Sentences with phrase «worked against the tendency»

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.

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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....