Sentences with phrase «greatest cultural phenomena»

It's strange to think that a series about virtual cock - fighting has proven to be one of the greatest cultural phenomena ever created, but here we are.

The thing about Star Wars, as with all great cultural phenomenons, is that the setting and mechanics of the story are incidental.

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Collin — here's a great article on Daniel Dennett's research into «the self - sustaining nature of cultural phenomena»

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

First used to refer to the new global economy, it now encompasses the great new phenomenon of our time — the process by which all scientific, cultural, religious and economic human activity is being integrated into one worldwide network.

Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological schooling of major themes in the «progressivist era» in American cultural history.

Shortly thereafter, Garland teamed with Boyle again to greater effect; producing what was to become one of the greatest zombie features of all time in 28 Days Later..., a film that really set the stage for the success of a cultural phenomenon like The Walking Dead.

contain superlative natural phenomena, formations or features or areas of exceptional natural beauty, such as superlative examples of the most important ecosystems, natural features, spectacles presented by great concentra - tions of animals, sweeping vistas covered by natural vegetation and exceptional combinations of natural and cultural elements, or

The exhibition's catalog and accompanying texts go to great lengths in describing the show, instead, as «a broad overview of a groundbreaking aspect of contemporary art practice» — «a recognizable cultural phenomenon... that also addressed universal aspects of the human condition.»

Lawrence's John Brown series was one of many such historical epics he produced in the 1930s and 1940s, examining the lives and experiences of African Americans — from heroic 19th - century figures like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to the early 20th - century cultural phenomenon of the Great Migration — work for which he continues to be celebrated today.

Described by film director Harmony Korine as «the single greatest dance film ever made,» Jamie's Massage the History (2007 - 09) explores a marginal cultural phenomenon: a style of private dance performance developed by young African - American men in suburban living rooms in Alabama.

The painting, a truly blockbuster achievement, represents one of the great «One - Hit Wonders» of American painting and a cultural phenomenon in its time.

Science, with all its cultural elaborations, is IMHO telling the greatest story that can ever be told: that of the unfolding over 13.8 GY of all phenomena including my self - referencing mind, from information packed into the primordial singularity.

One thing that engagement with this phenomenon has revealed, however, is that the «white male effect» is really a «white hierarchical and individualist male effect»: the extreme risk skepticism of white males with these cultural outlooks is so great that it suggests white males generally are less concerned, when in fact the gender and race divides largely disappear among people with alternative cultural outlooks.

It seems that the great CAGW delusion, early 21st century «modern end of the world cult», cultural phenomenon or whatever else history will call it, has not quite yet had its bubble pierced.