Sentences with phrase «certain kind of history»

I didn't go to Zinn for a left view or a right view, but because he woke me up to a certain kind of history that I was unaware of, and it helped to change me.

Not exact matches

While this prediction accords with some ongoing dynamics of Christian history, and while it might be vindicated several centuries down the line, the persistent vitality of traditional Protestantism, as well as certain ecumenical moves by both Catholics and Protestants, suggest this was a kind of pro-Catholic wishful thinking on Tocqueville's part, as well as a too determinedly logical kind of thinking.

Revisionist history offers satisfactions of several kinds to a certain type of writer.

It is also rooted in a certain kind of American exceptionalism that has a history on the right, but that conservatives don't talk about very much.

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

Thus the spectacle of persons in Stalin's Russia willingly confessing deeds or words they never committed or spoke, not out of guilt or masochism but out of loyalty to the necessities of the movement's logic which has called for a certain kind of crime to be committed and confessed at a particular point in history.

Because he had left himself no room for any kind of language of analogy, which might have allowed him to say how transcendent being shows itself in immanent existence while still preserving its transcendence, and because, moreover, he had decided in advance that one can not speak of being in other than temporal terms, he really could not escape lapsing into a certain fatalism regarding the history he described.

Other writers have attempted to explain the capacity of narrative to summarize the complexities of self - understanding: «Narrative history of a certain kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of human actions.

Directors have been using Léaud as a walking metaphor for mortality and for film history for several years: they have used him not for novelty casting as such, but to represent an idea of damaged glory or to play a kind of phantom, both of himself and of a certain ideal of cinema.

With the shuffle (injuries from his endurance - running hobby have taken their tolls) and the vocalizations of the character he plays, Dern radiated experience, as well as film history, the kind that a certain type of Oscar voter will doubtless adore.

The only way to visit the cave is on a guided tour, and although, I'm always adverse to tours of any kind, if I'd been able to venture in without a guide, I'm certain I would have got lost in no time and missed out on learning about the history and science that are part of Ruakuri cave's attraction.

If you want to teach history to people with a game than don't make up BS for political correctness by including all kinds of races and genders as soilders who did not take part that way in the war and by taking out certain symbols.

Thats actually OK, most rational people understand that people have their reasons for hating certain sports teams, players, or just like some car enthusiasts hate certain kinds of cars, its all good but at the same time when your attitude, history, or behavior demonstrates that you are completely one sided your opinion basicly is worthless to those seeking a fair assessment of a team, product, person or company.

Drawn from various sources — referencing actual geographies and histories alongside constructed and surreal imagery — the landscape for Todd takes on a certain unreality, there are references to the fantastic, the layered mark, the art of the outsider, the obsessive, the tiered, the mad and the random and their conjunctions with the present, becoming a world of open diversity and retrospective reflection — a kind of performed cosmos where the world forms us as we form the world.

«It's so connected with a certain kind of art history which I always refer to.»

These young guys were spanning the spectrum of this history of art production in Los Angeles, and there really was a sense of a sort of renaissance, where not only were they receiving a great amount of attention but they were simultaneously paying a kind of a homage to a certain group of artists who had not received the international attention that they deserved.

Judith, I am certain of at least one thing — i.e. history will be kind to you.

Firms should also consider creating databases to track their history with certain kinds of cases.

In the landmark case of Hunter v Southam, [1984] 2 SCR 145 Justice Brian Dickson, writing for a unanimous court, said this about the different paths of Canadian and American history, at p. 6 (QL): «The American courts have had the advantage of a number of specific prerequisites articulated in the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as a history of colonial opposition to certain Crown investigatory practices from which to draw out the nature of the interests protected by that Amendment and the kinds of conduct it proscribes.

So if you have a family history of a certain illness (like cancer) or work in a place where you are vulnerable to develop a disorder (lung problems due to working in a coal mine), it is a good idea to buy this kind of a plan before the tragedy strikes.

No matter what kind of policy you're looking to buy in Atlanta, insurance quotes are going to be based on the amount of coverage you want to buy and certain factors including (but definitely not limited to) the zip code you live in, your claims and credit history, and your age that the insurance company uses to figure out how likely they will be to pay out for a large claim.