Sentence examples for arbitrary systems from inspiring English sources

The curator, Ann Temkin, tracks uses of color determined by "chance, readymade sources, or arbitrary systems" by forty-four contempaintersaintersculptorsors, photographers, and video and conceptual artists.

Finally, geometry, far from being a kind of abstract physics, was now seen as dealing with meaningless terms obeying arbitrary systems of rules.

In theory, at least, Mr. Trbuljak's Bartlebyesque renunciation would cause viewers to reflect critically and subversively on the arbitrary nature of the art system and its connection to broader, equally arbitrary systems -- academic, economic, governmental and otherwise.

It is not surprising to learn that Hollywood's more arbitrary systems are totally alien to her: for example, the dance of an agent soliciting scripts that his celebrity client will never get around to reading.

Taxonomists ranked organisms in arbitrary systems according to perceived differences or importances; thus, humans could be separated from (other) apes into a different sub-family, family or even order.

|  "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" is a smartly analytical show that, in the words of the curator, Ann Temkin, tracks "chance, readymade sources, or arbitrary systems" in uses of color by about forty contemporary artists.

Any arbitrary system of food laws could make the Jewish people different.

During the inquiry, Paul Flynn, a Labour MP, criticised what "seems to be a completely arbitrary system".

Sandvig prefers to think about the NewsFeed as an arbitrary system we need to understand.

It is not only individual claimants who suffer from what can be a harsh and arbitrary system.

Dow has spent years interviewing inmates, guards, and officials, and he gives a jarring account of a dangerously arbitrary system.