Sentences with phrase «called primitive»

For the past 17 years or so I have hooked and designed rugs for my mail order business called Primitive Spirit.

Displayed in full at the museum, the speech is a kind of manifesto for the creative field Dubuffet had been constructing since 1945, arguing the superior authenticity and raw creativity of works made by children, psychiatric patients, so - called primitive artists, and other anonymous individuals who were «uncontaminated by artistic culture.»

The work for which he's shortlisted, «It for Others» is a critique of Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's 1953 film «Statues Also Die» about the way museums present so - called primitive art.

The show's opening section, devoted to the interwar years in the United States, focuses on folk and so - called primitive painting and sculpture.

She juxtaposes references from the past and present (or future), weaving visual and audio material (including video clips found on the internet), digital rendering techniques and objects, alongside so - called primitive and high tech elements, creating distinct and evocative installations.

By juxtaposing these painted cartoon characters with images of pop stars, nuclear power plants and masks from so - called primitive cultures, Wachtel's work also tackles the function and significance of images in modern society and the socio - political landscape of our time.

«Souls Grown Deep,» an enormous collection of vernacular art — what used to be called primitive art — by Southern African - Americans is the show to see in Atlanta.

Chagoya often appropriates the visual tropes of Western modernism in his works, just as the masters of Modern art cannibalized so - called primitive forms without properly contextualizing them.

This two story spacious luxury villa (350 m2 living area) has recently been redesigned by the renowned Javanese designer Hidajat and combines modern Asian, Balinese and Javanese and so - called primitive East - Indonesian Island interior design to give you 5 star exclusive feel in all its simplicity.

The way he examines issues of liberty, freedom, technology, so - called primitive versus Western cultures, etc., was exciting and very Melville like.

When Dr. Weston A. Price studied so - called primitive peoples, he found that they consumed large amounts of fat - soluble vitamins A and D (as well as vitamin K2, which he called the X Factor) from foods such as pastured butter, egg yolks, organ meats, shellfish, fatty fish and animal fats — as well as from foods that modern people don't normally eat, such as intestines, brain, lungs, thymus, fish liver, fish heads, fish eggs and fat from various game animals.

Beginning with a presentation of Dr. Weston Price's unforgettable photographs of healthy traditional peoples, Sally delineates the underlying factors in a variety of traditional diets that conferred beauty, strength and complete freedom from disease on so - called primitive populations.

One of Dr. Price's most fascinating findings was the care with which so - called primitive people planned for pregnancy and nourished pregnant women, infants and growing children.

There are federal prohibitions against allowing an embryo to develop past the point where it forms a structure called a primitive streak, which happens on the 15th day after fertilization.

One such example is a rare, aggressive childhood brain tumor called primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the central nervous system (CNS - PNET).

Babies arrive in the world hard - wired with a wide range of reflexes (often called primitive or infantile reflexes).

You do what women in so - called primitive cultures have done for centuries, you put the baby in a sling and carry her around with you.

When one speaks in a historical - religious way of the Supreme Being of the so - called primitive peoples, one usually means by this the Celestial Supreme Being.

(Wach lamented, however, the lack of interest in the so - called primitive religions in North America).

Scientific discourse has called these primitive judgments of importance and relevance «hunches,» «intuitions,» etc..

The former, which may be called primitive science, describes the knowledge of the properties of materials gained by craftsmen working with wood, stone and metals, and that of plants and animals obtained by experience.

But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists — for instance, Jevons and Frazer — expressly oppose «religion» and «magic» to each other, it is certain that the whole system of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called primitive religion.

The ideal procedure would be to continue the introductory course by a three - term sequence, the first of which would be given over to a presentation of so - called primitive religions, the second and third dedicated to the religions of the West and of the East, or of the higher and highest (world) religions respectively.

(Unfortunately, we must constantly remind people that prohibitions and taboos do not come from Christianity, and that as far as situations that create guilt are concerned, you can find nothing better than the tangles of prohibitions among so - called primitive peoples.

Buddhism in its various branches, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, and others of the long - established religious faiths — plus new religions all over the world and the so - called primitive or local religions of Africa and elsewhere — are all now of world concern.

The sociologist of religion will realize that it is rather a question of emphasis; individual expression and pecularity being present already on the level of so - called primitive civilization and communal worship playing a most important part in the highest forms of religion and culture.

Thirdly, Eliade observes that theological study seeks to study selected data from monotheistic religions rather than from the so - called primitive materials and, moreover, secondary importance is accorded to religions of the Mediterranean world.

Some societies are called primitive and some are called advanced, but society is the constant in the human story.

The cultures to which they give rise, whether we call them primitive or advanced, are grounded in cult.

In a deliciously perverse last chapter they see the attraction of elites to Allan Bloom's absolutist simplicities in The Closing of the American Mind as an example of what I am calling primitive sophistication.

Call it a primitive humanism.

Not exact matches

Russia steps up its rhetoric against the Trump administration, calling it «primitive» and «inconsistent.»

Would you care to explain how it is that «primitive sheep herders» as most of you love to derogatorily call them were able to in and of themselves write scripture such that the first two books Genesis & Exodus spell TORAH = LAW for every equidistant letter sequence of the 50th letter... and does the same backwards HAROT for Numbers & Deuteronomy, and the 3rd book that they're pointing towards Leviticus, every 7th letter (7 is God's number for perfection) spells YHWH = The name of God.

I find it stupid for someone whose basic social level has not changed for 6000 yrs to call someone living 2000 yrs ago primitive.

What you call peering into the mind of god thru this ancient books is simply peering into the minds of primitive humans that lived in darkness, both literally and mentally.

There is no doubt that a lot of what Joseph Smith said (and other «primitive Mormon Church» leaders) could be called into question.

This farce called creationism is just stupid, counterproductive, and incredibly PRIMITIVE.

mfahmy — Egypt is indeed free to do what it wants and we, in the FREE world, can call it out as a primitive and racist decision.

It has its setting in what the German form - critics have called the sitz - im - leben, the «life - situation,» of the primitive Christian Church.

You, and most so called followers of Jesus» teachings, continue to act impulsively with your primitive animal nature.

Just as the primitive Christian could call upon his hearer to rejoice in the Crucifixion because it effected the advent of the Kingdom of God, the contemporary Christian can announce the glad tidings of the death of God, and speak with joy of the final consummation of the self - annihilation of God.

More than the gruesome tales of how they were tortured, it is more horrifying to imagine how mankind could create a burning hell on earth, that was what it must have been for the Christians of Lyons and Vienne; yet these primitive Christians suffered and endured just believing that a man called Jesus gave his life for many others.

God: Yeah, one of the species of life has developed some primitive form of speech and they have started calling on me to intervene on their behalf.

The former, Eliade calls «man of the archaic cultures», «man of traditional civilizations», «primitive man», «man of premodern socities» etc..

And as far as primitive people's suffering, there wasn't much of what you called suffering before they came face to face with civilization.

you don't think that so called scientific results are skewered... or that the primitive machines that we use to discover our universe are woefully incapable of plumbing the depths of knowledge that an all wise creator has put in place... science is like some guys throwing dice and hoping it comes up sevens on consecutive throws... get over yourself

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

The so - called Apostles» Creed in particular still betrays in its form and language its direct descent from the primitive apostolic Preaching.

The laws adopted as formal axioms in Principia are called «primitive propositions.»

These art forms became specialized, e.g. in seeking to understand the physical world (primitive astronomic devices), and some were specialized in what we call art, philosophy and drama.