"Selected Works" is a bit disappointing in its undoubtedly market-conscious emphasis on formally accomplished pictures, which make me realize that Neel's most elegant works tend to indicate her relative lack of emotional exchange with her subjects.
Thus, the postwar era was the age of the housing boom, the television boom, and the baby boom, of high birth and comparatively low divorce rates, of proliferating suburbs and a self-conscious emphasis upon family "togetherness".
Holmes purists may find the non-Victorian pace not to their liking, but then there will be a whole smorgasbord of things to bother them, like Holmes's nicotine patches, the self-conscious emphasis on text messaging and the colors of cellphone cases.
Meeting here for their annual retreat, House Democrats appeared to be buoyed by Mr. Obama's State of the Union address, his new class-conscious emphasis on "fairness" for the middle class and his public castigation of Republicans for failing to cooperate on his agenda.
She wrote that it was the "optical unconscious" that mattered, not the self-conscious "opticality"—emphasis on pure aesthetic perception that Greenberg and Fried celebrated in Modernist painting.
This quality is rare in Hassam, who commonly doles out rapture in conventional spoonfuls, laced with self-conscious, illustrational emphases that are as irksome as explanations of a joke.
With its color-conscious casting and emphasis on many revolutionary war heroes as immigrants, Hamilton reminds us that many of the people who made America at all – great or otherwise – were not born here and that their contributions remain invaluable.
Recently there has been a move towards environmentally conscious manufacturing with an emphasis on life-cycle assessment.
Then very slowly, with emphasis, surely conscious of Ginsberg's being Jewish: 'But the worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-semitism.'.
