Sentences with phrase «cultural tendency»

Blake's protests against the conventions of his day were inspirational for many young Americans disillusioned by perceived cultural tendencies of social uniformity, materialism and consumerism, racial and gender discrimination, and environmental degradation.

For Clement Greenberg, «Modernist art belongs to the same historical and cultural tendency as modern science.»

Instead, it represented a brilliant fusion of two of the great cultural tendencies of our day: the pressing of Hollywood celebrities into positions of cultural authority which gives them powerful influence far beyond their ability to hold a note or to learn a script; and the transformation of the serious and the sacred into the idioms of showbusiness.

This idea of Personal Ordinariates, that would encompass different social groupings and cultural tendencies into the life of the Church, has the potential to play an increasing role in Catholicism in this increasingly global era.

Factors such as a country's cultural tendency toward egalitarianism or meritocracy, whether the political system is centralized or decentralized, and the degree to...

He sounds remarkably like Clement Greenberg on painterly rigor: «Modernist art belongs to the same historical and cultural tendency as modern science.»

As Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, put it, «There was a cultural tendency to be always on one side and always to be pushing the limits.»

Our theology and our practice of religion have been influenced by this cultural tendency.

Indeed, the tendency of American political institutions to produce centrist political solutions is probably usefully offset by the cultural tendency of movement - style politics to inflate ideological differences into «war.»

Against these cultural tendencies Western society erected laws on marriage.

By placing the Soviet plane in the setting of an empty sky, devoid of potential targets, the artist highlights our cultural tendency to fetishize objects of war, while simultaneously neutering representations of violence — a practice that is particularly manifest in the content of mass - market video games.

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art's exhibition, Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, on view through December 3, documents Black women's relationship with fashion — the cultural tendency to not simply think of it as a way of dress, but...

This legibility points to our cultural tendency to transform human physicality into semiotic indicator, to understand bodies as reflections of character.

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art's exhibition, Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, on view through December 3, documents Black women's relationship with fashion — the cultural tendency to not simply think of it as a way of dress, but a determinant of a way of life.

In addition, accountants have a cultural tendency to focus on process rather than on personalities.

It means getting over our cultural tendency to say only what we think people want to hear and do only what we think people want us to do.