Sentences with phrase «cultural equivalent»

What is the spiritual and cultural equivalent of the picture of starving children that will move us to action?

In the U.S. — which also places a high value on individualism — there's no real cultural equivalent of hygge.

There will be losses, but it is fully capable of carrying into the future what is humanly valuable about the past, and not in the cultural equivalent of wildlife sanctuaries.

In the annals of American history, we've garnered precious little main text; we're the cultural equivalent of a buried footnote.

[These games] are the cultural equivalent of genetic engineering, except that in this experiment, even more than the other one, we will be the potential new hybrids, the two - pound mice.

We're supposed to set aside the cultural equivalent of isolationism and develop a globalized cultural literacy.

«There is much work to do,» says Julien Anfruns, director - general of the International Council of Museums, and president of the International Committee of the Blue Shield - the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross.

In Rio de Janeiro, Wiley's inspirations did not rest in old master paintings hanging on the walls of powerful institutions, but allowed the work to be impacted by the iconic nationalistic sculptures found around the city, which he might argue are the cultural equivalent to the David or Velasquez paintings referenced in his earlier work.

The cultural equivalent of clamping a major artery to the heart, San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art has been shuttered for three years to enable a staggering 170,000 sq ft (15,800 sq metre) expansion by way of a second structure that links to the first through the original lobby and bridgeway.

Over the past 12 years the Cape Farewell project has evolved a cultural equivalent of the mathematical models by using the notion of expedition and action based research to interrogate the future.