Sentence examples for theoretical text from inspiring English sources

There is space here to note that Houston was the author of a classic theoretical text, The Critical Question, which was published in Sight & Sound in 1960.

He was a thinker of uncommonly esoteric tendencies — a trained engineer and a mathematician whose primary theoretical text, "Formalized Music," contains nearly as many equations as sentences.

In fact, push the notion of hidden pattern a bit further and chart reading can even turn religious: the analyst Perry J. Kaufman devotes 10 pages to financial astrology in a scrupulous theoretical text, "Trading Systems and Methods" (1998, Wiley), a method few analysts would probably confess to using.

This connects, Brotchie points out, what is an apparently theoretical text with notions of nostalgia and the erotic in Jarry's short novel Days and Nights and suggests, convincingly, that it was probably the first time scientific and technical language had been used entirely to produce a work of fiction.

Like Mr. Smithson, Mr. Downey was a fan of the art historian George Kubler's "Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things" (1962), a poetic, theoretical text that broke with linear models of Western history and that feels of a piece with the hallucinogenic aspects of the '60s.

His essay on 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technical Reproducibility' remains a major theoretical text for film theory.

A range of theoretical texts followed, which sought to give a language to trans and genderqueer identities, self-defined rather than imposed.

Plenty of first-hand experience made it into theoretical texts, and analysts interpreted not only their own dreams but also those of their nearest and dearest.

So, to Professor Vedder and all the other New Deal revisionists, get your noses out of your theoretical texts and try reading about people who were literally saved by the New Deal.

And how very subtle of Teju Cole to suggest, at the same time — but with barely an authorial whisper — that perhaps Farouq leans too heavily on his theoretical texts, and that this was the real cause of the plagiarism charge.

Conscious of the way that dense, theoretical texts can flag up social issues while, at the same time, eclipsing the voices of those most affected, Shavit wants to get the balance right between experience and theory.