We have picked flowers and decorated our homes with them for centuries, but it wasn't until after the accession of William and Mary in 1668, that flower arranging moved from simple nosegays to seriously constructed, fashion conscious arrangements.
By the term 'strategy' it is not implied that necessarily conscious arrangements of wordings are used, rather that the arrangement of discursive features tend to form certain patterns and/or readings.
Also in contrast to these artistically self-conscious arrangements are the stiff, mounded groupings of plant materials made for festivals in Southeast Asia.
"The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty".
A common reason couples live under separate roofs is that they've always done it that way, making the arrangement less a conscious decision than confirmation of the status quo, as it was for Michael Kenny, 62, a lawyer with Citigroup, and Ingrid Doyle, the woman with whom he shares his life.
But when it's time for Ms. Jordan to learn new music or work on arrangements, she is too conscious of the neighbors around her one-bedroom apartment in Chelsea, her primary residence.
It features socially conscious lyrics and a Latin-tinged arrangement.
Everything here bears Sung's very conscious design aesthetic, from the spare, careful arrangements of coffee paraphernalia on dark wooden shelves to the painstakingly ordered row of jars, showing coffee beans at each stage of roast.
If they're not awful, these labored, self-conscious interpretations are undercut by flimsy period arrangements.
If they're not awful, these labored self-conscious interpretations are undercut by flimsy period arrangements (Holden).
But the feel of the album, "Born to Sing: No Plan B," is easy-breezy, replete with Mr. Morrison's own saxophone solos, and terse arrangements that reflect his self-conscious wariness of "some kind of phony, pseudo-jazz".
