Sentences with phrase «age of mass»

Machine Made Vs. Man - made Jewelry - In the present age of mass production, it is quite common to come across gold jewelry that is machine made.

But to McKibben, these ambitions are too often one - sided — and unrealistic, in the age of mass media.

In the American post-war age of mass production and reproduction, the hard drinking, asocial, and irascible Pollock and his artistic output marks high culture's fetishizing of the unique and the original over the multiple.

De Jong's use of these materials is a deliberate commentary on the bleak industrialization of culture in the age of mass consumption, and the inevitable end result: a disposable and flippant degradation of humanity.

In an age of mass media, where the rapid proliferation of images leaves many on the verge of digital exhaustion, A Slice through the World explores how traditional drawing might encourage us to slow down and reconsider how we look at the world.

Eilshemius perfectly exemplifies — in an age of mass - oriented biennials and art fairs — the idea of the individualist who resolutely goes his own way, one of the reasons that his work appears to us today more contemporary than ever.

«In an age of mass production, it is easy to forget the joy and beauty of handmade objects.

Riedel's technique further ups the ante on art in an age of mass reproduction.

Pop Art incorporated recognizable elements from everyday culture in its pictures and initiated a new discussion about the artist - subject's status in the age of mass - production.

In an age of mass information, description is no longer enough; writers need to make connections and actively interpret the texture of places that can retain their distinct character even as they change rapidly.

Then came the age of mass production and the little guys morphed into something else doing more than just print (fax / graphic design) or faded away.

Educators and education policy leaders are weighing many options when it comes to improving school safety in an age of mass school shootings and other threats of violence.

With the support of the Open Society Foundations, Professor Forman is currently writing a book about African - American attitudes towards crime and punishment in the age of mass incarceration.

Who could guess it would become, in an age of mass tourism, an incongruous pillar of the city, far more famous than the magnificent cathedral next door?

In an age of mass data storage and portable devices which collect and process information, the search is on to find smaller, faster, cheaper and more energy efficient ways, of both processing and storing increasing amounts of data.

Now, technological advances and innovative workflows are allowing institutions to think bigger, ushering in a new age of mass digitization.

The post-civilized age is the age of the mass media, of automation, of the constantly accelerating rate of change.

It is a test of whether republican liberty established in a remote agrarian backwater of the world in the 18th century shall prove able or willing to confront successfully the age of mass society and international revolution.

Since the beginning of the age of mass media, advertisements and commercials have been commonplace in the entertainment environment.

Citing the view of many scientists that we are living during an age of mass extinction, Antonelli posited that we can affect, through design, how long we may or may not have left.

He was quick to realize that the age of kings and monarchs had passed and the age of masses and democracy was within sight.

Not exact matches

«The researchers also found that after taking into account the effect of age and sex, morning people were likely to have lower — and thus generally more healthy — BMI, or body - mass index, a measure of the ratio between height and weight.»

Marketwatch reports that more than a third of people aged 21 to 27 were «tired of the taste» of mass - market beers.

Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off of people's radars and so difficult to treat in an age of therapies which can resemble magic?

Some scientists say this could illuminate a potential factor behind a recent spate of acts of mass violence, almost all of which have been perpetrated by men between the ages of 20 and 30.

«Zeihan examines how the hard rules of geography are eroding the American commitment to free trade; how much of the planet is aging into a mass retirement that will enervate markets and capital supplies; and how, against all odds, it is the ever - ravenous American economy that — alone among the developed nations — is rapidly approaching energy independence.»

This has caused masses of people to be unable to quit working at retirement age, because they are without enough money to take care of themselves during economic contractions.

In the age of Kim Kardashian, naked pictures of women have pervaded the web, easily accessible to a mass audience.

The American College of Radiology recommends an ultrasound for a 32 - year - old — Arenas» age at the time of the procedure — with an unidentified breast mass.

At the age of 40, after two failed, previous attempts, the Michigan - born engineer took another shot at building a powerful, but affordable and reliable, mass - produced car.

Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

Happy birthday from Bob to Erica (a year younger than mass - produced personal computers) and Heather (twice the age of Google); to Christine's son Matt (a year younger than The Simpsons); to Vikram (a year younger than the International Space Station); to Pamela's childhood friend Bert (twice the age of Macintosh computers); to Marian's son Bryan (the same age as Kobe Bryant); and to our editor who makes this newsletter possible, Rosa (one - sixth the age of The Atlantic), from the other members of the Daily team.

In a survey by Consumer Edge, a research group, 40 % of drinkers between the ages of 21 to 27 said they were «getting tired of the taste» of mass - market beers.

But we still want the fame and fortune of mass production age — the billionaire, the world star.

Increasing adoption of technology, the rise of remote care, and a growing number of smart living services available to the mass market are among the several ongoing trends transforming aging care, according to a newly released report from HealthXL and AARP.

Random House of Canada Limited is a division of Bertelsmann AG's Random House, the world's largest publisher of fiction and non-fiction for all ages, in a full range of formats that include hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio, electronic and digital.

For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent in the structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar factor in the global evolution of a living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.

For the story of the evolution of life is the story of innumerable chances, fumbling and gropings through countless ages.38 «Life advances by mass effects, by dint of multitudes flung into action without apparent plan.

And, as a result, we have now entered the age of the Last Men, whom Nietzsche depicts in terms too close for comfort to the banality, conformity, and self - indulgence of modern mass culture.

Within the Old Testament, God beset among a handful of Judaists, 10 commandments for the old aged Judaic masses to adhere to.

Such cleavages are the inevitable result of the mass society of our age.

I'd also point out to the enlightened atheists who want to bash Christianity because of what it did during the Dark Ages, that atheism, in an age of enlightenment in the 20th century, probably resulted in more mass deaths than all of human history combined.

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It pains me to see how many people - in this day and age of scientific enlightenment and understanding - still cling stubbornly to outdated beliefs that originated through * lack * of understanding; through appeal to the pack nature of humankind, in yearning for kinship and to «belong» to something greater; and through efforts to control, suppress, and subjugate the masses.

Then, in stark contrast to these «hyper - auditory» individuals, made alert to the subtlest natural sounds, Babin invites us to consider the modern American adolescent, reared amidst the clamour of competing mass media (such an individual will have logged some 20,000 hours of viewing by the age of sixteen).

Humanism, therefore, is not a certain Western way of life with all its historical limitations, which is gradually destroyed by the hard technological age of man in the mass, which rejects any self - important personality cult.

Hormone levels and muscle mass fall steadily if we age poorly by lack of exercise and eating high glycemic diets.

But in the age of social media, the masses now hold the megaphone rather than just a few people.

«What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever - growing masses of our century.»

Of age, I'll show him a mass at any structured church he wants.