Sentences with phrase «idea of abandonment»

Still, at the core of even those later pieces, and already apparent in the assemblage collages of the»60s, is the idea of abandonment.

Not exact matches

As a participant in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post — World War II universal human - rights idea has finally been so manipulated and politicized as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good will.

By the time he died, the very future of Europe seemed at risk, with a plummeting birth rate and widespread abandonment of ideas, traditions, and achievements which were theessence of a Christian heritage.

«In fact, the new discoveries were intellectually threatening, requiring the abandonment of too many certainties, the acquisition of too many new ideas and skills, the modification of too many maxims, the sudden irrelevance of too many accepted authorities.

The conception of the rule of Satan and the remoteness of God from the present can be unified with the idea of God only if this very remoteness of God, this abandonment to Satan, is really a determination by God Himself.

If we establish the idea that people no longer have lifetime membership in the human family, the practice of abandonment could become widespread - strongly encouraged perhaps by insurance carriers to cut costs.

«Clearly, the idea of divorce is the ultimate abandonment and goes to the core of people's attachment issues.

Alas, the abandonment of the idea is what looks like is taking place.

Not a terrible idea (i.e., making the boring, button - down dork the centre of a satirical romance) for a movie as self - serving, self - pitying, neo-Woody Allen ideas go, but as The Baxter unfolds with a suspiciously - familiar series of contrived situations, gentle misunderstandings involving homosexuality and a strange woman in your bed, and a parade of women so far out of Elliot's league as to render his eventual abandonment as inevitable as his ultimate match (with Cecil (Michelle Williams), likewise far out of his league) is unlikely, it becomes clear that the flick is just as stupid as that which it purports to lampoon.

There's some animal cruelty, a rape, a kidnapping of an infant that seems to represent some sort of rejuvenating hope for both clans (one as a «Thanksgiving turkey,» the other as the optimism of a better future), a crucifixion, a burnt offering, and, intriguingly, a pair of Oedipal uprisings that first retells the abandonment story (Jupiter is left to die in the desert as Oedipus in the mountains), then follows through with its idea of patricide and, in a way, a double - bedding of respective mothers.

His offer suggests a total abandonment of the past, including her child, but Joan, unlike so many of her co-workers, has a strong idea of what she wants out of life outside of her professional goals.

More fundamental new governance ideas from both sides of the political spectrum also have flaws, from even more open town - meeting style control of schools on the left to total abandonment of governance in preference for market mechanisms on the right.

It was far less influenced by the ideas of Taylor and his colleagues and far more influenced by the ideas of Peter Drucker and other post-war thinkers who were interested in the advantages to be enjoyed by companies willing to entertain the abandonment of the mass - production industrial age system in favor of professional forms of work organization better suited to competition based on the generation and application of new knowledge.

An innovative idea, a heroic story of survival, or a sad case of abandonment which stirs our emotions and captivates the masses.

The idea of a multi-generational Harvest Moon is intriguing, but it can't save this hackneyed tale of amnesia and mysterious fatherly abandonment.

Bringing together rarely seen early abstract works, a vast and stunning display of the artist's performance - inducing «Bichos» (Beasts) 1960 — 66, and a space given over to demonstrations of Clark's therapeutic activities, this show grappled with the paradox of featuring the artist's radical production while honoring her willed «abandonment» of the idea of art altogether.

With the abandonment of symbolic meaning, first by the French Impressionists and then by the American Abstract Expressionists, landscape painting would become a vehicle for formal innovation — a representational strategy and an idea, not a specific geography.

Where the idea of going nuclear remains unpalatable we see for example that Germany may be the first of the EU countries to begin the abandonment of the global warming house of cards in favor of coal and gas - fired power plants.

But the abandonment by climate scientists of the need to verify their claims is at the heart of Darwall's belief that the science is the critically weak point of the «idea» of climate change.

Shell suspended drilling in the Arctic... for 2013: While it wasn't a permanent, outright abandonment from exploratory drilling in the Arctic, the various failures Shell faced earlier in the year made it clear that drilling in that part of the world requires a lot of planning and contingency measures — and perhaps isn't such a good idea to begin with.

«The conceptualization of the core pathology of BPD as stemming from a highly frightened, abused child who is left alone in a malevolent world, longing for safety and help but distrustful because of fear of further abuse and abandonment, is highly related to the model developed by Young (McGinn & Young, 1996)... Young elaborated on an idea, in the 1980s introduced by Aaron Beck in clinical workshops (D.M. Clark, personal communication), that some pathological states of patients with BPD are a sort of regression into intense emotional states experienced as a child.

Johanna, 32 year old woman, single, seeks help for recurrent depressive episodes related with partner relationships, characterized by subjugation, frustration and ideas to of abandonment for not being good enough by those partners and friends.