome sequence,» says Paul Sternberg, at Caltech, California.

The work is «a tour de force,» says Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the Zoological Society of San Diego.

«I think there are a lot of mini tour de forces in the corn genome that we can use for looking at human disease.»

So it was a technological tour de force when Cohen's team at Genethon succeeded in mapping virtually the whole of chromosome 21 last year.

«This [blood test] is a technical tour de force,» says Eric Karran, director of research at the Alzheimer's Research UK charity.

«This work led by Professor O'Donnell is a technical tour de force, providing a wonderful resource for other biomedical researchers,» said Mike Murphy, Ph.D., programme leader, Mitochondrial Biology Unit at Cambridge University, U.K. «A particularly important aspect is the focus on platelets, which are readily available from patients» blood in diagnosis, prognosis or as a biomarker in assessing therapies.

Thomas Lemberger, a physicist at Ohio State University in Columbus who was not involved in the study, says that the work is a «tour de force demonstration» of precision atom handling and growth techniques.

«This is a tour de force demonstration of what is possible when one harnesses the chemistry of DNA and combines it with nanoparticles whose shapes encourage a particular crystal structure,» said Chad A. Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

In a tour de force that is changing the face of beauty one month at a time, social spokespeople and glamour pusses alike are uniting to redefine a soft porn pin - up via one unlikely arbiter — Pirelli.

The British actor's tour de force performance anchors this daring, riveting drama that takes place entirely inside a vehicle driving down the highway at night

This is Benedict Cumberbatch's moment: Dr. Strange is on the big screen with Avengers: Infinity War (over $ 1 billion at the box office) and soon he'll be seen in a mind - blowing acting tour de force with Patrick Melrose, a five - episode limited series on Showtime.

Since Hollywood, and the industry, really really really doesn't like movies with strong female leads in them, and that there are barely enough of them to go around at all, it seems plausible that Streep's tour de force could blow out any potential competition.

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014) Questioning the win at all costs mentality that justifies psychotic bullying in everything from sports, to business and the arts, Whiplash is a technical tour de force.

If one is only looking at Cave Story + as a game, then it's a nearly flawless work — a tour de force of expert design and difficulty, and one of my favorite games of all time.

So I'll try to be as measured as I can when I say that I haven't seen a more thrillingly alive movie at Cannes this year than «The Florida Project,» the latest tour de force of ramshackle realism from writer - director Sean Baker.

Meanwhile, Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter wrote of the film, «Intense emotional currents and the jagged feelings of volatile actors are turned loose to raucous dramatic and darkly comedic effect in one of the most sustained examples of visually fluid tour de force cinema anyone's ever seen... An exemplary cast, led by Michael Keaton... fully meets the considerable demands placed upon it by director Alejandro G. Inarritu... The film's exhilarating originality, black comedy and tone that is at once empathetic and acidic will surely strike a strong chord with audiences looking for something fresh.»

Coming a bit later in the month is the series premiere of Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (who also executive produces) as the title character, «who struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father and the mother who tacitly condoned his behavior,» making for what Showtime calls a tour de force performance — you can catch the series» debut episode on Saturday, May 12 at 9 p.m. ET.

Mickey Rourke's powerhouse performance is a heartbreaking tour de force that only gets better with each passing minute, and though he has some stiff competition from the likes of Frank Langella, you'd be kidding yourself if you don't think Rourke will still be a frontrunner at this year's Oscars.

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The grille is a tour de force of craftsmanship, each bar different from the one next to it, all artfully curved to produce a transverse highlight line at the top.

Mercedes - Benz has pulled the wraps off of the 2014 S - class at a media presentation in Hamburg, Germany, revealing a technological tour de force that the firm hopes will continue the plush sedan's...

Pricing and packages At the top of the Lexus hierarchy, this tech tour de force starts at $ 119,910 — and at that price it includes pretty much every single amenity, gadget, bell, and whistle at the automaker's disposal and its most high - tech power train and chassis technologAt the top of the Lexus hierarchy, this tech tour de force starts at $ 119,910 — and at that price it includes pretty much every single amenity, gadget, bell, and whistle at the automaker's disposal and its most high - tech power train and chassis technologat $ 119,910 — and at that price it includes pretty much every single amenity, gadget, bell, and whistle at the automaker's disposal and its most high - tech power train and chassis technologat that price it includes pretty much every single amenity, gadget, bell, and whistle at the automaker's disposal and its most high - tech power train and chassis technologat the automaker's disposal and its most high - tech power train and chassis technology.

With glowing reviews from respected historians such as Sir Martin Gilbert, who describes it as «a true tour de force», Indian Summer is narrative history at its most compelling.

A fortunate few will have reserved seats at our dining counter, where a nightly tasting menu is a culinary tour de force.

President and CCO for film, television and digital at eOne Mark Gordon commented: «Street Fighter is a global tour de force franchise, having garnered immense worldwide commercial success and built a vast devoted fanbase that has only grown through its 30 year legacy.

At launch, Nintendo Land was a tour de force of potential for the shiny new controller, but it didn't stick.

They've just featured Wii U's boasting self - contained snippets of the game at various points, letting Platinum's latest tour de force speak for itself.

«In this year's «Made in L.A.,» Adam Linder's Kein Paradiso stood out as a tour de force,» Mika Yoshitake, an associate curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and a member of the Mohn Award jury, said.

Nancy Jackson's latest exhibition, her sixth with Rosamund Felsen Gallery, was a lighthearted tour de force consisting of seven paper mobiles, at once intricate and majestic, nine works on paper and 12 sculptures.

«The Rauschenberg work is a tour de force and we were proud to exhibit it at Art Basel in Miami Beach.

The next night brought Peter Doig's tour de force new paintings and drawings uptown at Michael Werner Gallery — whose rooms were once home to Leo Castelli's iconic stable of artists.

I'll bet you've heard, at one point or another, of some cinematic masterpiece praised as a tour de force; a defining role.

The recent exhibition at David Zwirner of twenty - seven blue paintings made by Ad Reinhardt, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1953, was a tour de force on many levels.