Sentences with phrase «wide currency»

But, when any new word rapidly gains wide currency, as has happened here, competing interpretations will emerge and spread, before a common understanding establishes itself.

That name gained much wider currency in 1937 after the book was made into a movie.

Art historians have come to disagree with the common view that Heade is a Hudson River School painter, a view given wide currency by Heade's inclusion in a landmark exhibition of Hudson River School landscapes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1987.

According to Chilvers, the term tachisme «was first used in this sense in about 1951 (the French critics Charles Estienne and Pierre Guéguen have each been credited with coining it) and it was given wide currency by [French critic and painter] Michel Tapié in his book Un Art autre (1952).»

Roosevelt never accepted the Dewey - Beard - Tugwell nostrum, but at least it had a very wide currency.

The term has received wide currency through Thomas Kuhn's influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).

While Latina cams and MILF cams continue to be some of the hottest online erotic entertainment niches, ebony cams chatting has failed to get wide currency among youngsters.

With retro - style indie games still enjoying wide currency, perhaps we should have anticipated that SEGA would capitalise on this trend eventually, and look to release a new Sonic game that celebrates the best of his existing legacy rather than attempting to reinvent it for a modern audience that cares little for fallen platforming mascots.

The art form gained wide currency following an exhibition called «The Art of Assemblage» held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1961), where one of the most unusual works, by Cesar Baldaccini (1921 - 1998), was made from compressed automobiles.

Mining late modernism is an area of wide currency, encompassing Karyn Olivier's trompe l'oeil construction of a cheaply ornate coffee table supporting a plain white pillar, and Marco Breuer's drawings, if that's what to call them: delicately scratched sheets of photographic paper, making multicolored stripes.

Given wide currency in Michel Tapie's book «Un autre art», Tachisme initially developed independently of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, and continued to be essentially a French phenomenon, although it is commonly used as a generic label for European Abstract Expressionism.

Neon artist as a category was not fully accepted or known, although some first steps to gain wider currency were in the making.

There is a cliché that is not only used by Christians but has wider currency.

From it issued efforts to give wider currency to the Gospel and to remove or at least combat some of the collective ills of mankind.

To give wide currency to the Bible he sent out itinerant preachers who won a following known as the Lollards.

16:03 - Sir Menzies Campbell, former lib Dem leader, is happy Cameron said he should be in the EU and wants that idea to have «wider currency» in his party.

For investors looking to buy U.S. - listed ETFs, learning this technique can save hundreds of dollars by sidestepping the wide currency spreads charged by brokerages.