Sentence examples for conceptual friction from inspiring English sources
And it is not just that creationists are notoriously slippery about their views; rather, there is no conceptual friction at all, to continue the metaphor, by which one may hold onto a purported supernatural power and say what likelihood it confers upon any possible state of affairs.
Industrial materials create conceptual friction with the original Craftsman impulse, generated in reaction to the Machine Age assault on skilled craftsmanship.
McGreevey has made a terrific contribution to our understanding of the legal and conceptual frictions generated by colonialism in Puerto Rico". "Robert McGreevey offers original insights and deepens our understanding of the contours of U.S. citizenship, and the multi-layered nature of labor migration.
Figure 4 shows a conceptual diagram of viscous friction when liquid is present between two faces.
While philosophical friction might exist between conceptual photographers who shoot landscapes with analog film, and digital artists who explore imaginary landscapes with software, some artists, like the Copenhagen-based artist Lise Johansson, prove that the divide can be happily and fruitfully fused.
These findings were used to develop a conceptual theory representing the underlying physics of the friction stir welding process.
In this work, a conceptual development of a novel energy dissipation device, called Multiple Friction Damper (MFD), is proposed and examined.
The application of the friction pendulum (FP) system is increasing due to its conceptual simplicity; yet there are still aspects of its behaviour that need further attention.
Making like a golden-age auteur on a pickup production, framing his actors' methodical romantic violence in obsessively controlled long takes, he turns melodramatic realism into conceptual art, as if seeking sparks of metaphysical magic in the friction that results when grubby chic meets the pure abstractions of space and time.
Such conceptual efforts, of course, do not sit well with the establishment, and many of these films are intent on mining this friction.
