Sentences with phrase «cultural distance»

I think the film has other problems, but Hathaway's performance notwithstanding, I don't think cultural distance is the greatest of them.

For this reason, Shakespeare studies — especially at senior student level — can become a subject area where teachers are left feeling even more constrained, as they must work against this perceived cultural distance to create a safe environment for creative exploration and interpretation of the text.

Instead they require people willing to take initiative, to explore and think laterally, to imagine possibilities and be willing to travel across cultural distances in a globalised world in order to achieve any kind of significance.

We are still a psychological and cultural distance away from recognizing and valuing them.

It is an aggregate feeling of remoteness from the concerns of a metropolitan elite, a feeling of physical and cultural distance from the Westminster centre of UK political life.

It creates the context, the use cases, and the processes so that people can be effective working together across physical and cultural distances.»

This failure is perhaps due to the cultural distance between the English - dominated mainline churches and working - class blacks — many of whom also find the charismatics» conservative theology more appealing.

Some join ultraconservative religious or political movements, or they lose themselves in mystics of earlier times as if no cultural distance separated us from the past.

Does a cultural distance between mission leadership and the national contingents make it easier or harder to stop conflict and protect civilians?

I started this essay by pointing out that, despite what geographical and cultural distance would suggest, the Nazis» outgroup was not the vastly different Japanese, but the almost - identical German Jews.

«The cultural distance between what a museum preserves (Cézanne, Joan Mitchell, etc.) and how it spotlights the present (Björk, interactive art, etc.) is greater than ever.»

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu: A career survey of a painter born in China shortly before the 1949 revolution traces her work's obsession with the power of memory and the cultural distances traversed in her experience.