Word: corresponding
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...margin far closer than the tidal wave of protest that had been predicted in opinion polling. Little wonder, then, that Fillon and other conservative leaders applauded the initial outcome as "balanced," and denounced leftist claims that constituted a rebuke of Sarkozy as as "partisan politics that don't correspond to local realities...
...responsibility. The room series is indicative of Davey’s larger oeuvre, which primarily includes photographs of the everyday, the unremarkable. These otherwise mundane objects are imbued with a certain psychological importance in Davey’s photographs, a suggestion that the things in our homes and offices correspond to the thoughts in our minds. Sometimes Davey photographs objects in their natural habitats of kitchens, living rooms, and bedrooms; other times she arranges them in a more deliberate fashion. The contrast creates tension between the natural and the constructed: books casually line the shelves of Davey?...
...greatest contributor to human diversity is not large-scale cultural, environmental, or genetic diversity, but rather the basic differences that makes every brain unique. To load a person up on chemicals or therapies in order to iron out the aspects of his personality that don’t correspond to an arbitrary Platonic ideal of normality stands against the core values of Western civilization. The quirks and eccentricities of individuals give our world a richness that shouldn’t be stamped out in the name of normalcy...
...asked to imagine doing so. Only this time, two more groups were asked to eat - or imagine eating - to the beat of a metronome. Those who ate at a normal pace - one chip for every 15 seconds - came to the same misguided conclusions as other students: predictions did not correspond to their actual levels of enjoyment. Yet those who ate chips more slowly, one every 45 seconds, had very different results. Their forecasts were almost completely accurate...
...Puryear is well understood as a man whose art should never be understood too quickly. What he makes are powerfully ambiguous forms, things that almost correspond to familiar realities but not quite, so that they speak in subtle terms to undisclosed locations within ourselves. It's not uncommon to hear him described as one of the most formidable living American artists. Agreed. And if what he makes is also weirdly beautiful, well, sometimes a question mark is the sexiest curve in the world...