Sentences with phrase «as a genre of»

In his study of Goethe's epic Hermann und Dorothea Humboldt discusses the function of art as idealization by means of the imagination, the concept of artistic objectivity and artistic truth, the difference between classical and modern poetry, and finally, the epic as the genre of humanitas (Humanität).

Ten years later, working from an adaptation of the caper novel by W.R. Burnett scripted in collaboration with the author, he essentially launched the heist film as a genre of its own and set the blueprint that all subsequent heist dramas built upon.

The familiar «noir,» (defined as a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism and moral ambiguity) is made to feel new here - and it does - thanks to its anchor lead actor, Krisztián Kolovratnik.

Aims: - Become familiar with blogs as a medium, including an understanding of the particular features of this as a genre of writing Communicate safely - includes developing ideas to interact effectively using the comments feature as well as discussing the dos and don'ts of personal information online.

Speaking of major publishers: one of the things that I find the most interesting about VR as a genre of game is that it is being pioneered not by the behemoths of Bethesda or Square Enix, but by the independent, more portable companies, amongst which nDreams is garnering quite the reputation.

Horror has a lot of room to grow as a genre of games.

As a genre of gaming goes, it is easy to see why there is a crowd for such games.

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The way it allowed for two separate campaigns, each with their own twin scenario to boot, made this game a truly unique experience at the time, even as the genre of survival horror was barely beginning to hatch from its shell.

They don't have to be, and in fact I think they shouldn't be — because whether you mean «hardcore» as a genre of games or «hardcore» as a description of someone's play patterns, those things don't deserve to be lumped with the people who claim «hardcore» as a social identity that justifies horrifying attitudes and behavior.

While earlier bodies of work focused on American mythologies such as the genre of the western and suburban home, in the early 1990s, Casebere turned his attention to institutional buildings.

This will be Powhida's first solo museum exhibition and will draw from a variety of academic, curatorial, philosophical, and sociological sources, as well as the genre of speculative fiction.

So, why did Chuck Close chose portraiture as the genre of choice?

Saturday 3 October; 10:30 am The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue, NYC Produced in cooperation with the International Fine Print Dealers Association, the forum will explore the criteria used to look at and purchase prints as a genre of collecting.

Court works with selection, formatting and narration as modes of expression in relation to exhibition as a genre of cultural production.

Early abstract artists raised the stature of landscape painting by utilizing it as a genre of choice to convey their rapidly evolving methods.

Think of polycarbonates as a genre of plastics.

Not surprisingly, this somewhat skewed spectrum suits listeners who prefer hip hop and electronica as genres of choice.

It is due to this interest that I pursued the education in fashion design as this genre of design is the most attractive to me.

Not exact matches

He's actually pretty terrible at being an efficient hero — crashing through and destroying property in people's backyards and splitting a ferry in half, but it's one of the most refreshing aspects of «Homecoming,» not just as a Spider - Man movie, but in the very crowded genre of superhero movies.

The oddity is compounded by the fact that, in recent years, the trappings of the disaster film have overtaken other genres as well.

Twenty - eight percent of U.S. music listeners cite country as their favorite genre, more than any other format, according to The NPD Group.

Bonnaroo started in 2002 as one of the largest music festivals in America, serving up a dizzying array of genres.

Wolfenstein — often credited as the game that launched the genre — looks positively rudimentary now, since it limited players to grid - like levels that had only one plane of action.

And as a big fan of the genre, let me just say that, oh yeah, the fatigue is in.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

Dow Jones reporter Kristiano Ang and David Lyle, President of PactUS, join MarketWatch's Catey Hill and Maria LaMagna to talk the current shake up the reality TV industry is seeing and whether or not it's the end of the genre as we know it.

[Update 11:23 AM: In a press release Tuesday morning, Nintendo noted that the length of the rewind depends on the genre of game: «Players can go back a few minutes in role - playing games such as Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, while action titles such as Super Mario World offer around 40 seconds, ideal for re-trying short segments of gameplay.»

Her 2012 book, Market Mind Games, has been described as the «best of its genre» and a «Rosetta Stone of trading psychology».

(TheMIX)-- As a reverse fairy tale for the CEO set, the reality television program Undercover Boss is fascinating, not so much in the witness - to - a-train - wreck mode of the rest of the genre, but because it is so revealing of our conflicted relationship with «the boss.»

He's cheerfully brought vulgarity to the highest office in the land and, come to think of it, has reconfigured American politics as a form of porn, squarely in the S&M genre, in which someone in the White House is always about to get publicly humiliated.

The success of games from the «battle royale» genre such as Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has somewhat challenged publishers such as Activision and Take Two Interactive Software Inc..

As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul ® series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre - and watched it grow to a billion dollar markeAs the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul ® series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre - and watched it grow to a billion dollar markeas a genre - and watched it grow to a billion dollar market.

There is even the fantastic genre,» with «a wild boar, a hermit, several tombs, and a boat which detached itself alone from the shore, to lead you into a boudoir, where jets of water streamed over you as you lay on the sofa.»

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

The Bible covers so many different literary genres though and is written for and by so many different people at different times, that it simply doesn't make sense to talk of the whole thing as an «instruction manual».

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Prominent Christian publishers such as Thomas Nelson and Zondervan offer extensive lines of novels in the «Amish romance» genre but little in terms of Christian classics and no poetry in a contemporary vein.

As part of my work over the last four years, I've spent a significant amount of time reading books in the Christian «marriage advice» genre: Real Marriage, His Needs, Her Needs, Love & Respect.

It appears to be a mixture of genres to people that don't make sense as a whole.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

And I've gone back to my English major roots which have helped me see Scripture as a collection of various genres — from poetry to history to stories to philosophy to law.

A remarkable flourishing of spiritualities has combined thoughtfulness with passion, often by women who also write in other genres (academic and nonacademic), such as Loades, Soskice, Grey, Coakley, Hampson, Jantzen, Ursula King (a German teaching in Bristol), Sarah Maitland, Monica Furlong and Elizabeth Stuart.

Different parishes circumstantiate themselves in different ways, a few unequivocally dwelling within the narrative structure of a certain genre, many more favoring one category but using as well the interpretive power of another.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

What sets them apart, from other works in this genre, is their comprehensive defense of Vatican II — as a natural and necessary extension of Catholic theology — against dissenters, left and right.

Perhaps it was as a diversion from writing books on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky that the author, a professor of Slavic languages at Northwestern, decided to write on the shortest of literary genres, the quotation.

For, recognizing that «there is a difference between translating what the text means and translating what it says,» he emphatically elects the latter, thus reconnecting the genre of modern Bible translation with the ancient practice of reading aloud and, as a result, conveying much of the texture of the Hebrew in ways that other translations can not.

A marriage of rock and Las Vegas lounge music (Ralph Carmichael, one of the genre's early leaders, was an arranger for Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, and Nat King Cole), C — Pop was originally intended as a tool for the evangelization of white suburban youth.