Working against this tendency was the concept of rita.
High - profile murders like Ramsey's often provoke gawking, callous media treatment, turning us all into rubberneckers, but Casting JonBenet vigorously
works against that tendency, fascinated by our psychological need to judge other people's lives, but also deeply mournful, even respectful, of the very human reasons why we do so.
Not exact matches
The main
tendency of his fiction, especially his shorter
works, is
against all such attempts to elevate humanism to the upper case.
I see this
tendency springing up in your writings, however, and as someone who cares about you and about the
work you're doing, I just wanted to caution you
against these things.
That does not mean that the universe will inevitably develop richer integrations and higher values, because there are other
tendencies which
work against it.
Moreover, Pope Francis has adopted a style of leadership that
works against the general
tendencies of our times.
It's important to be aware of your natural
tendencies, and to understand when they're
working for or
against you.
These people have
worked against the grain of their natural
tendencies and formed a habit.
It
works against students»
tendency to rank themselves and to compare themselves to or compete with one another.
Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful
tendencies that
work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers
work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.
As Richard Nash points out: there are two contrasting
tendencies working against each other, both extremely low prices set by Amazon and extremely high prices set by traditional publishers.
If you can twist a perceived negative thought,
tendency, or trait into a positive one, you can get it to
work for you rather than
against you.
You have these
tendencies for a reason, but sometimes that reason
works against your investment goals.
You may get frustrated at its ability to focus on a scent, so
work with the dog rather than
against its natural
tendencies.
In a sense, these
works, by embracing anthropomorphic and performative
tendencies, seem to respond to Michael Fried, who famously argued
against minimalism for its theatricality.
But Kounellis»
work is not about the artifice of traditional painting; rather, its strict formality is railing
against the prevailing gestures, drip and daub
tendencies of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel where the action, emotion, material, touch and will of the artist is inextricably interwoven within both the medium and the form.
In turn, artistic
works reflect or comment on this
tendency or lend it a further, subversive level that uses the mechanisms of political populism
against this trend.
Marcelyn McNeil's latest large - scale abstract oil paintings react
against the
tendency to overly manicure
work.
However, the artist's
tendency to balance his paintings with horizontal and vertical markings is a strong feature in this
work where the vertical figure of Anna is balanced
against the horizontal lines of the sofa.
There is a
tendency to make Meppayil's
work legible by placing it
against the western historical timeline of postwar abstractionism, particularly by comparing it with the
work of Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman.
Like comparing life in an intentional community versus the gridlock of a gritty city, the log hive is an intriguing design that thinks outside the box, and could provide bees with a more suitable habitat that caters to their natural
tendencies, rather than
working against them.
But the
tendency to discount subtle - seeming effects
works against us.
Lawyers need to guard
against their own
tendency to leave no stone unturned and give critical consideration to how much
work is absolutely necessary in a given matter, with the caveat that they must make the tradeoffs clear upfront to the client, Calloway says.
Something therefore needs be done to actively
work against the natural
tendency to protect ourselves from short term relationship pain.
She described parental alienation as someone trying to turn a child
against a parent, and she testified that she had
worked with Connie to give her insight into her
tendency toward alienation and to help her learn to interact with Ricky and the children in a positive and respectful manner....