Sentence examples for self-contained object from inspiring English sources

The terminal is a perfectly self-contained object -- anything subtracted or added necessarily "spoils" this perfection.

Twitter is a roiling conversation where context is as important as content, but Tweetcred's algorithm treats each tweet as a self-contained object, like a novel, that can be judged against the canon of tweets, which, in turn, leads to a rigidity that seems inappropriate for the form.

Although many of these drawings would stand quite brilliantly on their own, the crowded hanging here emphasizes the fact that this artist was more concerned, as Mr. Moos points out, with repetition and reiteration, so that each work is less a self-contained object than an extract from an ongoing work-in-progress.

It's mostly from Fuller, I suspect, that Godard acquired the central premise of his work: that a film is not a closed, perfect, self-contained object, but something necessarily open, messy and incomplete, successful to the extent that its unfinished, imperfect quality engages and challenges a viewer.

They were generally sceptical of 'autotelic' conceptions of the artwork that view it as a self-contained object answerable only to its own formal rules.

The pattern of ball lightning movement proves that it is a self-contained object with a density approximate to the density of the air (about 1.5 4.0 g/l);   2.

Presenting photographs as digressive fragments or self-contained objects rather than as parts of a larger cohesive series is a strategy gaining in popularity among younger practitioners.

It is easy to become frustrated with "The Story of The Face" not because of what it is but because of what it could never be: a big stack of the magazines themselves, the beautiful, self-contained objects that they were.

Ready criteria for identifying object instances in architecture include historical, environmental, stylistic, and formal features all of which may be read as signaling intentions to design particular, self-contained architectural objects.

Clusters, like groups, are not objects, because they are not maximally self-connected and self-contained – while some object clusters can constitute bona fide objects at coarser levels of granularity, all their possible sub-clusters, each of which is an object cluster in its own right, constitute fiat object parts at coarser levels of granularity (Fig. 5).

On this account, the abstraction is self-contained: an abstract mathematical object takes its meaning only from the system within which it is defined.