Sentences with phrase «wrest something»

In this current age of techno - dependency, «Pictures from the Moon» offers a view of the persistent attempts by artists to wrest something more from technology than that for which it was invented.

This exhibition features tough but humorous sculpture, unapologetic and brash, political yet ambiguous, considered yet painterly, and reflects on Harvey's concerns of national identity and masculinity - «It is partly to wrest something from the all - pervading guilt over colonial misdemeanours and also in part to ironize an overly romantic valuation of the past.

Not exact matches

At first glance, observers could be forgiven for assuming the current contest at Cypress follows something of an established path: Dissatisfied with the company's cultural shift in his absence, a spurned founder / CEO attempts to wrest control back from the board responsible for his ouster, presumably in service of reinstating the tone and tenor of the prior regime.

He passed marriage equality, something that stymied his predecessor, and wrested every dollar he could out of the deep - pocked LGBT community around the country along the way.

Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski (D - Cutchogue), whose district spans the North Fork, and Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter each flagged that component of the proposal as something that wrests zoning control from local officials.

Glen suspects the proposal has something to do with whatever new revenue the state is able to wrest from the city as part of its «New York Pennsylvania Station Area Redevelopment Project,» which would roughly span 30th to 34th streets, 6th to 8th avenues.

Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.

It would take something special to wrest control of our Featured Film spot from the Northwest Film Forum, especially considering they have the most intersting new film of the week (Lucrecia Martel's Zama) and a pair of excellent repertory films (The Third Man and The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach).

Manet shocks by wresting clothed and unclothed figures out of Renaissance art and into the present — and it says something that Thomas skips not just the clothed men, but also Manet's sudden shift in scale to a fourth figure, a woman, in the background.

On the other, it challenges a wider public to consider these props as something more, attempting impossibly to wrest them from their Hollywood context for a deeper consideration, which they may not be deserving of.

He certainly did not agree with those who believed that painting had a fixed telos or goal; and he was convinced that it was up to painters to keep art and art history open, and to continue wresting from it something new and fresh.