Sentences with phrase «utilitarian nature»

We miss the utilitarian nature of the original mailing list — so easy to cut, paste, print, and use to recommend shows, but we're glad it's back (even if in a more complex form).

Despite the utilitarian nature of the Metris WORKER Cargo Van, it still comes with some features that you won't find standard in many other basic midsize vans.

And while the monster G55 AMG version will always grab the headlines, the G350 Bluetec diesel is torque - rich and much better suited to the boxy Wagen's more utilitarian nature.

Moral philosophers like to approach moral dilemmas as having either a deontological or a utilitarian nature.

Not exact matches

«The iPad cases that other companies were creating were really utilitarian in nature.»

For the greatest salesman of this utilitarian view of reason, Descartes, the goal of rigorous thought is to «render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature.»

In the traditional understanding, Nature was looked upon with a utilitarian perspective without consideration for its intrinsic value.

The ones they ask in class, which are utilitarian in nature: «How many absences are we allowed in here, anyway?»

A thorough philosopher looking to modify Hartshorne's position might also wish to examine the consequences of using Hartshorne's conception of love as the sole determining factor in the abortion issue, to probe Hartshorne's views on potentiality and to consider the criticisms of those who see Hartshorne's position as too utilitarian in nature.

I loved the utilitarian and affordable nature of the burlap, but did not love the mess I was making all over myself and the house each time I used it.

Classical liberalism is utilitarian in nature.

While education has a practical and utilitarian purpose, it is also true that the curriculum deals with significant existential questions about the nature and purpose of life.

Socrates takes no payment, for the education he offers has no utilitarian payoff in the here and now, a teaching immortalized by the nature of his own demise.

Sporting a much shorter front clip, a rather uneventful front grille, bulky fog lights, and a side profile that emphasizes the lack of width above the waist line, the Escape is certainly aimed at those wanting something more utilitarian and nature.

But, what is really giving it that edge is that it is utilitarian in nature in a large crowd of vehicles aimed at showing off various accessories that are already on sale or could be in the near future.

We have to get away from our utilitarian perspective on Nature and animals in captivity dying to amuse us.

Often referencing organic forms found in nature, Puntar's installation draws relationships between modern and pseudo-organic, decorative and utilitarian.

Ursula von Rydingsvard's Shadows Remain is a selection of cedar sculptures including monumental freestanding floor pieces that are at once abstract and referential, evoking forces of nature, anthropomorphic forms and utilitarian objects.

Particularly interested in overlooked or overused objects and spaces — from bollards, mini-golf courses and roadside shrines to communal washrooms, military watchtowers and other indiscernible utilitarian forms — she replicates them in works highlighting the uncertain nature of the neat geometry of the world around us.

While abstract at its core, Von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects — such as the artist's collection of household vessels — and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man - made meets nature.

An architect and designer who specialized in shop and restaurant interiors, which are by nature ephemeral, and furniture and utilitarian objects, Kuramata brought a lyrical dreaminess to his work that proves infectious even after the unreality of Japan's «bubble economy» for which it was created has long since burst.

Bamboo works remained utilitarian in nature until the mid-20th century when a small number of artists left the traditional path and experimented with sculptural forms.

This departure into new forms impacted the traditional, utilitarian baskets which today are very sculptural in nature.

The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.

The material nature of the works exhibited implies a utilitarian purpose, challenging the boundaries between sculpture and molds, object and meaning, strength and fragility, the organic and the mechanical.

In his analysis, Rolston avoids both utilitarian and bio-centric views of nature — allowing him to present a view that bridges these two ends of the environmental ethic spectrum.

The ecomodernists recognize that their case for preserving nature by decoupling human activity from environmental impacts «draws more on spiritual or aesthetic than on material or utilitarian arguments,» since we «could survive and prosper materially on a planet with much less biodiversity and wild nature.»

While we could not survive if the natural environment were utterly ruined, we could prosper very well under many scenarios of terrible ecological devastation, and so straightforward utilitarian economic analyses of environmental problems are not enough on their own to justify protecting nature.

Also, I understand that «Useful Articles» (items of clothing such as scarves, for example) are not subject to any copyright protections, but the patterns which I'm hoping to encorporate into my scarf pattern are for items which it could probably be argued are not utilitarian in nature, but rather purely «to portray the appearance of the article».

Also you can choose fabric that is utilitarian in nature like leather to provide that rustic look and feel.

Mudrooms by nature tend toward the utilitarian, but this sweet little one also gives a warm welcome.

With a focus on the stripped - down and angular nature of industry and its utilitarian designs, industrial furniture can present a novel contrast to many of the more common furniture styles we see in homes today.