Sentences with phrase «cultural markers»

Shut out at the BAFTAs, and nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Graham Moore, Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game and all the awards glory surrounding its release has resulted in the film being representative as a sort of cultural marker.

As things, forms also serve as cultural markers, punctuating periods of use, or conversely of uselessness, within a duration longer than the human scope.»

Surrounding the figures like medieval putti are smaller representations of Wonder Woman and other such cultural markers as Josephine Baker, Narcissus, and the Scarlet Witch.

Maybe Star Trek and other cultural markers weren't optimistic despite Vietnam, the threat of nuclear warfare, or Carter - era «malaise,» but were hopeful precisely because of them.

Nike's naming change suggests an early cultural marker.

This study is one of the first in its kind and we hope will point to the importance of coprolites as important cultural markers and thus any archaeological dig should include the search and preservation of any coprolites found at the sites.

Insignificant cultural markers of the past take on new meaning leading to new insights.

A raucous laugh track further situates the installation within the cultural paradigm of the 1980s, referencing the artist's formative experiences reconciling conflicting personal identifications through cultural markers.

Rashaad Newsome, an artist from New Orleans, makes videos involving dancers and dealing with African - American cultural markers.

The notion that the city is a threshold, that it stands apart from the rest of the country, is a potent cultural marker, one that many New Yorkers subscribe to.

There are distinct cultural markers; familiar tropes and debates; particular groups designated to lobby for change and economic interests accustomed to fighting it; conventional methods of litigation, regulation, and legislation.

Clearly middle - class constructions of street hookers rule out such cultural markers — though apparently not those of ideologically correct specimens such as Woody Allen's undereducated prostitutes and convicts, who are apt to use terms like «dem» and «dose.»

Because some of the cultural markers of adulthood are shifting, where adolescence ends is also shifting.

I think our church is deeply Pentecostal in practice, but doesn't have a lot of the cultural markers that people associate with Southern Pentecostalism.

To be sure, we can keep on moving the cultural markers, and still comfort ourselves that we know where the redefined «center» is.

On one level, he distinguishes Christianity's role as a cultural marker from its role as a causative factor in several contemporary and historical conflicts.

He is on point in calling the multicultural education industry to task for its neglect of religion as a cultural marker.

In that way the movie, which also peppers its all - Latino voice cast with turns by Alfonso Arau, Edward James Olmos, Selene Luna, Cheech Marin and Luis Valdez, both honors the rich aesthetic heritage of Mexico and keeps these cultural markers from looking like they were merely dusted off and computer - generated for mass consumption.

The subject of U.'s report is nothing less than the totality of the current era, the trends, behaviors, and cultural markers that define the times.

For Boomers and beyond, toys are cultural markers that are very specific to their time, more so than any other product.

From the introduction, Golden on the title of the exhibit: «When I thought of some of the cultural markers that defined these practitioners, music culture prevailed.

Built from our subjective queer - feminist dispositions, these sculptures are sociological, institutional or cultural markers that are located in discrepancies of meaning making.

Belief in global warming is a cultural marker, an aspect of the same vapid credentialism that gives leftists the vapors when someone who doesn't have an Ivy League degree considers running for President.