Example sentences of "[art] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open racism in court may continue throughout the trial : one defendant was defended by an attorney who regularly used the term ‘ nigger ’ to describe his client and , it later transpired , was the local Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 2 | ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist . |
| 3 | ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist . |
| 4 | If the term ‘ Abstract Expressionist ’ means anything verifiable , it means painterliness : loose , rapid handling , or the look of it ; masses that blot and fuse instead of shapes that stay distinct ; large , conspicuous rhythms ; broken color ; uneven saturations or densities of paint ; exhibited brush , knife , finger or rag marks — in short a constellation of physical features like those defined by Wölflinn when he extracted his notion of the Malerische from Baroque art . |
| 5 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 6 | I have applied the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , in this book , to the fictions of Peter Ackroyd and Kingsley Amis . |
| 7 | The term can be approximately twelve to thirteen weeks long , and advanced classes will in all probability do a production over that time which will be mounted and produced in the Institute 's own theatre . |
| 8 | Later on there will be a regular division of the term into two projects . |
| 9 | For this faction , the term ‘ just war ’ has secular as well as religious appeal , an ambiguity which permits them to communicate their cause in direct fashion to left-wing British and right-wing American groups at one and the same time . |
| 10 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 11 | The use of the term shilling derives from an 19th century system of invoicing beer according to its gravity — a 60 shilling ale is a low gravity beer , an 80 shilling one is considerably stronger , similar to an English special bitter . |
| 12 | Pre-Victorian pubs were largely run on the basis of waiter-service , following from the original concept that the pub was a house open to the public for refreshment — hence the term ‘ public house ’ . |
| 13 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 14 | Four weeks into the term , another little notice appeared on the noticeboard . |
| 15 | They should also use the term ‘ ease ’ the glider out of the dive rather than ‘ pull ’ it out . |
| 16 | Chaos now seemed poised to threaten the system from inside and without , and it is almost inevitable that the term ‘ civvy ’ should have become a derogatory reference . |
| 17 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 18 | However , he also suggested he would prefer to restrict the use of the concept of ‘ liminality ’ to those ritual periods in small-scale societies which all must pass through , and use the term ‘ liminoid ’ for those anti-structural periods personified by the ‘ counter-culture ’ of the 1960s ( 1978 : 287 ) . |
| 19 | When policemen label one of their colleagues with the term ‘ academic ’ it is always a derogatory term of reference , while ‘ college man ’ is another derisory phrase used to define that tiny percentage who gain accelerated promotion through one of the special course or graduate entry schemes generated through the police staff college . |
| 20 | Does n't the term suggest something like ‘ mental pictures ’ ? |
| 21 | Unsurprisingly , Fodor characterizes the central systems as holistic — though he prefers the term ‘ global ’ . |
| 22 | The term is supposed to encompass any intentional change in the perceptual input . |
| 23 | So the basic assumption is that the developmental process is failure-driven : actions are continually failing to fulfil the assimilatory intention ( recall the term Functionlust that I used earlier ) and must therefore be modified . |
| 24 | The term ‘ refractory ’ is taken from the theorist James Mark Baldwin . |
| 25 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 26 | An even more important sense of the term ‘ mass ’ applies to the choreographer 's handling of his cast . |
| 27 | Ashton and MacMillan adopt the same practice in their ballets which can be called classical in the court meaning of the term and whenever the music used is composed according to the formulae for classical composition . |
| 28 | The above ballets are classified under the nineteenth-century meaning of the term ‘ romantic ’ because they are based in the world of fantasy and deal very subtly with the theme of Man 's struggle against fate . |
| 29 | What is meant by the term ‘ literal ’ ? |
| 30 | The term Weissbier may be used . |