Sentences with phrase «circumscribed lives»

«Slavery by Another Name»: As slavery came to an end with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force, brutalizing, terrorizing and ultimately circumscribing the lives of hundreds of thousands of African Americans well into the 20th century.

Noting the way capitalism circumscribes life to a relation with the market, Allan Sekula writes «[t] hese forces sought to organize people as atomized «private individuals,» motivated en masse by the prospect of consumption, thus liquidating other dangerously oppositional forms of social bonding.»

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One day my American literature professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive woman who was satisfied to live in a circumscribed world in Amherst, Massachusetts.

They witness to the fact that God is not circumscribed by the walls of religious sanctuaries and that God is concerned with the processes and activities of daily life.

It seems to be quite important for the religious and mental life of men that concepts of deity do not too narrowly circumscribe the requirements of imagination.

But instead of attending more closely to these circumstances in order to think seriously about the changing place and politics of free speech in contemporary India, its proponents have lapsed into an anachronistic narrative about circumscribing the reach of religious dogma in social life.

«It seems to be a circumscribed manifestation of a widespread, older belief that has been labeled «infant determinism,» the idea that a critical period early in development has irreversible consequences for the rest of a child's life,» the researchers wrote in their analysis.

And while circumstances and her particular gifts might circumscribe Kitana Kiki Rodriguez's future career, she'll always have this indie epic to remember as a showcase, a great role that a colorful life prepared her to play.

With her new life circumscribed by a kindly priest and mother - hen landlady — Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters respectively providing awards - season pedigree — Brooklyn itself turns out to be something of an Irish colony, but night - classes and the romantic attentions of Emory Cohen's hard - working Italian - American plumber, spark an appreciably developing self - confidence.

Their lives are circumscribed by the toolshed where they are kept, locked behind a door with a number keypad.

She soon gives birth, and then life becomes very circumscribed.

Life narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations enacts a physical, emotional, and financial toll.

Despite living in an age accustomed to rates of speed that were previously unimaginable, we are somehow nostalgically or even biologically conditioned to reproduce mostly images of what seems securely anchored or circumscribed right in front of us, controlled by our arbitrary framing.

That Kline repeatedly chose to work from the photographic image indicates that despite his academic training, which included drawing from a live model, he preferred to work from a medium that artificially, or a priori, flattened and circumscribed reality within a frame and drained it of colour.

Life in late - capitalist culture, according to Halley's own critical writing, has been inscribed and circumscribed by geometric networks: think of the urban grid, the office tower, the high - rise apartment building, the correctional institution, the parking lot.

The same forces that direct our aesthetic impulses in life also circumscribe our death, and if Lum's newer work is more grim and difficult, it is of a piece with, and a logical conclusion to, the previously mischievous, sweet way of investigating our imagined relationships to our real conditions of existence.

Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso at the Morgan Library & Museum may not venture very far beyond canonical European artists, but it uncovers richness and diversity within a circumscribed field, especially in the work of its two anchors, Albrecht Dürer and Pablo Picasso.

Filled with sharp edges, electrified fences, and cages, it is overall a portrait of discomfort, and of the ever - present disappointment of a life circumscribed by the perceived denial of a real origin.

Real single people live bigger, more interesting, and more meaningful lives than those very circumscribed topics would suggest.

Yes, we definitely turn inwards in autumn, and our lives are circumscribed by our surroundings.