Sentences with phrase «by high culture»

Such a gesture could be read as an extension of Stockholder's ongoing practice of placing formal elements in dialogue with materials not traditionally valued by high culture (e.g., trash, industrial objects, the presentational apparatus itself)-- only here this tactic (itself fairly shaky in the face of the near - evaporation of high / low distinctions) was expanded to encompass a dialogue between the artworks themselves.

The leaves whisper even in the absence of wind, speaking in Gaelic, the language of ancestors who once ruled the plants; perhaps lamenting a lost tongue, a lost soul of a land now pervaded by a higher culture of stars and banners and glossy chattels.

Not exact matches

The Fortune 500 is chock full of enviable workplaces, including tech behemoths Microsoft (msft), Apple (aapl), and Google parent Alphabet (good) whose innovative cultures and high - profile projects are much sought - after by workers worldwide.

The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

High social barriers, whether caused by geography, networks, culture, language or distrust, can stifle relationships before they are born.

Employers that work to meet those demands by building a high - trust culture, with a special focus on Millennials in leadership roles, will get ahead in both the talent game and in the marketplace.»

He mentioned he had just read one of my articles (one of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture of the U.S. special - operations community and building high - performance teams in the business world.

If banks promote themselves as a high - tech hangout or café, and still maintain a very aggressive service culture, they risk making people feel seduced and sucker - punched by a hidden agenda.

While bro culture is typically defined as being led and dominated by men, in the case of Thinx, the complaint alleged that the «only two employees who negotiated higher salaries at Thinx were men,» according to The New York Times.

These employers have earned high marks from their workers, who completed an extensive workplace culture and trust index survey administered by Great Place to Work, Fortune's longtime partner for our annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.

While it might not sound sexy, high - performance company culture is more about living and working by a set of unifying company - wide goals, values and beliefs.

Implementation of this program represented an important step taken by HP to drive a high - performance culture.

Productivity is probably hurt someone what by the high population density (it's hard to find room to build Walmarts) as well as burdensome regulations, which partly reflect a culture with strict rules.

While it is encouraging to see the high level of support from Chinese companies, for whatever reason, the unfortunate truth is that not all leading domestic Chinese companies are able to serve the one belt, one road as they are constrained by traditions, culture, and language barriers.

JLL is characterized by its growth orientation, operational excellence, financial strength, premium brand, collaborative culture and high ethical standards.

Management by exception and letting the facts drive the project reduces that fear... culture is complicated but it does lead to a higher level of trust and the wiliness to kill quickly projects quickly.

Reverend Miller was first elected in 2004 with 35 % of the vote in a close three way contest between himself, high - profile NDP candidate Larry Booi, and PC MLA Drew Hutton, and he was defeated by now - Culture Minister Heather Klimchuk in 2008 by 104 votes.

GFI's research indicated that «clean meat» had 20 - 25 percent higher consumer acceptance than «cultured meat,» and these results were corroborated by ACE's follow - up study.»

Governments can build on this culture of high ethical standards by creating an incentive for companies to report wrongful behaviour to the authorities.

GFI's research indicated that «clean meat» had 20 — 25 percent higher consumer acceptance than «cultured meat,» and these results were corroborated by ACE's follow - up study.»

Arrogance in our culture, due to our higher intelligence, was injected by the theory of creation introduced by Ibrahim (Abraham) thousands of years ago.

The religious conservatives, beset by this sea change in the secular culture, might have been expected to retrench into their conventional media stereotypes: authoritarian, emotionally uninvolved husbands and fathers, a rigidly patriarchal family style, deeply gendered domestic roles that kept women at home» plus, as Wilcox puts it, «high levels of corporal punishment and domestic violence.»

They are at once chastened by the pettiness of their worldly loves — and elevated by a sense of divine transcendence that unites them not just with Christ, but also with the highest achievements of Russian culture.

For those who by occupation or obsession (or a mix of both) monitor such things, the Times is as good a window as we have into the perversities of what passes for — because, unfortunately, it is — our high culture.

For a certain sector of society, religion has been replaced by the aesthetic, by culture understood as high culture (and, increasingly, as deviant culture).

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

«If the rumors and distrust persist on this campus, it may very well be because these decisions, by being postured on some vague spiritual «high ground,» have actually engendered a culture of fear,» they wrote in an open letter in the student newspaper, The Moody Standard.

That is a great point David about the cartoon of a white woman in a bikini and high - heels, and an Arab woman in a burqa with «That poor woman is totally controlled by her culture!»

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

As Hatch has noted elsewhere, because many evangelicals «have abandoned the university, the arts, and other realms of «high culture» «they are often «least capable of winning the right to be heard by twentieth - century intellectuals.»

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

The life of the mind, pursued in this way in partial isolation, though in the company of my wise, gentle, and practical wife, has proved so rewarding that the loss of theaters, concert halls, opera houses, and all the other temples to high culture that I left behind in the city is more than compensated by what I have gained.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

Sociological theories of the 1940s and 1950s tended to portray culture as a hierarchy of values that was integrated by higher - order religious values and was internalized by the person, thereby giving unity and direction to the person's behavior.

It's a lively volume with contributions by Terry Teachout (drama critic for the Wall Street Journal), Carol Iannone (editor of Academic Questions), and Asia himself (a distinguished composer and professor of composition at U of A), among others, and they all get to the heart of the problem of high culture at the present time in America.

Christianity, they say, is a religion of crisis, a judgment which regards even the highest achievements of human culture as vitiated by man's fallen nature and doomed to destruction.»

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Like our founder, Richard John Neuhaus, we believe that public life is ultimately shaped by culture and religion — our ideas about the first and highest things — rather than clever soundbites or wonky white papers.

Nonetheless, it can be claimed that the Christian world of the High Middle Ages attained such a homogeneity of culture, one so permeated by Christian values and beliefs (as then understood), that it can be quite properly referred to as Christendom: that is, a domain or realm where Christ was believed to rule.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

Modern culture, which coincides in Habermas's view with the period since the Reformation, is typified chiefly by an erosion of confidence in the validity of higher - order principles.

If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ for service In the relief of suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with compassion and concern for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).

The characteristics of the particularistic religion generally can be extrapolated from Levis description: It is emotional and intense in contrast to the ascetic rationalism of high Italian culture; it is fiercely closed to the outside world (there is not one such religion but as many as there are groups), as opposed to the universalism of high Italian thought; and it is presided over by a woman, an epiphany of the Great Mother of the Mediterranean world, only partially and uncertainly articulated with the Virgin of Nazareth.

The dominance of youth culture in American high schools caused by the weakness of traditional values is not favorable to the market economy of capitalism.

This picture that God is understood by way of the affections tends to have much the same cultural location as does the view that God is understood by way of discursive reasoning or scientia: It is a culture marked by the high differentiation and specialization of social roles characteristic of urban societies and their economics, considerable pluralism of subcultures and worldviews, social fragmentation, personal anonymity, and rootlessness.

This illustrates the point: if there were some culture where the place of honor was sitting on somebody's head, then we should have to put it that way, for «the highest place which heaven affords is His by right.»

There will be heightened calls for a return to the religious or ethnic cultures of the past and for the re-introduction of stricter controls backed up by force from a higher authority.