Sentence examples for as its reflection from inspiring English sources

Next to the marvelously elegant African forms, Smith's works look positively clunky, and therein lies a profound lesson: African art was never as primitive as its reflection in the early work of Picasso and his followers suggested.

Gomes believes that the greatest poverty of the modern age is its lack of high moral ideals against which to measure oneself; he has strong feelings about the importance of maintaining a community that stands apart from the secular culture, not as its reflection but as its guide.

Life and art as its reflection are no longer a binary in which we are all stoic Don Draper types (a character, I might add, whose writers are primarily women) or peppy pin-ups.

Do not place a mirror in your bird's cage as lovebirds will treat its reflection as a mate.[40].[40]

In everyday experience, any physical interaction is just as possible as its mirror reflection, so that for every watch that ticks clockwise, an inspired watchmaker can build an exact mirror image that runs counterclockwise.

The mark test [1], the standard test for self-recognition, is performed after first exposing an animal to the mirror, during which time the behavior may change from social interactions directed towards the reflection to self-directed behaviors [1], indicating that it may have learned to recognize its reflection as its own.

Brochmann (2002) has pointed out that immigration indirectly 'puts the receiving society into perspective: its history and traditions, its political values, as well as its self-reflection and identity' (2002 58, author's translation).

Mr. Soo lives in a crowded Mott Street apartment where he keeps several mirrors by his tank, on the theory that as the fish attacks its own reflection, its mounting aggression will enlarge the horn.

But in many ways Europe's Obamaphilia has always been as much a reflection of its weaknesses as his strengths.

I also wrote about my appreciation of Groton, and how my wish to improve what I perceived as its flaws was a reflection of my investment in the community.

(Jacobi, 1799: 2–5) For Spinoza's substance, which explains all things by explaining none of them in particular, hence relegates the determination of individuals to the endless mechanism of external causes, was now being reintroduced as the product of pure reflection, as its first objectification.