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You can use this phrase in any situation in which you are discussing a unified appearance or shape, such as works of art or architecture. For example, "The painter's works were characterized by their unity of form."
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Lupino was a free filmmaker, who didn't worry about unity of form; she worried about unity of feeling, and she achieved it.
"I see that I am veering toward destruction, / instead of the unity of form and feeling; / I see a dimly shining instrument / opening the soft meat of our throats," he writes in "Self-Portrait as the Red Princess".
He disliked any incongruous mixture of prose styles and, in the Römische Geschichte and Römisches Staatsrecht ("Roman Constitutional Law"), he created two works, both of which attain exemplary unity of form and content yet demonstrate two different styles.
His books Functional Design in Fishes (1967), Bones: The Unity of Form and Function (1994) and Principles of Animal Locomotion (2003) became classics, but it was his work on dinosaurs that caught the imagination and made him famous, with the landmark 1976 Nature paper, Estimates of Speeds of Dinosaurs.
Ikea has undoubtedly contributed to the evolution of furniture design, not only by tapping into a classic Scandinavian ethos of clean line, and unity of form and function, all while maintaining low prices, but also in its search for cheaper and, in recent years, more sustainable materials.
She displays an unusual ability to draw rich pictorial, symbolic and poetic resonances from the nuts and bolts of filmmaking, and she shows a sure grasp of the inextricable unity of form and content, or structure and meaning, that is scarce in contemporary art.
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In his letter to Kilwardby, soon after the Prohibitions, Peter of Conflans inquires about whether he is critical of the theory of the unity of forms (positio de unitate formarum) associated with the name of Thomas Aquinas.
In the only place Kilwardby explicitly addresses the so-called theory of the unity of forms he describes it as holding that there is only one form that when it supervenes the existing composite corrupts all the existing forms and it performs by itself all the actions.
It led him to reconsider how his overriding aim in music, to achieve an absolute unity, a "oneness" of form and material, might be brought about.
The unities of form and feeling in Tuymans's work may be shallow — as, under time pressure, he seizes upon whatever resolution of a picture first beckons.
But by then Braque was already alert to the implications of Cézanne's angled brush strokes and multiple perspectives and the tantalizing way they destabilized painting's traditional unities of form and space, and therefore time.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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