Sentences with phrase «about venerable»
Canadians, respectful of authority, don't ask too many questions about their venerable institutions.
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Model United Nations Visit the Model UN Web site for more information about this venerable live simulation.
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(Indeed, it probably reveals something important about our age's sensibilities that we have come to find unthinkably ghoulish and unpleasant the once - venerable idea of creating a death mask as a memento of the departed.)
It is therefore an optimism about the future, and will remind some of the venerable doctrine of progress over which we have preached so many funeral orations In their zest and optimism such men are still isolated voices, for complaints about the vulgarity and crudeness of a world moving too fast still predominate in intellectual circles.
Some people shy away from hemp seeds, worrying about hemp's venerable relationship to marijuana.
The dinner was free to all; and more than twenty thousand greasy fingers testified their owners» appreciation of the eatables, and gave at least one - third of the guests a reasonable excuse to get off that venerable truism about fingers being made before forks.
I really wanted to not write another blog post that responds to the goings - on over here at TLT, because I don't want to make my bloggy name off of Bettina's venerable coattails, but I think I may have to write a little something about just why — despite the fact that it's probably no big deal — people are kind of irritated when stuff like this comes out.
Just as I spoke out against «experts» on The Today Show, and just as I have countered advice from the venerable Dear Abby — more than once — I start with a critical eye when people advise on matters they really don't have any expertise about.
March 15, 2005: New twists in an ongoing story about rebirth by bulldozer in the venerable city of Albany, New York.
The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»
Even a venerable tool of navigation like a sextant knows nothing more about its location than does the Mona Lisa or the pigments of which she is painted.
«I would have to say the same thing about Professor Yin,» says Chang, who always uses Yin's title with his name or addresses him as Lao Tzu, which means «venerable master.»
We'll also talk about a few of the problems the venerable telescope / spacecraft has encountered along the way.
Next week I'm going to talk with the venerable Paul Ehrlich about his new book «'' The Annihilation of Nature — Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals».
A venerable Hollywood group with very prestigious directors has produced a movie called Forks Over Knives, about the careers and research and lives of Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D., and Colin Campbell, PhD.
Historically provocative documentary about a Salt Lake City girl's efforts to form a gay high school club, tied to the venerable tradition of homosexual repression in the United States.
No, I'm not talking about the Oscars themselves, but rather the question of whether these venerable awards, clocking in at 90 years and counting, are still relevant.
At about three hours long, Gallery is only a medium length Wiseman film, a look at the venerable British art gallery, the paintings within it, the people that run it and the public that visits it.
Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»
The venerable manga and anime series may be more popular outside North America, but players will get a chance to see what the fuss is about when...
Here is what I knew about Dragon Ball FighterZ before I played it at Bandai Namco's Paris expo last month: 1) developer Arc System Works is the seasoned creator of painterly, 2D beatdowns responsible for BlazBlue and Guilty Gear, 2) Dragon Ball is a venerable manga in which absurd hunks with radioactive mullets make planets explode by, as far as I can tell, experiencing really bad heartburn, 3)???? 4) profit, going by ecstatic reactions to the closed beta.
Perhaps one of the most frustrating things about being a fan of old movies is settling in to watch a venerable film like Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 «The Lady Vanishes» and realizing that the version you are watching is an inferior one, marred by a dirty picture and poor sound.
SIFF spotlights a gritty jailhouse riot (Cell 211), a 4th - century love triangle with Rachel Weisz at its apex (Agora), the latest effort by the venerable and indefatigable Ventura Pons (Drifting), a political thriller in the era of Pinochet (The Dancer and the Thief), movies about obesity (Gordos), Down Syndrome (Me Too) and more.
The film may reteam Cranston with his Love Ranch co-star Helen Mirren... In local news, a sad and sudden development for us New Yorkers: it looks like the final outpost of the venerable Kim's Video empire is about to close.
That rate of spending was about the same as that of the venerable Carnegie Corporation and would have put the foundation in the top ten or so givers to K — 12 in 2002.
The impressive thing about the Murano is that venerable Nissan 3.5 L V6 coupled with the CVT transmission.
True, we may not get the venerable Defender stateside (a shame), and we'd best not talk about the LR2, but the LR4 is quite capable of taking you into the wild and returning you home in comfort.
About that same time you'll see the umpteenth incarnation of the venerable Volkswagen Vanagon.
As a competitor to the venerable BMW M4 and Jaguar XF - R, Toyota's luxury brand better come packing when it finally makes the big reveal, but as early indications would suggest, Europe might have something to think about.
More specifically, though, Smith is concerned about the fate of public libraries in her native Britain, where, as in parts of the U.S., funding cuts have made the future of these venerable and necessary institutions tenuous.
When I asked about the current number of apps in BlackBerry App World, I couldn't squeeze a figure out of the RIM reps — though they did remind me of new releases like the venerable Angry Birds and more upcoming titles from EA.
The processors, though completely different, offer about the same type of performance — the MX4 uses a MediaTek MT6595 Octa - Core processor with its fastest four cores clocked at 2.2 GHz and the Moto X uses the venerable Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad - core processor clocked at 2.5 GHz.
What is different about this application is that they are no longer relying on venerable partner Handango to serve up applications for users and offering up -LSB-...]
Last year, after speaking with the venerable economics professor Thomas Davidoff, I wrote about one option that would certainly help cool the actions of speculators and real estate investors in Vancouver's heated real estate market.
[0:00:25.3] CM: I talked to Tim Rock back in Episode One of this venerable podcast about Raja Ampat and he was very impressed with Misool Eco Resort singling it out as one of the places that people should consider staying as well as in live aboard when they come to Raja Ampat.
About a month ago when EA announced the cancellation of NBA Elite 11, little was known as to why one of the most venerable sports franchises was being benched for the 2011 season.
This week marks another momentous occasion for Turn 10, as it's about to launch the next iteration of its venerable, digitally - crafted racing brand.
Gran Turismo Sport makes some bold changes to the venerable series» formula, replacing the collecting and career progression of past entries with a new focus on online racing, and some fans aren't happy about it.
Lt. Jimmy Patterson isnt about to let the world get overrun by a bunch of Nazis, and youre just the gamer to help the venerable soldier stop the spread of evil.
Squad goals We learn about the 16 - year - old MMO's allure from its venerable community of adventurers.
Bethesda's Fallout 3 not only outshone the studio's previous game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, in just about every way, it accomplished the impressive task of satisfying most non-extremist-level fans of Black Isle's venerable Fallout series.
Doctor Who's big LEGO Dimensions reveal coincides with San Diego Comic - Con and now we finally know all the details about how the popular and venerable BBC series fits into the new Toys to Life franchise, including a new Doctor... Read More
She soon set about honoring these venerable beasties in varied media, from celluclay - and - acrylic wall sculptures to eye - popping serigraph prints, which she makes available as greeting cards in her Torpedo Factory studio.
She has been one of the most talked about artists of the past decade, consistently finding new narrative structures to infuse the venerable tradition of painting with an unpredict - able expressionism.
With Somebody Else's Prints, the Ulrich Museum of Art has gathered a venerable compilation of all that was eccentric, politically concerned, and conceptually rigorous about the late Bruce Conner.
Ms. Anderson, 69, was demonstrating some custom software for her electronic violin and talking about a new prize for emerging artists that the Kitchen, the venerable performance space, was introducing.
On a Wednesday morning RT radio news bulletin, as the first massive piece was readied for positioning, architect Ian Ritchie's by - now ancient and venerable soundbite was unearthed to explain what the «Spike» is meant to be all about.
Two venerable art schools — Cooper Union and the University of Southern California Roski School — were embroiled in controversies that raised fears about the future of arts education.
Even the venerable Venice Biennale has improved a bit since our giant 2005 installation about its discriminating history.
It is just about having the appetite to rummage around, which let's face it, isn't the norm for a major exhibition in such a venerable institution.