Sentences with phrase «agrarian life»

Paintings such as Folk Musicians (1942) and The Visitation (1941) are examples of Bearden's depictions of agrarian life, as well as his portrayal of emotional bonds common to all humanity, but particularly informed by an African - American experience.

Both Van Gogh and Still were interested in agrarian life (farming and animals).

Its genus name, Tegenaria, means «mat weaver»; its species name, agrestis, suggests the agrarian life it leads in Europe.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

Since then, Covington has taken over more plots, growing Brussels sprouts, Swiss chard, bok choy and okra, and offering up the tantalizing vision of a great American city's return to agrarian living.

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He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Unlike the Marxists, who tell that us in the interstices of each and every item or moment of day to day life one can find the most horrible of oppression and exploitation, the irrelevant agrarians can remind us of moments of nobility and joy.

Agrarians, Front Porchers, traditionalists embracing the «Benedict option,» and so forth today rightly emphasize the cost to our relational lives that we pay for the displacements of high technology, «the screen,» and the various dimensions of globalization.

The agrarian program urges us to learn from and live within the limits of creation, to take nature as our guide.

Here agrarians join hands with the ecologists who have shown us that interdependence, even if its nature is not fully understood, is the law of life.

(36) The memory may be enmeshed in a nostalgic longing for normalcy and «the good old days,» when life was simple and agrarian, settled, and well - ordered.

Living in an agrarian society, most Israelites worked from sun - up to sun - down, six days a week, taking only the Sabbath (Saturday) off as a day of rest.

That's as little as one - tenth of the intake among the world's dwindling hunter - gatherer and rural agrarian populations, whose living conditions and dietary intake presumably most closely resemble those of our common human ancestors, said Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and senior author of a study published Jan. 13 in Nature.

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«Pelle the Conqueror» (opening Friday at the Music Hall) is a great agrarian epic in which landowners and farm workers live side by side in a state of stark and seemingly immutable inequity.

He feels content to live in the agrarian Shire, but after much prodding, Gandalf the wizard (Ian McKellen) convinces Bilbo to leave home and go on an adventure.

Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).

Falk, a partner with Illinois - based Focus Consulting Group, reminded the audience of (mostly) financial advisers that the concept of retirement is still relatively young — about 120 years — going back to agrarian societies when bodies gave out earlier than minds do in today's service economy, and life expectancies were far lower.

The weavers accepted Henry's invitation and brought all they needed to re-create their agrarian way of life in their new homeland.

Added feature includes witnessing various cultural highlights, such as local rice farmers tending their fields, visits to an authentic Balinese home where you can learn more about the agrarian ways of life, such as coconut oil processing, to making Balinese flower tray offerings and a variety of woven coconut leaf crafts.

The north - facing high performance glass door opens up to the agrarian view out over abutting farm lands, seamlessly connecting the interior living space with the exterior patio.

Asia is predominantly agrarian, with 58 % of its population living in rural areas, of which 81 % are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Nepal then was 5 million living in totally agrarian society, now 25 million.

Patterns of climate really mattered to people back in the 1600's - in fact it was often a matter of life and death due to the agrarian nature of their society.