Sentences with phrase «as modern equivalents»

Miller's gewgaws can be seen as modern equivalents to Warhol's dollar - sign paintings and Daniel Buren's stripes — fetishes that have no inherent value in themselves but that externalize unconsciousness, destabilize our relationship to art, and are vivid symbols for their own status as placeholders for the rich.

The more I look at it the more I see the EU / Brexit as the modern equivalent of Ireland in 19th and early 20th century British politics.

Spending most of the season as a nomad, doggedly pursuing storms with his team and sleeping wherever the weather takes him, he sees himself as the modern equivalent of the 15th - century explorers.

A recurring image of bees (part of the Candyman's torment) hints at the picture's eventual nod towards a matriarchy, while the evolution of the Helen character from scholar to myth points to film itself as the modern equivalent of firesides and oral history.

* Continuing to keep surveillance on members of that ethnig group even after they have converted, in one case, or achieved citizenship, as the modern equivalent.

Not exact matches

As profits continued to grow, in 1908 Walker opened a factory and a beauty school in Pittsburgh, and by 1910, when Walker transferred her business operations to Indianapolis, the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company had become wildly successful, with profits that were the modern - day equivalent of several million dollars.

They paid depositors the same rate (equivalent to 20 percent) as they charged customers, so there was no intermediation markup as in modern banking (Bogaert 1966).

As regards earth worship, Al Gore's «carbon offset credits» are merely the modern equivalent of the 15th century Catholic indulgences.

When you look at the New Testament model, Jeremy, as you have done in this series... one cultural difference that I think most people fail to really account for is that those men, Paul and others who worked, generally worked in a modern day trade equivalent.

I see this as our modern day equivalent to racial intolerance.

Although Strauss himself was big on reading Hegel and, I'm told, was planning to write a book on him, he turned our attention to the «dyad» Strauss - Kojeve, which he seemed to present as equivalent to Ancient - Modern and Eternity - Time.

People who argue this, however, fail to recognize that when Moses wrote these laws, they were operating as a Theocracy, and the vast majority of these «tithes» were the modern equivalent of taxes.

We must differentiate between the values and concerns of the Kingdom of God and the modern equivalents of Christendom, such as the world market which propagates its own values based on greed and the logic of world economics.

In the New Testament, the Greek pistis is usually translated «faith», which in modern English we usually understand as meaning «belief» — but in modern English, «trust» would be a better equivalent for pistis.

Religious discourse is, of course, replete with such stories — from the biblical stories of Jacob, Joseph, Jesus, and Paul, to modern equivalents about religious converts, to such fictionalized variants as Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones.

As to a comparison between duck - on - a-rock and its modern, Establishment equivalent, the Saturday morning Junior Bowling League, I think we got mere exercise our way, and it certainly didn't cost us anything.

At best, it's seen as a distraction — the modern equivalent of bread and circuses — and at worst as a cover for spending cuts.

And while it was often defended as simply glamorization of news for the sake of ratings (a modern equivalent would be link - baiting), the book's account has never been discredited as inaccurate.

Dating coach and founder of eflirt, a digital dating service, Laurie Davis Edwards believes the appeal is rooted in dating reality TV shows» role as «the modern equivalent of Disney princess movies» that so many young girls were taught to idealize.

The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects interviews with many of modern - day Hollywood's finest directors of photography and is illustrated by examples of their best work as well as scenes from the pictures which most influenced them.

As a film critic, I'm pretty much up on my movie news, but even I had no idea that Agnes Varda and Donald Sutherland won honorary Oscars at this year's Academy Awards on Sunday, March 4, at a special ceremony, apparently held in a bunker 100 feet under the ground — or at least the modern equivalent of that: It wasn't televised.

Pattinson is an interesting juxtaposition here only because it sometimes seems Corbijn would have been better served to have him play Dean, as his own celebrity status represents a new horizon, the modern equivalent of star fucking in the Hollywood system.

His lone directorial effort is «Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,» which made $ 317 million but also coined the term «nuke the fridge,» which some view as the modern - day equivalent of «jump the shark.»

Honda says the fuel cell and hydrogen powertrain are now roughly equivalent in dimensions to a modern V - 6 internal combustion engine, offering greater cabin space as a result.

One of the things some authors do to promote their book is a «blog tour» which I've heard described as the modern day or indie equivalent of hitting the road for signings at book stores.

The ESRB would become the modern day equivalent of the Comics Code Authority back in the 1950s, except they would target violence in video games exclusively; maybe even as a branch of the Federal Government or NSA.

The Gran Turismo series has long been known for its emphasis on accuracy, with the developers at Polyphony Digital going to extreme lengths to create cars and tracks that are as close to the real life equivalents as possible, using exacting measurements ad physics models that are as close to reality as modern technology can make them.

You can also think of it as the modern day equivalent of creating collages from torn - out magazine pages.

As with Baroque and Renaissance painting of the time, the work encompasses traditions of chiaroscuro and drapery but in contrast, reflects their modern day equivalents being synthetically manufactured materials and artificial LCD lighting.

Those who are using him as an example of scientific consensus holding back scientific research are wrong and quite often represent the modern equivalent of the political and theological powers against which Galileo so indomitably fought.

interestingly, the report claims that buying an expensive bike is seen by many middle - aged men as the modern - day equivalent of a getting sports car in an attempt to hold on to their youth.

Ernst simply takes the averages, modern science simply (and rightfully) ignores the Bern data as completely unreliable, as these are the equivalent of measuring temperature on an asphalted parking lot...

They determined that surpassing the 2 °C global goal could be quantified as equivalent to the release of more than 1 trillion tonnes of carbon (3.7 trillion tonnes CO2), with their timeframe being 1750 (i.e. the start of the modern use of coal) to some distant point in the future, in their case 2500.

This would not be so bad had they left an easy trail of where one could find all previous documentation, rather than creating a modern equivalent of rewriting history as if nothing had existed previously.

It is deprivation of citizenship as the ultimate form of punishment, a modern equivalent of the banishment of older tribes.

This is where «dynamic» forms of biometrics, such as voice recognition or personal typing patterns — the modern equivalent of handwriting analysis — may well be a safer option.

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This marble fire surround as log store is the modern equivalent of Pirro Ligorio?s 16th - century designs for the spectacular and bizarre water fountains in the gardens at Villa d?Este, Tivoli, where galleons sail on ponds and an «organ» plays as water pours through its pipes.

To add old - age charm Mark Hassall from Authentic Reclamation advises, «sourcing original handmade bricks as there is no modern equivalent of a brick that was made by hand over a hundred years ago.»