Sentences with phrase «whose exact nature»

The protagonists of these works, derived from pictures in magazines or scientific books, are captured while engaging in activities whose exact nature seems both mundane and mysterious («they're just sitting there breathing,» Borremans told an interviewer), but the artist manages to freight these protagonists, and the air around them, with great emotional tension.

Not exact matches

Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's teachings about restraint from violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims do to one another.

The second, Euclid, is essentially a space telescope whose primary goal is to study the accelerating expansion of the universe in an attempt to provide an understanding of the exact nature of dark matter.

Later, Tintin's apartment is ransacked, the ship is missing, and he discovers himself at the newly purchased estate of Sakharine (whose sweet name, even a character in the movie observes, belies his true nature), who has an exact copy of Tintin's replica ship.