Sentences with phrase «described by historian»

It's a particularly strong no when words like «radiation» and «nuclear» are involved, as has been described by the historian Spencer Weart in «Nuclear Fear» and is also captured vividly in «Radiation's Lingering Dread,» a 1990 article by the sociologist Kai Erikson.

Pupils watching will witness a re-enacted Tudor lesson, and be among the first to «step inside» the newly renovated 600 year old building, described by historian Michael Wood as «one of the most atmospheric, magical and important in the whole of Britain.»

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After all, John Wesley was perhaps the major figure in what came to be known as the «Evangelical Revival,» and the heyday of the evangelical experience in American life is often described by American church historians as the «Age of Methodism in America.»

Imputation is described tersely and truly by an English historian of the Reformation, Patrick Collinson: «[It is] a transaction somewhat like a marriage, in which Christ the bridegroom takes to himself an impoverished and wretched harlot and confers upon her all the riches that are His....

It would be hard to find more divisive, jabbing rhetoric on marriage than in these publications by self - described «marriage nut» David Blankenhorn, the founder and director of the Institute for American Values, and the late historian Elizabeth Fox - Genovese, well known for her testy rebuff of feminism.

Historian James Brundage and legal historian John Witte have described how Catholic canon law of the Middle Ages was used to a significant extent by both the Protestant Reformation and much of secular family law in WesternHistorian James Brundage and legal historian John Witte have described how Catholic canon law of the Middle Ages was used to a significant extent by both the Protestant Reformation and much of secular family law in Westernhistorian John Witte have described how Catholic canon law of the Middle Ages was used to a significant extent by both the Protestant Reformation and much of secular family law in Western society.

Limbaugh could have stanched the bleeding by practicing what historian Susan Wise Bauer has described as «the art of the public grovel.»

Dating to the 1970s, Kona has been incorrectly described by many, including historian Mark Pendergrast, as the world's «second most legally traded commodity».

The pills match prescriptions described by early physicians — a dream come true for historians.

A book we reported on earlier this month by historian of science Alice Dreger also describes some severe personal and professional consequences suffered much more recently by scientists who became involved, through their research, in disputes with strong ideological and social overtones.

Science Historian Owen Gingerich describes how he recently discovered hand - written notes by Galileo pinpointing the moment in which he realized the Earth was not the center of the Universe.

Since the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, public education has been dominated by what the historian Raymond Callahan (1962) described as a «cult of efficiency,» an almost religious faith in the power of rational, «scientific» management to tame the complexities of life in schools (also see Rose, 2016; Mehta, 2015).

Simon Berthon, described by the Daily Telegraph as a «formidable Second World War historian», is one of Britain's most distinguished writers and producers of television history.

As a result, she's too often been dismissed by historians, who variously describe her as shy and reclusive, a saint, a homebody and even a victim.

Essays written by some of the most respected and well - known military historians of our time (Stephen Ambrose, John Keegan, Caleb Carr, William Manchester etc.), describe the horror and heroism of World War II.

Some breed historians describe these dogs as the «blue collar» of retrievers, because they tended to be owned by gamekeepers and poachers, not aristocrats.

Greco Deco is a term coined by Washington, DC based art historian James M. Goode to describe a style of art and architecture popularized in the late 1920s and 1930s.

The game is being sold by video game historian / journalist Frank Cifaldi, who describes it thusly:

His approach — aligned with the practices of his Californian contemporaries Larry Bell and DeWain Valentine, among others — was described by art historians as the «L.A. finish fetish.»

In this excerpt, architectural historian Francis Morrone describes the creation of the Whitney Studio, designed by Robert Winthrop Chanler and Grosvenor Atterbury.

Later described by art historian Herbert Read as «the most revolutionary event in post-war British art», this experimental period saw Pasmore's work progress towards a new pictorial language and representation of reality.

The White Review No. 14 features interviews with the art critic, historian and October journal editor Hal Foster; British artist Mark Leckey, whose hugely influential film «Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore» was memorably described by Ed Atkins as «better than art»; and the novelist Rachel Cusk, who talks about her commitment to «writing sentences that aren't the product of sentences written by other people.»

Robert Crumb was once considered to be a creepy comics casualty slavered over by nerds, but now — thanks to several high - profile exhibitions in «established» museums and the anointing of art historian Robert Hughes (who described him as «the Bruegel of our time», yes really)-- Crumb has become one of the foremost commentators on the inherent weirdness of America.

Inspired by a meeting with Barbara Lamprecht (architectural historian and Richard Neutra specialist), Chamberlain observed design details in each of the sites that Neutra described as «biorealism.»

The black pourings were first exhibited at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1951; a series of black enamel and oils, they have been described by art historian Michael Fried as bringing the artist to «the verge of an entirely new and different kind of painting... of virtually limitless potential.»

Michael Kidner was described by American art historian and critic Irving Sandler as «arguably the first Op Artist in Britain», following his investigations of the optical effects of light, color and systemic structure during the 1960s.

The title of the project was inspired by the poetic expression «une légère agitation», employed by the French historian Fernand Braudel to describe the tidal movement of the Mediterranean.

New Masses was split by the fault lines of class; as historian Paul Buhle put the matter, the magazine is more accurately described as having been in dialogue with a radical middle class.

The work of Tadaaki Kuwayama (b. 1932 Nagoya, Japan) is characterised by «radical neutrality,» as art historian Michio Hayashi describes it.

Described by art historian Yves - Alain Bois as «an experimental expansion of the work and the condition for its accomplishment», each studio reflected different stages of the painter's thinking.

The term Hard - edge painting was first used in 1959 by the art historian and critic Jules Langsner, when describing the non-figurative pictures of four West Coast artists (Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin) whom he had brought together in an exhibition entitled Four Abstract Classicists, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Magic Realism Term invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh to describe late 19th early 20th realist paintings with fantasy or dream - like subjects.

Although «magic realism» is a term today more commonly associated with the 20th - century literature of Latin America, it was first coined in 1925 by the German art historian and critic Franz Roh to describe an emerging style of modern realist paintings with fantasy or dreamlike subjects, and is often seen as parallel to or overlapping with the New Objectivity movement.

Popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wolfflin, painterliness describes paintings that are loosely and openly styled, with emphasis placed on visible brushstrokes and the application of paint rather than on the sharp delineation of forms and objects.

I'm going to reach out to historians and others focused on the factors driving environmental cleanups in the past to see if there's any evidence that today's polluting nations can somehow accelerate their journey along what some economists call the «Environmental Kuznets Curve,» a pattern described well in 2003 by David I. Stern, an economist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:

It would be nice to think that having narrowly escaped being written off by future historians as yet another of those junk science eco-loons who helped foment what I describe in my book Watermelons as «the biggest and most expensive outbreak of mass hysteria in history», Nurse will now stick to what he knows best: proper, falsifiable, empirical science — as opposed to post normal science and left - leaning activism.

In a piece headed Crichton's conspiracy theory, Harold Evans described Crichton's theory as being «in the paranoid political style identified by the renowned historian Richard Hofstadter,» and went on to suggest that «if you happen to be in the market for a conspiracy theory today, there's a rather more credible one documented by the pressure group Greenpeace,» namely the funding by ExxonMobil of groups opposed to the theory of global warming.

These were the renowned Hanging Gardens of Babylon, as described by the Greek historians Diodorus and Callisthenes, and the earliest example of vertical farming — at least according to Dan Caiger - Smith.

The first use of it that I have found in the context of describing the forced removal of indigenous children was by Peter Read, a historian now at the ANU, in his paper The Stolen Generations prepared for the New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs in 1981.