Sentences with phrase «use of paradox»

But we try to explain and this leads to the use of paradox, sometimes in very helpful ways.

A nineteenth - century hymn illustrated by the use of paradox the belief that the incarnate one was also possessed of the full powers of God.

Noting that Stella's painting is contemporaneous with other uses of paradox of a politically difficult sort such as Godard's right - wing hero who quotes Lenin in Le Petit Soldat, made around the same time, one might also draw some conclusion from Stella's great work being one of negation of an elaborate sort, including of traditional aspects of oil painting such as its surface.

Not exact matches

It is no paradox that we use the term «modern» to refer both to the external material and social forces that transformed the world, and to the internal intellectual and expressive movements that wrestled with, and often deplored, the human costs of that same transformation.

that is, «The world is thus [italics mine] faced by the paradox that, at least in its highest actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones,» refers, because of the use of the word thus, to a previous argument that provides the grounds on which Whitehead bases his assertion that the world requires both novelty and order.

The cartoon and words invite, using the same tools of parable and paradox the Good Teacher excelled in using to invite and reveal truth and grace.

Whitehead also argues this theory by using Zeno, although he uses a sophistication of Zeno's arrow paradox, and not, as James, the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise (PR 68f.

Perhaps the paradox can not be conveyed in the same language used in the past, but if we are to do better, we will have to appreciate the accomplishment of the past.

But his readable and instinctive new book dwells on the apparent paradox that even though, strictly speaking, Darwinism is incompatible with design, biologists «still go on using and seemingly needing this way of thinking.»

This is the first of a number of paradoxes that he used to describe his understanding of man.

The central paradox of Christian liturgy is that it uses ordinary things (bread, wine, books, cloth, fire, and water) to speak of the Holy.

Discussion of the last stanza, however, using such terms as «reconcilement of the conflicting claims,» «viable relation,» and particularly «resolution» (WWU 66) suggests that the paradox of the double attitude is to be abandoned.

Proofs for this view have been given by James and Whitehead, using a form of Zeno's paradox.

This paradox has raised a pressing question for a new generation of researchers: Is the teaching paradigm the right one to use when it comes to helping young people develop noncognitive capacities?

But even food - insecure children and adults can be obese (a paradox that some have used to deny the existence of a hunger problem in America.)

Pakistan was, thus, born with a paradox: Islam was used to create the country, but when it was about to become a reality, the founding leader clearly stated that Islam would not be the basis of statehood.

This «Alabama paradox» was caused by an algorithm known as the largest remainder method, which was used to round the number of seats a state would receive under strict proportionality to a whole number.

Obesity - paradox sceptics such as Lajous criticize the use of BMI as a proxy for fatness.

In a surprising paradox, the male hormone testosterone, generally thought to be a feeder of prostate cancer, has been found to suppress some advanced prostate cancers and also may reverse resistance to testosterone - blocking drugs used to treat prostate cancer.

Now, Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, has used a controversial quantum model called final - state projection to try to solve the paradox.

But a new analysis using the «many worlds» interpretation, which says that each possible outcome of a quantum event exists in its own world, shows that black holes present no such paradoxes.

David Griffiths of Reed College, author of a widely used introductory quantum mechanics textbook (the second edition of which gives a version of antitunneling as a student exercise), calls it «a very sweet paradox.»

After using new methods to measure user influence and the extent to which the Generalized Friendship Paradox exists in social networks, a research team has concluded that almost all users (up to 90 per cent of us) experience this paradox — even those with relatively high levels of activity and influence.

We need to figure out what is driving this paradox and learn how to use this information to benefit all of our patients.»

So what we started out with was sort of the paradox that we saw a coup in these especially, the swamp populations; we saw several tool uses that were shown by everybody in the population, so the anthropologists would say they are customary and were rather complex looking and yet didn't occur anywhere else.

Using Sobel's yardstick, scientists may be able to start untangling the paradox of smell: why we are so good at distinguishing odors and so bad at naming them.

«Using Williams syndrome as the basis for a new approach to social neuroscience is exciting and promising, in part because its genetic basis is clearly understood, and it is associated with a very specific pattern of cognitive strengths and weaknesses and some puzzling paradoxes.»

This bundle contains 5 ready - to - use paradox worksheets that are perfect to test student knowledge and understanding of what paradox is and how it can be used.

It's a paradox: As U.S. students» scores on standardized (used as the primary measure of student learning and school quality) have risen, their scores on assessments accepted as measures of deeper learning and critical thinking (like the Programme for International Student Assessment) have plateaued or gone down.

Franks also pointed out a central paradox of using credit checks in today's economy: Some job applicants may be turned away by the same corporations that, amid their own financial troubles, have left workers jobless.

For a good part of the first 20 - 25 years after the development of TPLO, surgeons were faced with a paradox: they were seeing significantly better results with TPLO than with other procedures they had used in large dogs....

Many of the artworks included use photography but following Magritte's penchant for paradox, this show about photography also includes sculptures, video and paintings.

Lijn converted cone to Koan, deliberately using the word for Zen Buddhist riddles, which focus the mind on paradox, to point out the paradox at the core of her own works.

With Liquid Koan Liliane Lijn has used translucent polyester resin to propose a paradox: layers of colour appear distinct and separate, or merge one into another, depending on the angle at which they are seen.

Using the female body as a mechanism to explore themes of power, female representation, fetishism and objectification, usually in an ironic and cheerful way, Lichtenstein's work embodies the very paradox she is trying to explore.

using simple materials, mundane objects, wit and written instructions, wurm invites people to interact with his art, transforming spectators into active participants, encouraging them to poke fun at the paradoxes of contemporary society.

This group show of 14 artists who all use photography in their work spans 40 years, from the»70s to now, and it looks at a paradox.

Her use of digital media, combined with the traditional craft of oil painting, creates a set of paradoxes mirroring contemporary lives and longings in an increasingly mechanized world.

His work investigates the nature of paradox, using historical narratives, language and appropriated imagery.

Grobler uses detritus as a point of departure to engage with notions of hierarchies and power relations in a world scattered with economic and socio - political paradoxes.

In Surveillance, Gehr's use of identical concentric frames and the slow, steady sweep of his camera echoes the visual vocabulary of security footage, but rather than instill foreboding, his richly saturated colors and exacting composition invite reflection and immersion; they sharpen the senses and expose the countless visual puns and paradoxes of public activity so often overlooked by the naked eye.

Pascal Dombis is a French visual artist whose unpredictable and dynamic visual forms explore the complexities of visual paradoxes through the use of «excessive» technological process.

Using an unusual technique of colouring gelatine silver prints by hand or drawing over colour prints — part photography and part painting — he creates an imaginary reality that reflects both the paradoxes of the Middle East today and the flamboyant fantasies of the golden age of Egyptian film in the cosmopolitan pre-revolutionary years in Cairo.

Kabisch's aesthetically ironic figuration of humans takes the physical body as an allegory of our society; using the self to explore mankind's manners and paradoxes.

Para Site is pleased to present 5 x 7, 5 invitations with 7 guests, a series of public programmes taking place alongside A Luxury We Can not Afford, an exhibition that uses art, popular culture, and architecture of the 1950s / 60s and 2000s (two moments in which Singapore, currently celebrating its 50th year of independence, was at the brink of economic utopia) to reflect on the formation, development, and paradoxes of the country's national ideology.

Smith uses humor and satire to examine myths, stereotypes and the paradox of American Indian life in contrast to the consumerism of American society.

Art Plural Gallery presents an interview with Pascal Dombis, a French visual artist whose unpredictable and dynamic visual forms explore the complexities of visual paradoxes through the use of «excessive» technological process.

His use of pop - culture images and materials naturally caused him to be labelled as a Pop - artist, but his artistic statements (including a good deal of Duchamp - like parody, paradox and contradictions) have also led his work to be described as Neo-Dadaist.

Their original use is diverted to disappear behind his own formal paradox desecration of art.

At the same time, his sensitive use of his own foibles (vanity, for one) and challenges (physical disability) provide an autobiographical perspective through which to navigate the contradictory emotions and paradoxes of his examination of individual and political power.