Sentences with phrase «historic tradition»

It's home to a number of historic places and embraces historic traditions via street fairs and museums.

Underlying all of these efforts is the basic fear of «violating historic traditions of secular education» or «lapsing into dogmatic indoctrination.»

Indeed, the main historic tradition in humanism has been Christian humanism, consciously refreshed at Christian sources.

So we are called to re-examine data from the biblical and historic traditions as well as to interpret new data.

The Mayflower Hotel, located at 1127 Connecticut Ave, NW, blends historic tradition with modern luxury and has been a vibrant social hub in Washington, D.C., since opening in 1925.

Trek through remote villages to see stunningly green rice terraces, learn about unusual and historic traditions like the hanging coffins of Sagada, and then wrap it all up by meandering down the streets of Manila, which may honestly be some of the most underrated fun this side of Southeast Asia.

Does anyone think this Z theory is really more useful at explaining reality than any other historic tradition of Christianity?

Cultural pluralism has focused on the great historic traditions.

Your picky Christians are simply following the example of their God, the lessons of the Bible and their own violent historic traditions.

Our creative artists — in music, theater, film, writing, and myriad visual arts — add beauty to our lives, continue a vibrant historic tradition, and energize our economy.

«This vibrant city remixes historic tradition with a modern twist — the perfect backdrop to offer guests and locals alike a dynamic scene that shakes up the traditional and embraces the avant - garde.»

Experience historic traditions and exceptional hospitality.

In Illuminations she presents works that draw from historic traditions of manipulating light «to transform and transport.»

The installations playfully allude to various historic traditions in Dutch painting that the country has become known for, while nodding to the notion of painting as a window on the world: the work shows an accumulation of illusions that are not fulfilled, as one can literally see straight through them.

Ahuja, a Baltimore - based artist whose parents hail from Cincinnati and New Delhi, has long employed her own image to challenge historic traditions of portrait painting.

The group's leading goal is to be a dynamic force in supporting and sustaining a strong and vibrant rural community, where agriculture plays a central role in the economy, where development respects historic traditions and natural resources, and where there are accessible open spaces and abundant, healthy natural lands and wildlife habitats.

This spectacularly renovated kitchen in a historical home maintains historic tradition without sacrificing comfort, convenience and sophistication.

Meander down the streets of Manila, trek through remote villages to see stunningly green rice terraces, learn about unusual and historic traditions like the hanging coffins of Sagada, and then wrap it all up by blissing out on the tiny beach paradise of Boracay Island, which may honestly have some of the best beaches you've ever seen.

The question is whether our historic tradition and church will be connected to that work.»

The church counseling centers have restored an historic tradition to the Church by meeting neglected needs.

«No American government should restrict this historic tradition.

The Campbells» effort to unite Christians on the foundation of what they perceived to be the New Testament pattern of preaching and discipline thus included an iconoclastic attack on the historic traditions of the churches.

It is a historic tradition that the Abbey bells are rung for significant royal occasions and anniversaries, and the Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum wedding anniversary.

Eastern Rite Catholics have a married clergy and celibate bishops (often drawn from the monasteries) and an Eastern liturgy similar to the Orthodox so there is precedent and an historic tradition for the ordinate.

Walker's allusion to skin color points to a historic tradition of tension between black women over the matter of some black men's preference for light - skinned women.

This previously mentioned paradoxical combination of historic tradition, with chic design and innovation is an on - going challenge and is likely to continue to be.

Drinks packaging as a speciality is therefore tasked to display this paradoxical combination of historic tradition, with chic design and innovation.

Floating Hospital officially merged with Tufts Medical Center in 1965, but still retains its own identity and rich, historic tradition.

«That tragic picture that we've seen overnight could be a moment where we say, actually, Britain does have a historic tradition of responding to unaccompanied minors and that is where we should be prepared to take more.

«It's a historic tradition,» says Bob Lema, one of the competition's organisers.

An herb steeped in historic tradition, bay laurel is just as potent today as it was in Ancient Greece and Rome.

As an artist, curator and producer, he inquires into the historic traditions and ideologies of our time, and the influence of the present - day art system on artistic authorship.

As ground - breaking as the Abstract Expressionists had been, they remained within the historic traditions of painting and sculpture.

Barry X Ball Directly engaging the historic tradition of the portrait bust, Barry X Ball (b. 1955, Pasadena, California) utilizes digital technologies and unconventional types of stone in creating his body of work.

This provides the works with a sense of legitimacy while again referring to historic traditions.

As the kumu hula, or leader of the Halau Na Kipu'upu» u, a hula school on «the big island» of Hawaii, Micah Kamohoali'i is adept in the movements that make up hula and the fabrication of the regalia of the historic tradition.

Sikander's unique approach to the historic tradition of miniature painting questions contemporary ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration.

With a foreword by Andrew Graham - Dixon and an essay by Sandy Nairne (Director of the National Portrait Gallery) and Sarah Howgate (Curator of Contemporary Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery) that locates contemporary portraiture within a historic tradition, 21st - Century Portraits examines current trends, showcasing the wide range of media used by today's artists.

His fascination with mythical landscapes has been nourished by pictures in the National Gallery and in «The Caged Bird's Song» one senses the excitement of the fusion of different strands of his own art coming together with the historic tradition of tapestry - making.»

The Studio Museum's Golden says she was «intrigued by the way he was reinventing landscapes, informed by both the historic tradition of British landscape painting, but also contemporary cultural history.

They are subjective renderings or re-orderings of physical marks, which somehow both sustains and undermines the historic tradition of «expressionistic» abstraction; a genre Calame's paintings belong to.

Its houses are designed in architectural styles representative of the historic traditions of the valley; numerous small parks are spaced throughout the development, which also contains its own clubhouse, swimming pool, post office and a site for a new village library.

Chances are, you will discover details drawn from one or more of these historic traditions.