Sentences with word «urbanity»

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What a pity if the collapse of urbanity in our own time should leave us only the bitter vituperation and not the energetic pursuit of truth.

What's striking and, to my bloodshot eye, welcome about this year's edition, The Family Stone, is the rather chic urbanity with which writer - director Thomas Bezucha serves up the old genre standby.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands About Blog Architects for Urbanity (AfU) is a Rotterdam - based collaborative design and research office founded in 2015 by Irgen Salianji, Karolina Szóstkiewicz and Marina Kounavi.

Famed for its Viking history and quaint wooden buildings, juxtaposed with modern urbanity brought about by its oil industry, Stavanger is fast becoming something of a mecca for adventure travel enthusiasts keen to experience nature at its most raw.

The Rockefellers are sprucing up the off - beat isle of St. John, and the gentle acres of St. Croix will be decorated come this winter with The Henge, the Caribbean cousin of Victor Gilbert's Stonehenge, that den of urbanity nestling in the Connecticut hills near Ridgefield.

Fountain did not extend this argument to explain Trump's popularity elsewhere - but maybe the Southern effect has connections to a general disenchantment with the increasing urbanity of the centre - right, as exemplified by Mitt Romney.

The cryptic markings on his work are inspired by his memory of village traditions in Udomi - Uwessan, where an untitled 2015 canvas by Senegalese painter Soly Cissé offers an abstract disquisition on urbanity.

«Dostoevsky's devil in The Brother's Karamazov, for example, the one who appears to the fever - ridden Vanya, is a bit of an invertebrate and a sponge, who goes about in the threadbare guise of a member of the impoverished petty nobility; but he's still an enchanting talker, with a sense of humor, and considerable urbanity.

October 3: Join Urbanity, Boston's largest contemporary dance company, as they open their private rehearsals to the public (Boston)

Farmers, migrant workers and lower / middle - class urbanities grumble about rising living costs, and a perceived lower quality of life.

and Urbanity Coffee for slightly different and really innovative brunch dishes.

When not lingering on the opacity of the Johansson's face, the camera documentary - like observes the nightlife of Glasgow, isolated urbanity nestled in the chill Scottish moorlands where testosterone loaded foot - y fans and lonely souls wander.

Few action films can evoke the neon - glazed urbanity of Michael Mann one minute, and conjure the Gothic spectre of Countess Bathory next.

While an endearing Simon Helberg gets ready laughs as the pianist Cosme McMoon, who regards his newfound employer with a mixture of admiration and alarm, Grant tempers his sometimes curdled urbanity with a depth of feeling that meets Streep head on.

The real estate urbanity is ripe for ridicule, and it's a shame that more wasn't made of this as The Architect instead treads a predictable path with a textbook love triangle, a requisite quirky charlatan, and other stale placeholder characters (such as Colin's dull and doting parents played by John Aylward and Pamela Reed, so perfunctory they don't even have names), none of which are very likeable.

The slightly wan sophistication and weary urbanity exuded by Benedict Cumberbatch as the magician in training feel so right that by the time the Doctor has acquired his nattily bohemian goatee and swirling cape, Cumberbatch actually looks and feels stranger than Strange.

Baumbach salts his supposed urbanity with liberal rather than conservative trimmings, however.

Onwards to Vienna and Budapest to tour cities where modern urbanity meets Old World charm.

San Diego — Tijuana urbanity stretches along the coastline from the northernmost city of Oceanside to the southernmost city of Rosarito Beach.

Dagupan, despite its thick urbanity has -LSB-...]

The beguiling mix of modern Balinese furnishings and western urbanity will wow even the most discerning and hip traveler.

Exuberating urbanity and class, Siddharta Lounge by Buddha - Bar serves up the best in «Mediterrasian flavours», with futuristic undertones and familiar flavours in a classy and relaxed atmosphere.

Once engulfed in this bulimic urbanity?

Influenced by her surroundings, the vibrant and obscure areas of Berlin, it's diverse urbanity, culture and clubbing scene, Snelling merges different absorbed impressions with peculiarities of the digital world, popular culture, news or politics, creating mundane and odd spaces.

The two young artists soon grew weary of Albers's methodology and the isolation of country life at Black Mountain; after the 1949 summer session they moved to New York, finding inspiration in the city's thriving urbanity.

Motifs such as urbanity, identity, and anticipation placed at tension with cultural tradition stand at the center of the unique images of Japan...

Heavily influenced by the current socio - political issues of our era, the dichotomy between urbanity and nature is reflected in her works.

With the publication of Open City: Existential Urbanity, Diane Lewis brought fourteen years of research and design to print.

Conference: IdeasCity at Sara D. Roosevelt Park Created by the New Museum as a way to explore how art and culture can help us better understand urbanity, the IdeasCity conference will focus this year on «100 Actions for the Future City.»

(Athens, Greece) The participating artists talk about how urbanity is experimental, and how it can transform, alienate or contain and simultaneously touch our lives or even set us free.

Algerian painter Driss Ouadahi has developed a unique visual vocabulary — a synthesis of structural design and modernist grid painting — with which he examines social, political and psychological aspects of Modernist urbanity.

The gallery was founded by Peter Goulds in 1975 in Venice, California, a creative community inhabited by the likes of Ken Price, Richard Diebenkorn, Larry Bell and other artists who chose to locate their studios and homes amid its bohemian, beachfront urbanity.

Featuring original works by Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Banksy and Os Gemeos, this exhibition explores urbanity and its socially isolating affects.

Each artist explores New York City scenes as well as views captured during «escapes» from the intense urbanity they both call home.

«Urbanity doesn't exist in Slovenia,» said Vardjan in her introductory talk.

Wiels Contemporary Art Centre May 8 - August 14 Curated by Devrim Bayar [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Urbanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is marked by a precarious entanglement of...

In one instance, two works hanging side by side: Sign (potentially the most minimal in the show, a series of pencil lines on bare white canvas) and Date act as a visual diptych, the former's clean diagonals echoed as murky chemical smears, nighttime urbanity congealed into acrylic.

Independent Contemporary art Project, opens new exhibition Continuing the series urbanities, which reaches its third edition, Kunsthalle St. Paul invites the artist Otavio Cury (* 1971 in São Paulo), to present his first solo exhibition, «Death of a rhino».

Agro-housing is a place for living, but in essence, it is a model for a new urbanity, contributing to the preservation of traditions and community values and diminishing the trials of rural migration.

Cognitive functioning among Dutch older adults: Do neighborhood socioeconomic status and urbanity matter?.

Pairing work with other activities adds urbanity and amenity, and makes development easier to finance.

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