Sentence examples for attempts to collapse from inspiring English sources

But what intrigues him about Mr. Mullican's work, he said, was "the way Matt attempts to collapse this split through the medium of drawing".

In a sense, Toy Story 2 attempts to collapse not merely the distinction between reality and animation, but between enjoying the product in the cinema and enjoying it in the toyshop: conflating it into one happy retail experience.

Borrowing concepts from physics and philosophy like loop gravity, eternalism and block time, the narrative structure of NERVOUS/SYSTEM attempts to collapse linear time, putting effect before cause and pushing us to think about our realities and how we as humans affect one another in profoundly new ways.

Clearly, it attempts to collapse the difference between today and yesterday or present and past.

Thematically, we can point out that like several of the other theses, it attempts to collapse a distinction, in this case between the finite and infinite.

Pretty well from the 60s onwards, as ageing became more and more anathema and youth more ardently prized, the elders attempted to collapse the gaps, while the young made more concerted efforts to cling on to them.

Conspiracy theorists blame Fatah strongman and newly-appointed security chief Mohammad Dahlan for failing to prevent the kidnap, and accuse him of attempting to collapse the unity government's efforts and tarnish the image of Hamas and its executive force.

In Swinford, Pell watched a skinny dark girl in a leather jacket and wool hat bunch an infant to her chest and attempt to collapse, one-handed, an uncollapsing stroller before tossing the thing, splayed and sideways, into the bus's undercompartment.

(Johnson) Alighiero Boetti: 'La Forza del Centro' (through March 23) This splendid show presents some of the most intensely eye-catching of all Conceptual artworks: numerous examples of the vivid embroidered arazzi — word squares — that Boetti commissioned from Afghani embroiderers in an attempt to collapse time, space and cultural difference.

Our results (Table 4) show that the apparently inflated complexity of interaction data sets can be substantially reduced by attempting to collapse spoke-expanded complexes.

Protein sequence databases typically represent only "full-length" protein sequences and attempt to collapse protein variants to a single "consensus" entry.