Sentences with phrase «ancient idea»

But there was always room for a little change and that is how the heritage of ancient ideas of the world was gradually built up.

This is, in fact, a very ancient idea.

Traditional veterinary medicine presents a small portion of the great, ancient ideas out there.

While the final girl has provided rich fodder for film theorists, especially regarding her complex reprocessing of gender mores, what often lingers unrecognised is how the final girl improvises new technologies in the interests of survival: the only place in Western culture where there still persist very ancient ideas about technology as a weapon of the weak, and the means of prevailing when defeat appears inevitable — a tendency pushed to its speculative extreme in The Last Girl Scout.

Jennifer Dubowsky is a licensed acupuncturist with a practice in Chicago, Illinois, since 2002 and, published her first book, Adventures in Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Herbs, And Ancient Ideas For Today in 2013.

Using Diana Baldon's words «He continues to question... how ancient ideas are transported into the present, and how complex notions can endure across centuries and reappear in contemporary culture».

The implication of the question was that we know immeasurably so much more now than ever in the past that ancient ideas of religion have become obsolete.

Combining installation, video and sculpture, her work focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time, bridging contemporary and ancient ideas about the quotidian sublime.

Duffy, the author of a popular history of the papacy, Saints and Sinners, offers a fresh defense of some very ancient ideas.

Etsy is a revolutionary company that combines the power of e-commerce and social networks with the ancient idea of craftsmanship.

I think it talks about ancient ideologies and ancient ideas.

What they have is an ancient idea that some god created the universe and, even then, they don't entertain any ideas about gods other than God being that intelligent designer.

Research into the past can lead us to ancient ideas that shake us to the very core of our being.

The ancient idea of empire was shattered by the formation of nation states — defined by their distinctive linguistic spheres — which proved to be the true bearers of history and of unprecedented power.

This ancient idea of the lex talionis — «an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth» — was explicitly repudiated by Jesus.

But I instead entertained my own wishes that I hoped would reflect the ancient idea, «The turned their swords into plowshares.»

It is a way of talking about organic unity designed to dislodge our stuck imaginations by making reference to the ancient idea of conciliarity.

The abyss separating us from the ancient idea of sacrifice can not be bridged simply by an intellectual jump.

Thousands of Christians are reclaiming the ancient idea of the «parish» and weaving together a shared life in the place they call home.

The Ancient idea takes a modern twist in the proliferation of restaurants serving WRAPS.

It Takes a ViIlage reflects the ancient idea that raising healthy, wise children is a social good.

Then you are in the grip of an ancient idea: that pure rationality stands sovereign over the biological world.

Philosophers take note: The generic face map is like Plato's ancient idea of an ideal version of a thing.

I do it because it relays personal experiences and ancient ideas that the world needs.

Returning to the vivid, ancient idea that Shih Tzu dogs are blessed by Buddha it is believed that the physical features of this breed are proof of the eternal connection between Buddha and the Shih Tzu specimens.

In the Twentieth Century, the discovery by modern physicists that all matter exists only as a shifting field of energized sub-atomic particles, strongly reinforced these ancient ideas of reality being nothing more than an artificial projection of the mind and gave them a new impetus.

The exhibition explores the ancient idea of artists - as - alchemists and through the transformative nature of contemporary artistic practice.