Sentence examples for ability of arts from inspiring English sources

Instead, Channel 4 cut budgets as confidence in the ability of arts programmes to attract audiences shrank, and its role as a patron was largely reduced to making do with sporadic forays such as the micro-programme strand, Random Acts, or events such as overnight house music parties.

Of course, Cook's scepticism about the ability of art to transform society was justified.

Ultimately, it's all about the ability of art and performance to foster fellow-feeling.

His belief in the ability of art, particularly music, to afford metaphysical insight profoundly influenced the aesthetic theories of the German composer Richard Wagner.

Van Kampen and Hare, who like Kelly are dramatising bizarre historical episodes, explore the ability of art to transform and transcend damaged lives.

In an artist's statement that is distributed to visitors to the show, Ms. Washington wrote: "I believe in the ability of art to transform.

Freer Gallery of Art "Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in a New Light" is a compact essay about the ability of art objects to conceal and reveal their true identities and relative values.

It was then that I saw the real magic in that rehearsal room: the ability of art to separate circumstance from artistic excellence.

Or you can be Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the Taiwanese master whose "Flight of the Red Balloon" is a quiet, unassuming and flawless tribute to Paris, to the spirit of childhood and to the ability of art to compensate for some of the painful imperfections of life.

"Life drawing has been a key part of the technical ability of art for so long and the Royal Academy is certainly home to so many of its studies," says Chris Jones of the Art Model Collective.

While the long-term impact is still to be determined and assessed, there is one thing of which I am certain: it is essential that those of us who value the ability of art to ignite thought continue to bother.