Sentences with phrase «conventional understanding»

Starting with conventional understandings of the exercise of power leads to a dead end.

Most of the public has neither the patience nor interest to follow complex discussions of legal reasoning — especially when it differs from conventional understanding.

The breakdown in conventional understanding that irony prompts does not, as so many assume, necessarily give rise to skepticism.

He is not merely tweaking conventional understandings, he is correcting them.

A man named Priscillian began to preach some unorthodox things about the Gospel and was executed after powerful people deemed his beliefs to be too far from conventional understandings about the Bible.

This is not the first time astronomers have spotted objects that defy conventional understanding.

It's set in the future - from the ARG the year 2028 - but its energy experiment events directly influence the past, rippling across infinite dimensions and completely obliterating conventional understanding of time as a linear construct.

Als interrogates conventional understanding of what it means to love and to relate to someone, and that consciousness fills the big white rooms of David Zwirner.

His pieces embody social, political and moral issues; his juxtapositions uproot and invert conventional understandings of the world around us.

Moreover, the older works consistently skirt conventional understandings of Minimalism, while the newer ones reflect upon or utilize algorithms — sets of rules described by formulas, nowadays typically followed by computer software for problem - solving purposes — in such different ways as to render the term disposable.

A second essay by Elizabeth Diggon, a graduate student at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., notes the artist's efforts to reframe conventional understandings, not just of food, but the exhibition space.

Much of Carbon Tracker's impact has been observed in the embedding of climate change risk within conventional understanding of financial risk.

Conventional understanding for the switch to warming in the 1970s is that warming from CO2 overcame cooling from forcings such as sulfate aerosols.

At the Whitworth the gift of the Musgrave - Kinley collection of so - called Outsider Art has fostered research challenging conventional understandings of artists without formal art training.

Challenging conventional understandings of American history, Walker's works are intentionally confrontational, sometimes delivered with a crude voice, and offer dissected representations of racial and gender stereotypes from America's not - so - distant past.

It's an interesting and exciting approach that is shaking up the conventional understanding of educational financing.

They didn't work out so well if you were a woman, a non-white or non-European, or someone who dared to challenge conventional understandings.

It is important to perceive clearly that there is no «black church» in the conventional understanding of that term.

There is a fundamental difference between the normal joshing between members of various ethnic and racial groups — what Dawidowicz referred to as low - key «antagonisms» — and the conventional understanding of anti-Semitism as irrational and unfounded hostility toward Jews, often accompanied by discrimination in employment and housing, for example, and by violent attacks.

The first use of «teacher» relies upon the familiar, conventional understanding, while the second suggests the «teacher» is something uncanny and mysterious.

Then Jesus addresses the host and conventional understandings of hospitality.

Also I'm not sure how «their people» could be considered to be «enslaved» in any conventional understanding of the word.

Or perhaps the planets actually formed from material cast off during that expansion, a theory that would overturn our conventional understanding that planets and stars form together at the same time.

But not everybody agrees and some physicists challenge whether our conventional understanding of quantum mechanics is correct.

Using a technique called synchrotron X-ray fluorescence, the team was able to uncover surprising steps in the production process that challenge the conventional understanding.

The size of this explosion could be the reason that our conventional understanding of the death of stars failed to explain this event.

Our funding of the Catalyst for a Cure (CFC) and its innovative collaborative approach to research has changed the conventional understanding of glaucoma from an eye disease to a neurodegenerative brain disease.

According to a new study by researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, our conventional understanding of how these objects formed may just be wrong — or, at the very least, incomplete.

In recent years, astronomers have spotted supermassive black holes that formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang, even though our conventional understanding tells us that these objects would not have had enough time to grow to their gigantic sizes.

Astronomers have discovered three quasars — each a billion times the mass of the sun — whose very existence challenges our conventional understanding of how supermassive black holes form and evolve.

has not lost its power to provoke and challenge our conventional understanding of patriotism and the necessity of war

This is where «Blade Runner 2049» is most exciting and provocative; it presents a soulful romance between two things that, by conventional understanding, don't have souls.

It's an interesting and exciting approach that is shaking up the conventional understanding of educational financing.

Conclusion The persistence of negative real interest rates across developed cash and government bond markets contradicts our conventional understanding of a risk - free rate.

But Shiller's findings discredit the conventional understanding of how market prices correlate with the economic realities.

So the conventional understanding is wrong.

If the conventional understanding were accurate, changes in stock prices would play out as a random walk.

«Frankenthaler experimented with the woodcut until the end of her career, creating a body of work that both engages with printmaking and challenges a conventional understanding of the medium.

His work eschews representation, narrative, illusion, and conventional understandings of realism, instead exploring the material and compositional qualities offered by his media.

Mauss loosened the conventional understanding of ballet's present - day lineage by selecting a group of 16 dancers with varying relationships to the form, from professional ballerinas to modern dancers.