Example sentences of "or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all very interestin' , ’ said the Mayor , ‘ but I ca n't say one way or t' other , it 'll have to be discussed in council and there 's yon bridge to be seen to now . |
| 2 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |
| 3 | If you want to load the odds in favour of one or t' other , then send your letters to either ‘ Bash ’ or ‘ Lash ’ at ZZAP ! |
| 4 | A little awkward piece of one or t' other I think her . |
| 5 | ‘ One or t' other and I do n't mind which . ’ |
| 6 | Make sure that the amount of the payment is the net sum mentioned in the Deed of Covenant or the appropriate proportion of that net sum if you wish to pay by quarterly or monthly instalments . |
| 7 | In October 1990 , Hamadi Jebali , who is a member of the executive council of Hizb al-Nahda , had received a six month 's suspended sentence and a fine of 1500 dinars for publishing an article entitled ‘ The people of the State or the State of the people ? ’ in Al-Fajr in June 1990 . |
| 8 | Modelled on similar organizations in Argentina and Central America , it consists mainly of mothers whose husbands , sons and daughters have ‘ disappeared ’ or are known to have been murdered by the government or the JVP . |
| 9 | He wrote enthusiastically about the later work of Arshile Gorky : ‘ Gorky 's atmosphere , veiling the hard opaque wall of the canvas , evokes a nocturnal void or the vague , unstable image-space of the day-dreaming mind . ’ |
| 10 | There is the theory of art , and there is aesthetics ; there is writing about artefacts which may or may not be categorised as art , but are in the hands of the archaeologist or the anthropologist ; and there is art appreciation . |
| 11 | Even if historians are specifically interested in form , it is likely to be the history of forms , or the development of styles which will have attracted their attention . |
| 12 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 13 | A typical decision for planning a survey is to take a century , or the reign of some sovereign to delimit a period ; this is a device with no relationship to the artistic activity of the time . |
| 14 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 15 | Divisions in the book are unusually clear , separate chapters being given to topics such as function , the market , or the historical and political background of the subject . |
| 16 | He paid close attention to characteristics in a painting so apparently insignificant as the shape of a nostril or the lobe of an ear , arguing that such details were too unimportant for a follower to copy exactly . |
| 17 | It was as if he had conceived a latterday , visual version of the sonnet or the haiku . |
| 18 | The reader in this situation has a choice : the work in an exhibition can be measured against the artists ' manifesto ; or the critic 's interpretation and assessment can be used . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 21 | These forms of art , however , can generally be believed to have only a friendly connection with their inspiration , which , indeed , is normally only the starting point for the exercise of the talent of the musician or the poet . |
| 22 | True art , or the best art , has a dialogic structure , many voices , and so has the good society . |
| 23 | And she notes that the same remark , or the same sentences , can be found in Amis 's novel . |
| 24 | There are times when his world can appear to consist of Jews and of those to whom a Jew might wish to escape — such as America 's well-heeled Wasps , or the semi-imaginary anti-Semites of Gloucestershire who figure affluently in The Counterlife . |
| 25 | We are aware , in the novels we read , both of an authorial identification with the leading character or the first-person narrator , and of material that might constitute an authorial judgement in that respect : but we do n't know what the verdict is . |
| 26 | The ball is not with the union or the performer but with those who fund the Arts . |
| 27 | Do you have a preference for classical acting or the modern theatre at the moment ? |
| 28 | Would you say that this way of casting and rehearsal is a luxury almost exclusive to the major nationally subsidised companies like the National Theatre or the RSC ? |
| 29 | What would you advise the new actor or the student to concentrate on in terms of auditioning ? |
| 30 | I think we are under-trained physically here , unlike the Continental or the American actor who are trained as acrobats of gymnasts . |