Sentences with phrase «dominant ethos»

As long as the dominant ethos is the drive for more consumption per capita — ever greater accumulation and consumption of material goods, energy, etc., then no amount of efficiency will suffice.

Imagine a society where the dominant ethos is «fuck the poor.»

NCTQ's Arthur McKee, the report's lead author, notes the «dominant ethos» of the field is opposed to training as a mission.

And yet, what is arguably our dominant mode of cultural production — film and TV — legally can't take advantage of our dominant ethos of cultural production.

The secular world and its dominant ethos is the reasonable ethos — you do things for reasonable reasons.

Not exact matches

Underscoring this point, they note that religious switchers adhere even more closely to the dominant moral ethos of their new groups than do people raised in those groups.

My observations are directed at the dominant language and ethos of a culture, not at the souls of individuals.

For several centuries the gatherings of the dominant class in American society, white Anglo - Saxon churches have tended to assume that they themselves have no cultural particularity and therefore no reason to investigate their own ethos, tradition, and world view.

This quiet «edenic» ethos proves an apt setting for people in River Oaks to pursue the dominant, traditional values of marriage, family, and career.

The Bush administration's grand design for foreign policy, spelled out last September in a document titled «The National Security Strategy,» declares that the U.S. will exercise the responsibilities of the dominant power in international politics in order to resist terrorism and rogue states and to shape a global ethos of human dignity and prosperity.

What follows from this is one's commitment to a whole host of ideas and proposals which, despite the fact that they represent a major departure from what has been the dominant American ethos for more than half a century, are called conservative.

In either case there was a sharp opposition to the dominant American ethos of utilitarian instrumentalism oriented to personal success.

The B - movie ethos is still the dominant force in Tinseltown.

As the art world moved on from the dominant paradigm of Abstract Expressionism, Bellamy gave exposure to new sensibilities, as Oldenberg said, bringing «the ethos of downtown to uptown.»

Mitchell and Johns might not have been specific inspirations for Dutcher's works, but their very different styles of painting both emerged in response to a dominant artistic ethos in the early and mid-1950s (in their case, Abstract Expressionism).