Sentences with phrase «grand narrative of»

Finally, we discuss the relationship between attachment theory and redemption and new creation within the grand narrative of Scripture.

Titled «Memory as Medicine,» this near - two - decade survey (organized by Carol Thompson and Michael Rooks of the originating High Museum of Art in Atlanta) featured thirty - one works riffing on key chapters from the grand narrative of black history, with frequent allusions to tribal West Africa, aptly demonstrating the artist's inspired ability to present his modern world as a continuum with his genetic past.

His formalist vision was a historical staging of the liberal bourgeois grand narrative of individuality, freedom and subjectivity.

I worked as media officer at the Human Rights Media Centre in Cape Town though my studies and through the work was exposed to the importance of oral history, particularly to highlight the grassroots voices often discounted by the grand narrative of history.

The singular artist, her patented methodology, her hand, her oeuvre, a life primed for retrospection contra the looming anticipation of death, banal idioms whose meanings have worn through semantic satiation, the grand narrative of painting and its anthropomorphic object, legends of pop culture, salient reason itself — all appear to instinct as enframing devices or resistances to subvert.

Although they are, in cosmic terms, mere scraps — insignificant to the grand narrative of heavenly expansion — planets are the most diverse and intricate class of object in the universe.

The dna molecule, Kean asserts, is the «grand narrative of human existence» — and he boldly sets out to tell the tale, not only explaining genetics and its scientific history but linking Mendel's pea shoots to the evolution of early humans.

Essentially, it requires understanding Ecclesiology (p. 16 - 17), understanding Christology (p. 29), understanding the grand narrative of Scripture (p. 21, 30), and then reading Scripture in light of these three areas (p. 41 - 42).

The use of such words in attempts instantly to marginalize the speaker stands within the framework of a grand narrative of oppressed peoples.

Here were people who had been distanced from a grand narrative of the spiritual and the sacramental and I was reminded of Mother Teresa's words that she had to come to the West to see «spiritual» poverty».

Regarding the «eternal purpose», I agree with N.T. Wright that there is a grand narrative of the Bible.

The simplistic gospel of being saved from earth for a home elsewhere in heaven has been replaced by a grand narrative of God's redemption story that encompasses social justice, creation care, and a fresh vision of the mission of the global Church.

The war and its outcome do not vindicate a grand narrative of historical inevitability but bring all parties under Divine judgment.

«The failures become part of the grand narrative of progress: «That had to happen, and I needed that setback, or I wouldn't have made this discovery»,» he says.

The world of parents and siblings can be portrayed as interesting but ultimately irrelevant to the grand narratives of the time.

This conscious «lightness» was perhaps at first rooted in his generation's rebellion against the grand narratives of academy artists, but the joy of free expression that followed from this lightness has remained throughout more than two decades of Song Dong's artistic practice.

Rogier understands that expressionistic painting is part of a larger trajectory or continuum, an unexhausted unfinished project expanding beyond the mythic, grand narratives of progress upon which it was initially predicated.

One compact definition offered is that while post-modernism acts in rejection of modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, and to eradicate the boundaries between high and low forms of art, to disrupt genre and its conventions with collision, collage and fragmentation.

[24] In 1978 he worked on the monumental historical ensemble Fifty Days at Iliam, a ten - part cycle inspired by Homer's Iliad; since then Twombly continued to draw on literature and myth, deploying cryptic pictorial metaphors that situate individual experience within the grand narratives of Western tradition, as in the Gaeta canvases and the monumental Four Seasons concluded in 1994.

Using the Internet as their source material, Simmons & Burke have effectively combed through millions of images and sounds, appropriating these once disparate elements into the grand narratives of their art.

Drawing on the vast picture archive that is his studio, Blau's assemblage installations render cinematic and literary episodes from the grand narratives of Western art history.

Not exact matches

«It's not a series of unconnected stories, it's one grand narrative.»

Perhaps it is necessary to admit that the narrative, at least in the grand nineteenth - century tradition of Tolstoy, Austen, and Melville, is not the form for our time.

Of course, a liberal arts approach to education underpinned by such a grand narrative is not the only possibility for Catholic educators.

In our view, a liberal arts approach also emphasises a respect for the past; the significance of grammar, logic and rhetoric; and the notion, popularised by the historian Christopher Dawson, that ideas develop within cultures, which means that a grand narrative must necessarily underpin the curriculum.

Do we only criticize scientists who draw inferences for the meaning and purpose of human life from their larger visions of the cosmos and our place in the grand narrative?

A genre of writing that fascinates some scholars and clergy consists of books and articles written by scientists who, venturing beyond what can be securely proved, present larger visions of the cosmos, life, the beginning and the end of all things, and the place of the human in the grand narrative.

My point is that rather than look for the most correctly indoctrinated, we shld appreciate the heart that is correctly turned toward the good, regardless of the doctrines they may confess.We don't know the doctrines of the Roman Centurion or if he even had any, but the story suggests his heart and will were in the right place.I don't read that Jesus took credit for it.Don't let the Pauline «sub-narrative» blind you to the «grand narrative.»

As comprehensive as Brogan's account may be, however, his book is at its weakest where the convergence of the historical narrative ought to illuminate the great work of Tocque - ville's that authorizes a grand biography of this sort in the first place» Democracy in America.

The life of the believer is set in a narrative far grander than the narrow parentheses of one lifetime.

Allen P. Ross, in Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988, 744 pp., $ 29.99) states that his book is not a commentary of Genesis, but a guide to help teachers and preacher appreciate the richness and complexity of the narratives and to organize the theological teaching for presentation to a contemporary audience.

He went against the projection of the game as a very serious and gladiatorial battle, against the gritted teeth and crunching tackles, against the super efficiency and grand narratives.

In contrast, the interpretation of history brings in philosophy — materialist or idealist, determinist or voluntarist; it brings in rhetoric — a grand narrative or random stories; it brings in politics too — top down history or history from bottom up.

Wale Adebanwi, en route to a new professorial chair at Oxford University, England, had gathered a lean but powerful assemblage, for a select reading of his new book, The Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (NY, USA: University of Rochester Press, 2016).

The Liberal Democrats need a grand change of narrative to meet the magnitude of these challenges.

I suspect what this view comes down to is that local parties these days consist merely of office - seekers and their families — a cynical approach, but in the absence of a grand policy narrative, an understandable one.

Weaving a selection of facts into a simple story that builds into a grand moral narrative that speaks to his greater vision.

There are, however, a couple of exceptions to this grand narrative: Homo naledi and Homo floresiensis *.

«But one definition people use is the «end of grand narrative» — the end of the idea that there is one answer to the world.

Historians tend to be suspicious of anything that would be called a grand narrative, yet even some of them have recently made an effort in a field called world history, starting with the beginning of writing or agriculture or even anatomically modern humans.

Fatih Akin falls back on convenience and contrivance to streamline the thornier specificities of his grand - scale narrative.

Bioshock 2 may not be as grand of an experience like the outstanding original but it does everything a sequel should do and it is still the best game ever in terms of narrative richness.

Figures from Craig's previous films frequently intrude upon the narrative of Spectre, including Mr. White (Jesper Christensen, «The Debt»), Silva (Javier Bardem, «To the Wonder»), Vesper Lynd (Eva Green, «Dark Shadows»), Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric, «The Grand Budapest Hotel») and, of course, M (Judi Dench, «Philomena»).

Across 66 wholly enlightening minutes, Atari: Game Over picks apart the accepted narrative of the crash and interviews developers (Atari founder Nolan Bushnell), historians and other notable game buffs (including Ready Player One author Ernest Cline and former journalist and current screenwriter Gary Whitta), leading up to grand unveiling of the dig's findings.

He has also worked on ten features, including producing Thunder Road, winner of the 2018 Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize at SXSW in 2018.

BEST NARRATIVE FILM Boyhood Birdman Calvary *** The Grand Budapest Hotel *** A Most Violent Year Selma Whiplash BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM Citizenfour Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Jodorowsky's Dune *** Life Itself *** The Overnighters BEST ANIMATED FILM Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls How to Train Your Dragon 2 *** The Lego Movie *** The Tales of Princess Kaguya

Hoping to complete the hat trick begun by Benh Zeitlin's «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» the recipient of two SFFS / KRF (Kenneth Rainin Foundation) postproduction grants that captured the U.S. dramatic Grand Jury Prize in 2012, and «Fruitvale Station,» writer - director Kat Candler's «Hellion» will vie for the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. narrative competition.

It's a feat almost Machiavellian in its underworkings: the creation of a grand, inter-film narrative that's slowly been advanced by each individual Marvel release.

That these individual films succeed to varying degrees — in some instances in spite of themselves — matters little in the grand scheme of their creators» narratives: Each have made more original films, more consistently compelling films, and flat - out better films.

Grand Jury Award: Will Canon, Brotherhood Best Feature: Tanya Hamilton, Night Catches Us Audience Choice Narrative: Bob Meyer, Drunkboat Audience Choice Documentary: Adrian Grenier, Teenage Paparazzo Best Documentary: Matthew Groff and Ami Horowitz, U.N. Me Best Short Comedy: Jordan Vogt - Roberts, Successful Alcoholics Best Short Drama: Dan Hannon, The Pond Best Screenplay: Tim Steed, «Dance of the Spike» («Spike Driver Blues») MyTV's New England Film of the Year: Andy Mitton, YellowBrickRoad Van McLeod Award: Ken Burns