Sentences with phrase «as the touchstone of»

Long After Mrs. Handler left Mattel and turned away from toys, Barbie remained wildly popular, not only as a toy, but as a touchstone of American culture.

There has, however, often been a tendency in the church to sanctify a particular phrase or title and to use that as a touchstone of orthodoxy.

Because of the presupposition present in evolutionary theory, Whitehead used consciousness as the touchstone of human experience.

Thus, I'm opposed to theologians who advocate Gaia worship (which, for the uninitiated, means substituting feminist ideology for the apostolic tradition as the touchstone of Christian orthodoxy), but I don't think there's the remotest need to worry that they'll have any influence over the future of Christianity.

I decided to read my own book again as a touchstone of reality to help me through this challenging time.

An iconic use of the haunted - doll trope, this Alberto Cavalcanti - directed tale of a ventriloquist and his seemingly sentient (and malevolent) dummy has stood as a touchstone of the subgenre — everything from the Anthony Hopkins - starring Magic to recent offerings like Annabelle owe the British horror sequence a debt.

The movement was inspired partly by the work of Salman Khan, who created a library of free online tutoring videos spanning a variety of academic subjects, known as the Khan Academy, which many view as a touchstone of the flipped - classroom technique.

The Hampels used the fund as a touchstone of their opposition in part because «pressure to contribute was considerable, and armbands and pins were distributed for public display to...

This distinction was specifically rejected as a touchstone of judicial review doctrine in Baker v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), [99] and properly so.

Romantic relationships exist cross-culturally, with parents and children often viewing marriage as the touchstone of a successful romantic union [1, 23].

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Rather than jamming horizontal television ads into a digital interface, as had been the norm, the mobile - born platform made vertical video a key touchstone of its pitch to marketers.

Acting as it does as a summary and analysis of five decades of Lutheran - Catholic dialogue, 2015's Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry, and Eucharist will undoubtedly be a helpful touchstone in future ecumenical discussions between the two traditions.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

Indeed, even on this point Arendt's touchstone was not only the mission of the Congress for Cultural Freedom but also what she perceived as its bias against those thinkers of German liberal extraction, such as Paul Tillich and herself.

is one of the most important, successful, permanent touchstones of modern culture: Through an original American story, it takes the player through the same pressures and temptations as the protagonist.

Bonhoeffer deals with the early heresies condemned at the Council of Chalcedon, which he uses as a touchstone for his Christology.

What gripped me most were the touchstones of denial, those passages I could interpret as expressions of my own vision.

What we are proposing, in effect, is to use material established as authentic by the one sure criterion as a touchstone by means of which to judge material which itself would resist the application of that criterion, material which could not be established as dissimilar to emphases of Judaism or the early Church.

As Fifty Shades of Grey hits the cinema this weekend and becomes the cultural touchstone of 2015 thus far (yes, Fifty shades... More

Touchstone's catalogue of evasion in Shakespeare's As You Like It closely parallels the statements made by defenders of Amoris Laetitia.

These range from stories of the saints, to concerns of people today, to a look at his own personal experience as a child and with L'Arche, all the way to broader comment on resistance to the Nazis, the war in Rwanda, and the conflict in present day Israel and Palestine, and he sees in the Gospel many touchstones for our modern lives.

This chapter takes as its point of departure and as recurring touchstones several texts of Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci.

In short, the ontological argument can be made to stand as a touchstone for philosophical positions; what does the verdict of a given philosophy on the argument tell us about the assumptions and the viability of that philosophy itself?

There is a baffling variety of types and degrees of the disorder, so that if one uses any generalization as an infallible touchstone, he will be led astray in dealing with individuals.

That's his thesis, more or less, and despite considerable meandering through a smorgasbord of thinkers, movements, events, and philosophies, most home - grown and more than a few half - baked, he sustains it or, better put, continually returns to it as his touchstone.

The written format of our process facilitates reflection and the personalized attention from the LAL means that the experience is more likely to «stick» and continue to serve as a touchstone as applicants move into Leadership.

My second reason for favouring a document that includes elements of reform is that if we are (as we inevitably now are with the PCRC Report) into the arena of possible constitutional reform we can only talk about it in an evaluative way if we have reform proposals as the touchstone for debate.

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.

While politicians elsewhere in the UK do their best to avoid touchstone moral issues such as abortion and gay rights come election season, they're still a staple of Northern Ireland politics.

But if he was addressing what he cast as the dangers of 2016, many of the address's touchstones seemed culled from 1984.

While many still depend on the Library for traditional resources and services such as books, magazines, media and general reference, more and more of our residents rely on their local library as their touchstone to technology and their onramp to the Internet.

While many still depend on us for traditional library resources and services, such as books, magazines, media and general reference, more and more of our residents rely on their local library as their touchstone to technology and their onramp to the Internet.

Idiocracy drew little comment on its initial release, but has become a touchstone among those who despair at what they see as relentless dumbing down of social and political discourse.

With the moons as his touchstone, he clocked the speed of light for the very first time, in 1676.

For those who are confused, we suggest the principles of traditional diets as a touchstone.

In addition, he is the author of the best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition.

Yet, while those films used the experiment as a touchstone, allowing the story to take on more aspects of a thriller, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film is less concerned with thriller elements, but rather the loss of individuality the participants experienced, and how quickly the guards began to abuse the prisoners, most of whom quickly bent to authority.

Cue the movie's most intriguing section, as our inability to let go of material touchstones — nearly six figures for a scribble on some horsehide!

As much as The Mummy's early scenes draw inspiration from the spirit of old Universal monster movies, the film's clearest touchstone is the 1999 rebooAs much as The Mummy's early scenes draw inspiration from the spirit of old Universal monster movies, the film's clearest touchstone is the 1999 rebooas The Mummy's early scenes draw inspiration from the spirit of old Universal monster movies, the film's clearest touchstone is the 1999 reboot.

Chris Salmanpour, a writer who was discovered through a partnership between The Black List, StudioCanal and The Picture Company to find new voices among EU writers, penned the adaptation of Russian Spy, which is using movies such as Marathon Man and Three Days of the Condor as touchstones.

As the world is kind of going crazy we at least have this touchstone of someone we can relate to.

Like Ofelia's journey in Pan's Labyrinth, it sees childhood as the blueprint for how adults might aspire to be the heroes of their own lives, and so it finds young Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) jealously hoarding his stash of highly - fictionalized penny novels (of the sort W.W. Beauchamp was writing on English Bob in another western touchstone, Unforgiven) about his hero James under his bed with other sundry relics of his youth.

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has infused the majority of The Visit with many of the touchstones one has come to expect from found - footage chillers, and yet it's worth noting that the movie never quite becomes as predictable as many of its similarly - themed brethren - as the writer / director does an effective job of peppering the narrative with surprising elements and an undercurrent of unexpected drama.

Macdonald cites «Run Silent, Run Deep» and (of course) «Das Boot» as thematic touchstones for the film.

But Chazelle pulls off something so tricky it feels like magic: He makes these touchstones his own, with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling providing a cocktail of movie - star glamour and real - world regret as two aspiring entertainers (one jazzman, one actress) falling in love and finding their voices.

Featuring all the touchstones of a typical Pixar film — it's funny, charming, clever and touching, often at the same time — «Inside Out» is one of the studio's most unique features to date, and arguably its most mature as well.

I don't know that he was ever the same since the assassination of close friend Bobby Kennedy in 1968, and while it's true that one of the touchstone atrocities of the Sixties ruined Frankenheimer (even as it nourished the furious cinema of the Seventies), it's also true that the main difference between the director of some of the seminal films of the Sixties (The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds, The Train, Seven Days in May) and some of the worst films of all time since (Prophecy, French Connection II, The Holcroft Covenant) is courage.

Or, perhaps, the ten films in the catalog that in fact do measure up, according to a variety of standards that may not all be one's own but that can still be acknowledged as rightly, if loosely, binding for us members of the community of film lovers, films that make up a canon of common touchstones?

Films like Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous have deservedly lasted as cultural touchstones, but even then their conflicts seemed pretty inane in the grand scheme of things.

A career touchstone for its director and female star, Elevator to the Gallows was an astonishing beginning to Malle's eclectic body of work, and it established Moreau as one of the most captivating actors to ever grace the screen.