Sentences with phrase «as urbanites»

The Flouch rests on a four - foot gravel trench foundation and stem wall comprised of concrete rubble, known colloquially as urbanite, which was reclaimed from the demolition of an airport runway in nearby Kirksville, Missouri.

Not exact matches

While some urbanites and rivers are reported to have said «to hell with the cameras, as long as we are abiding by the law, no amount of cameras will cause us to be afraid», members of the online community were infuriated, judging from the thousands of comments in the photo gallery on NetEase.

So perhaps as all those «trains, and roads, and power lines, and houses, and condos, and McDonald's are built - the urbanites might ask where they like to escape to, and when you have dinner tonite thank a rancher or a farmer!

It is, however, a mentality that Dawson seeks to capture, and he grounds it historically in the emergence of late medieval / early modern urbanites whose place in society Dawson thinks contributed to a view of persons as isolated individuals, disconnected from the land and from one another.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

It became clear to me only as the years passed that The Secular City reflects the perspective of a relatively privileged urbanite.

Urbanites like me create roughly twice as much trash as our rural counterparts.

He adds that as a result of the discoveries, «The traditional vision of some mass of hapless lemmings — scrounging for whatever they can pinch from the side of a street, or huddled around a bowl of gruel — needs to be replaced by a higher fare and standard of living, at least for the urbanites in Pompeii.

If New York and other American cities such as Portland, Ore., prove to be on the vanguard domestically, the changes there could portend a shift in the way urbanites in the U.S. use their streets in the years and decades to come.

As a modern urbanite, I find this scene breathtaking and reassuring.

Urbanites — myself included — seem less likely to seek out parks and nature and are better served by bringing green space into their homes and offices.3 I would have to agree with this study as we often talk about going to the giant 644 acre park nearby to bathe in its greenness, but more often find ourselves walking around the city with our dog.

We get junk like Thomas being cast as the villain even though he's the most sympathetic character onscreen, which happens in spite of the fact that he's drawn as a caricature of an overstressed, overambitious urbanite unable to cope with the countryside he has come to visit.

The film follows a pair of urbanites as they embark on a 4000 - mile bicycle ride in search of the last wild place in America; to their dismay they find it.

100 years later and this story still stirs the hearts of city dwellers everywhere.Politically corrected and CGI enhanced bigtime this updated retelling has the apeman up against slavers as well as nefarious urbanite types (such as the sneering Chris Waltz, all but twirling his moustache).

So maybe this whole thing with Greta Gerwig is Dawn's dying hallucination of her dream life as a sophisticated urbanite, or maybe she faked her own death and ran off to New York, or maybe Solondz just doesn't really care.

Meanwhile, their amnesia - afflicted master has stumbled into an unlikely new career as a celebrity barber to moneyed urbanites: The current vogue for severely undercut hairstyles isn't a world away from sheep - shearing, after all.

Twohy delivers everything we expect — attractive performers in paradise (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich as cute urbanites fumbling through the jungle, Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez as rather more prepared trail companions), breathtaking landscapes and lush scenery, ominous tensions and plenty of action — and something you likely did not: suspense, surprise and sheer fun.

It's also a father - son bondathon and a wistful, cockeyed tribute to a rural homespun sensibility that, for present - day urbanites at least, can seem as emotionally remote as science fiction.

«Your Friends & Neighbors,» Neil LaBute's follow - up to his stunning Sundance film Fest debut, «In the Company of Men» (1997), continues his darkly comic exploration of misogyny as it defines the relationships of endlessly loquacious urbanites.

Wolf Creek (2005) Some of the best scares in film have come as the reaction to urbanites» fear of losing... read more →

Former urbanites» conception of rural community emerges as imagined and situational.»

«The iQ is the fourth vehicle in the family, and it will define the premium micro-subcompact segment as the choice for new urbanites who want clever transportation without a sacrifice in style or new features.»

«The iQ will define the premium micro-subcompact segment as the choice for new urbanites who want clever transportation without a sacrifice in style or new features.»

Beach urbanites will dig the Modern Honolulu, not far from the retro glamour of Waikiki as well as downtown boutiques like Tin Can Mailman, where hula girl bobble dolls and retro aloha shirts are popular souvenirs.

Rich in Scottish history, the house was designed by Robert Adams as a part of his project to develop Charlotte Square, a New Town mecca for the wealthy urbanites of the times.

The three - channel video installation is as much a depiction of the past as it is an investigation of analog's trendy revival within today's youthful urbanites.

Wonderland not only displays the unique personalities of eclectically dressed urbanites but also captures the cosmopolitan nature of cities such as Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.

As CoolHunting.com explains it, the Solowheel is «geared for the mobile urbanite.»

Turkish cities have been the stage for culture clashes in recent years, as residents of rural areas moved to urban areas in large numbers, bringing what many urbanites see as

The biggest fight has been against renewable energy schemes (which urbanites love as they don't have to live next to them) and the ever - rising cost of fuel.

As a Toronto urbanite who grew up on a farm in rural Ontario, and who identifies with both city and country life, I recently became aware of a battle that rural residents of Ontario have been waging for five years, namely against the scourge of towering industrial wind factories that have been forced on -LSB-...]

The town is an idyllic New England nautical community; as former Bostonian's we used to day trip to the «Head» for picnics to escape the city — we always considered ourselves as tried - and - true urbanites but after a out - of - state transfer and subsequent relocation back to the Boston - area, we could not think of a better place to set up roots.