Sentences with phrase «about earlier eras»

And in fact, it's not hard to see the painting collected here, and the broader painting universe from which it's drawn, partly as an expression of some nostalgia about earlier eras, when experiments with form seemed to offer something like truly radical content.

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When you think about it, the iPhone appears in 2007 and the company's first truly competitive response to that that takes it into the modern era really doesn't come till early 2013.

I wanted to learn about the last era of American history when public shaming was a common form of punishment, so I was seeking out court transcripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

They discovered and refined potent themes about keeping out immigrants, «draining the swamp» and restoring an earlier era of national greatness — as understood mainly to mean for white American men.

For most of the Church's history (the early Church, the Church during medieval times, and the Reformation era), the Old Testament was read in this way — as a book about Christ and the Church.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

Some of The Simpsons church humor is a mild sort, typical of an earlier era of churchgoing about sleep - inducing sermons or tactics to elicit more money in the offering («And as we pass the collection plate, please give as if the person next to you was watching,» Lovejoy intones).

During the early era from the 1870s to about World War I, American colleges and university faculties included relatively few out - and - out secularists or religious skeptics.

Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.

Since then, the Steady State Theory has been disproven, and the Big Bang Theory has been shown to be correct, vindicating a form of «Creationism», which not only explains «let there be light» (the early universe was dominated by radiation — light), but explains of separation of light and darkness — the decoupling era, about 300,000 earth years after the big bang, when the universe cooled below the ionization energy of hydrogen, allowing it to become transparent for the first time.

(3) this team is rotting from the inside out and it's going to take some unprecedented moves on the part of this board and the fans to facilitate the necessary changes... this club must rid itself of it's absentee billionaire landlord before we become just another sporting wasteland in this man's collection of flailing clubs... when this is done it will expose just what exactly has been going on behind the scenes and I'm afraid of what will be uncovered because if Wenger's business model is as antiquated as his football philosophy it could look an awful lot like and old Monty Python sketch in the backroom... we need to replace the owner with someone who actually cares about this club and isn't afraid to wear their emotions on his or her sleeves or spend their own money to achieve greatness... this new owner needs to find someone who represents the same sort of cutting edge that Wenger represented in his early years then pair that individual with someone who knows how to conduct transfers in the modern era... then and only then will we find a way to escape the malaise that has permeated our once storied club for way too many years

The report compares several projects by the de Blasio administration to the Aspen, an early Bloomberg - era development and venture between Ms. Glen and L&M that included half market - rate apartments, and half that were affordable units at either 50 or 130 percent of the city's so - called area median income (currently about $ 86,000 for a family of three).

The results, to be published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are a surprise, because previous studies of frog evolution pinpointed the blossoming of the main frog lineages today to about 35 million years earlier, in the middle of the Mesozoic era.

Overall, comparing Vadasaurus's features with those of earlier and later pleurosaurs may provide scientists with insights about how evolution might have progressed among other, totally separate lineages of ancient creatures that also undertook the land - to - sea transition, including ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs, marine reptiles that swam the seas worldwide during large portions of the dinosaur era.

Many sites date back to the so - called Basketmaker II and III eras, from a few centuries before 1 C.E. to 750 C.E., and the early Pueblo period, from about 750 to the 1500s.

Astronomers have uncovered about 10 other galaxy candidates at this early era.

In addition to giving astronomers a fascinating glimpse of a huge burst of star formation in the early Universe, the new information about the Cloverleaf helps answer a longstanding question about bright galaxies of that era.

For decades, scientists have turned to DNA to learn about our past, but their studies have been limited to eras much earlier than recorded history.

The diet, which first emerged in the 1970s but wasn't popularised until the early 2000s, involves eating modern foods that attempt to mimic the food groups we think our hunter - gatherer ancestors ate during the Paleolithic era, from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the Agricultural Revolution, about 10,000 years ago.

Pretty much every woman I know who hasn't been with the same guy for 11 years cringes a little when thinking about their late teens / early twenties era of Viriato is a red piller from Portugal, a country of tiny but mighty people.

The era spans the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early This article is about the demographic features of the population of Sri Lanka, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the

The era spans the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early The earliest human remains found on the island of Sri Lanka date to about 35,000 years ago (Balangoda Man).

Rather than being ideal for people who know a bit about French cinema and want to know more, it's best suited to people who know a considerable amount about French cinema (and culture) of the early sound era and want to delve deeper.

It's the early 1960s and a top - secret, Cold War - era government facility is where all the magic is about to happen.

Earlier this month, director Mike Mills paid a visit to New York in support of his third narrative feature, 20th Century Women, a deeply personal coming - of - age tale about a teenage boy growing up in Carter - era Southern California with his single moth...

Production designer Alice Normington has worked on various projects set in the Victorian era — a TV movie adaptation of Great Expectations, among others — and stepped into the Edwardian era with great enthusiasm on Sarah Gavron's Suffragette, a film about the early feminist movement in London.

The era of the modern blockbuster didn't arrive with Star Wars in the summer of 1977, but actually a few years earlier with this Steven Spielberg - directed movie about a giant shark terrorizing a small coastal community (as if you needed to be told that).

Even more effectively than in Frankenstein, Whale adapts the shadowy darkness of the silent German Expressionist classics to the early sound era, a time when most Hollywood directors had seemingly forgotten everything that had been learned about the creation of mood, atmosphere and meaning through image over the prior 20 years in the struggle to capture the novelty of actors actually talking (By 1932, this phase of film was thankfully on it's way out, thanks to Whale, Howard Hawks (Scarface) and Busby Berkeley).

If we were talking about the 1960s, I could easily offer Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age as the articulation of that era's strategy of increasing resources devoted to education, particularly for minority students.

Back in the early cell phone era, we used to talk about devices in terms of the ideal audience for their size.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

For now, I think it is important to note that my colleague Valerie Strauss's distress about the president's emphasis on teachers improving student achievement harks back to an earlier era that will never return.

«In the earliest public schools, teachers taught and students listened,» U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has written approvingly about that simpler era in American education.

Arguing that the early optimism about No Child from reformers «proved unfounded», Carey declares that there is little evidence that the law has led to «a new era of educational opportunity for disadvantaged children» or for all children in general.

Critics and fans / owners of the first generation Sportage complained about the new Sportage was considerably larger than the pre-Hyundai era one and had none of the earlier offroad capability, the two keys of the succes of the 1st gen.

In three mysteries set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — an era full of misconceptions about «the fairer sex» — women of action match wits with philandering villains, escaped cons and dodgy doctors.

As grade school grammar teachers have long taught about essays, books in this earlier era had a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Earlier this month, the National Council of Higher Education Resources, a student loan industry lobbyist, sent letters to Congress about Obama - era rules.

In the same era of technology, it's also convenient to tell the world about the trade saving options it was unaware of earlier.

Sports: LA LAKERS From the George Mikan - led Minneapolis Lakers teams of the»40s and»50s to the «Showtime» era Magic Johnson teams of the late 1980s to Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant's dynasty of the early 21st century, one thing has been consistent about the Lakers: winning.

Nevertheless, historical and cultural highlights from earlier eras are abundant, and whilst westerners may have learned about landmarks such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and the Terracotta Warriors from guide books or the internet, nothing can compare with the extraordinary experience of seeing them at first hand.

One definite example is what I mentioned earlier with the updates to Arms - we're in an era where those constant updates, that post-launch support, is very important, and that's something that's been brought about by changes in technology.

The late 80's and early 90's were a completely different era for gaming, especially in terms of communication and how we learned so mjuch about games.

Shovel Knight perfectly encapsulates what is so great about playing modern - retro games inspired by the 8 - bit era of the 1980s and early 90's without being derivative or trapped in the past.

The more I read about those early New World colonies and what was going on in Europe at the time, the more ideal the era started to feel for the game.

And through D&D, the trilogy has exerted its influence on just about every fantasy video game ever created, from the earliest straight D&D and AD&D conversions to the formative Japanese role - playing games such as Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, and on into the massively multiplayer era of World of Warcraft.

Despite the glaring flaws I pointed out earlier (seriously, devs or veteran players, teach me how to hit better, if possible), I still hold an approximate.650 -.700 win percentage and a team ERA of about 3.50.

The work is a reference to early anthropological ideas about otherness and the way the «savage» mind understands words and graphic representations, as well as a metaphor for France's interest in the «other» during the colonial era.

«It's a show about my early life online and it deals with this era of sharing things before the social media we know today came up... (it) deals with questions about archiving and with how we put so much faith in the Internet» says Soda.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art typically strikes a nice balance by including a few works by Texans as part of the national story it tells of 19th — and early 20th - century painting and sculpture in its main collection galleries — Julian Onderdonk hangs with fellow American Impressionists; Jerry Bywaters and Everett Spruce serve as Texan exemplars of Depression - era regionalism — and mounting annual exhibitions of about a half - dozen works in a small gallery set aside for Texas art.