(1) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.
(2) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
(3) Yes, they acknowledge that we may have a "multi-speed" Europe – with an avant garde of France, Germany, Belgium and others going faster, Spain, Sweden and Poland somewhat slower, and Britain bringing up the rear.
(4) As recently as 15 years ago, it was one of the few venues in London championing avant-garde art; now it is one among many.
(5) There were conflicts, hesitations and contradictions within the avant garde as well, and their supporter in the government was Anatoly Lunacharsky at the People’s Commissariat for Education, where Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, worked as well.
(6) The track is not exactly Metallica: others might peg it closer to avant-garde rock.
(7) Since his withdrawal from the music scene, Shields has earned a reputation as the latter-day Brian Wilson, a tormented genius unable to produce a successor to Loveless, the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock.
(8) By 1990, when he enrolled at Central St Martins, McQueen had learned tailoring in Savile Row, complex historical pattern cutting at Bermans & Nathans, avant garde construction at the hip designer Koji Tatsuno, and received a grounding in the workings of the fashion industry under Gigli in Milan.
(9) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.
(10) Friends of mine who play free jazz run an event called Avant Guarde at King Kong in Jeppestown: the audience listens to avant garde jazz records and a band plays afterwards.
(11) Arena staging was still seen at the time as eccentric, avant garde, even controversial.
(12) Among his early influences were Jean Cocteau and the Italian neo-realists but, after arriving in New York in 1954, he joined the flourishing avant-garde scene, drawing inspiration from artists and filmmakers like Maya Deren, Marie Menken and Joseph Cornell.
(13) In turn, the works influenced the avant garde of the early 20th century – artists such as Paul Klee and Jean Dubuffet who relished its "uncooked" nature, and started searching for it outside Europe's asylums.
(14) In the 1920s it became a usefully geometrical symbol incorporated by avant-garde painters.
(15) Before the digital age, they created their own technology to make sound montages, taking ironic liberties with pastiche and parody, as in "Sugar-cane fields forever", or the exaggerated Latin melodrama of El Justiciero (The Avenger) They were influenced by concrete poetry and avant-garde music.
(16) Niemeyer designed most of the city's important buildings, while French-born, avant-garde architect Lucio Costa crafted its distinctive aeroplane-like layout.
(17) It's a little bit vaguely avant-garde in its concept and I'm just not sure if it's going to quite gel... it's a thing where maybe there's many things happening at once."
(18) Anderson – performer, composer, artist and all-round superstar of New York's downtown avant garde – has spent decades probing the bizarre customs and rituals of American life.
(19) Like many occupying music's avant-garde edges, Sharp has a lot of time for the visionaries - people like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Sergey Kuryokhin, the Russian jazz pianist who, until his death in 1996, led the band Pop Mechanica.
(20) Mr. Hublot Possessions Room on the Broom Best short Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything) Helium Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa?
Savant
Definition:
(a.) A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
Example Sentences:
(1) By this benchmark, there were a large number of idiot savants on show: not least among them the prime minister who appeared a great deal more confused about his position than he had a week ago.
(2) The three experiments described aimed to establish whether the achievements of idiot savant calendrical calculators were based solely on rote memory and arithmetical procedures, or whether these subjects also used rule-based strategies.
(3) It may be this rather than autism itself which is relevant to the idiot savant phenomenon.
(4) It was concluded that idiot savant calendrical calculators can use rule-based strategies to aid them in the calculation of the days on which past and future dates fall.
(5) The relationship of the autistic child and the adolescent idiot savant is discussed and brief reference made to the patient's method.
(6) For many centuries a host of naturalists, savants, physicians and veterinarians have tried to unravel the etiology of scabies in humans and animals and to discover effective remedies to control it.
(7) Answers by caretakers to a questionnaire on these topics revealed that autistic and nonautistic savants resembled each other closely in preoccupation but differed from controls matched for IQ and diagnosis.
(8) 'Idiots-savants' are people of low intelligence who have one or two outstanding talents such as calendrical calculation, drawing or musical performance.
(9) Bell attended the City College of New York, and drew close to such personal allies of his later years as the future neoconservative savant Irving Kristol .
(10) However, between normal and mentally handicapped populations and even within the idiot savant group, general cognitive capacity plays some part in determining the manner in which talents manifest themselves.
(11) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
(12) Down to earth is not something you could accuse Alfred Jensen of, with his dazzling cosmological diagrams; or George Widener, described as a time traveller and calendar savant, who explores numerical patterns in the calendar over thousands of years; or Paul Laffoley – described by Rugoff as "the alternative Leonardo da Vinci" – whose work explores all sorts of things including communicating with intelligences in other dimensions.
(13) The jury was hung on this alternative charge in relation to Savant, Khan and Zaman, and the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide whether to proceed with a third trial.
(14) It is concluded that the young calculators have already inferred rules about calendrical structure and that their performance cannot be accounted for by practice alone, but these savants use cognitive strategies to aid their performance.
(15) The accuracy and the artistic merit of drawings produced by graphically gifted idiot-savants and by artistically able normal children were investigated in various conditions.
(16) said Darold Treffert, former president of the Wisconsin Medical Society, a psychiatrist at St Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac and an expert in savant syndrome.
(17) It is concluded that independent of diagnosis, preoccupations and repetitive behaviour appear to be closely associated with the manifestation of idiot-savant talents.
(18) Idiot savant special abilities can neither be regarded as the sole consequence of practice and training, nor are such skills based only on an efficient rote memory.
(19) Instead, idiots savants use strategies which are founded on the deduction and application of rules governing the material upon which their special ability operates.
(20) Unlike most, the music industry's tech savant can smile knowing which side he is likely to end up on.