Sentences with phrase «borrowed from my culture»

Andy says: Poetic language will always borrow from culture, but the danger is that the emotions of a romance are expected to be a measure of our devotion, when we all know that emotions ebb and flow.

«California has a rich culinary history and we have borrowed from its cultures to create a menu that we feel is a true, classic California experience.»

The name is borrowed from my culture anyway so I might have more «claim» to it if it comes down to that.

Not exact matches

Examining it closely and without bias proves it to be exactly what it is: a bunch of mashed up together fairy tales borrowed from various cultures and adapted as leaders at the time saw fit.

The Roman culture borrowed from many cultures and came up with a Saturnalia holiday very similar to what our Christmas holiday is.

And some other cultures appreciated and borrowed from them.

Many stories in the Qur «an were «borrowed» from surrounding cultures, and well known circulating myths, and cultural historians know exactly where they came from:

The Bible / Koran, a collection of ancient myths and stories borrowed from many different cultures over hundreds of centuries or longer.

It is easy for Christians, for example, to get stuck on abstract issues, such as whether the believing community ought to be — in terms borrowed from H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ - and - culture typology — «above» the political order, «in tension» with it, «transforming» it, «of» it or «against» it.

I love NYC because people like to preserve the good things about their own cultures, and there are many ethnic enclaves here, but we all seem to borrow the good things from the other cultures, and there are many.

You are ware that your Christian bible borrowed the virgin birth, the resurrection, the story of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the whale, Adam & Eve, and the creation story from other cultures that came long before Christianity, right?

We have another statement that says: «We will reach out without dumbing down (I borrowed that phrase brazenly from Marva Dawn): We will challenge you to think hard about God, Church and culture.

What you have is the written down oral history, generations removed, and borrowed from other cultures of the time.

And the pagans borrowed from other cultures, too.

I borrow my title from Harvey Cox's well known The Secular City, the aim of which was to map out and defend the relevance of religion for «the post-literate man of the electronic image» (TSC 11) whose urban, technological culture seemed to many so inhospitable for such an endeavor.

Hurtado makes it clear that Christianity had a fluid relationship with the cultures and religions of the empire, both shaping them and being influenced by them, but he argues that Christ's exalted status is neither a later development nor a borrowing from other cults around the Mediterranean.

(c) The Bible, however, did not simply borrow ideas of the world from surrounding cultures, but modified what it used.

The historians of Israelite religion have traced all of the borrowings and appropriations from ancient Near Eastern culture and religion.

I have used Ellie Krieger's recipe with a few tweaks on quantity (I increased the garlic and I added lemon zest and red pepper flakes) since I love her simplistic approach to the dish which borrows from the Israeli (the use of tahini) and other Levantine cultures (parsley, garlic, and lemon).

Fairly recently, beginning around 1996 the name «Goji» was «borrowed» from the Tibetan culture and used to market another similar lycium berry known for hundreds of years as the Chinese «wolfberry» and that caused market confusion and still remains a marketing error today.

Tips borrowed from the European culture on how to keep this delicate balance.

But researchers must wait until they have more detailed data using tissue culture techniques borrowed from molecular biology before they can rule out other possibilities, such as the grasses themselves producing toxic...

From borrowed beginnings the Aztecs invented a rich culture of their own.

The clothing line borrows heavily from traditional English clothing as well as pop culture styles of clothing that have prevailed throughout the past decades.

Unlike Kung Fu Panda, which borrowed from Asian culture as the foundation for a silly joke, Laika seems to be building something a little more serious and respectable.

They talk about Blake's pioneering digital art, which often obliquely if not directly referenced pop culture; one exhibition of his work was named after the eyeglass vendor in David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Spectacular Optical, and borrowed its ideas from the spatial dynamics in Cronenberg's early movies.

His ninth feature, it's also a thoroughly Wes Andersony Wes Anderson movie that borrows several design and musical trappings from Japanese culture, generating much controversy.

When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by «borrowing» some water from a large and potentially destructive site, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that erupts into a humorous culture clash.

If only Weitz had borrowed more from the Network branch of political culture satires instead of the rather toothless modern one that Mean Girls and Saved!

If you want to know how to host a great Culture Night at your school, borrow a play from the playbook of Walt Disney Elementary in Mishawaka, Indiana.

In this light we have come to know the best way to advocate for people is to approach them, learn from them, their cultures, values and their tested practices in order to create platforms where others can borrow, replicate, adapt and transform their own lives for their immediate wellbeing and the wellbeing of mankind.

It seems Canadians are not just borrowing eBooks from the library, but they are actively engaging in the culture.

The important thing is that I didn't base the book exactly on any one other book, it's a mashup of themes and elements I found in several other books; and those books are borrowing themes and elements from ancient mythology or pop culture (public knowledge).

The package is all what you will need for a short vacation to Hoi An with 03 night accommodation in spacious and comfortable Junior Suite Balcony room, breakfast at our top notch Temple restaurant, airport transfer, spa service and additional tour to discover Hoi An, a stroll through the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hoi An and discover a complex history that borrows from a variety of cultures.

Local Hotel Adventures follows Marriott's signature approach to operational excellence, guest satisfaction and its «people - first culture,» while also borrowing heavily from Ian's approach that every hotel should be uniquely designed, emotionally engaging and authentically named and branded.

This game not only brings to life the Vikings as warriors but also borrows a lot of from Nordic culture.

Saints Row 4 is a huge treasure trove of pop culture and it shamelessly borrows mechanics, features and even quotes from a huge selection of games and films.

What Reinhardt did with his borrowings was travel the world making photographs of similar forms, beginning an ambitious typological project to catalogue and cross-reference artistic and architectural motifs from diverse cultures.

Czyszczoń's paintings feature carefully selected, artistically reduced motifs and borrowings from the worlds of media, popular culture, found photographs and images of childhood heroes.

Julien's Western Unions: Small Boats, 2007, is included in The Restless Earth (28 April - 20 August 2017), which borrows its title from a collection of poems by Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean writer who probed the question of how different cultures can coexist.

Utilizing fragments of imagery borrowed from popular culture, Arturo Herrera creates collages, sculptures, and wall paintings that lie on the shifting border between legibility and abstraction.

Few contemporary artists have developed a visual vocabulary as immediately recognizable as the Chicago - born artist Christopher Wool's — and what's remarkable is that he was able to achieve this distinction across a number of different series, from his influential text paintings to his elegantly minimal canvases marked by fences and other repetitive forms to his dynamic gestural abstractions that borrow from graffiti culture.

A contemporary artist, born in Iran, educated in the United States and residing in New York, Jinchi borrows from her home culture's traditions of literature and calligraphy, and more broadly from the entire history of painting, to pursue her own aesthetic investigations.

In order to address the historic proliferation of the «Pseudo Georgian» aesthetic, two eighteenth century pattern books borrowed from the British Architectural Library are also displayed alongside objects from the artist's own collection — as well as a selection of critical articles culled from archival copies of Building magazine, one of the oldest publications to address the entire culture of Britain's construction industry.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, the paintings of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) borrow liberally from the image glut around us, appropriating anything from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's «Bathers at Asnières» — from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the photographs of Enrique Metinides.

Pouran Jinchi is a contemporary artist who borrows from her home culture's traditions of literature and calligraphy to pursue her own aesthetic investigations.

POURAN JINCHI is an Iranian - born artist who borrows from her home culture's traditions of literature and calligraphy to pursue her own aesthetic investigation.

Gloria contains bits and pieces of the everyday - materials and ideas borrowed from both mass culture and fine art.

Her beautifully painted works, which can be seen in museums worldwide, explore themes of sexuality, love, death and shame, while borrowing from popular culture, art history and current affairs.

Borrowed from domestic, decorative or functional contexts, these artefacts are often linked to Western culture as a means of power, their combination and arrangement in the artist's work invites spectators to question the relationships between systems of representation and our understanding of the world.