German artists had worked in Italy before, most notably the Nazarenes, a group of early 19th-century painters in Rome keen on reviving the purity of Christian expression in early Renaissance art.
In a 1985 Postscript in this magazine, John Updike observed,> The least pugnacious of editorialists, [White] was remarkably keen and quick in the defense of personal liberty and purity of expression, whether the threat was as overt as McCarthyism or totalitarianism or as seemingly innocuous as … Alexander Woollcott's endorsement of a brand of whiskey.
In a 1985 Postscript in this magazine, John Updike observed, The least pugnacious of editorialists, [White] was remarkably keen and quick in the defense of personal liberty and purity of expression, whether the threat was as overt as McCarthyism or totalitarianism or as seemingly innocuous as … Alexander Woollcott's endorsement of a brand of whiskey.
The promise was one of purity of expression – a purity that gets this shit out of your head.
Every outside influence was jettisoned in search of a purity of expression that, in the end, left no obstacle, nothing, between the viewer and the characters, their words and their faces.
These negative controls did not produce signals of expression confirming the purity of the RNA template.
In the case of mRNA expression profiling, if the purity of cell populations were not high, then the expression differences we noted in Figure 4B would not be evident.
Feldman was emboldened by the Abstract Expressionist painters to compose music that similarly eluded formal design and strove for purity of expression, quietude and mysticism.
A friend had taken me to meet Oka and her collaborator, Fitch, who were pulling an all-nighter to prepare for another one of their Orphic Feasts (named after the short-lived 20th- century art movement called Orphism -Orphists were the first nonrepresentational painters to come out of Cubism, and they aspired to a purity of expression).
