Sentences with phrase «espousal of»

After years of what they call backhanded treatment by the Bush administration, whose focus has been on the testing of older children, many advocates are atremble with anticipation over Mr. Obama's espousal of early childhood education.

The disavowal of alienation and active verbal espousal of relationship may be quite convincing and mislead lawyers and judges from the actual truth of the alienation.

Many of those of us opposed to the accreditation of TWU are too sloppy in referring in one way or another to TWU's espousal of «Christian» beliefs.

After a few distressing scenes with HR, Walk the Line has grasped that open espousal of such views is likely to create strife.

(Curry's CV is terrific, and her espousal of the Montford nonsense and so on pretty recent; a lot of people are wondering what happened there.)

Its hard to imagine that this espousal of blatant censorship in what used to be the «serious» media doesn't affect their coverage of other subjects.

The juxtaposition of flat, geometric, black - outlined shapes continues the artist's espousal of synthetic cubism — he was the first American artist to fully adopt the style — which he saw when he met Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973) at Gertrude and Leo Stein's famous salon in Paris in 1912.

Greenberg's espousal of the second generation of Abstract Expressionism was its kiss of death.

«Acquiring and exhibiting this work speaks to our mission and collection on many levels: through our support of the Artpace International Artist - in - Residence program, through continuing Linda's practice of sustaining the work of artists — especially women artists, and through our espousal of contemporary art that is challenging in both form and substance.

Kiefer's abundantly blooming landscapes illustrate this expression, and reflect on the bitterly ironic disparity between Mao's espousal of plurality and his massive suppression of dissent.

In her espousal of Pollock's style of «action - painting» and Rothko's and Still's Colour Field painting, Guggenheim played mid-wife to the new American movement of Abstract Expressionism.

In contrast to the gravitas and universal values promoted by Neo-Classicism, Romantic painters sought to return to nature - exemplified by their espousal of spontaneous plein - air painting (eg.

And while critic Jan Verwoert and others have argued for Zmijewski's repeated use of nakedness as an espousal of Giorgio Agamben's philosophical notion of «bare life,» this reading clearly misses the farcical undertone present in all of Zmijewski's work.

«In its confidence and espousal of freedom of expression, there is a particularly American feeling about Abstract Expressionism,» says the exhibition's curator Edith Devaney.

In a painting such as Summer Days (1936) O'Keefe seemed to issue a romanticist rallying call, in the face of Alfred H Barr's apparently Eurocentric espousal of hard - edged modernism at MOMA.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing recent developments in the field is the espousal of print - based media by a number of contemporary artists who do not define themselves as printmakers, but feel that it is the most appropriate medium in which to express themselves in today's media - saturated environment — a context that renders the hand - produced object antiquated and quaint.

The article is a op - ed about the new Secretary of Education, John King's espousal of a

As the film proceeds, the favoring of mainstream movie references extends to Bertolucci's own oeuvre: the Paris flat reminds me of settings in The Conformist, the incest evokes Before the Revolution and Luna, Theo's Maoist baggage takes us back to The Last Emperor, a desert tent in the siblings» flat alludes to The Sheltering Sky, and Matthew's espousal of nonviolence suggests Little Buddha.

That, certainly, is the mainstream Jewish view to this day; however, Oz's implication that his mother's foreboding and dread — even before the 1948 war gets under way, and in stark contrast to his father's bullish espousal of nationalist sentiment — is a prefiguring of Israel's future of violence, splintering and moral uncertainty: Faina herself uses the word «abyss».

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

In a review, Delbrück was critical even though he received a publicity boost from Schrödinger's espousal of his work in the Three - Man Paper.

So is his political plight, which can also be traced to the more toxic components of the lady's mixed record, and her foolish espousal of increasingly anti-European policies, mostly after she left office in 1990.

Social Liberal Forum campaigns on welfare and food poverty illustrate the need for that document to look forwards as well as back; to solve problems left by Conservatives» espousal of regressive policies.

The Lib Dem espousal of AV is in no way surprising.

Nick Clegg's espousal of equidistance is, I suspect, sincere.

There is a danger that Conservatives will be so busy straining at Ed Miliband's gnat — his open espousal of socialism — that they will, without really noticing, swallow the camel of what he is really up to.

Populism merely means the espousal of policies that achieve popular support.

Merton's witness to the possibility of personal wholeness through contemplation and to inter-religious encounter in depth is inseparable from his espousal of the peace witness.

Espousal of reform was not in itself at all a ground for suspicion of heresy.

Those who are compulsive in their espousal of abstinence tend to drive the real moderationists — whose existence they do not recognize — into identifying themselves with those who use alcohol to excess.

And the moment espousal of reform became strongly linked with criticism of doctrine, and particularly of practice linked with doctrine, and very particularly if it had financial implications, it was time to beware.

In his extended review of Stratford Caldecott's The Radiance of Being (May / June issue), Fr Hugh Mackenzie contrasts that book's espousal of «the «Renaissance - Platonic» view of the human person as body - soul - spirit» with the Faith movement's prioritising of mind as the metaphysical first principle.

In the early days in Palestine, before outstanding individuals appeared in the prophetic succession, bands of prophets represented the most fanatic patriotism of the Hebrew tribes, and Saul's espousal of his people's cause against their enemies followed his falling under the spell of the prophets» frenzy.

The hallmark of a truly religious person is the espousal of recognizable, religiously inspired values that are distinctly different from the values typically espoused by the less religious and the nonreligious.

His espousal of that silly first amendment.

The espousal of an empirical approach to perceiving does not commit one to empiricism in general, though the results of my analysis confirm the reliability and cognitive richness of conscious perception.

Primarily because of his espousal of nonviolent resistance, the Mahatma became a model of religious heroism for the Century and many of its readers.

It might also include at least some reference to his espousal of the Axis cause during World War II and perhaps also to his rather un-Islamic personal way of life.

It was unable to make much headway in the Persian realms where the espousal of Zoroastrianism by the state restrained it.

As the espousal of Christianity by Constantine and his successors had speeded up the conversion of the Roman Empire, so the adoption of Christianity was hastened or made possible by the favor of many another monarch.

They have also been scorned from the left for their seemingly uncritical espousal of economic self - improvement that may or may not be connected to the capitalist system but certainly has done little to challenge it in the political sphere.

Before the Council he was considered unsound because of his espousal of evolution, and he was shunned after the Council because of his undoubted orthodoxy - he himself said, with a smile: «I could never win!»

His greatest gift, so it was said, was his espousal of the idea of a «living Constitution,» whereby (in his words) Justices would adapt the Constitution «to cope with current problems and current needs.»

For naysayers who think that the end of cryptocurrency is near, NASDAQ just announced that they are going to start with Bitcoin - future, by early 2018, which proves the espousal of digital cash even by giants like NASDAQ.

Yet, what he wants to be known for is simply his espousal of the Very Important Liberal Ideas.

The tales — from some of the world's most insightful and idiosyncratic directors — include a modern - day fable of love, a hate born from war and an unreconciled past, and a satirical skewering of a well - heeled, ego - driven art world that often falls short in its espousals of human empathy.

If a presiding judge turns a blind eye to attorneys» espousals of political sentiments unrelated to ongoing proceedings, clarity and continuity may well suffer.

Not exact matches

Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

That espousal is also the topic of this essay.

Its espousal is not an outright rejection of advocacy perspectives nor a denial of the importance of contextual and cultural encounter, for these things are regularly linked to retrieval.