Sentences with phrase «best inheritor»

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America, being the remaining inheritor of Western world power, has yet even to try to realize that domination is no longer a possibility or a possible goal, that world power must be shared, not only with other groups with their own interests but with groups holding quite other cultural and value systems — and thus that the continuation of our power (and that of our forms of cultural order) is precarious at best.

I cant imagine a practical argument against the estate tax (well maybe the argument that the inheritors tend to spend everything).

And even those who would regard all such concepts as mythical (cosmopolitans or libertarians who do not think that their passport or citizenship involves any social membership) would probably still acknowledge that existing institutions - the British government, the Monarchy, Parliament, Barclays Bank, Everton Football Club, etc - are inheritors not just of their history (good and bad) but indeed of the material consequences of that (eg assets belonging to the state, or the Royal family, or a business; or indeed debts).

Nioh may look derivative on paper, but in practice it's an extremely well - made game, a supremely rewarding challenge and a worthy inheritor to the currently vacant throne of a sub-genre.

A text that is almost entirely, rather than only momentarily, diagnostic in orientation is Barbara Rose's excellent, and unfortunately little remembered, «The Value of Didactic Art» of 1967, which ambitiously lays out the terms of a particular shift where works of art — those inheritors of the precedent of Duchamp's unassisted readymade — began to derive their value and significance from visually presenting a particular argument, rather than by engaging the viewer in primarily aesthetic terms, which this didactic art rendered at best marginal or incidental.

It's well known that Hoyland spent much time in the US seeking out, learning from and challenging the American trial - blazers of abstraction and their «colour field» inheritors.

At the same time, the blithe inheritors of Canada's own special holocaust have given themselves a \ pass \ by describing the Victorian colonizers as children of their times and \ no better than they should be \ etc. etc. etc..