Sentences with phrase «by dramatic upheavals»
«It was a place of huge spiritual significance for the country - two of its abbots were venerated as saints - and one utterly transformed by dramatic upheavals under Henry VIII.
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But he is keen to emphasize that Luther was just one, if the first, of the agents of the dramatic upheavals of the period, and in the long term, by no means the most important.
Pitting the legendary Pancho Villa against «the Colonel,» a thrill - seeking Bostonian railroad tycoon whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, El Paso opens during a time of dramatic upheaval in Mexico - its government being squeezed on one end by Villa's revolutionaries and on the other by «filthy» American capitalists.
A decade of tremendous change in the art world and beyond, the 1990s saw dramatic upheavals across all spheres, from the rising cultural dominance of grunge to the technological revolution introduced by the Internet — never mind the shifting of geopolitical borders following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavian Federation, and the brutal civil wars raging across Africa.
Citing the decade's significance as a period in which dramatic changes in the nature of art practice went hand in hand with sociopolitical upheavals worldwide, the 17 - member, crossdepartmental curatorial team — led by Temkin and Martino Stierli, chief curator of architecture and design — describe the installation as «organized through the lens of the 1960s.»