Our means of defining ourselves are complex and contradictory — and could be nothing other than that.
WHEN photography came along in the 19th century, it provided a novel means of defining the self.
He provocatively saw music as a necessary means of defining America, an ecumenical vehicle for articulating the New World.
One of the things you don't realise when you lose everything, he suggests, is that you have no means of defining yourself.
It is the most important means of defining the presence and severity of coronary atherosclerosis and, in conjunction with left ventriculography, the related state of myocardial function.
For many, religion is not just a consolation for the vicissitudes of aging or the fulcrum of social life, but a means of defining themselves, much as the jobs and workplaces they have left.
He made use of the rapidly receding diagonals and dramatic foreshortenings popular among Mannerist painters but brought to these elements the Venetians' love of light as a means of defining form and heightening the sense of drama.
By means of brightly colored (or white) rectangles set within contrasting borders and inflected by skinny bars that act as intervals, Judd here expressed his distaste for illusionistic space and his regard for color as a means of defining solids and voids.
Ben Fox's pustular Thersites is as unpleasant as he needs to be; but with the astringent irony comes a certain kind of modernism - a vision of a political system that perpetuates a spurious war as a means of defining itself against the enemy.
Cagey Test match batsmen of the old school – of which Andy Flower was a fine example – are fond of pointing out that even the leave-alone is a shot in its own right, a means of defining the lines of battle.
(1996) as a means of defining alternative routings by analyzing shared and unique capabilities of machine tools.
