Sentence examples for subject confronting from inspiring English sources

To sum up, then, because aesthetics tries to describe artworks from the perspective of a subject confronting an external art object, the aesthetic approach begins always-already "too late" (BT 249/SZ 249/SZ

Modern aesthetics presupposes the perspective of a subject confronting an external object and thereby misses the way art works inconspicuously in the background of human existence to shape and transform our sense of what is and what matters.

Evidently, the computer that the subject confronted in Penn Station tracked him, by G.P.S. signal, to Trenton.

In his portrait, Mr. Wyeth employed a head-on format in which the subject confronts the viewer, a style often used for portraits of omnipotent or regal figures, said Elliot Bostwick Davis, the curator of the coming retrospective and the chairwoman of the Boston museum's arts of the Americas department.

In other words, the replaceable expert of normal science (S2) is actually a desiring subject, confronted with a demanding object ($ ◊ a).

But Fichte's solution still suffers from an inadequacy in that he conceives of the constitutive activity still as the act of an individual subject confronted with an external, alien reality (1923a: 124).

The city has long been a strategic site for the exploration of major subjects confronting society.

Other subjects, confronting images of themselves at an exhibition in Rio, are overwhelmed.

All these subjects confront us in the morning newspaper.

The most refreshing shots are those in which subjects confront the camera and the fantasy.

The sense of loss that many of these subjects confront, the sense of resistance to unwelcome change that others display, makes "Faces Places" essentially elegiac, a snatching of vitality and consolation in a race against the ultimate loss and oblivion, death.