Sentences with phrase «as apolitical»

Using visual subject matter that was wholly abstract, filmmakers could create works that, while occasionally interpreted as apolitical and «safe,» actually utilized complex structures and challenged viewers to reexamine the narrative basis — and in some cases the very materiality — of film.

Having spent his childhood and teenage years growing up in the contested grounds of Gaza, Palestinian artist Hazem Harb's artistic output serves as an apolitical, first hand ACCOUNT of this on - going conflict.

Both were attacked for this position; their views were criticized as apolitical and ahistorical.

But many modernists saw themselves as apolitical.

It follows accusations in 2016 that the prize was failing to engage with the current climate, with the work of last year's winner, Helen Marten, seen as apolitical.

And the show's organizers — Johanna Burton, director and curator of education and public engagement at the New Museum, working with Natalie Bell and Sara O'Keeffe, assistant curators — have included a substantial amount of entirely abstract work of a kind 1982 audiences perceived as apolitical, though here it is not.

Burl Ives is as an apolitical doctor caught in the middle of the shenanigans, Ernie Kovacs is perfectly sleazy as a corrupt Cuban officer with eyes for Guinness» daughter, Noel Coward and Ralph Richardson are British intelligence officers and Maureen O'Hara is the secretary that they send to help Guinness manage his growing (and entirely fictional) stable of informants and agents.

Susan Froemke and John Hoffman's pleasant, informative feature, which unfolds in as apolitical a manner as possible, is clearly a broadcast - tailored item that will make its debut on the Discovery Channel in August.

Conventionally described as a political thriller, but The Interpreter is as apolitical as it is unthrilling.

We like to think of ourselves as apolitical, but I don't believe that's possible in good conscience right now.»

«Their passion and their organisation surprised me and it also inspired me - because too often people have labelled young people as apolitical and apathetic.

Pentecostalism and related «Spirit - filled movements» are rightly seen as a hard - driving engine fueling the global spread of Christianity, but their adherents are often wrongly seen as apolitical, otherworldly enthusiasts bent on «speaking in tongues,» according to two separate studies on the century - old phenomena.

The results of several surveys indicate that charismatics and Pentecostals are not as apolitical, otherworld, bent on «speaking in tongues, the «hard - driving engines fueling the global spread of Christianity that is usually the stereotype.

Delta attempted to paint the move as an apolitical one and an attempt to stay above the fray in the gun debate, which has been reignited after this month's shooting at a high school in Florida.

As FBI director, Comey decided to drop his Republican party registration, apparently due to the need for the director to be perceived as apolitical.

When Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump's fashion line earlier this month, the retailer tried as hard as it could to present the decision as apolitical, emphasizing that the decision was based on sales.

Corporations prefer to be seen as apolitical creatures — governments change, and customers come in all stripes — but at this highly polarized and media - socialized moment, it's become mighty hard not to upset at least a few people.

Not exact matches

Those secure in their beliefs do not, as Mr Mnuchin did, seek to de-publish studies by apolitical civil servants.

Today this apolitical avant - garde has found its ventriloquist and prophet in Marshall McLuhan, an author who admittedly lacks any analytical categories for the understanding of social processes, but whose confused books serve as a quarry of undigested observations for the media industry.

But, for the most part, Lewis is understandably viewed as a determinedly apolitical, even private, man.

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

Such a political program has been opposed by those evangelicals of the Reformed tradition, because «for all of its political relevance and all of its political language, it is in the end an apolitical strategy rejecting power, and thus rejecting politics as well.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

Their antics are only the most visible (partly because they are sometimes the most silly) examples of how liberal institutions influence people who think of themselves as basically apolitical.

If someone describes themselves as «apolitical», do you still consider them to be conservative or liberal?

In that speech he endorsed black nationalism as his political philosophy, thereby separating himself not only from the civil rights movement but, more important, from Muhammad, who had defined the Nation as strictly religious and apolitical.

So America, at its best, is about people who somehow see democratic citizenship as both a means and an end and so avoids the extremes of endlessly meddlesome democratic tyranny and apolitical libertarian indifference to the souls of their fellow citizens and creatures.

As a result, moreover, that book could not but appear apolitical.

I think that Muslims, uneducated, dirty, rude and vile toward women and children should be returned to their home countries for saying like what he just said, becaus eit is obvioulsy not a religion but apolitical terorist group bent on upending the world for their religious beliefs... as he just said... Death to the world becasue we are Muslim... not too nice, is it World?

Certainly professors in the humanities, like professors in the sciences, retain, as they must, a belief in the possibility of apolitical knowledge and in some moral values (for instance, the wrongness of cheating or the rightness of hard work).

Olney though contends Goldsmith has overegged his role in the «apolitical» anti-Heathrow movement: «For him to say «the only way we can stop Heathrow is to appoint me as MP» is actually ignoring a great deal of work done by thousands of other people over the decades.

Perhaps, far from being apolitical, demands across the political spectrum to empower the 99 % with real democracy are republican in spirit, as are pragmatic efforts to share control of our wealth and workplaces.

Afropolitan discourse is selective in its politics, rather than being apolitical, as it is often charged.

At the same time, spending has spiked out of a different nonprofit arm sharing the same Manhattan address, the NYPIRG Fund, a type of apolitical, charitable nonprofit designated as a 501 (c) 3.

It has exposed a geriatric and hierarchical internal culture that is quite at odds with its wider image as a party whose apolitical selling point is its decency and good intentions.

That moment — an early sign of Dean's ultimate unelectability — offered a progressive vision of the political family, an apolitical spouse reluctant to set aside her life and craft a flattering public persona she saw as potentially inauthentic.

He has endorsed both Republicans and Democrats in House and Senate races across the country this cycle, with an apolitical litmus test that depends on whether they fought for either his own city's interests or for the mayor's own pet causes, such as gun restrictions or education reform.

«As part of our administration's change mantra, it has been confirmed and repeatedly reported that this empowerment programme is not only impactful but apolitical by all standard and measures.

Baba was apolitical and I assure you that we as a family are happy to give our Baba the due he deserved.

Social science surveys suggest recent protests in Turkey, such as this one earlier this month in Istanbul's Gezi Park, are being driven by relatively young and apolitical citizens.

The IMA is the official workers» organization representing the physicians in Israel, and acts as an independent, apolitical, professional organization, which seeks to advance the cause of physicians and medicine in Israel.

Aish HaTorah describes itself as «an apolitical, international network of Jewish educational centers, providing opportunities for Jews of all backgrounds to discover the wisdom and beauty of their heritage in an atmosphere of open inquiry and mutual respect.»

Far from empty - headed, though, Stardust is a deeply meaningful series of sweet - nothings, wholly apolitical even in a macho supporting character revealed as a cross-dresser and hair stylist; and by its end, it wins not in spite of being so exuberant in its indulgence of flamboyant clichés, but because it is.

And yet I was nonetheless somewhat taken aback at how blithely apolitical most of 2017's dramatic movies were (as opposed to such documentaries as the climate change treatises «Chasing Coral» and «An Inconvenient Sequel,» or John Ridley's voluminous and evenhanded «Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992,» which chronicled civil unrest in Los Angeles leading up to the Rodney King verdict).

Still, as a mostly apolitical black comedy and dark melodrama, «Lovelace» works reasonably well, and that's mostly due to a strong pace and a stronger cast.

Without giving too much away, it seems like much of the drama from Homeland Season 4 will center on the conflicted, apolitical Aayan, as he weighs whether to become a CIA asset or seek vengeance for the death of his entire family and turn to terrorism.

One of the most common lines (usually used in praise) on our newly - crowned Best Picture winner is that it's deliberately apolitical, taking no sides in the Iraq conflict as it aims simply to present the soldier's experience on the ground.

She's even employed in the picture as a punitive, apolitical, unapologetic champion of order who limits her victims to drug - dealers and gangsters, those disturbers of civilization.

It's an important message, and it's almost impossible to see that message as somehow apolitical.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s essay on Frederick Douglass is very empowering, and at the end he says, «Even a lecture about something as seemingly apolitical as photography or art in the end must by definition be engaged within and through Douglass's state of being as a black man in a white society in which one's blackness signifies negation.»