Sentences with phrase «for mythologizing»

With a keen sense of the power of sports and a genius for mythologizing athletes to help sell sneakers, Nike bestrides the world of sport like a marketing colossus

Works by Adolf Braun, Jean - Léon Gérôme, Emile René Ménard, Benjamin West, and others offered views into such important themes as the longing for nature in an industrialized world, the molding of history to contemporary needs, and the nostalgic yearning for a mythologized past.

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I first learned about Cambridge Analytica because it was involved in the invasive data collection and targeting practices of the Ted Cruz presidential campaign, for which Cambridge Analytica used its mythologized psychographic profiling and targeting capabilities.

-- Mao Tse Tung, Autotheist who successfully mythologized himself into the Godhead position of his cult of personality (fixed that for you)

The story quotes the study My Daddy's Name is Donor by Elizabeth Marquardt, who wrote for «On the Square» an article titled The Kids Are Not All Right, a take - down of the recent movie's cheerful and utterly unrealistic mythologizing of sperm donation (the ultimate absent fathers).

For generations mainline Protestants have tried to «demythologize» the contents of scriptures and creeds in an effort to gain social and political influence, while dispensationalists have avidly «mythologized» the Bible into ever more incredible systems of belief about the «end times.»

Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

This makes him the obvious but worst choice for a film about the single most mythologized figure in our short history.

This is in many ways a self - serving, hyperbolic story that mythologizes Childers and his life without addressing the inherent contradictions in murdering people for God.

Their Finest dealt with the mythologizing of the event — propaganda filmmakers telling the story of the Little Ships, or one little ship, to stoke American support for joining the war — while Dunkirk showed us, in stressful detail, the scene on the ground, at sea, and in the air.

As the FBI aide to Kyle MachLachlan's agent Dale Cooper, she had to animate a character fans have mythologized and imagined for 25 years.

While earlier films mythologize legend, and do so in fascinating manners — Touch of Zen's ghost story elements for example — The Hidden Sword takes advantage of an already established genre, thus reducing the power of its reach.

«Damoe» (4 mins., 480i / 16x9) is the mythologized deleted scene featuring Michael Jai White as a swordsman who challenges Bill to a duel for killing his master.

The 2014 Nissan GT - R is one of the most mythologized AWD coupes ever built, the culmination of the Skyline DNA that for years terrorized Japanese race tracks and twisty mountain passages in a bid for high performance dominance.

``... [Breed - specific] legislation itself enhances the mythologized image of these dogs [pit bulls] as super aggressive, thus increasing their attraction for people who like this idea, and who are precisely those people most likely to treat them inappropriately and encourage aggression.»

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

This culture is further mythologized by Woolfalk for her «Plant Alchemy» works on paper, which are supporting historical documentation of their species.

* He grew up (and still lives) in South Central Los Angeles, a mainly black neighborhood mythologized for its urban decay.

One of the founding members of the Chicano artists collective Los Four, Luján is known for his coloration and visual explorations of Chicano culture and community that drew upon and brought to life various historic and contemporary visual sources with startling results: Pyramid - mounted low riders driven by anthropomorphic dogs traversing a newly defined and mythologized L.A..

Landscape in art has mythologized, documented, and reimagined the intertwined relationship between humans and the natural world for centuries.

For those of you familiar with Picasso and his self - mythologized monster; you may need to read that sentence again.

By revealing the truth about Spain's increasingly mythologized «green jobs» and renewable energy experience, the revealed study threatened the prospects for Spain's companies to be bailed out by the U.S. repeating these mistakes.