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  • This is the first time Rirkrit has ever combined his best-known in situ cook-ups and signature demonstration drawings - the amalgamation of which he dubbed "culminative" which, however, was much criticised at the opening as a condescending recycling of the artist's past glories.

    Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News 2010

  • What I do support, is the culminative effort that went into making the game itself, and that's what I'm doing when I purchase it.

    A Complex Shadow SVGL 2009

  • But to early 21st-century eyes, unconditioned by the larger moral and political crisis of World War I — the sense of devastating loss, vanquished futures and wholesale physical destruction against which Renoir's late painting was a luminous, sensate balm — many of his last works, and especially the culminative "Bathers," remain, perhaps irretrievably, anachronistic.

    Impressions of an Aging Artist 2010

  • But to early 21st-century eyes, unconditioned by the larger moral and political crisis of World War I — the sense of devastating loss, vanquished futures and wholesale physical destruction against which Renoir's late painting was a luminous, sensate balm — many of his last works, and especially the culminative "Bathers," remain, perhaps irretrievably, anachronistic.

    Impressions of an Aging Artist 2010

  • But to early 21st-century eyes, unconditioned by the larger moral and political crisis of World War I — the sense of devastating loss, vanquished futures and wholesale physical destruction against which Renoir's late painting was a luminous, sensate balm — many of his last works, and especially the culminative "Bathers," remain, perhaps irretrievably, anachronistic.

    Impressions of an Aging Artist 2010

  • But to early 21st-century eyes, unconditioned by the larger moral and political crisis of World War I — the sense of devastating loss, vanquished futures and wholesale physical destruction against which Renoir's late painting was a luminous, sensate balm — many of his last works, and especially the culminative "Bathers," remain, perhaps irretrievably, anachronistic.

    Impressions of an Aging Artist 2010

  • It is a shaggy dog story of sorts, a clever culminative tale with a perfect balance of words and art.

    2009 June 16 « educating alice 2009

  • It is a shaggy dog story of sorts, a clever culminative tale with a perfect balance of words and art.

    Revisiting: The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish « educating alice 2009

  • The culminative effect of all of this means that these people can behave as they wish.

    Everyday Ends With A Why « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • The trait first showed itself in a dozen incidents of little more than nervousness — his warning to a taxi-driver against fast driving, in Chicago; his refusal to take her to a certain tough café she had always wished to visit; these of course admitted the conventional interpretation — that it was of her he had been thinking; nevertheless, their culminative weight disturbed her.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

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