Sentences with phrase «works confound»

His uniquely constructed configurations of stretchers and linen expand, quite literally, the grounds of what can count as a painting, while the curved surfaces of his works confound any stable distinction between three - dimensions and two.

Often narrated in the artist's voice, and interspersed with spoken and written instructions that directly address the viewer, her works confound expectations through a rapid - fire succession of moving images and sounds.

Drawing on a variety of sources that also included his own drawings, prints and artist's books, Ruscha was often associated with the west coast cool style, but ultimately his work confounded the art world with its sly and elusive sense of deadpan humor, as seen in his series of bird paintings and in the liquid word paintings that rounded out the decade.

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It may be unfair to single him out, but I have become familiar with his work mainly because several of my investment and academic friends in Australia seem to delight in sending me his articles and making witty comments about how economists can take data that confounds their forecasts and use it to confirm their analysis.

«Did we ever mention that investing is hard work - painstaking, relentless, and at times confounding?»

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

Yet, historians of revivals would say that God often confounds onlookers when he is at work.

I'm guessing that there will be lots of goals too, unless Wenger decides to confound the Spaniard by parking the bus to start with, but I doubt that will work against City.

I love all of Dani's writing, and this memoir is no exception: in short pieces, Dani evokes so much about long marriage, about the sometimes confounding way memory works, about life itself.

Why some companies refuse to try a flex work schedule is confounding.

From there, the world's problems can be explained by imagining a hidden satanic power, one that works covertly to fool the vulnerable, confound the virtuous and fleece the poor.

And Ambar's work delves deeply into how outsiders recall him now — Hamlet on the Hudson ready to fly his presidential paperwork to New Hampshire and its primary — only to confound everybody by saying «no.»

Working on math alone and in total obscurity ever since he received his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1991, Zhang had solved a problem in number theory known as the twin primes conjecture, which had confounded leading experts for millennia.

She applauds the new work, noting that Ludwig and colleagues used apt statistical models to try to avoid confounding effects and excluded subjects with other risk factors such as gestational diabetes or extremely high birth weight.

That genetic homogeneity allows researchers to identify how a drug agent is working «without having to deal with a lot of confounding factors,» he said.

LaVeist was recognized for his ability to examine health disparities from a broad perspective; the innovative design of his study, «Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities», which controls for confounding socioeconomic and environmental factors; and his work creating the Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment — 360, a tool for assessing the cultural competency of health care organizations.

Of the approximately seven minor errors in Morton's work identified by Gould [1], only two appear to be actual errors, and their overall impact confounds rather than supports Morton's presumed a priori rankings.

This confound has also been described in the work of Power et al. [38] and Satterthwaite et al. [39].

The only evidence that supports this position is statistical (they do not offer a plausible physiologic mechanism), and their statistical work is seriously flawed by wrong assumptions and confounding variables.

Moreover, I have literally never heard any health practitioner even mention these confounding factors when they analyze cortisol results of individuals they are working with.

Manifesto works best as a thought experiment; fitting it into cinematic convention makes it a little more boring and confounding.

They worked together often on stage (The Fourposter, The Gin Game) and in films (Batteries Not Included), and delighted in giving joint interviews where they'd confound and misdirect the interviewer.

Though director Tarsem Singh has worked in similar, mind - traversing territory before (2000's confounding The Cell), his latest effort seems to lack his typical flair for eye - popping visuals.

For those unfamiliar with Karpovsky's work, «Rubberneck» only works as a generally watchable, sometimes confounding genre exercise.

Underpinned by the same rule - breaking bravado present in 2010's Kick - Ass, Vaughn's previous collaboration with comic book writer Mark Millar and screenwriter Jane Goldman, this is another confident, confounding work from a director who never ceases to surprise, whether he's helming a star - crammed franchise add - on or a middle finger - flipping anti-prestige curio.

However, any such expectations were confounded by Winterbottom's creation of a work that challenged generic norms and tested the boundaries of the content deemed acceptable for the middle - aged middle class audiences that are the genre's mainstay.

In many ways, they're easier to predict than the frequently confounding technical categories, but that's no reason to get complacent — as we saw last year with then - unexpected wins for Tilda Swinton and Marion Cotillard, BAFTA is more than capable of throwing a significant spanner in the works in the top races.

In 2009, Hilton Als wrote in the New Yorker about the ways O'Connor's work's confronted and confounded the norms of her readers:

Some of those gags work, and some of them, such as Emily having a tapeworm lured out of her digestive tract, come from so far out of left field that they're too confounding to be particularly funny.

Identifying these strategies to eliminate non-Serbs as a civil war is tantamount to defining the holocaust as a civil war between German Jews and German Arians.44 This is an example of how recent approaches to human rights can work to conceal and confound who is doing what to whom, thus effectively condoning such violations.45

He has, for instance, co-authored a sensible working paper attempting to measure the financial gains enjoyed by Indian politicians — a paper that takes great pains to collect accurate data and to minimize the effects of confounding factors.

How Federal, State, and District Funding Streams Confound Efforts to Address Different Student Types This report by Marguerite Roza, Kacey Guin, and Tricia Davis demonstrates in greater detail than ever before how America's methods of school finance work against a single - minded focus on...

In Building A Better Teacher: How Teaching Works and How to Teach it to Everyone, journalist Elizabeth Green suggests an answer to a question that has confounded the field of education for centuries: What does it take to create an excellent teacher?

Even if we conclude that value - added measures are not confounded, we will never know the true effectiveness of a teacher working in all different classroom situations.

They should use models advocated by studies that compare alternative value - added approaches, [28] and if they work with a vendor, use one that has given the potential for confounding careful consideration.

Comparisons of teachers who work in different schools confound teacher skill and school effectiveness.

The authors of «Gone Girl» and «Wild,» both made into films this season, talk about confounding stereotypes and making their work relevant to men as well as women.

There is so much outstanding work in this ever - expanding genre that it's confounding even to know where to start.

This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.

In his exchange with Howey following Comparing self - publishing to being published is tricky and most of the data you need to do it right is not available, Mike Shatzkin reaches — and re-reaches — the point that confounds so much effort today in assessing the market: without more facts available, we're working with overlapping opinions.

Randy Ross presents Nine More Twitter Tips for Writers Confounded by Twitter posted at The Loneliest Planet, saying, «These tips cover the gamut from adding and managing followers to working around a common error message to punching up your Twitter page design.

Though I don't ride to work as often as I'd like due to multiple confounding bridge limitations (I live in Larkspur and work in Oakland — no bikes on the Richmond - San Rafael bridge, no bikes on the Bay Bridge), when I do ride, my route takes me through the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

At times he may confound viewers who wonder if his work should be called drawing or sculpture or assemblage.

Illusionism in 20th - century art is explored in works based on color theory and in Op art that confounds perception.

The work has also generated a great deal of writing while pretty much confounding criticism.

Even works that didn't have explicit content managed to draw the ire of a confounded public.

Although the artist showed with the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles in the 1980s (where gallery mates included Richard Jackson, Mike Kelley and Chris Burden) and received significant press and collector interest (works are in the collection of Eli Broad), after moving to New York Burkhart's independence and rigor confounded art world context.

There is no work in the history of art more intriguing, strange and confounding than Hieronymus Bosch's «The Garden of...

Mark Prince reflects on the Edinburgh - born, Bengal - raised painter's works as parables of the limits of information Naufus Ramírez - Figueroa Ramírez - Figueroa's work is queer in the widest possible sense of that word - dissolving binary oppositions while embracing the strange, the odd, the peculiar and the confounding.

Curator Glen Cebulash, whose own work has beautifully deconstructed the figurative into interacting planes and color forms in both painting and collage, opines that realism «is a fascinating and slippery concept and one that confounds as much as it clarifies.»