Word: explain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paris trips expected of art students in the early 1900s, he mainly divided his time between New York City and New England, seeking out the unfashionable architecture and empty countryside that appealed to him. Having trained and worked as a commercial artist, Hopper had a methodical approach which may explain the deadpan air of his works. He didn't take an easel and paint out in the open, but went on the road looking for subjects and making sketches. His pictures were carefully composed back in the studio. But his juxtaposition of elements was sometimes odd: urban buildings and their...
While it is true that the Harvard-Yale cycle does affect the figures for those two schools—Harvard finished eighth in 2002 and Yale finished third in 2001—it can’t explain the following...
...fact, U.S. analysts are at a loss to explain why the homeland has thus far escaped such attacks, since a number of extremist groups, particularly Hamas, have a sizeable presence here. One factor, officials say, is that terror leaders still regard America as a cash cow, and don't want to antagonize moderate Muslim donors. Another reason, says one specialist, may simply be that while there seems to be an endless supply of fanatical youths willing to die for the cause in the Middle East, most of them simply can't get visas...
This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation and the overpowering assumption...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...