The lights on Jianguomen Avenue were flickering and shimmering through foggy air, like an abstract painting against dark sky.
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He plays with color, like a big abstract painting, and dances with rhythm.
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The cross-sections of tissue from frogs, newts, slime mold, cockroaches and other organic matter are beautiful, like works of the Abstract Expressionists with which they are contemporaneous.
We spent the year speaking to some of tech's top minds -- abstract thinkers like Douglas Rushkoff and DJ Spooky, representatives from leading companies like Google and Sony, modders like Ben Heck and researchers at top universities including MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
You see, most Americans tend to dislike government spending in the abstract, but like the stuff that it buys.
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We know that modern airliners scream across the sky at speeds up to 560 miles per hour, but numbers like that can be pretty abstract.
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There have been a couple of other posts here on Big Data, but mostly in the abstract sense, like the last one on photographing every move you make.
And I know that sometimes all this squabbling in Washington seems very abstract, and in the abstract, people like the idea, there must be some spending we can cut, there must be some waste out there.
Mitchell, the late Chicago-born painter known for splattering strokes and bold colors, operated just outside circles of older abstract-expressionist peers like de Kooning and Pollock.
Using elements from past ventures, like vocals steeped in reverb and abstract song structures, Portner has homed in on a specific ambiance with which his band has only flirted.
The combat system should be fairly abstract and simple, just like in Civ 5, where you order your troops into battle without getting into nitty-gritty tactics.
His work would later take a more abstract turn, shimmering, like jewel boxes, and a little blurred, with a distorted sense of time and place and with mysterious, lonely figures.
Ms. Cowie also contributed the abstract, spider-web-like sculpture and the wall of 999 stylized copper dragons behind the reception desk.
Sean Scully, an Irish-born painter who does large geometric abstract oils that look a little like checkerboards, has complained that Saatchi pumped and then dumped his work in the 1980s.
The danger with a book like this is that it ends up lost in abstract discussion of difficult subjects.
The new geographers are asking us to make more modest claims for abstract ideas and modern machines than we like to.
As I watched more and more games I began to recognize that the little armies of pieces operate like fields of force, and top level games are abstract, deeply nuanced and emotional works of art.
It was even felt by artists who, like Pierre Bonnard and Fairfield Porter, never produced an abstract painting in their lives, but were nonetheless influenced by the way in which practitioners of abstraction created what Mr. Diebenkorn called "invented landscapes, " nonobjective images that evoked the world of tangible reality while steering clear of literal representation.
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Still, the final scene of the Dexter production, with the nuns facing their end like human beings rather than as Mr. Carsen's abstract, gesticulating saints, remains the more harrowing of the two.
But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.
Like many civilians, for me the military and military life exist in the abstract.
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Far too often CEOs hire executives based on an abstract notion of what they think the executive should look and feel like.
"These are very rapid inductive leaps to abstract knowledge that we see children making, and that we'd like to have in computers, " he says.
The set, by the team of the front-row guest Rem Koolhaas, gave the first clue: a space like an industrial street, with the effect of oil spills, heavy metal pillars and abstract cars in pastel pink colors.
Like many of the artists in his circle, Brooks abandoned his earlier, representational style for abstract content and broad brushstrokes that would come to define the postwar era.
Museum curators shunned American abstract painting, claiming it was no more than a pale imitation of "authentic" artists like Picasso.
The inside of this sleek Lindsay Newman design looks more like the lobby of the W Hotel than the usual oak-paneled clubhouse: The ceiling soars overhead and abstract paintings hang in minimalist rooms.
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The first six are called Sonate di chiesa and have more intricate, abstract counterpoint, whereas the six remaining sonatas, the Sonate di camera, have more dance-like movements in what seems to be an Italian version of the French suite form.
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