Sentences with phrase «emphasis on form»

Most of his work deals with the human figure, with an emphasis on form eliciting emotion.

An emphasis on form and structure over content defines much of his work.

Liu Jianhua's delicate porcelain installations possess aesthetic beauty, placing strong emphasis on form and material.

Kasper Bosmans (b. 1990) is a Belgian artist who continuously works on unique symbolist imagery, placing equal emphasis on form, content and colour.

Even that private collection has a personal stamp that serves as more than an excuse for a show, an attachment to a late modern emphasis on form and materials.

The new Defender with its emphasis on both form and function is expected to be one of the most important properties of the future Land Rover lineup.

In this case, although middle - school teachers had students write across a wider variety of genres (an emphasis of both CAP and instructional recommendations), most of their writing assignments mirrored the test - like setting of CAP (e.g. limited time, one - to two - page writing assignments, teacher - assigned topics, focus on one of the eight CAP modes, emphasis on form over function).

Most horror films today seem to put less of an emphasis on form, which makes I Am a Ghost such a breath of fresh air.

Her classes offer upbeat music (new remixes of her favorite songs), encouraging motivation, shaking and sweating, and emphasis on form.

His emphasis on form was a crucial part of his great results, so you should pick up on that one.

How does Hume's emphasis on form and procedure (as opposed to Plato's emphasis on education and character) affect political culture and the development of political agents within such societies?

A culture of cynicism and emphasis on form rather than substance encourages light gestures rather than strong commitment.

Through framing, condensing space, and removing contextual references of foreground and background, he places emphasis on the forms and colors of water and earth that are the environmental consequence of industrializing nature.

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Meanwhile, our emphasis on uniformity of market action, rather than attention to the large - cap indices, is built on principles that have been used by successful investors, in various forms, since the markets began.

Aside from its emphasis on bodily forms of worship and physical healing, Pentecostalism is, as Smith points out, rooted in an «affective mode of knowing.»

This has always been the emphasis of the Church: she does not insist on belief regardless of whether it seems to make sense or fit in with other forms of knowledge.

Apart from my own contribution, and a few others, the emphasis here was, very much on the form of the art, how it was produced, who the artists were and their social context, rather than its message.

One can still find this emphasis on divine immanence in writers formed by Pentecostalism like James Baldwin, who equated it with the outworking of love in human life.

Gabirol was identified with the doctrine of universal hylomorphism — the idea that everything God creates is composed of form and matter — and treated as a precursor of the nominalist emphasis on the absolute freedom (and thus inscrutability) of God's will.

This is especially true of Westerhoff, who is attracted to the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, with its emphasis on how the Christian story functioning through Christian communities shapes the character and forms the virtue of the faithful.

This emphasis on a basic form of experience to serve as ground and source of evidence as well as final arbiter for the metaphysical venture is one of the most, perhaps the most, distinctive features of Whitehead's philosophy — and, at least in my opinion, one of the most attractive.

Nevertheless, the classical humanistic tradition, with its emphasis on the common distinctive qualities of man, provides stronger support for the democratic ideal of human equality than does evolutionary naturalism, with its concern for the continuity of man with the lower forms of life.

How utterly different from the way many of our churchmen come at us, putting primary emphasis on theories of inspiration, ecclesiastical regularities, forms of sacrament, creedal subscriptions, or metaphysical theories of the Trinity!

The resulting emphasis on the organization of power has caused democratic forms of society no less than totalitarian forms to make complete submission to centralized power their guiding principle.

The sociologist of religion will realize that it is rather a question of emphasis; individual expression and pecularity being present already on the level of so - called primitive civilization and communal worship playing a most important part in the highest forms of religion and culture.

Although Buber's distinction between the two stages of evil did not reach its mature form until 1951, a much greater emphasis on the reality of evil is evident in his works since 1940 than in his earlier writings.

For this reason, an undue emphasis on humility actually becomes a form of not responding to God.

That is, it will correct a one - sided emphasis on the ideology (theology) or the forms of worship, both of which in the eyes of the historian have often stood out.

It was Luke's emphasis on the historicity of the resurrection event, and on the physical nature of Christ's risen form, which, coupled with the traditions of ascension and Pentecost in Acts, were destined to set the pattern for the traditional view of Christ's resurrection.

Both the religious and the secular - social uses of alcohol depend on its psychological effects, but they differ from purely psychological drinking in their emphasis on the objective forms and shared purposes of corporate life.

This shift derives in part from a recovery of 19th - century liberal theology's emphasis on experience as important theological data — an emphasis now embraced by various forms of liberation theology.

However, I believe that Boff's emphasis on the relationships between human beings and communities is of great value, even in his programmatic - pleading form, as well as the idea of a worldwide responsibility for the planet, which every citizen of this world is to bear.

Last month, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said the threat of terrorism to the United States is at its «most heightened» since the September 11, 2001, attacks - a threat that she asserted has taken on a new and disquieting form because of the growing emphasis by Islamist terrorist groups on recruiting Americans.

We may rejoice that the pendulum is swinging back from the extremer forms of liberalism to a type which gives them a place, and that emphasis on the saving act of God in Christ and forgiveness of sin through the divine mercy is again theological doctrine in good standing.

the emphasis on «new forms» of missionary action has incurred the criticism that this study is not living up to its title insofar as it does not show great interest in the work of existing congregations where, it is said, the church after all carries on its major work....

In a reference that is also inclusive of Dalits and Adivasis, and that lays emphasis on the living practices of common people in India, Achin Vanaik states: «The great redeeming grace of Hinduism lies not so much in its philosophy or in its Brahmanism as in the simple ecumenism of its largely non-Brahminical and popular forms of existence.

Any of these names makes sense in terms of the church's emphasis on the «fire» of God's presence and baptism in the Holy Spirit, a fire that is burning away the dead underbrush of cultural Catholicism; on the outward expression of this personal experience, especially glossolalia; and on the inner work of sanctification, which preachers describe as the process of being conformed to Christ or Christ being formed within us.

Recalling Protestant emphasis on the «priesthood of the people,» Taylor called for a lay ministry which would include: (1) a «Sunday - school army,» (2) Christian associations, (3) the utilization of the «great multitude of women who publish the Word in home and school, mission - bands and temperance unions, and the thousand forms of woman's work for women and for the church,» and (4) the use of the «600,000 youth from Christian Endeavor Societies.

On the basis of this hypothesis it is easy to see how the evangelic tradition received the form and emphasis it possesses in the Gospels.

To the valid theme of the Christological ethic worked out by van Buren add the emphasis on Protestant worldliness both as an interpretation of the Reformation and as an attack on certain forms of modern sensibility.

At the same time, form critics remind us that any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of the story, that is, its present structure, intent, and emphasis as derived from its cultic use, as imparted from its repeated recitation throughout Israel's generations on the occasion of the annual celebration of the great deliverance.

Although redaction criticism tended to give more respect and credit to the individuals who wrote the Gospels than source or form criticism had, it still placed a great emphasis on the prehistory of each Gospel and tended to disintegrate each text into material labeled «tradition» and other material labeled «redaction.»

The emphasis is thus not on the entity of the minima themselves, but on their acting on other minima, according to some pattern or form.

We are concerned with their effort to be metaphoric in their reflection, staying close to the parabolic form with its insistence on using common language in novel ways to evoke insight, with its emphasis on the narrative quality of believing, its foundation in experience, and with both language and belief rooted in a total life - style.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

The selections from ancient Greece, Rome, and China, along with those from the Renaissance and Enlightenment, clearly conform more closely to Lewis» understanding of friendship as a form of love, and to the Aristotelian emphasis on friendship as a virtue, than do most of the modern selections.

He believed that, whereas Protestant Liberals were putting the emphasis on historical records and on the moral teaching of Jesus, Catholic Modernism was calling for changes of such a radical nature that it might be necessary for Catholicism to die, in order that it might rise again in a grander form, more appropriate to the age.

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I tried making these in mini cupcake form — emphasis on the tried.

The design duo also incorporated the collective's signature emphasis on custom made furnishings, recycled and repurposed materials, and procured vintage treasures such as wooden shoe forms, gardening tools and antique basins that now house botanicals and greenery — all of which were hand selected or designed by Borkum herself.