Sentences with phrase «utilitarian work»

She has given lectures and workshops throughout the United States and her wood - fired utilitarian work has been exhibited internationally.

AMC would transform the Jeep from a utilitarian work vehicle to a truck with more mass - market appeal.

But his utilitarian work habits ensure that almost all of those hours are productive ones.

Unless Mercedes is willing to sell the X-Class in the US as a purely utilitarian work truck alongside the Metris and Sprinter commercial vans, anything less than $ 40,000 for a mid-size product doesn't coalesce with the brand's premium pricing strategy.

The dog in our society is no longer a utilitarian working dog, they have quite moved up - going from 1) our faithful servants, to 2) our best friend, to now 3) our «child» and that is the issue — anthropomorphism, and yes, spoiling them (for lack for a better word).

«Andrea Zittel at the Geffen: The artist's almont utilitarian works tweak our designer lives,» The Los Angeles Times (March 19, 2007)

Overview: On view were 121 decorative and utilitarian works from the Corning Museum of Glass, surveying 35 centuries of glass - making technology and stylistic developments from ancient Egyptian, Roman, Islamic, and Asian cultures to contemporary American and European examples.

Not exact matches

Other critics have attempted to explain America's preoccupation with work as a reflection of her basic pragmatic, or utilitarian, outlook.

Indeed, in my decades of work around issues such as euthanasia, utilitarian bioethics, animal rights, transhumanism, and other associated agendas, I have found that the more one rejects human exceptionalism, the more likely one is to declare that immoral and (still) illegal wrongs — like infanticide — are virtuous.

A Christianity that is not socially utilitarian still has social relevance because its imperatives direct it to work in society.

Taking as his starting point Benedict XVI's appeal for a liturgical understanding of human existence, Caldecott shows how the rationalism that has reduced western education to something purely utilitarian will be overcome through a fresh appreciation of the transcendentals of truth and goodness, but only where the neglected transcendental, beauty, is allowed to work its influence.

The system we call television is the utilitarian value system of «what works is good» — a system that values the ends of effectiveness and efficiency at the expense of human ends.

In the end, the 3 - wheeled models are just a bit more utilitarian, but they work just as well.

«Most of the habitat concepts that come out of strictly engineering teams look very utilitarian, and when you start thinking about putting people in there for 1,000 days it doesn't work well from a psychological perspective,» Howard says.

Graceful scrolls with the look of wrought iron are paired with richly stained mahogany to create a functional storage piece that looks anything but utilitarian.

Keep it classic in a pair of cheap skinnies, work laid back cool in a mom jean or channel minimalist utilitarian vibes in a denim jumpsuit.

Work laid back cool in a mom jean or play it slick and practical with a utilitarian vibes in a denim jumpsuit.

Two Fold is simple, utilitarian and works into anyone's closet.

Spanning the avant - garde works of Pierpaolo Piccioli, to the trademark utilitarian abstraction of Craig Green, to the street - rave - hype - inducing contour and colors of Moncler's Palm Angel's collab with Francesco Ragazzi (a definite fave of ours, for obvious reasons...), it was pretty stunning.

Before Burch, ballet flats were a utilitarian item that most women wore on their way to work.

These cruelty - free suede desert boots have a utilitarian - chic, rubbery flatform sole that adds quite a bit of height, yet is super comfortable — and works beautifully with anything from feminine dresses to boyfriend jeans.

Now I alternate between two approaches on weekends — utilitarian - comfort - me (yes, I am one of those people who wears yoga pants and a wrap top to run some weekend errands since chances are, I am going to yoga at some point immediately before or after) or the weekend - real - me which is edgier / more downtown than the more uptown pencil - skirt work - week me.

The camera work ranges from utilitarian to arresting, with opening shots that pan the final gasp of autumn colors along Bristol's rolling hills.

The plot — an evil, shady bio-engineering company called Energyne loses control of an illegal experiment that catches three unsuspecting animals in the crossfire and leads to a national disaster — is totally, utterly utilitarian, but it works for the movie's purposes just fine.

In addition, Scheurman and Newmann suggested, the work students are asked to do should hold aesthetic, utilitarian and personal value beyond simply documenting their competence.

The utilitarian styling works, and the 4Runner feels ruggedly stylish for a sub - $ 40,000 SUV.

And yet, utilitarian as it is, and despite the slapdash build quality, it manages to be both aesthetically graceful and mechanically formidable — a fitting artifact of an era when working class didn't mean second class.

I own 11 vehicles, some luxury and some as work vehicles, this Nissan is my go - to vehicle for parts running out of town, rather utilitarian but dependable with great fuel economy.

The Kodiak 700 is targeted at the utilitarian user ¬ — ranchers, farmers, and other work - related riders.

While a converted car will never be the most utilitarian option around, in this case it does create an interesting alternative for users who need a work vehicle with plenty of practicality but want to look a bit more stylish.

And Colorado offers something its competitors have forgotten, and that's a utilitarian Regular Cab work truck.

I own 11 vehicles, some luxury and some as work vehicles, this Nissan is my go - to vehicle for parts running out of town, rather utilitarian but dependable with

Do not let our working, utilitarian breeds slip away into uselessness as some other breeds have.

(I use the term «working» in the utilitarian sense, and especially refer to the herding breeds.)

The bowls are beautiful and look more like a work of modern art than a utilitarian food bowl.

Developed through a set of very demanding circumstances for a purely utilitarian purpose; he is a working guard dog without equal, with a unique ability to protect livestock.

American Bulldog American Bulldogs were originally used as utilitarian workers with little pedigree employed by working class families in the American South.

The main reason we didn't include an artbook as a Kickstarter reward is that my preproduction work is SUPER utilitarian.

Dine, by now considered an important young artist of the period, continued to produce highly evocative works involving the paraphernalia of everyday life — paintings and constructions of robes, household utensils, ties, toothbrushes and utilitarian objects placed like props in front of various colored canvases.

Seattle - based Roy McMakin is a designer of furniture, art and spaces whose work challenges the distinction between the sculptural and the utilitarian.

Fiber and Form: The Woman's Legacy, focuses on seven female artists who have consistently incorporated the act of sewing and / or fiber in their two and three dimensional works, celbrating the female artist's inclination to sew and the reinterpretation of traditional utilitarian materials including linen, leather, cotton, burlap, and lace.

The physicality and tactility of the surfaces of the works — guided by the materials and processes involved in their creation — offer a uniquely visual experience of surfaces that desire to be touched and held, replicating the tactile attraction of their utilitarian predecessors.

Nicole Cherubini's (b. 1970) work deconstructs notions of utilitarian objects in relation to clay.

Many of his works play with the forms of utilitarian objects and take a «finish fetish» approach to commercial and industrial materials not typically used by artists of his generation.

In an interview for the Met's «Artist Project,» Sachs described the utilitarian designs of the Shakers as «a clear expression of their ideology — the austerity and the dedication to work.

His work is untimely in the best sense, infused with nostalgia for an age (part historical, part mythical) when utilitarian objects were not just finely made but had a sacred aura.

My aim, however, is to invert this separateness and fuse these contradictions together to make works that are simultaneously 2 - D, 3 - D, back, front, illusionistic, utilitarian, disguised, and revealed.

The resulting works push the limits of their utilitarian materials and challenge the viewer's perceptions.

In these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas.

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.