Sentences with phrase «cultural shock of»

So while Mavis is busy visiting her human in - laws with Johnny — and in for a major cultural shock of her own — «Vampa» Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a «monster - in - training» boot camp.

For about two weeks the star could be seen in daylight, but at the end of November it began to fade and change color, from bright white over yellow and orange to faint reddish light, finally fading away from visibility in March, 1574, having been visible to the naked eye for almost 16 months (more about Brahe's «acid tongue and silver nose,» the cultural shock of the «new star,» and how supernovae create high - energy radiation from Wallace H. Tucker).

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«There is a degree of cynicism and greed which is really quite shocking... and that does suggest that there are some very wide cultural issues that need to be strongly addressed.»

The fact that Jesus is on the side of women should be our source of encouragement and empowerment as we continue to serve God and strive for a full and equal ministry.81 Nothing, perhaps, was more shocking for his contemporaries than the freedom with which he associated himself with women, considering the inferior position of women in Jewish society.82 According to R. L. Hnuni, «male dominated cultural and traditional values and injunctions may put boundaries and debar them from full ministry, but this should not discourage women's conviction and commitment to full ministry.

And yes, where I think that titling this birth method «orgasmic birth» might be a cultural shock for some, it gets the attention of the current birthing generation and that's all that matters in my book.

Ok, so you were shocked not by your husband's cultural requirement for circumcision of boys, but by how long they wait until the boy is cut.

I read the book when I was pregnant (again thankfully) and was shocked to learn how many common parenting beliefs I'd assumed were simply «facts» were completely (U.S.) cultural and even flew in the face of our basic biology / evolution.

Hearing them extoll the virtues of marriage so extravagantly put Guttentag into a kind of «cultural shock,» she later wrote.

His most recent book, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, explains our cultural transition to «presentism,» a post-clock society enabled by the flexibility and reach of the Internet and those ubiquitous ways to stay connected to it.

The latest competition from Jiayuan.com is also an exercise in shock - marketing intended to boost online registrations in the fiercely competitive online dating business, boosted in part by the shortage of girls in China caused by the one - child policy and the cultural preference for sons.

The government fears any leak of the discovery may cause anxious panic or «cultural shock and social disorientation» among the families of Clavius personnel.

He sets up for contrast and comparison two veterans, the well - to - do Max Rothman, a composite of the cultural elite shell - shocked by World War I, and Hitler, a homeless corporal with no real future.

The plot here is entirely predictable but as with Ozu's family dramas the real meat is in the film's visual aesthetic and cultural context, at once captured most intensely during a scene where Teresa witnesses a financial crisis - related suicide with all the suddenness of an Alfonso Cuaron action sequence and Chen captures her jaded shock by shooting her from low angles through light - heavy filters.

What kinds of cultural shock do these young adults experience upon their arrival in Kansas City?

by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions of film form.

While subtlety wasn't expected, the never ending mugging at the camera, poorly scripted references to varied cultural phenomenon of that time (photography, burking, mob protection), and stream of celebrity cameos (Bill Bailey, Ronnie Corbett) gives the impression that Landis was more concerned in operating the cinematic equivalent of a «shock and awe» campaign, rather than making a solid piece of genre entertainment.

Smack dab in the middle of a season dominated by superheroes and minions comes «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a re-enactment of the shocking»70s psychology project so disturbing and infamous it remains a hot topic in textbooks and a cultural touchstone for conversations about the abuse of power by authority figures.

They could help their students with «cultural shock» given that many ELL students tend to be immigrants or children of immigrants.

All may end up by the new cultural shock when religion will be not a finding of the God but the search for a platform to justify their hatred for the modern world, its injustice.

Alert Bay on Cormorant Island is home of the outstanding Potlatch Collection at U'mista Cultural Centre and of Culture Shock, an interactive gallery and winner of a 2009 Aboriginal Tourism of BC (ATBC) award for its unique hands - on cultural expeCultural Centre and of Culture Shock, an interactive gallery and winner of a 2009 Aboriginal Tourism of BC (ATBC) award for its unique hands - on cultural expecultural experiences.

«Back when we made System Shock, cyberpunk was still at its height in terms of popularity and cultural significance and it was a big inspiration,» he said.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

Black glitter, stencils, thick swipes of paint, and electric shocks of color coalesce in enticing, pulsating scenes that blend realities of sexuality and cultural identity with fantasy.

A prime mover behind the so - called Cool Britannia era, when cultural figures from Alexander McQueen to the Spice Girls drew the world spotlight on England, the YBAs made provocative art that was doubly shocking for coming out of London, which hadn't been considered a true art capital since the Victorian era.

Here are sculptures that presupposed every cultural art shock of the 90s, from Hirst, to Emin to the Chapmans, by ten years clear.

Christy Symington MRBS Ongoing exhibition, October 9, 2015 - June 4, 2016 Black Georgians: The Shock of the Familiar, Black Cultural Archives, Brixton, London, UK

In early 2010, her work will be included in the exhibition Unusual Behavior at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and Culture Shock: Video Interventions at the QET as part of the Vancouver 2010 cultural Olympiad.

Since I was a child I have been drawn to the contradictory cultural space of bad as good, wherein artists intentionally disappoint, baffle or alienate the viewer (not necessarily to shock), or don't believe in failure, or believe in a conversation rather than a meter of quality.

In the mid-1990s, the attempted sale of Maryland Institute College of Art's entire collection of 20,000 French prints by such masters as Eugene Delacroix and Mary Cassatt shocked the nation's cultural community and ended up in court.

Within each of these geographic areas, the history of the galleries, artist collectives, individuals, collectors, artists, and institutions — including the South Dallas Cultural Center, the Arts District, Good / Bad Collective, Toxic Shock, and others — will be presented through the ephemeral objects produced by these neighborhoods over the past fifty years along with research compiled for the DallasSITES project.

Sheet Metal, Spring (shock absorber), Foam, 6 x80x170 cm / Image courtesy of The Algerian Cultural Agency

What shocked me was not just the paucity of argument in the proposal, but the general cultural ignorance behind it, the unexamined prejudices, the kneejerk anti-intellectualism and cultural suspicion of contemporary art.

His art collecting in the 1980s and 1990s, a period when he was central to new British art, was strong on shocks and thrills, low on the sort of cultural theory that loves such forms as live art.

Leader of the pack, De Kooning, along with Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell et al gave contemporary art a massive cultural shock with their both rugged and romantic paintings.

The school was a shocking throwback to the cultural norms of the 1950's.

One thing that every person should experience in his or her life is cultural shock, or the experience of total confusion at a societal norm that completely challenges everything in your life.