Sentences with phrase «urgent sense of»

Dynamic male bodies are placed in close quarters, while crosshatched strokes and exaggerated poses contribute an urgent sense of discord to his subject matter.

Through a variety of sculptural and installation processes, Austin composes situations characterized by instability, impermanence and illusion — inviting from their visitors an urgent sense of empathy, mindfulness and openness to the unknown.

This participatory dimension to his practice, where projects are also documented by diaries and films, reflects an urgent sense of interconnection: «Society and art», he says, «should be like breathing — one breathes in and the other breathes out» (2008).

Their consistent pictorial power, however, reflects an urgent sense of purpose rather than self - indulgence or bravado.

Recently feeling an urgent sense of justice, I could delay no more.

It's not an overly visual movie, but McCarthy's brightly - lit shots, and a spare music score by Howard Shore, give the many dialogue scenes an urgent sense of rhythm.

I came to Parsley Health more out of curiosity than an urgent sense of need.

Increasingly, though, a conviction has coalesced among many Arab and U.S. science advocates that the current moment in history requires a deeper, more urgent sense of engagement.

What he has, too, is an urgent sense of economic and social crisis - a sense of what has gone wrong in social democracy as well as in wider society (he talks not of a broken society but of a «social recession»)- and the desire to do something about it.

When men receive what they have petitioned God for with an urgent sense of need, they are grateful.

Not exact matches

The nightly television news in Israel (and hourly urgent radio broadcasts) create the sense that they are constantly living in a state of siege.

The class outlines include religion (often based in Bible study), morality (frequently centered in Victorian virtues) and social problems (heavily laced with metaphysical views of Indian cultural history) These topics are being woven into a new mix which includes a dedication to an interfaith sense of the urgent need to reconstruct the spiritual and moral values of the nation.

The one unifying factor that put sense into the strange and varied developments of Jewish apocalypticism was the urgent demand of the Jewish conscience that, one way or another, the cosmic process should not in the end be ethically unsatisfactory.

Judging from the repeated references in the letters, clergy spouses» three major difficulties are: dealing with unrealistic expectations; loneliness; congregations» lack of a sense of urgent purpose.

In our present historical situation it is most urgent for the sake of preventing the shrivelling of the emerging pluralistic sense of the mystery of reality that religions resist the temptation to such retrenchment.

Thus, we see a claim which makes sense of all the martyrdoms of our time: Martyrs today no longer die explicitly for Jesus Christ nor for the freedom of the Spirit as was the case in the first two periods we had considered, but they die for human justice, i.e., an urgent new action is needed to defend those who are overwhelmed by the weight of totalitarianism.

Without a clear message that the problem is real, severe and needs urgent action - and no reasonable person would doubt that - vested interests will have no problem exploiting marginal points of disagreement to create a sense of uncertainty around the fundamentals.

*** So, to sum up, I hope I've given you a sense of our approach: we started with the Work Programme; we introduced the Youth Contract; now we're homing in on youth unemployment hot spots; action that is targeted; urgent; always looking to do more; Government working hardest for the places that have been hardest hit.

PRO: Minimum Wage Increase Makes Good Business Sense BY DARIUS ROSS When Governor Cuomo called for raising New York's minimum wage, he expressed not only his own view, but also the convictions of 80 percent of New Yorkers who agree that the state's lowest - paid workers are in urgent need of a raise.

The couture context made it feel even more relevant and punchy: it highlighted a sense of urgent modernity that made everything else feel suddenly old.

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This instills in him a sense of foreboding, and with it the urgent desire to protect his family by expanding a long - abandoned storm shelter in their back yard.

There's an urgent and palpable sense of Chazelle's need to tell this story that is thrilling (as is Tom Cross» rhythmic and dynamic editing).

However, this latest seems to borrow more from the unrelated universes of their films A Serious Man (2009) and Burn After Reading (2008) in that it alternates tone by focusing first on one man's attempt to make sense of things, and then with a near slapstick approach to «urgent» situations.

Lots of people say the secret is to create a sense of urgency, but things couldn't be much more urgent than your impending death, and that alone is clearly not enough.

The ability to build effective teams, to set goals and motivate individuals toward meeting them, and to create a sense of purpose and mission in the schools is now even more urgent.

That's when we realized that as much as we must communicate the students» urgent need for more excellent teachers, we must also communicate the huge sense of urgency we feel to change the teachers» profession — because opportunities for teachers mean opportunities for students.

This four - week course will contextualize and make sense of two seemingly disparate strands of contemporary art: on the one hand, work that speaks to urgent political and social realities and on the other, conceptually - driven practices that seem detached from current events.

In the current climate of political disenfranchisement and growing ideological tension, Creative Time launched Pledges of Allegiance on Flag Day, June 14, 2017 to «inspire a sense of community among cultural institutions, and begin articulating the urgent response our political moment demands,» as stated on their website.

He's been married to his wife, Bonnie, for 20 years, has five children, ages two to 16, and talks of his work with a sense of modesty and the urgent commitment of painters of an earlier era.

«[T] he quality of immediacy [which is] essential to jazz... originates, not from the assumption that the notes have never been played before, but from a sense that they have come into being, in real time, as urgent creative impulses.»

By invoking seemingly antagonistic art - historical models — from the technological experiments of Russian constructivism to the base materialism of Bataillean surrealism and the cybernetic systems aesthetics of Jack Burnham, as well as the entropic geographies of Robert Smithson — «Foreign in a Domestic Sense» participates in contemporary discussions regarding the power of things and materials to operate beyond the scope and frame of the human, while insisting on an urgent geopolitical awareness about the conditions of Puerto Rico and kindred territories in the global south.

The texts include literary passages as well as transcriptions from political prisoners in besieged cities such as Aleppo, turning testimonials into visual forms and producing a sense of simultaneously urgent appeal and timeless, collective memory.

Her early works borrow heavily from the then dominant force of abstract expressionism but, in Three Figures After Pontormo (1957), one can sense an urgent inquisitiveness.

Conceived in response to the current political climate, Pledges of Allegiance aims to inspire a sense of community among cultural institutions, and begin articulating the urgent response our political moment demands.

Pursuant to the urgent need for this knowledge in U.S. waters of the western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, we integrated aerial and shipboard cetacean surveys conducted by five scientific organizations over 23 years and linked them to environmental data relating to cetacean habitat, such as sea surface temperature and chlorophyll concentration, obtained from satellite remote sensing and ocean models.

«First of all, our official planning departments seem to be brain - dead in the sense that we can not depend on them in any way, shape or form for providing intellectual leadership in addressing urgent problems involving the physical future of the city.»

Accordingly, the need for common sense — and keeping abreast of technology — is even more urgent.

I sensed an urgent need to inform members and the public about the effect that ABA policies have on the practice of law, on legislation and on our way of life.

Take a step back and absorb Unless there are urgent issues to deal with, it helps take some time to acquire the information you need, to gain a real sense of the organisational culture.

Finally moving into my new little jewel of a tiny house and that has caused the same urgent and necessary sense of must go in me.

How urgent your need for a dining table will determine the sense of urgency and time you are willing to devote to go thru the process.