Sentences with phrase «cultural osmosis»

Artworks examine issues like the changing conception of a city, the enviromental impact of industrialization, and the cultural osmosis between east and west.

But in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, I know most of these guys through cultural osmosis.

I read this for the first time at 28 and it is surprisingly touching even when you know the ending in advance through cultural osmosis.

Of course, it often isn't clear whether Brooks has actually seen a Star Wars film or is relying on images he absorbed through cultural osmosis.

If they haven't seen it, they either simply know about it (through cinematic and cultural osmosis) or have watched a parody such as in «The Simpsons».

So far, I have proposed that many activist evangelicals have really come to hold their social views on the basis of cultural osmosis or legitimate political argumentation.

Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.

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Perhaps the demise of cultural Catholicism — Catholicism offered to the next generation without great effort, Catholicism - by - osmosis — is a kind of shipwreck.