Sentences with phrase «embodiment of american»

Movement was the driving force behind the settling of the American West, and the long flat vistas that stretched toward the Pacific shaped the ideology behind this iconic embodiment of American architecture.

To many, Milton Glaser is the embodiment of American graphic design during the latter half of this century.

Certainly, with its evocations of life and death, hope, movement, growth and eternity, Mural might be described as a Gesamtkunstwerk, an embodiment of the American dream and the attendant principle of «Go west».

Joe is the embodiment of the American Dream which will never come true for anyone unless the dreamer has American Guts.

A perennial favorite of both fans and journalists, he's been the perfect international ambassador for American motorsports and the embodiment of the American Dream.

Their courage is the true embodiment of the American spirit, something not even the most horrific of attacks could dampen.

Even so, Otto is just such a sui generis creation: an absurdist embodiment of American idiocy as seen through English eyes, vulgar yet weirdly graceful, prone to venting his frustration («I'm disaPPOINTED!!!»)

Day - Lewis and Anderson understand Plainview as the embodiment of American capitalism.

It makes sense that Macy's would choose Alves, the embodiment of the American dream, but that's not the only reason the partnership works.

«Tillerson's career is the embodiment of the American dream,» Trump said in a statement Tuesday.

Maragos, who was born in Greece, pitched himself as the embodiment of the American dream, noting that his success as a Republican candidate could help transform the party's image.

«We are the embodiment of the American dream.

«Juanita is the embodiment of the American dream,» Perez said.

While the impact of Chick's career is difficult to estimate (fortunately, he appears to have had very few disciples), he was nonetheless a fascinating embodiment of both American evangelicalism's sins and its virtues.

Entrepreneurs are the embodiment of the American dream.

Apple is the physical embodiment of American exceptionalism right now to much of the world.

Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko was the embodiment of American greed, a reptilian corporate raider who ruthlessly destroyed companies and jobs with the aim of fattening his pocketbook.

Ingenuity, innovation, hard work... the ethanol industry is the embodiment of American small business.»

My parents are in many ways embodiments of the American Dream.

It's one of the closest embodiments of the American dream; owning your own business and turning it into something special.

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You attacked us,» in effect making Hamze the embodiment of the Islamic terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001.

When combined with his «theology of the body» — a celebratory presentation of human embodiment and sexuality — John Paul's promotion of Vatican II's reforms provides crucial resources for responding to the American sexual - abuse crisis — a crisis, Wills argues, rooted in defective conceptions of the Catholic Church and its sexual teaching.

In 1949, Lionel Trilling, the literary embodiment of the old liberalism, deplored those American conservatives who «express themselves» only in «irritable gestures which seek to resemble ideas.»

At the beginning of the Sixties, the National Council of Churches, ecumenical embodiment of mainline Protestantism, was as secure in the pantheon of influential American institutions as the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association.

Witness the former Church of England as an object of British humor, or television's Bennie Hill dropping his pants, which is always good for a hearty har - har from a people once held up to Americans as the embodiment of sophistication.

With feminist theologians and advocates of creation centered spirituality, mutually transformed by the encounter with the new physics and the new biology, process theologians have sought a vision of the relational matrix of creativity, and to learn from the wisdom of the earth and the embodiment of that wisdom in the all too long suppressed and neglected traditions of women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, of Africa and Asia.

If we call ourselves Americans as well as Christians, we may feel a strong civic sense that what our government did in our name was the embodiment of public justice.

What this means is that tens of millions of Americans, a great many of whom have never gone near a virtual - reality game, find themselves employing «avatars,» or digital embodiments of themselves, to make a first impression in their absence.

Apart from her impressive embodiment of Tonya's «rough around the edges» physicality, her vulnerability is what transforms this «Great American Scandal» into a «Great American Tragedy.»

In a very literal way, Killmonger is the embodiment of the pain and anguish that comes along with being a black American who is unable to trace their familial roots back more than a few generations.

Wiseau appears in The Disaster Artist practically sui generis, the embodiment of a peculiar iteration of the American Dream, the self - made man.

Liman, Cruise, and Spinelli have certainly succeeded in turning Seal's life into entertainment, but they've failed at making his life art, political art that doesn't just depict a particular man's life, but also his times, with all of the complexity, contradictions, and complications that implies, up to and including depicting Seal not just as a romantic anti-hero, but as the personification of a particular kind of American individualism and exceptionalism, going anywhere, doing anything, and facing few, if any consequences, to borrow the title of Graham Greene's politically prescient novel, the embodiment of the «Ugly American.»

It's the only viable approach to the Captain John Smith / Pocahontas story in a minefield of debris strewn by not only our Western genre tradition, but also our newer guilt at how American Indians have been (and continue to be) portrayed in our culture: the most bestial, savage notions of the Natural have come around to their personification as an unsullied, Edenic embodiment of an impossibly harmonious nature.

Riley Keough — American Honey The embodiment of the unfeeling corporate machine event to this crew of damaged goods.

The embodiment of this possibility is found in two organizations, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and the competing American Board for Certification of Teaching Excellence.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of that year (ESEA) 1, the embodiment of this new federal role, was the focus of high hope that it would bring about broad improvement in American education.

As framing home ownership as the embodiment of the «American Dream» stoked the zeal behind subprime loans, a buzzword like «school choice» fuels charter expansion, making it difficult to create space for a reasonable national discussion about accountability.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (Aug. 16, 2012)-- The Infiniti Emerg - e Concept, the latest embodiment of Infiniti Inspired Performance, makes its North American debut this weekend during festivities surrounding the 62nd annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, one of the world's premier celebrations of the automobile.

The Infiniti Emerg - e Concept, the latest embodiment of Infiniti Inspired Performance, made its North American debut recently during festivities surrounding the 62nd annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, one of the world's premier celebrations of the automobile.

A 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South.

Chosen for its embodiment of AASL's learning standards and support of the school librarian's role in implementing career and college readiness standards, this is DPLA's second «Best of» award from the prestigious education - oriented division of the American Library Association.

«LA is this embodiment of 20th - century American desires: the houses, the gardens, the tans, all slightly fake.

Julio Larraz, extraordinary draftsman, painter and sculptor, is the quintessential embodiment of the post-World War II Latin American artist.

His «spray loop» paintings, produced by using a spray paint gun, were a fascinating embodiment of the reductive abstract tendencies in 1960s American art, and of the interest of the time in innovative applications of new techniques.

While Dodd's ambitions do not run in this direction, she can be seen as a contemporary embodiment of the way an American devotion to direct experience can create a sense that extends beyond «mere» representation, and suggests that there is something immanent in a deep perception of the ordinary.

Combining the earnest tone and formal elements of 1940's war effort posters with the opportunistic use of patriotism by such marketers as Tommy Hilfiger, this campaign ironically positions the butch lesbian as the embodiment of the truly revolutionary American spirit.

With Stranger Study # 11, Ligon puts forth the ultimate embodiment of Baldwin's maxim that «Americans attempt until today to make an abstraction of the Negro» (James Baldwin, «Stranger in the Village», 1953, in James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948 - 1985, New York, 1984, p. 87).

The American founders were overwhelmingly Christian, and favored the embodiment of Biblical dictates like the Ten Commandments in the law of the land.

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Through sheer determination and an innate disposition for hard work, Sean J. Conlon is the embodiment of what it means to achieve the American dream.