Sentences with word «bestower»

The first clearly and effectively traces the rise of curators as bestowers of value in the artworld (and elegantly glosses struggles for the control of value — between critics, dealers, artists and curators — along the way), up to the point at which curating's deskilling and populism means that everyone can do it and inherently contradicts the discipline's quest to professionalise itself via academic courses and qualifications.

The nation became its own unifying symbol system, the chief bestower of identity and purpose.»

Why not make the wisest bestower of knowledge in the universe to our heroes in the particular film a woman instead of a man?

In case you have been holed up in a biodome with your Y2K survival kit, Square - Enix, beloved bestower of classic RPGs like Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series, announced back in August that it would be remaking one of its mid-90s smash hits, Secret of Mana.

Testosterone is often cast as the manly hormone, the chemical bestower of virility and the reason for men's high sex drives.

Several years ago we had the honor of running into the author of the article / bestower of the nickname, Brian Robison, composer and professor.

The creator, bestower, covenantor of shalom is himself Shalom.

But in the view of most observers — from Dan Rather to the bestowers of the Templeton Award — the Reverend Mr. Graham had become the Reverend Dr. Graham, a forceful voice for world peace, social justice and ecological sanity.

Perhaps God in his love stands, not only as the bestower of forgiveness, but as the Father who, for the sake of the created who glory is his desire, even stoops to invite the forgiveness he can not deserve in order to make it one degree easier for man to be drawn into the orbit of love (Elphinstone, Freedom, Suffering, and Love, 147).

The picture of an eschatological messenger, anointed by God's spirit, a bringer of good news to the poor, a liberator of the oppressed, a proclaimer of the coming of God's rule, who effects a new covenant community, is a light to the Gentiles, and a bestower of peace (all ideas associated with this prophetic model), are most helpful to Luke in filling out his depiction of the ministry of Jesus.