Sentences with phrase «deliberate rejection»

But the term «postmodernism» became current outside this general discourse, within artistic and literary criticism, and in this other more specialized discourse, the «modernism» to which «post -» was prefixed has meant the sensibility that emerged in the arts around the turn of the present century, in deliberate rejection of the world shaped by Enlightenment and Romanticism, i.e., of the world otherwise called «modern.»

I'd put my money on confirmation bias overriding any latent skepticism or perhaps climate scientists being influenced by geological and not biological training, rather than deliberate rejection of the idea of testing the data before you try to explain it.

Modernity is shaped by its deliberate rejection of the past, and modernity itself is our past.

Fidesz in Hungary is more threatening than the Saudi monarchy, even though the latter is far less liberal, because Fidesz represents a retrogression — a deliberate rejection of liberalism by a nation that was previously a member in good standing of the liberal order.

Sin can ultimately be defined as «unbelief, a deliberate rejection of a Biblical truth.»

Their deliberate rejection of the basic division between the guilty and the innocent, the implicated and the helpless allows them to create the dread and panic that is their aim.

Modernism refers to the broad movement in Western arts and literature that gathered pace from around 1850, and is characterised by a deliberate rejection of the styles of the past; emphasising instead innovation and experimentation in forms, materials and techniques in order to create artworks that better reflected modern society

They also demonstrate the deliberate rejection of the contemporary world that is a feature of all his work.