Sentence examples for dominating idea from inspiring English sources

Picasso's dominating idea is sculpture - bringing the values of sculpture to the one-dimensional canvas surface with its familiar illusions of three-dimensionality and perspective.

As O'Keeffe said after studying with Dow himself, "This man had one dominating idea: to fill a space in a beautiful way".

About 1821 he experienced a kind of conversion, which he described some years later in fictionalized account in Sartor Resartus, whose salient feature was that it was negative hatred of the Devil, not love of God, being the dominating idea.

In this paper, a new type of lightweight composite lattice structure (called X-type lattice structure) is proposed based on the stretching dominated idea of quadrilateral grid and lattice strut.

Even so, I wonder if it's entirely understood how completely those early days of Hollywood created a template that still dominates ideas about glamour.

Through a succession of theoretical debates from the 1960s onwards, discussion of climate insecurity has come to dominate ideas of environmental security and the provision of relatively safe conditions for routine human life.

The real issue, said Mr. Klein, who calls himself a libertarian, is that social democratic ideas dominate universities — ideas that play down the importance of the individual and promote government intervention.

Assuming ideational stability, we propose distinguishing between four different strengths of a public philosophy (i.e., how politically dominating certain ideas are) depending on the level of political consensus concerning normative and causal ideas (see Table 1 below).2 The typology is original but meant as a heuristic device.

Open Eye Gallery, to 11 Jan RC Picasso's Guernica dominates our idea of art about the Spanish civil war, yet he was far from the only artist moved to respond to the clash between the elected Republicans and Franco's Nationalists.

But Rickenbacker's car-like plane still dominates our idea of what a flying car should be.

For the past 10 years Apple has dominated the IDEA design awards, receiving recognition for its work on the iPod, iMac and iPhone, among many others.