Instead, many objects seem selected because of their connections to more recent political preoccupations.
The more we understand about the forces shaping cosmic events, the more they seem selected to suit us.
In a survey of the global food economy, though, this example seems selected primarily to reinforce a simple, somewhat clichéd admonition.
The paintings in each gallery seem selected and installed to remind us that the core of de Kooning's style -- paint handling -- was always in flux and under pressured examination.
(They also seemed carefully selected not just for a general listening audience, but for the panel of supreme court justices sitting in front of him, and gearing up for hearings on most of those very issues in the coming months).
Every detail seemed perfectly selected: from shoes, slightly 1930s with their fold-back flaps; or the crocodile clips, closing a shoulder strap or holding up a swathe of skirt.
The images, all apparently derived from photographs, seem randomly selected, but with help from a gallery press release, the show becomes readable as a rebuslike, ideologically transparent portrait of America now.
Martiodrilus n. sp. seemed to select food substrates with high organic contents since casts produced in the two systems had significantly higher total C and total N contents than the bulk soil.
Professor Dan Kahan of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project found that he could experimentally manipulate how credible scientific research seemed by selecting studies based on whether it supported or contradicted participants' political beliefs.
Until now, the process of creating Democratic Senators has seemed to select against this kind of vigor in challenging national security nominees in the direction of less war.
