Sentences with phrase «certain kind of appeal»

Nevertheless, in an age when distinctive folk cultural forms like hip hop are going mainstream into popular culture, Pentecostalism has a certain kind of appeal.

Not exact matches

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

Luxy won't appeal to everyone, but for a certain kind of dater, it's exactly what Dr. Cupid ordered.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

It's the kind of indie that mainstream chicks like me can express a certain appreciation for, while still cautioning the masses that its greatest appeal will surely lie almost exclusively with the arty crowd.

And, honestly, if one believes that our educational agenda should be primarily defined in terms of the racial and socioeconomic «achievement gap,» you can see how this kind of strip mining might have a certain appeal.

In the competitive, market - based view of public education, schools compete by promoting a brand that will appeal to certain kinds of students.

If your cat seems to prefer eliminating on a certain kind of surface or in a certain location, you'll need to make that surface or its location less appealing.

Let's face it, D: OS is quite a complex game; there is a lot of methodical problemsolving to be done for certain battles and I believe that kind of thinking appeals to the male psyche.

A certain kind of museum show simply won't find a sponsor, but another kind is more appealing to the public and a bank will sign up.

Now, I think the point is that Surrealism also had certain popular elements that could appeal to a large public like the postcard color, the use of realistic, naturalistic techniques, as in Dali - so that this was a kind of dilution of the values that had existed; there was a lowering of the standard that Cubism had.

His kind of art, studded with dense cultural references, appeals to a certain kind of academically minded curator because it seems intelligent and subversive — until you look at it.