Sentences with phrase «cultural force with»

And while the brand is smaller in the U.S — at a 1.9 percent share — it has been a major cultural force with a history of groundbreaking ads dating back to the 1960s when Doyle Dane Bernbach won plaudits for an anti-establishment approach and classic copy lines like «Lemon» and «Think Small.»
It's a global cultural force with roots back as far as can be traced, and the rise of blogs and social media has expanded the audience further than ever before.

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See, we have to start with understanding the cultural forces that have made orthodox Christianity so abhorrent to so many people, including the children of believers.
In Blankets, Thompson» with heartbreaking beauty» portrays Christianity as a cultural force that operated mainly as a confidence - zapping, guilt - inducing straight - jacket.
... In Nicaragua there is no systematic practice of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings or torture — as has been the case with the «friendly» armed forces of El Salvador Nor has the Government practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defends.
If I was alone on a desert island with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.
What they can do is to interpret it in the light of the present forces impinging on their lives so that the new pattern of life may be continuous with their cultural tradition.
The question mark that is placed beside Buddhism has to do with its capacity to survive in a world in which the cultural forces will work so strongly to produce the personal or spiritual selfhood which it negates.
This media force, along with other cultural and social influences, shapes the disposition as well as the substance of theology associated with our view of the world.
My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.
Faced with the first full - scale cultural revolution in history, Burke explained with grace and force that the role of custom, manners, and personal character is more fundamental to society than the form or content of law.
Beginning with Genesis 1:1, I plan on taking you verse by verse through the Bible to explain it from a historical - cultural perspective, and in a way that exposes how religion has forced Scripture to become its errand boy, when in reality, Scripture should be leading us away from religion and into a deeper and more intimate relationship with God.
In 1960, it was increasingly evident, not least to people like Congar, that this anti-modernist discipline had become ineffective at coping with the flood of social, cultural, and intellectual forces that confronted the Church.
What I propose in the present analysis is to emphasize three major sets of forces to which the leadership of emerging universities and their constituencies were responding: first, those having to do with the demands of technological society; second, those having to do with ideological conflicts; and third, those having to do with pluralism and related cultural change.
The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.
Every story in Descent offers a correction to some element of American Christian norms around sex and love: Wentworth's affair with his fantasy / bride / child / demon exposes a cultural fetish for «manly strength,» in spite of a religion that should force all of us to confess our need and weakness.
Think of all the cultural assumptions and knowledge that are behind the contemporary phrases «May the Force be with you» or «Live long and prosper.»
The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.
This animus is commonly identified with all those cultural «enemies» conquered in the past; it is called nature religion, goddess worship, paganism, witchcraft, demonism and the like, For a long time, Judaism also existed in Christian consciousness as a force in this suppressed animus.
The people of Riverside County, along with those in the communities of Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore, enjoy an exceptional quality of life, a mild climate, good air quality, reasonably priced land and building sites adjacent to the I - 15 and I - 215 corridors, affordable housing at all levels, a highly skilled labor force, quality educational facilities and programs and cultural, entertainment and recreational activities for every lifestyle.
Helen C. Doria, Millennium Park's first executive director, was a force for cultural programming in Chicago, spending much of her career working with the Chicago Park District and with Lois Weisberg, the city's former longtime commissioner of cultural affairs.
The Department of Cultural Affairs was also hit hard with cuts that could force them to lay off 109 staff members this year and 109 the year after that.
This phenomenon appears too precise to have been caused by the Syrian Arab Republic Government's military forces, and while it is well known that the United States and other partner air forces have the ability to deliver munitions with high precision, the destroyed sites are all cultural sites located within the UNESCO Tentative World Heritage site boundary, according to the report.
I was also tasked with establishing relationships with sister agencies across the globe, which forced me to modulate my communications style based on different cultural mores and preferences.
Roger himself became an iconic force when he joined with Gene Siskel to create one of the longest running, most influential television shows in history, making Chicago the cultural center of film criticism.
With this mechanism of suspense (misleadingly) discarded, viewers are forced to grapple with the emotional, physical, and cultural logistics that Florence and Edward must navigate as a couWith this mechanism of suspense (misleadingly) discarded, viewers are forced to grapple with the emotional, physical, and cultural logistics that Florence and Edward must navigate as a couwith the emotional, physical, and cultural logistics that Florence and Edward must navigate as a couple.
How would you deal with cultural differences if you were forced to move somewhere new?
Black Panther has become a cultural force, with the «Wakanda forever» salute being recognized as a symbol of cultural pride in the African - American community.
When Coppola returns to the Croisette this week with The Beguiled, her film will be part of a festival that is embracing the technological and cultural forces that have rocked the industry, to controversial results.
Movies, with their cultural ESP, sensed the disturbance in the Force in 2016.
Beyond attempting to address historical omissions, Inclusive Cultural Response also needs to be an active force that changes with the needs of a given group.
With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pass on the traditional knowledge to their children.
The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights.
These conventions help in regulating companies with respect to various aspects of the human rights, such as non-discrimination; women's rights; life, liberty and physical integrity of the person; civic freedoms; employee's rights; child labour; slavery, forced and bonded labour; economic, social and cultural rights; and voluntarism and market forces (Beyond Voluntarism 7 - 34).
The problem begins with those who mistake racism for cultural criticisms — very complex, divisive forces that will no doubt be here for a long time.
They respect the cultural balance and we have not been forced to change so much in order to work with them.
Looking forward, House says it's important for the games industry to have the courage to experiment with new game concepts — to promote itself as a cultural force, not just a financial success.
Unlimited Productions Art Night was founded by Unlimited Productions — a collective of young cultural entrepreneurs from all around Europe, who decided to join forces to share their passion for art and London with the public.
Her process - based work is concerned with examining the forces at stake in contested cultural and political histories.
Sanné Mestrom's work with objects often involves invisible forces, references to art and cultural history, and explorations of the psychological or emotional significance attributed to objects.
In her second solo show in New York, «Dead People Don't Scream», VALIE EXPORT examines the cultural spectrum, combining forces from societal realms with those of power at a universal level.
The history of modern art, from dada onwards, is littered with movements whose subversive force has been emasculated by cultural acceptance, a fact of which the artists here are painfully aware.
An exhibition at the city's de Young Museum last year, celebrating the centennial of this historic event, opened with an artwork that revived San Francisco's claim as a cultural beacon: a mural by local painter Arthur Frank Mathews titled The Victory of Culture over Force (Victorious Spirit)(1914).
Formerly chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and recently a co-director of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Schimmel is credited with playing a pivotal role in establishing southern California's unique contemporary art scene as a potent force on the global cultural stage.
Together representing the cutting edge of international photography, the four artists engage with broad historical and cultural forces such as war, colonialism, urban planning and advertising.
China Cultural Centre in Sydney will join forces with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Portrait Gallery, Museums & Galleries of NSW, UNSW Art & Design, Macquarie Group, Gene & Brain Sherman Collection and Nicholas Jose & Claire Roberts in presenting an exhibition titled A Retrospective of Chinese Archibald Finalists, on view -LSB-...]
Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?
Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit arts organization founded in 2004 by curator Jason Andrew and choreographer Julia K. Gleich with a founding mission to create, promote, and present collaborations among the visual, literary and performing arts to connect emerging artistic communities and unite cultural forces to foster artistic expression and raise the imaginative energy in us all.
For artists practicing in city centers such as New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, etc there are insurmountable financial restrictions forcing cultural practitioners into a complicated relationship with objects, one that more often than not results in an immaterial object that transcends spatio - temporality.
Michael Piazza's death in 2006 robbed Chicago of one of its most persistent cultural and social activists, an artist and teacher who believed that creativity could be a corrective and redemptive force with the potential to ameliorate the conditions...
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