Sentences with phrase «toward end of life»

Leaving an inheritance is very important to many people and while some have managed to acquire considerable wealth others are doing well toward the end of their life but have not accumulated much wealth.

Survivorship life insurance is whole life insurance insuring two lives, with proceeds payable after the second (later) death.The level premium system results in overpaying for the risk of dying at younger ages, and underpaying in later years toward the end of life.

Unlike Miró and Barré, the American painter Kimber Smith (1922 - 1981) was not out to destroy or to disencumber his chosen medium, and yet he made paintings, especially toward the end of his life, that hover at the edge of dissolution, that seem radically unfinished.

Toward the end of life they were drawn to more edgy, more emotional, more macabre works.»

Then, following his lengthy hiatus from art - making, it picked up on the desert poetry of the assemblage installations Purifoy made in remote Joshua Tree toward the end of his life.

Mapplethorpe also did a series of self - portraits toward the end of his life, documenting his deteriorating health from AIDS.

Toward the end of his life, he was hosting openings on a weekly basis.

Toward the end of his life he had to use a wheelchair after an operation for cancer, so he would cut and paste thick pieces of painted paper.

Toward the end of his life he worked for both the Menil Collection in Houston, where he was its founding director, and for the Guggenheim in Manhattan.

Made toward the end of her life, The Young Girl (drypoint on paper and cloth with hand coloring) depicts separated portions of a nude girl whose branch - like hair extends wildly from her body.

Toward the end of his life, Oelze recalled his reaction on his first encounter with Surrealism, in 1929: «My painting style didn't need to change.

The paintings that Andy Warhol made toward the end of his life represent an important period of personal reflection and redefinition by one of the greatest artists of a generation.

Unlike Rothko's palette which became increasingly dark toward the end of his life, Still's late works have a lighter, more ethereal feel with areas of raw, unprimed canvas along with white paint.

In 1994 she married investment banker Stephen M. DuBrul, Jr. and toward the end of her life, they lived together on Long Island Sound.

«Much has been made of Leroy's peculiar studio routine, especially toward the end of his life.

Roth writes that «the two painters share important links to SF's history of mediating between the competing impulses of abstraction and representation... But the link that binds them most closely is their intensely personal focus... Brown created her own mythology, painting herself amidst things she loved: dogs, cats, fish, friends and household furnishings and, toward the end of her life, symbols of Eastern spiritual practices.

Released a year before his death from AIDS - related complications, the film mimics the hue that his vision took on as it faded toward the end of his life.

Bishop met him once toward the end of his life, at the time of a Whitechapel - organized retrospective that SFMOMA hosted, and remembers walking with him through the galleries alongside his wheelchair.

Toward the end of his life, Diller intended to move beyond Formica by transforming his designs for sculpture into granite, but his death in 1965 prevented that.

These works are in dialogue with a series of drawings by Jenny Perlin in which the artist copied an email exchange she shared with Blanchon toward the end of his life.

Toward the end of his life, when he had turned his camera to the private garden he tended in Orgeval, France, Strand donated a comprehensive collection of his photography to the Aperture Foundation as a gift to future generations, and in 2012 the organization sold the holdings of nearly 4,000 prints, intact, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

For only certain Pollock drawings and the gigantic calligraphs that Clyfford Still made toward the end of his life could be compared with this strange drawing.

Leonardo drew them toward the end of his life, when his head was filled with apocalyptic visions of torrential floods destroying whole towns and even mountains.

For example, in the Jackson Pollock show at MoMA you saw him abandon the drip paintings toward the end of his life and almost revert back to what he was searching for as a young painter.

A dog or cat owner does not always want to consider the loss of a beloved animal, but you also want to limit the amount of pain pets experience toward the end of their life.

Words that toward the end of his life my father repeated when he caught sight of me.

Toward the end of his life, a life that witnessed wondrous light none had seen before, the great scientist confessed one failure.

This superbly written story of a mother's love for her son, and his for her, brought back beautiful memories of my relationship with my own mother, especially toward the end of her life.

It was inordinately expensive toward the end of its life, but the 900 was also extraordinarily well - equipped.

I suspect that is one of the reasons that toward the end of his life, Jobs — along with Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and others — had set his sights on bringing some disruptive innovation to education, as Isaacson recounts.

But once the story detours into Woody's old hometown — and begins dealing with the resentment and pain he left behind years ago — «Nebraska» deepens into a heartbreaking story of one man toward the end of his life looking back at the wreckage he's left in his wake.

Toward the end of his life, as he lost his jaw to cancer but kept his voice through a vibrant presence on the internet, he became a figure of tremendous inspiration.

I knew he wasn't a strict vegetarian for his whole life, but I knew that he thought about health all his life, and he did lean vegetarian toward the end of his life.

Toward the end of his life, he was also beginning tantalising work in biology, devising a mathematical theory of «morphogenesis» — in essence, how a leopard gets its spots

Unlike the First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) award program that was eliminated several years ago — which was damned (toward the end of its life) by small budgets, these awards would be well funded.

If Leopold and other scientists are correct, if the land is indeed one organism and there is a total and critical interdependence among all living things, then the deliberate poisoning of vast areas of the U.S. will have been a long stride toward the end of life as it is known on the North American continent.

Toward the end of his life Bertrand Russell calculated at only 50 per cent the probability that humanity will survive the next turn of the century.

Merleau - Ponty, toward the end of his life, read a French translation of The Function of Reason (FR) and declared Whitehead to be one of the most original and creative philosophers he had ever read.

Toward the end of his life Troeltsch came to recognize that the great world religions had equal claims to validity, though he did not quite leave it at that, as we will see later.

Toward the end of her life, O'Connor asked a friend to try to find a picture of a statue she had seen of the Madonna and child laughing — not merely smiling, but laughing heartily.

Franklin D. Roosevelt thought toward the end of his life that the great political issue with which the postwar world would have to deal would be Anglo - Russian rivalry, with the United States playing the role of mediator.

Toward the end of his life, Moody complained that church members crowded in to hear him preach and so kept away the unconverted.

Toward the end of his life, Avery Cardinal Dulles pointed out that «during the second half of the nineteenth century, it became common to speak of a war between science and religion.

Toward the end of his life, he started using the fortune he amassed to «repay his debt» to Christians by saving Christians one by one from ISIS.

Sir Martin also became more religious toward the end of his life, attending an Orthodox synagogue in London.

Toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein is reported to have said that the most important question each of us has to ask is whether the universe we inhabit is friendly or unfriendly.

Mother did convert toward the end of her life through a home bible study and joined a Methodist Church to receive Communion and participate in communal worship.

A conception of God as «in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in and around us,» as Whitehead put it toward the end of his life, is the starting place for any viable revision of the divine image.

But he does describe very sympathetically the position to which Mendelssohn ultimately retreated, toward the end of his life, when he acknowledged his inability to parry the assault on metaphysics spearheaded by the man he considered both a friend and the «all - crusher,» Immanuel Kant.

Toward the end of his life, Howe averred that, despite all the crushing disappointments of «real existent socialism,» it remained the case that «socialism is the name of our dream.»