Sentences with phrase «cultural life seem»

But its fascinating culture and open lifestyle are unique in Europe and its creative and cultural life seem stronger, or at least more visible, than in other major cities of its kind.

But its turbulent and fascinating history are unique in Europe and its creative and cultural life seem stronger, or at least more visible, than in other major cities of its kind.»

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Finally, Noll's fascinating conclusion that Protestant colonists were most apt to apply biblical teaching to public life when they had an anxious relationship with the wider social order seems to imply a fundamental and revealing link between biblical hermeneutics and cultural anxiety.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

The fear of «a Catholic parochialism, in which Catholic culture... simply projects its theoretically naïve biographical perspective onto the social and cultural map of the present» (page 76) seems to weigh more with the authors of On the Way to Life than a confidence in what we have to offer.

It seems possible that social and cultural shifts that redefine masculinity and male roles in relation to childcare and family life may support positive changes in health behaviour among fathers, including their smoking practices (Bottorff et al, 2006).

It is a revealing mistake, because it suggests that she believes she's living in the 1950s, which indeed seems to be her preferred cultural destination.

We might have some archeological record, but it seems like the behavior armamentarium of the Neandertal was very different; the cultural aspects of Neandertal life were very different from Homo sapiens.

The film seems to live up to its «cultural phenomenon» praise as a visual masterpiece, with an emotional story arc, women empowerment, social and political issues, and Oscar - worthy performances especially from Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmanger.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

The campaign drives the message that while some products may seem harmless, the demand created and their sale can, in fact, have devastating effects on the lives of innocent people, on wildlife or on cultural property.

Seems like he and I approach living abroad in similar ways, trying to see as much as possible and saying «yes» to stuff we normally wouldn't, so I really enjoyed hearing about his experiences and his thoughts about some of the cultural differences and nuances between his American life and what he experienced in Costa Rica.

This luxury villa rental in the Puerto Vallarta, Mexico is a living sculptural environment created by Mexican designer Jorge Rubio and hand made in clay by sculptor artist Suzy Odom, elements of nature and various cultural influences were used to build a house that seems to have been sculpted in -LSB-...]

As far as social practice goes, the project seems to have been done in the best possible spirit — mobilizing the resources of a major cultural institution in collaboration with the community to create some genuine benefit for the people who live in the neighborhood.

In the mid-1970s, Hilton Kramer took note of an inflection point in art, with painting and sculpture on the one side and photography on the other: «At a moment in our cultural life when the imperatives of formalism seem to be on the wane in the discussion, if not in the actual practice, of painting and sculpture, a vigorous restatement of the formalist position has come from a surprising quarter — from the world of photography.»

To think of the street as the ideal location on which the many - faceted, cultural life of the metropolis is shown now seems outdated, but still phrases such as street art and street culture are forever being used by numerous art institutions, generally funded with public money.

Those cooler periods loomed large in the minds of people who were living in those regions, and the cultural prominence of the opinions and writings of those people made those cooler periods seem singular, severe, and global.