Sentences with phrase «alien culture»

The more dominant trend was to develop self - contained Jewish communities which existed like islands in a sea of alien culture.

But it certainly succeeds in portraying a vastly different, very alien culture.

There's a road map to saving ourselves in Happy Feet and it has something to do with revelling in difference rather than being repelled by it — of rolling ourselves up in alien culture so that a common language is rooted out.

Japan's Bach boom does, however, have one baffling aspect: how is it possible that melodies and rhythms from eighteenth - century Germany should please people of an entirely alien culture thousands of miles to the east?

Star Trek has the Prime Directive which directs starship captains to avoid interfering in the development of primitive alien cultures and although it seems to make sense at first glance it's just a fairy tale until we actually find ourselves dealing with such a scenario.

The conservative Sadducees scorned the newfangled notions that apocalyptic Judaism had imported from alien cultures.

During the Ting period, «foreign» meant not simply alien culture, but it also meant «alien rule» over China.

«I got more of a chance to learn about how things work in the civil service and why things go wrong, particularly in terms of governance and policy,... than if I had come in at a higher grade and had to assume management responsibilities in a somewhat alien culture to the average scientist.»

Up until now, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has primarily involved listening for radio signals deliberately or inadvertently sent by alien cultures into space.

All have recently generated headlines as possible signs of life and intelligence beyond Earth, of some mind - bogglingly advanced alien culture revealing its existence at last to our relatively primitive and planetbound civilization.

It suggests the possibility of a string of alien cultures on a single planet which are literally fuelled by the bodies of the predecessors.

Bustamante's well crafted film is authentically steeped in a nearly alien culture but its humanity is entirely familiar.

The two older girls returned home almost immediately, while the other three were taken in by kind New England families whose alien cultures and traditions slowly distanced them from their memories of home.

With all the different alien cultures, space pirates and criminal syndicates and such.

Moody evocations of exotic and decrepit alien cultures.

Traditionally the Christian church has internalized its own experience of exile within an alien culture and adopted a spirituality suffused with exilic qualities.

So missionary work is not simply a matter of bringing Christ to an alien culture, it also always involves a cultural dialogue and an exchange between two cultures.

It is a result of the sheer energy that it has taken for Catholics to improve their position in a new country and in an alien culture, and it also reflects some social resentment for past disabilities on the part of people who have won social power.

Thus, even before Christianity had a chance to define itself in terms of its own Hebrew origins, it was already being called upon to deal with an alien culture which had a level of philosophical sophistication higher than its own.

I never thought this was an alien culture, but rather a part of modern Chechen civilization.

Needless to say, anti-immigration debates continue to be loud, and are largely informed by a worldview at odds with itself, in which host communities are pitted against a deluge of immigrants — a burden on the economy and a marching in of an inflexible and alien culture.

consider all the reasons an alien culture might want to adopt this Earthly custom, behavior, or item;

It is a measure of the genius of the non-native English - speaking Nabokov that he crafted the novel's dazzling prose, of course, but it is just as impressive that this Russian - born writer captured the nuances of an alien culture with such precision and wit.

He will not be engaged in the superficial pursuits of tourists but in the difficult task of trying to make sense of an alien culture.

Determining that the rewards outweigh the risks, an undetectable space station with a small three - person crew deploys to research the alien culture in search of a means towards a peaceful relationship.

Below, you watch Frontier Developments CEO David Braben talk more about the Thargoids, their technology, and their alien culture.

The raw, organic forms — they look like long - buried artifacts of an alien culture — make a dramatic counterpoint to a new series of highly polished stainless - steel sculptures that, like their predecessors, reflect and refract an illusion of the world onto their sleek, mirrored surfaces.

Recent exhibitions and projects include Being There, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2018); To See of Not to Be, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany (2017); Alien Culture, GAMeC, Italy (2017); Inhuman, Fridericianum, Kassel (2015).