Sentences with phrase «cultural status quo»

Maybe folks (our world wide cultural status quo) should learn to not live in the flood plains by seas lakes or rivers, in the ravines or on hillsides in traditional forest fire zones, in major cities built on fault lines, in mass urbanized areas within the waterless desert, or continuously need bigger Government to solve the day to day challenges of solving basic problems.

About Site - We want to encourage Christians to be salt and light in the full panoply of life, living out the norms of the kingdom in ways that do good to people around us while challenging the cultural status quo with the norms of the kingdom and the prospect of a new heaven and a new earth.

Frank is a genuine original in a summer sea of sameness, and a darkly comedic manifesto against the cultural status quo.

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.

«This painless integration into the cultural status quo is, moreover, the implicit objective of leading M.F.A. programs,» she claims, «which rather than developing «old fashioned» manual skills, teach budding artists how to thrive within this system.

Taken together, the reproduction of images in these works becomes a complex allegory for the reproduction of the cultural status quo — in particular the perpetuation of racial, class, and gender hierarchies in American culture.

The style of Romanticism attracted artists who wanted to liberate art from old fashioned values; the Academic style of art was embraced by those who favoured the cultural status quo - in England, this included followers of Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92).