Sentences with phrase «enduring myth of»

The enduring myth of «accelerating» is a leftover from earlier IPCC climate reports and the original AGW hypothesis that speculated greater levels of atmospheric CO2 would generate «runaway» global warming leading to a catastrophic «tipping point» climate change.

The 1968 doomsday bestseller generated hysteria over the future of the world and the earth's waning ability to sustain human life, as Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich offered a series of alarming predictions that turned out to be spectacularly wrong, creating the enduring myth of unsustainable population growth.

His broad practice, which ranges from figurative painting to film and performance, explores the complexities of the flawed, yet enduring myth of the American West.

This is a great introduction to the enduring myth of the superhero.

But this is one of the enduring myths of American folklore.

As former senator Olympia Snowe says in the introduction to my book, «For too long, women in America had to endure the myth of what — or where — a «woman's place» should be....

Moore sets this dynamic against the enduring myths of a quintessentially American landscape, balancing the weight of its past against a complex future.

Not exact matches

We spoke with Dr. Malcolm Thaler of New York City's One Medical to debunk a few of the enduring myths that seem to crop up every flu season.

One of many many enduring myths in fashionable video games is that Sega's a spent drive, its days producing brash and brazen blockbusters...

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

If doctrine and theology result in division for the sake of truth than that is right «For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths» (2 Timothy 4:3 - 4).

With that in mind, I will attempt to address some of the myths propagated by those enduring Wenger loyalists who can't seem to see what has become blatantly obvious to most outside observers.

ILLUMINATING LOOK AT AN ENDURING MYTH You'd think there's nothing left to say about the 1936 Olympics, but in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens ESPN's Jeremy Schaap argues that much of what is believed about the track star's experience at Hitler's Games isn't true.

18 January 2018 — There is an enduring myth that large earthquakes tend to happen during certain phases of the Moon or at certain times during the year.

One of the enduring myths (there are so many) about the HPV vaccine is that it is linked to one or more autoimmune syndromes, an abnormal immune response to a healthy body part.

Perhaps the greatest film in a career full of great films, arguably the finest achievement in a rich and magnificent genre, and undoubtedly the best version of one of America's most enduring myths, the film is an undeniable and genuine classic.

Recently, we spent a chunk of one of my world history classes discussing an excerpt from The Power of Myth, a conversation that Joseph Campbell had with Bill Moyers about enduring myths and the human condition.

While we appreciate the silliness of the Chicken Little story, we fail to recognize its relevance in many of the myths perpetuated by the education establishment, one of the most enduring of which is the claim that class size affects student achievement.

One of the more enduring education - policy myths is that public - school teachers are «underpaid» on average, and therefore that raising teacher pay across the board would improve student achievement.

There are two powerful and enduring myths out there about book marketing that, spoiler alert, are both wrong: There was once a mystical era of book publishing where writers just wrote and magical book marketing elves took care of the rest.

It is one of the enduring myths that only the most contemptible and boasting toughs strut around with these «dangerous» dogs or, more often, keep them as chained up, captive prisoners.

However, they rarely use them and so the myth that they are incapable of making any sound whatsoever has endured.

There's an enduring myth about the games industry that has its roots in a time when sales of physical copies in stores was the only way to create awareness and gain revenue.

The myth of American escapism and the enduring draw of the open road are forever linked with our dependence on the oil and gas industry.

Through various references to literature and narration, Fly Paper also probes the ways in which the literary imagination parallels that of film and how the ordinary act of storytelling shapes larger histories and enduring myths.

Ali Fitzgerald explores «My American Dream,» Keith Mayerson's decade - long, ongoing painting series investigating this most enduring of myths.

Scott Greene: Bewilderness suggests a place existing beyond imagination, myth and reality where awe - inspiring pristine wilderness endures side by side with the idea of nature as something to be controlled and exploited.

From Salvador Dalí's painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) to Pipilotti Rist's video installation Sip My Ocean (1996), the exhibition keeps in play the full variety of meanings of the myth, exploring, and seeking to explain, the enduring appeal of the Narcissus subject in art.

There is an enduring myth that global temperatures are accelerating, produced by ever greater amounts of human CO2 emissions released into the atmosphere.

Even so, the myth endures that it's a viable research tool that «usually» gets it right, even if a touch of skepticism occasionally comes in handy.

It is perhaps one of the most enduring legal «urban myths»: that a man and woman who live together for many years, support each, maybe have children together, are viewed in the eyes of the law as being married and so when their relationship ends, they will be entitled to receive a fair share of their home and any other assets.

It is perhaps one of the most enduring legal «urban myths»: that a man and woman who live together for many years, support each, maybe have children...

In this two - part interview, they expose relationship myths discuss the essentials of an enduring, healthy relationship.