Sentences with phrase «by social critic»

Ava DuVernay's 13th is an equally important film and worth a watch, but the lyricism and beauty of Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, based on an unfinished manuscript by social critic James Baldwin detailing his friendships and interactions with civil rights leaders, has stuck with me.

Not exact matches

But regardless of what happens, LinkedIn is becoming more interesting and intriguing by the week — something you'd never expect to see from what many critics often call a «boring» social network.

As his public influence grew, the preacher's stands on the social issues of his day were watched closely by supporters and critics alike.

The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $ 60 Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

Social Justice Warrior (SJW) A term for a person involved in the new movement, though it is often used pejoratively by critics.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

This movement, founded by Norwegian social critic Arne Naess, rejects as» anthropocentric» the notion that humans have greater inherent worth than other life forms.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

I'm all for a rigorously selective form of nostalgia, and that kind of nostalgia, practiced by our most astute social critics, is less blinding than liberating.

Your life isn't pointless if you win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; you earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; you appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; you leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

Social action was not informed by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian social analysis as warmed - over liberSocial action was not informed by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian social analysis as warmed - over libersocial analysis as warmed - over liberalism.

In his thought there was none of the utopian thought or «evolutionary optimism» often attributed to liberal theology and the social gospel movement by its critics.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

But I just finished reading two books about what's happening on college campuses now — American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by sociologist Lisa Wade and Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by feminist and social critic Laura Kipnis — and I actually do feel quite blessed that my college days are long past.

Ironically, this is an apt metaphor for Judt's entire life: the son of Eastern European Jews who never felt completely at home in England; an autodidact at Cambridge who never learned historiography or became part of a dedicated «school»; an expert by training in French social thought with serious and evolving interests in Eastern European history; and an American denizen and critic without the faintest bond to the United States.

Under - used by Labour during the campaign, the Shadow Health Secretary has proved to be a competent critic of Jeremy Hunt and was strong on the Tories» social care funding muddle.

At least one of the lawmakers has already been burned by a social media campaign: Assemblyman James Skoufis has in the past been targeted by critics on social media with ads that can't be traced back to their funding source.

The manifesto pledge on social care, nicknamed the dementia tax by its critics, was concerning for many older voters.

Critics like Matt Browner - Hamlin, the SEIU's deputy director of new media, and Michael Cornfield, a political scientist and longtime analyst of online politics, have chimed in to dismiss the study's import, arguing that simply counting the presence of social media tools being deployed by an organization means little, or nothing.

Controversial internet entrepreneur turned cultural critic Andrew Keen, who says the revolution of interactivity and user - generated content on the internet is leading to «less culture, less reliable news and a chaos of useless information» is one contributor certain to ignite debate at the two - day conference, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through its e-Society programme.

It's also a concession by Department of Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks, who was once a fervent critic of the use of hotels to house the city's homeless, when he described the idea as «poorly conceived.»

Represented by National Commissioner and Chairman of the TEI Board, Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu, the INEC Chairman also described the late Professor as a fierce social critic, a fiery activist and an uncompromising patriot who was brutally honest and sincere to a fault.

But in previous ripostes to the book's critics, most notably in a 19 June Huffington Post article titled «Five Critics Say You Shouldn't Read This «Dangerous» Book,» Wade charged that his critics were «indoctrinated in the social - science creed that prohibits any role for evolution in human affairs» and contended that the book's central argument «has not been challenged by any serious scientist.critics, most notably in a 19 June Huffington Post article titled «Five Critics Say You Shouldn't Read This «Dangerous» Book,» Wade charged that his critics were «indoctrinated in the social - science creed that prohibits any role for evolution in human affairs» and contended that the book's central argument «has not been challenged by any serious scientist.Critics Say You Shouldn't Read This «Dangerous» Book,» Wade charged that his critics were «indoctrinated in the social - science creed that prohibits any role for evolution in human affairs» and contended that the book's central argument «has not been challenged by any serious scientist.critics were «indoctrinated in the social - science creed that prohibits any role for evolution in human affairs» and contended that the book's central argument «has not been challenged by any serious scientist.»

[VIDEO ESSAY] Widely trashed by a cabal of critics who didn't know a good film when they saw it, Jack Clayton's 1974 rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel beautifully captures its romantic essence and caustic social indictments.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: It was a busy weekend on the awards front, as several critics groups announced their year - end winners (and most of them going with David Fincher's «The Social Network» as the year's best).

This documentary film recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world - renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert - a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent.

I've already discussed how many critics seem to be misinterpreting Mike Leigh's «Happy - Go - Lucky» and its protagonist, Poppy, by interpreting it as a sheer feelgood work — and in doing so, missing much of the film's complex, subtle social observation.

However, she was noticed by critics in the small but pivotal role of the Boston University undergrad Erica Albright who dumps Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010).

When the restaurant's owner Riva (Dustin Hoffman) puts the pressure on Casper to play «his greatest hits» and stick to their usual menu, he gives in and predictably receives a horrible review by critic Ramsey Michel (Oliver Platt) who calls him out on having given up on the inspired dishes of his youth to cater to the boring palettes of the social élite.

Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and executive producers Martin Scorsese (The Departed) and Steven Zaillian (Moneyball) present LIFE ITSELF, a documentary film that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world - renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert — a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent.

David Fincher for The Social Network — the film is well liked not just by the public but by the critics.

The Social Network was chosen as Best Picture this weekend by the New York Film Critics Online, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

«The Social Network» was by any measure the best reviewed film of the year therefore it only makes sense that it should sweep the critics» awards...

Bolstered by extreme confidence in their movie — and maybe also by Superhero Face Punch's stumble — Disney uncorked the embargo a full month early and let critics take to social media to sound off on the movie, and the early praise is overwhelmingly positive.

: Finding itself at the middle of the competition pack among our Cannes Critics» Panel grid (see the full grid view), our Nicholas Bell mentioned he «most likely be eclipsed by Haneke's own formidable shadow in the eventual endless comparisons of what has come before, this is still wickedly superb social satire, and the little bit of sugar evident in his latest formulation only allows the lacerations to cut deeper.»

I Am Not Your Negro Film Review by Kam Williams Oscar - Nominated Documentary Inspired by James Baldwin's Unfinished Manuscript When novelist / social critic James Baldwin passed away in 1987, he left behind an unfinished opus entitled «Remember This House.»

Critics see the combination of program accreditation standards, revised by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in 2000; a growing curricular emphasis on «social justice» issues; and a left - leaning education professoriate as yielding a one - sided approach to teacher education and the certification of teachers based on ideology, rather than teaching skills or mastery of content knowledge.

Gauld is a social critic, but his sense of the world is guided less by the neo-Victorianism of today's conservatives than by a kind of New England transcendentalism — the exacting spirit of the old evangelicals.

The existence of social biases, however, does not necessarily mean that the rest of the critics» indictment, about pernicious motivations, is supported by the evidence.

As social critic Theodore Roszak states in The Cult of Information, «An excess of information may actually crowd out ideas, leaving the mind (young minds especially) distracted by sterile, disconnected facts, lost among the shapeless heaps of data.»

This system, argued by critics as being the antithesis of the online freedom that many readers are used to, was supposedly going to be a turnoff for what could have otherwise been consumers who readily shared the Times» content within their social media circles.

Friedman's question has been asked by both supporters and critics of the current trends in publishing, but she portrays and industry where readers transform the social fabric surrounding the culture of books.

YA / General Interest: The sharp social satire will not be lost on teens, who by nature are among the world's most observant social critics.

Joanna Trollope is the British doyenne of middle - class domestic drama, having explored marital breakdowns, adoption, step - parenting, and any number of other social dilemmas that make up modern - day family life, and Second Honeymoon is considered by critics to be one of her best books in years.

Social media evaluation practices — rating, ranking, voting, «liking,» and «friending» by ordinary users, peers, and critics — have become essential promotional tools for musicians.

While stories from current and ex-employees which have been appearing on social media suggest systematic breaches of the Code by the LDH, (such killing dogs in front of other dogs), many of the practices which have outraged critics might not be morally defensible, but are perfectly legal.

The art critic Harold Rosenberg, wrote in 1959, said that the purpose of the «the art colony on Tenth Street» was to «transmute the ranks established by social class into a hierarchy based on talent or daring.»

These witty watercolors by the artist, critic, and social gadfly Guy Pène du Bois depict the goings - on at the first incarnation of the Whitney, the Whitney Studio Club at 8 West 8th Street, where he had had a solo show a couple of years earlier.

What's different today is not just the heightened economic inequality we see within the US, but also the widespread de rigueur expectation — reinforced by curators, academics, and, indeed, critics — that serious artists offer a kind of protest, working to subvert the very social and economic power structures their patrons uphold.