Sentences with phrase «with oblique»

The artist, however, offers scant details about her subjects or the scenes she depicts, instead furnishing her viewers with oblique and lyrical titles that prompt contemplation or evoke a mood.

There is nothing to compare with the first - time fascination of discovering all the hocus - pocus of synthetic and artificial perspective: one - and two - point vanishing points, closing one eye, boxes with oblique angles and windows to the Tuscan countryside.

Her source photography from mid-century magazines and advertisements was overlaid with oblique type proclaiming «Money can buy you love», «We don't need another hero», «You are not yourself» and, most famously, «Your body is a battleground».

Sun Xun, 31, another rising star, claims that his ideas about art are influenced mostly by German philosopher Martin Heidegger, although his stunning hand - drawn animations are packed with oblique references to traditional Chinese culture as well.

Together, it amounts to an anatomy of the power relationships represented in formal attire, joined together with arrows and interspersed with oblique symbols.

These exquisitely crafted images are combined with oblique abstract constructions and texts like, «REMEMBER THAT NOWHERE CAN BE HERE,» taken from a letter from Roberto Matta to Gordon Matta - Clark.

To one side: Mark Grotjahn's palette knife loops of color, which define a deep space but are also scattered with oblique features, and Nicole Eisenman's forthright, masklike faces, laid on in thick, textured slabs of color.

I think there was a tradition that was going on — and goes way back — that had to do with oblique geometry.

In Persuasion, consumer imagery is appropriated and represented with an oblique view through the eyes of the artist rather than the boardroom.

What sets this game apart from other RPGs is it is controlled in a landscape with oblique projection.

Large, almond - shaped eyes with their oblique set and the equilateral triangle - shaped head contribute to the unique appearance of this breed.

The Amazon tablet rumors have been very persistent, including previous rumors from Digitimes; and other reports that there are not one, but two, tablets on the cards; and their CEO even refusing to totally rule them out with his oblique «stay tuned» comment in May.

You interest readers with your oblique title and hook them with the subtitle.

«Kill List» is a resonant film that demands your attention with its oblique weirdness and darkly alluring characters, but in the end doesn't live up to its full storytelling potential.

Like Christian Slater's disaffected disc jockey in 1990's «Pump Up the Volume» (also directed by Allan Moyle), Cochrane's record clerk is a smart, alienated individualist with an oblique sense of humor.

- Burpee plank jack - High knee runs - Squat with oblique crunch - Pushup with shoulder taps - Plyo lunges (2 quick, 1 deep)

Perched atop ladders, the researchers examined the walls with oblique lights, specially designed to detect faint marks, and began to make out graceful, sweeping lines incised into the rock.

It's unlikely we get the kind of benign conditions in the first round next week, but it was good to see the best rise to the top, in particular Mickelson, who was questionable with an oblique injury.

And yet, with this oblique writing, they were addressing the case without truly addressing the wrong, or the injury, that the law was seeking to reach.

Rather, it has the character of a focal point of attention (correlated with dominant inheritance on my model) washed over by various vaguely discriminated backgrounds (correlated with oblique inheritance on my model).

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

You don't want to see a CEO avoiding questions, answering questions with oblique «convincing statements» (such as, «everything's great!»)

Your lats (back muscles) also work with your obliques (sides) in this exercise, so you are sure to feel this working from the belt up.

Not exact matches

And so a series of internal struggles played out, with Bloomberg playing only an occasional, oblique role.

It was in exploring an oblique connection with John Milton that I first picked up Slavitt's translation of Prudentius» fourth hymn (which Slavitt calls «The Hymn After Meals»).

Introspectively, my position is verified by the shifting nature of conscious attention, with its structure of a central focal awareness surrounded by an horizon of indeterminate yet always accessible oblique experience, upon which the searchlight of attention may at any moment be turned.

An oblique approach is not the trick of a coward; it is often the powerful vehicle of a man whose primary concern is not to appear every Sunday as Captain Courageous «telling them off» but to communicate with men who will have to continue after the sermon is over thinking their own thoughts, dealing with their own situations and being responsible for their own faith.

From many hours spent with many former students I have learned that there is a constant fact in the variety of their confessions, overt or oblique.

Mickelson, who was due in Houston on Wednesday after two days of «light practice» at Augusta, quit the Valero Texas Open midway through the third round with a strained right oblique muscle.

Bedard fell just short of the Baltimore franchise record — when his season ended in early September with a strained oblique.

Jesus Montero, who was once one of the top prospects in baseball, is playing for the Seattle Mariners» Class - A Everett AquaSox team having been on the disabled list with a strained oblique.

March maladies are nothing new for Seager, who missed large chunks of time in the last two springs with a sprained knee and a sore oblique, only to answer the bell come opening day.

-- There were a number of significant injuries yesterday with Orioles 1B Chris Davis (Oblique) and Nationals OF Bryce Harper (Thumb) both being placed on the 15 - day disabled list.

Unions allied with Cuomo are bashing Nixon for her oblique comment about labor deals draining away much - needed resources from the NYC subway system.

In the face of a round of critical statements issued by organized labor groups allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo following her oblique comments regarding the connection between union contracts and the high cost of digging NYC subway tunnels, Cynthia Nixon received some support from an unlikely source.

When Adam Skelos made an oblique reference to his work during a Feb. 24 telephone call with his father, Dean Skelos interrupted to say: «Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam.»

In meetings on Monday with trade officials, Cuomo made more oblique references to Cuba's human rights record.

With a slight curve on the wheel, you can easily carve side - to - side and hit those obliques.

Backed by 1,400 watts of power and equipped with six stainless, thicked oblique blades, this blender can slice through nearly anything and do it with ease.

Here's how it could have happened: The cross-modal area of the brain might have evolved to link an oblique image hitting the retina (caused by viewing a tilted branch) with an «oblique» sequence of muscle twitches (leading the animal to grab the branch at an angle).

Hare's oblique wariness of a reporter brandishing a voice recorder in a busy taphouse is perhaps no surprise, given his expertise with the subject and the research that suggests 1 in 100 people are psychopaths who tend to blend in, like cold - blooded chameleons.

Moreover, because our motion areas also have more neurons that prefer cardinal rather than oblique directions, here the arrow invokes a powerful competition with the FedEx name itself, so our perception vacillates between «FedEx» and forward momentum.

Different as they appear at first glance, they share basic structural features, according to a new study: characters with vertical symmetry (like the Roman letters A and T) and a preference for vertical and horizontal lines over oblique lines (like those in the letters X and W).

Their oblique approach is to aim instead for a world with accessible, secure low cost energy for all.

By depositing these rods at an oblique angle, the scientists created an uneven film with various gaps in it.

OBLIQUE STRAINS By July, 30 major - league baseball players had spent time on the disabled list with strained obliques, the flat abdominal muscles that rotate the torso, compared with only 19 last season and virtually none a decade ago.

The mechanical properties of flexible MCA based OSCs and PSCs was highly flexible with 98 % retention from initial PCE at both 0 o and oblique incident angle 60 o after 2000 bending cycles at radius of 2 mm.

The new high - resolution simulations show that an oblique impact by an object with 10 percent the mass of the Earth can eject sufficient iron - free material into Earth - orbit to yield the Moon, while also leaving the Earth with its final mass and correct initial rotation rate.

Oblique scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (oSLO) allows simultaneous retinal fluorescence tomography with optical coherence tomography

Come into a side plank position, making sure your hips are up and in line with the rest of your body to really engage your obliques.