Sentences with phrase «very idiosyncratic»

In your essay on young abstract painters, you mention that most of them are very idiosyncratic.

«He mixes the personal and subjective with larger historical narratives using a very idiosyncratic, often surreal approach.»

James Siena's paintings are compact, intricate, finely crafted and geometric but at the same time very idiosyncratic abstractions, distantly related to early American modernists (he invokes Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O'Keefe as cherished ancestors).

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She sent me back to another book that is a very idiosyncratic presentation of a complicated self on the page: Speedboat.

But my inability to match Bruno's ability to combine policing with humor, common sense and his very idiosyncratic sense of justice might well cause a riot in our placid small town.

The two studies referenced in the quote above, however, are very idiosyncratic.

However, in some cases, it can generate a very idiosyncratic look by coupling a trench with a long evening dress, noting that the dress is monochromatic.

He has to sleep standing up and leaning over his dresser because of the pain, and he has very idiosyncratic reactions to medications.

All of this was certainly a very idiosyncratic way of reading the tradition of the Church, but we must not forget that the understanding of «dogma» was still in flux and not defined until sixty later at the First Vatican Council (1870/71).

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Moreover, the idiosyncratic and fluid character of personal meaning has defied the very logic of seeking social scientific generalizations.

However, his ambiguous relationship to the art was not merely personal and idiosyncratic; it is endemic to the very nature of «Christian» art itself.

Television has succeeded in narrowing this representative diversity, even among the strongly independent and idiosyncratic evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, to a common television product with very few variations.

In his latest book, he collects a set of very short essays organized alphabetically and covering an en?gagingly idiosyncratic list of subjects - from airplanes and psalms to a deceased abbott named Zerr.

What we call usual states of consciousness appear in this context to be only very limited, idiosyncratic, and partial aspects of the over-all consciousness of the Universal Mind.

I think the squad is an unusual, idiosyncratic one, in that the individual value of our players is very high but finding the right mix and balance in the team, especially in midfield, has proved difficult and is not yet solved.

«You need to be highly attuned to very specialized, idiosyncratic needs,» he says.

Andrew Copson, BHA Director of Education, said, «There are very many non-religious people in Britain who understand and accept natural selection, and who may even agree that belief in God is unnecessary, but who would not necessarily subscribe to this idiosyncratic definition of «atheistic evolution».»

Among the broader conclusions they have come to is that great quakes are very complicated and idiosyncratic.

True «outsider» art is a rarity in any age, but more so in the plugged - in present, when technology makes the idea of privately cultivating an idiosyncratic style very nearly obsolescent.

The elderly couple at the center of the narrative, an idiosyncratic and philosophical pair, provide a very personal glimpse into a country in the midst of enormous and physical change.

I chased those two commercial offerings with smaller, more idiosyncratic selections, both of which functioned, in their very different ways, as portraits of community.

Another classic Kaurismäki characteristic very much in evidence is his vivid and idiosyncratic use of color.

Pesce undeniably has a vision and a mastery very much his own; this is as idiosyncratic a genre - tweaking debut as Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Late at Night (Eyes could almost be retitled A Girl Stays Home Late at Night).

8:20 am — IFC — American Splendor Harvey Pekar is one of the more idiosyncratic graphic novelists there is -LRB-» comic book» doesn't quite cover his very adult, neurotic art), and Paul Giamatti brings him to life perfectly.

By default, Ashes of Time falls under those categories, but the film is a representation of those genres as seen through the idiosyncratic lens of its director — which should give an idea of how unorthodox and very special the film is.

Jim Hodges: sometimes beauty provides a singular opportunity to experience Jim's complex, idiosyncratic, and nuanced devotion to ideas and ethics that are very personal, but easily accessible.»

However, some themes have been consistent in her work including a fascination with the beauty and abjectness of the body; the marriage of kitsch and decoration to an ambiguous organic abstraction; and a very personal and idiosyncratic approach to feminism and formalism.

With an idiosyncratic attitude toward collaboration, the group synchronously cultivate a cooperative yet highly competitive spirit, where the very nature of their alliance revolves around celebrating, thwarting and subverting each other's contributions, creating seamless collaborations from the fraternal narrative that surrounds their studio practice.

Named after a gallery that was to become the very first gallery in Soho, and which included like - minded artists Ed Ruda, Mark di Suvero, Peter Forakis, Robert Grosvenor Anthony Magar, Forrest Myers, Tamara Melcher, and Dean Fleming, The Park Place Group was an idiosyncratic bunch whose work, though abstract and geometric, didn't accord with the prevailing Minimalist ethos of pure form.

I guess it was more a marketing convenience than anything else, because I see the Porsche Design phone as very much its own device, with its own idiosyncratic strengths.

In both cases, there's far too much variety, diversity, and idiosyncratic charm to crown just one specimen as the very finest.

5 Ornate chandeliers, wallpaper and paint treatments Taste is very individual and idiosyncratic decorating can turn buyers off; stick with neutral, simple decor.