The Covent Garden audience, however, was distinctly unamused by an abstract and highly symbolic production in which, the Guardian said, "each character moves about the stage with studied deliberation, as if swimming through treacle".
Sensible analogies, metaphors, imaginative thought experiments, stories, and anecdotes: he utilizes these devices because they allow readers that are accustomed to conceiving of things by means of the senses and the imagination to attain an introductory understanding of theses and principles that are abstract and distinctly conceivable only through the intellect (not the senses or the imagination).
The Valentine Ryabov Gallery from Moscow, Russia presented an sophisticated display of riveting new works by Sergey Fedotov, who has somehow mastered the impossible homemade recipe of combining abstract expressionism with distinctly narrative components.
It's a reminder that evil is not some abstract entity, but a distinctly human behaviour, perpetrated by people who are, on one level, ordinary men and women with the kinds of interests you might meet more or less anywhere.
(That, too, is something of an exaggeration, since politics has become a distinctly non-representational art, a sort of abstract painting of British society).
In reporting this story, NYC affiliate Fox 5 News thoughtfully blurred the distinctly cubist breasts on the famous painting's abstract female figures.
In Three Girls in a Barque (1911), Macke combined the many styles he had recently discovered: the figures are rendered in flat colours and graceful lines reminiscent of Matisse, while the background is sweeping and abstract, with bright patches of colour that are distinctly in the manner of Kandinsky.
In its abstract, the committee contrasts two views of PFPs: one favourable, the second distinctly unfavourable.
Her paintings combine a distinctly urban jangle with a slightly tawdry, rather literal inner light, while deftly sampling abstract strategies that range from Frank Stella's stripe paintings through lyrical abstraction to graffiti art.
He supports Arsenal, which is – to be fair – distinctly uncool, but Americans think it's cool, so it's cool in a kind of abstract awful way.
