Sentences with phrase «cultural debate»

There is an ongoing cultural debate over Biblical references to the human power over nature.

In fact, the continuing cultural debate over training methodology has been long closed in scientific circles.

American cultural debate today quickly breaks down along partisan lines.

It's a conversation that I believe reflects a shift in the wider cultural debate — at least in certain groups.

Along with Thelma & Louise, Singleton's film was the second film of that summer to spark a flashpoint for cultural debate in the mainstream media.

The difficulty of the paradigm, of course, is that it lifts media policy out of a mere bureaucratic administration into a broader dimension of cultural debate: what sort of symbolic environment do we have, what sort of symbolic environment do we want, and what is the role of the media in our collective effort to deal with our human potential for violence?

It made me think about current cultural debates about multiculturalism, how we see our tradition and how others see it.

Whether Django Unchained and earlier Tarantino films including Jackie Brown, Kill Bill (2003) and Inglorious Basterds (2009) are racist has engendered much cultural debate.

Through a strong emphasis on originating art and culture from within and fostering a spirit of national participation, QM is helping Qatar find its own distinctive voice in today's global cultural debates.

The award is conceived as a way both of recognizing individuals who have «provided essential impulses in the field of contemporary art» and as a tool to provoking cultural debate, and carries no financial reward.

Yet in the 1980s and 90s, British cultural debates were, pathetically, expressed in these ways.

Indeed, and most remarkably, the artists featured in Beyond the Veil have opted to portray themselves on their own terms, bringing distinct senses of history onto the broader cultural debate.

To him the far more likely situation was that abstraction was still in an early phase, that its future could hardly be imagined, that its potential might not be realized for decades to come.7 Varnedoe reinforced this view when he wrote, «Abstract art has been with us in one form or another for almost a century now, and has proved to be not only a long - standing crux of cultural debate, but a self - renewing, vital tradition of creativity.»

In The Working Gal's Guide to Babyville: Your Must - Have Manual for Life with Baby, author Paige Hobey avoids taking sides in this ongoing cultural debate, but offers a guide for gals who've made the choice to return to work post-baby.

But in a sign of the film's power and place in the cultural debate, Apple Inc said on Sunday it plans to carry the movie for rental and purchase on iTunes, the biggest and most - popular online content store.

But this is more of a cultural debate in this country.

The morality debate is just like any cultural debate.

The federal courts should not preempt this developing moral and cultural debate.

To my mind, however, a game changer in the cultural debate would have to address eros and its completion — or at least the alternative claims for its completion.

Frank Bruni, in his essay» Genetic or Not, Gay Will Not Go Away «(New York Times, January 28, 2012), makes a broad point regarding which I am in complete agreement: Our societal, legal, and cultural debates will not be solved by science.

Kennedy's decision, now the law of the land, forces us to ask a series of critically important questions: Are citizens» whether Protestants, Catholics, Jews, or Mormons» who seek to apply transcendent moral values to public life welcome in political, legal, and cultural debates?

The themes about which Buber wrote, like the contexts in which he wrote, changed considerably over the course of his life as he moved from being a leading Weimar intellectual and educator to a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem active in Israeli political and cultural debates to, finally, a post «Holocaust religious thinker extremely influential in both postwar Germany and the United States.

It quickly came to seem merely an electoral expedient, not a genuine contribution to a wider political and cultural debate.

Todd asked what was going to come next for the Democratic Party, pointing out that this is a cultural debate.

This is why Bit, in line with its history and tradition that sees it protagonist of tourism not only as a venue for business but also as an opportunity for meetings and cultural debate, has decided to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary by promoting, in Italy and abroad, a small refined book entitled Case Museo in Italia.

The mission of the museum includes «weaving a continuous exchange between its own historical works and today's cultural debate, and setting a close relationship for its exhibition program between contemporary and historical collections.»

Taking place from 29 — 31 March, Art Basel Hong Kong marks a week filled of non-stop art - gazing, cultural debate and social and satellite events galore.

In the context of the UK City of Culture award — of which Derry was the inaugural winner — the Turner was therefore powerfully relevant as a source of potential civic pride and cultural debate.

This book is the first to address Thayer's participation in some of the greatest scientific and cultural debates of his age, proposing that the artist's seemingly idiosyncratic religious subjects and scientific theories were an attempt to reconcile spiritual uncertainties in a time of emerging science.

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Exploring key issues in society and politics, Iniva offers a platform for artistic experiment, cultural debate and the exchange of ideas.

«I don't think we will win the cultural debate if we always use the term «sacrifice,»» the German member of the European Parliament said this afternoon at the conference.