Sentences with phrase «from debased»

Equally attuned as Sillman to the physicality of painting, von Heyl shifted emphasis from the debased to the abject.

Her recent paintings — gleaned from debased images of consumer objects, shopping spaces, and humble patterns — employ digital appropriation and reveal her playful, yet deceivingly serious manner.

Speaking on the degeneration of «core value» in Nigeria, particularly in Yorubaland, Akande said it was difficult to get a sincere and good future leader among the youths, since the recruitment of such leaders is from a debased background.

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He continues in the latest issue, «Bitcoin can't be debased by unlimited issuance, since the blockchain process has been set to permit only a gradual increase from today's 16 million, to 21 million in 2140.

Regardless of whether it is implemented via an emperor surreptitiously reducing the precious - metal content of the coinage or by the banking system (the central bank and the commercial banks) creating new currency deposits out of nothing, monetary inflation is a method of forcibly transferring wealth from the rest of the economy to the first users of the new or debased money.

(129) And who turns away from the religion of Abraham but such as debase their souls with folly?

But to expect quick results from prayer, and to stand watching for them as one might check on the prompt delivery of merchandise, is to debase the process.

Or, more fully: «Zacchaeus, get down from there and face your own low and debased stature and know yourself for what you truly are.

Family standards are continually subject to erosion from the inflow of debased materials from the mass media — as in the brutality and immorality of many of the so - called «comic» books, the triviality, sensationalism, and distortion of most journalism, and the preoccupation with crime and violence in many television programs.

The revealed truth is set down once and for all in a book or revealed through prophets or otherwise handed down from the past; all the truth we need is already there; we preserve it, interpret it and see that it is not debased or corrupted.

These qualities and conditions, which constitute the materials and contexts with which and in which the exemplifications of relational power must fulfill their ambiguous destinies, run the gamut from triumphant breakthroughs to crippling regressions, from life - restoring laughter to life - denying despair, from the beauty of the gracious heart to the debasing cruelty of the small mind and smaller soul.

Many scholars, ancient and modern, have pointed out that such contact with Christianity is unlikely but that, even if it did happen, the Christianity practiced in that part of the world was so debased that it was indistinguishable from paganism.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

Forster doesn't shy away from some of the more debased aspects of this man, giving hope that anyone can find redemption.

On the basis of this research, I suspect that beyond the usual romcoms, melodramas involving a wide range of family relationships from the admirable to the debased, and documentaries testifying to courage and grief, two themes will steal the headlines: gun violence in the U.S., and to a slightly lesser extent, gender fluidity worldwide.

[Not that it's a one - way bet — ironically, the more the US debases the dollar & its finances, the more the dollar may benefit (sometimes for years on end) from the resulting ersatz growth surge.

The most ideal approach to stay away from Leptospirosis is restricting your pooch's entrance to debased water.

Taking her cue from»70s body art — particularly its Viennese branch — Krystufek uses her own image, often distorted, debased, disguised, or made sexually explicit, to confront viewers with collective (and mostly suppressed) revulsions and desires.

His admirable classical drawing has further obscured his works» erotic baggage, thus leading to a promise fulfilled, not debased, and showing anew how deeply art comes from art, even of a kind once deemed indigestible.

Its form is derived from the plan of a London housing estate, whose architects were themselves the distant inheritors of a utopian ideal, no matter how debased that ideal became.

Juxtaposing the heavenly and the debased, the innocent and the perverse, the celestial and the microscopic, Polish artist Jakub Julian Ziólkowski (born 1980) traces his artistic lineage from Hieronymus Bosch to Philip Guston.

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