Sentences with phrase «how iconoclastic»

However, the students enter the class knowing that no matter how smart they are, no matter how clever, no matter how iconoclastic, they are children compared to the collective combined work of not one or two but hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of the brightest minds our species has yet produced, compared to the work of millions of people that have built and continue to build our base of consistent knowledge.

General readers will enjoy learning how an iconoclastic businessman transformed a struggling textile company into a corporate fortress destined to be his lasting legacy.

While it will likely appeal most to music fans eager to see how this iconoclastic singer / songwriter will fare in the literary sweepstakes, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive deserves praise for the way it captures both the squalor and the community spirit of a down - and - out enclave populated with lively, believable characters.

While it will likely appeal most to music fans eager to see how this iconoclastic singer / songwriter (and author of the 2001 short story collection Doghouse Roses) will fare in the literary sweepstakes, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive deserves praise for the way it captures both the squalor and the community spirit of a down - and - out enclave populated with lively, believable characters.

So, one is - can you try to convey how iconoclastic it was go to the Royal Society and say that light was particles in a time where it seems likely the general belief among the people who actually had some power there was the opposite?

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And now that he's the toast of Cannes, don't expect the iconoclastic British director to willingly mouth platitudes when he's asked how he likes the way the fest has taken to his film.

It is difficult to predict how history may judge this iconoclastic book.

Like other nonconformist, iconoclastic actors such as Sean Penn and Joaquin Phoenix, Bale eschews playing the Hollywood celebrity game and doesn't care about how he is perceived publicly, wanting his work to speak for itself.

How unusual it is to see this once iconoclastic, fun - loving band of rural Japanese carmakers now peppered from the top down with Ford executives representing the Blue Oval's 33.4 percent share of Mazda.

The book reveals how Chimes has found inspiration in the writings of Antonin Artaud, James Joyce, and especially Alfred Jarry, the iconoclastic playwright and novelist whose invented «' Pataphysics» ---- the «science of imaginary solutions» ---- has provided the artist with a seemingly inexhaustible font of imagery.

A canvas like Mountain of Heaven, 1961, illustrates how Bearden was indeed an experimenter, but not in the iconoclastic sense of the AbEx group, nor in the Greenbergian formal sense favored by the younger color - field painters.

Rogers was an iconoclastic professor who skillfully pulled together empirical research from a wide variety of disciplines to create a general theory of how innovation diffuses.