Sentence examples for slippages of from inspiring English sources

To wit, an exhibit showing corporate logos apparently also illustrated "the slippages of identity between immediate recognizability and total arbitrariness".

"When you have a really hard-core tradition of unities of time and place and action, it's hard to imagine slippages of time, for instance," he said.

Derek Cianfrance's film may have been overwrought, but it was certainly wrought — constructed with cunning, and unfazed by the likelihood that we might be confounded by its slippages of time, or abashed by the flagrancy of the characters' desires.

But there were slight slippages of tone — moments when the core of his sound would waver — that prevented the melodic line from being ideally smooth, a problem in long-phrased works like Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's "Romance," for violin and piano (which, while stylish, had little connection to the East-West theme).

At about 6 in the evening I began to see the first structures atop the cliff: struts and girders poking from the clay, slippages of fresh earth marking the sign of recent falls, and sometimes sticking out from these, prosaic detritus: a sheet of galvanized iron, a roll of linoleum, a course of red bricks still mortared together -- all of it instant archaeology.

The slippages of CFRP tendons are initially small but increase quickly with increasing load.

It's a stunning poem about the slippage of self.

Ackerman's chronicling of this "slippage of the self" forms the freshest part of this book.

But Argentina's delicate situation has contributed heavily to a worrisome slippage of the Brazilian currency.

The words, suggesting slippage of the earth's crust in eons past, would prove prophetic.

"There could be a slippage of maybe a couple of weeks," said P. J. Crowley, a Pentagon spokesman.