Sentence examples for the automatism from inspiring English sources

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the automatism

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Acting automatically or involuntarily.

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Also, it is very difficult to work with people who are accustomed to dancing 'Giselle' because of the automatism of principal dancers".

They show similar emphasis on the unstudied and intuitive application of that paint in a form of psychic improvisation akin to the automatism of the Surrealists, with a similar intent of expressing the force of the creative unconscious in art.

The finding put the onus not on the body but on the mind -- on the waking state with its apparently defective self-control rather than on the sleep state where custom accepts that the self will vanish into the automatism of the brain.

The juddering rhythm – like the automatism of shock victims – is relentless, setting up the full horror of the second verse: "And I have seen a friend of mine/ Hang on the wire/ Like some rag toy/ Then in the heat the flies come down/ And cover up the boy".

That is, as neither beasts nor gods, they lack the automatism of the former and the spontaneous goodness of the latter, and always carry a fallible burden of judgment, as it were.

The automatism of this algorithm is reduced by the very first requirement that the operator should point onto the regions in the image which are typical representatives of road and non-road, but from that point on, nothing is required as a human intervention.

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"It was new for many of us, the automatisms were missing," centre-back Johan Djourou lamented after the 5-2 defeat.

Now, it seems, he is past that and, the automatisms notwithstanding, willing to let a ballet be a ballet, with all those steps.

Later, he would reject the external world and the revolutionary politics depicted by the Mexicans in their works — in the catalog, Stephen Polcari, an art historian, calls Pollock's politics "at best of the parlor and not the activist variety" — for an inner psychic world, derived in part from the psychic automatism (or "automatic drawing") of the Surrealists.

The Surrealists demanded "pure psychic automatism"; the automatic drawings that the French artist André Masson made from 1925 onward and, on a more mechanical level, the frottage ("rubbing") devices of Ernst, which added to painting the evocative effect of fortuitously dappled textures, introduced an element that flourished even more fully 20 years later.

Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being.

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