Sentences with phrase «against tradition at»

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Sometimes Father Murray seemed to be whimsical about it, but at other times he was dead earnest in suggesting that a day might come when the proponents of the founding and defining Protestant tradition of the American experiment may, for complex reasons, tire of the experiment or turn against it.

Now if I could just get a link to any prominent muslim, hell any muslim who has» [spoken] out forcefully against Bin Laden and to look hard at the resources in their tradition that work to promote such evil» I» really feel stupid.

«So Muslims have a responsibility to speak out forcefully against [insert muslim terrorist of your choice, I prefer Yassir Arafat] and to look hard at the resources in the Islamic tradition that can be used to such murderous ends.»

Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»

At bottom the Samaritans shared the fate of all those who, though appealing perhaps to age - old traditions, rebel against a situation that has evolved over a long period of time, and try to base their life on historical conditions which have long since disappeared.

The reason of Jefferson and Paine and of what Henry May calls the Moderate Enlightenment that informed the Constitution did not rebel against the providential order, but at most rejected the received ways of understanding that order» tradition, authority, revelation, scripture» in favor of trusting in fresh human intellect.

To claim direct communication from God as the basis for prophetic utterance against these traditions could mean being at least threatened, perhaps silenced, or even excommunicated.

Having noisily rebelled against Tradition and Authority, it may seem, the founding generation still groveled before God» or at least before God's supposed product, Nature.

One reflection of the movement's philosophical weakness was its prejudice against the scholastic tradition, at least in its contemporary guises.

But Cornwell always did have the gift of being intensely irritating to many who love the Church, of mounting violent assaults, often at first effectively, against the most seemingly unassailable bulwarks of the Catholic tradition, in a way which has sometimes made him seem a real threat.

Also he was deeply appreciative of the work of his teacher at Union, Reinhold Niebuhr, and appropriated much of Niebuhr's thought while defending against him some features of the liberal tradition.

At the beginning of it, he gave expression to the agonising questions which must present themselves to anyone leading a movement to upset longstanding practice, and venerable tradition: «I have found it very difficult to justify my conscience; I, one man alone, have dared to come forward against the Pope, brand him as the Antichrist, the bishops as his apostles, and the universities as his brothels.

At any rate, in some of the colleges there still remains an antireligious tradition, which began as a reaction against the earlier religious background of their institutions.

Generate thought?I feel a parallel «against - ness» to what seemingly amounts to a whole «shock - offense» against the church - at - large, the tradition which your shock tactics don't (in my mind) separate and distinguish.

This book is at once a protest and a lamentation against what might be called the tradition of traditionless evangelicalism.

The Reformers, to be sure, revolted against the dominance of tradition at the expense of the Bible.

The Varsity tradition was started in 1827 with a two - day cricket match against Cambridge at Lords.

Gunfest, Being the 6th richest club in the woeld and having great tradition and history means nothing if you do nt uphold or practice these values and at leastvTRY to show the AMBITION that falls into line with where Arsenal should be, I know we both know how our season will go but your statement about us being too big or financially dwarfing other clubs has applied every season for the past eight and weve still had cup exits against Bradfords, Blackburns, league home defeats vs wigan and hull, etc, etc..

I was one who rallied against Usamov, I felt he would take us in the Chelsea route — no history, no tradition, just a money club, but in hindsight I may have been wrong — if we are to compete we have to do so with financial muscle, and with Stan at the helm this is unlikely.

For example, the City Council broke from its tradition of deferring to the local council member on land use matters in 2009, when it approved a rezoning for Two Trees Management in Dumbo against the wishes of David Yassky, the Council member at the time.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio attended a state dinner at the White House in Washington last night, leaving him absent at a time - honored tradition for New York City mayors: the National Night Out Against Crime.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Suffern — Normally, hockey injuries occur on the ice, but according to a lawsuit from Suffern village trustee and 2013 mayoral candidate Trish Abato, a longstanding fan tradition at sporting events was enough to inflict injuries for which she filed suit against various parties, including charitable ones.

So it makes sense that T'Challa wouldn't have been the first king of Wakanda to tug against its tradition of isolationism — if you remember, Civil War was kick - started by the deaths of a team of Wakandans on a «humanitarian outreach mission,» presumably at the behest of King T'Chaka.

As recounted by the «Being John Malkovich» writer in a post-screening Q&A at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, he and co-director Duke Johnson went against decades of voice acting tradition, staying true to the picture's roots as a sound play.

«A dodgeball movie is uncharted film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film's writer / director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»

His owners, the Turner family, saw this and against tradition, taught Nat to read the Bible, at which he became proficient and later a preacher.

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

Nokia has made a habit of advertising its products at the expense of the competition and the latest Lumia 2520 commercial follows the tradition, pitting the 10 - inch tab / mini-laptop hybrid against the less productive Apple iPad Air.

«Part of the tradition of the Rip Curl Cup is to provide Indonesia's top surfers with an opportunity to compete against the world's best at the best wave in their backyard,» Rip Curl Southeast Asia Marketing Manager James Hendy said.

Looking at the visuals you'd think that the Nippon Ichi Software would stick to tradition and create a chiptune soundtrack, but they went against the grain.

Against this revisionist tradition, an essay by Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic of The New York Times, called Revisiting the Revisionists: The Modern, Its Critics and the Cold War, argues that much of this information (as well as the revisionists» interpretation of it) concerning what was happening on the American art scene during the 1940s and 50s is flatly false, or at best (contrary to the revisionists» avowed historiographic principles) decontextualized.

1993 Les Amis des Musées de Verviers: Aspects de la mouvance construite internationale, Fondation Pro Mesures Art International, Verviers, Belgium (catalogue) Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Skowhegan 93, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (booklet) Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Artists» Photographs: A Private View, Blum Helman Gallery, New York Live in Your Head, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst and Galerie Metropol, Vienna (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) The Tradition of Geometric Abstraction in American Art 1930 — 1990, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 15th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Drawing the Line Against AIDS, AmFAR Art Against AIDS, Venice Biennale, Venice Looking at Collecting Today, Chateau de Tanlay, Burgundy, France Legend In My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York I Love You More than My Own Death, Venice Biennale, Venice Italia - America, L'Astrazione Ridefinita, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, San Marino, Italy (curated by Demetrio Paparoni, catalogue) New York Painters, Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue) Legend in My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York Wall Works, Edition Schellmann, Cologne, Germany Works on Paper, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles Twenty Years, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Peter Halley, Todd Levin, Thread Waxing Space, New York (video project) Living with Art: The Collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison, The Morris Museum, Morris, NJ (catalogue) Color, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

The new, even at its most scandalous, has been set against an informing background and framework of tradition.

Yves Klein at Tate Liverpool is perfect for you because the artist was known for going against tradition, for audacious experiments and for his elusive blue monochrome paintings.

In contrast, his recently installed ceiling at the Salle des Bronzes in the Louvre offers a more serene vision of the classical tradition, with its lapidary inscriptions alluding to ancient Greek sculptors set against an intense blue background.

Wade is working in what by now is a pretty venerable tradition, against the conventional idea of painting» (A. Temkin quoted in, R. Smith, «Dots, Stripes, Scans: Wade Guyton at the Whitney Museum of American Art.»

As with many of Rakowitz's projects, an engagement with questions of craft soon complicates our understanding of the historical forces acting against transmissions of skill and expertise, hinting at the maintenance of tradition as a form of resistance to cultural erasure.

1987 Art — to — Wear Fashion Show, Boutique and Luncheon, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, USA Malerei — Wandmalerei, Grazer Kunstverein, Stadtmuseum Graz, Austria Drawings from the Eighties, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA Art Against Aids, M. Knoedler & Co, New York, USA (Benefit exhibition and auction for the American Foundation for Aids Research) Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum, USA Romanticism and Classicism, The QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New York, USA Working Woman, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, USA Stations, IAC (Centre International d'art Contemporain de Montreal), Canada The Success of Failure, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Gallery, Saint Louis, USA, traveled to Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (Exhibition organized and circulated byIndependent Curators Incorporated, New York) The Importance of Drawing, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, USA Still Life: Beyond Tradition, Visual Arts Museum, New York, USA Not So Plain Geometry, and Prints in Paris, Crown Point Press, New York, USA Faces, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA (Prints by Alex Katz, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close and Pat Steir) and Recent Publications D'ornamentationi, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, USA A Decade of Pattern: Prints, Pieces and Prototypes from the Fabric Workshop, The Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA Stephen Antonakos, Michael Singer, Robert Stackhouse, Pat Steir, 19th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (Panorama of seven drawings by Steir) For 25 Years: Crown Point Press, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Drawings, Sylvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore, USA, The West Company, St. Paul, MN, Art and the Law (Traveling exhibition) Images of Stone: Two Centuries Artists» Lithographs, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, USA, traveled toSan Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX; Tyler Museum of Art, TX; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO..

The Hudson River School created the first local art movement, which is often referred to as American history painting, setting it against the dominant tradition in Europe at the time.

Working within and against the omnipresent legacy of the English landscape tradition, she searches for quiet, often overlooked places with a particular type of beauty, and makes intimate oil paintings that at first appear archaic.

People who look to art to anchor meaning and value against waves of change will find little comfort in «American Art 1940 - 1965: Traditions Reconsidered,» which opens tomorrow at the San Jose Museum of Art.

HTC went against tradition this year by not unveiling its latest flagship smartphone at MWC.