Sentences with phrase «idea of human interest»

ARTIST STATEMENT «The piece is a play on simple vaudeville style adverts that toys with the idea of human interest in viewing the grotesque; in this case, a bloody boxer, black man with a west African rhino head, broken horn in mouth, bloody / bruised face + body, in a classic boxing pose.

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My former client (disclosure: I stopped working with them as of December last year) Wayfare also received genuine interest from the press through the idea that we, as human beings, occasionally want to meet people from all over the world.

The classic rags - to - riches tale of an enterprising dreamer who works all hours to build her dream business is part of what makes start - up life such a compelling idea, and young, growing businesses get plenty of media mileage out of their human interest aspects, from working out of garages to quirky founders.

I wouldn't call Spenser a greater poet, but he saw the human condition and our often - anguished journey toward God in a richer, more humane way than Milton did, who at the end of the day was more interested in ideas than people.

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

Though he verbally defended the old New England idea, it is interesting that he defended it more on the basis of reason and human rights than on the basis of Scripture, and this defense of congregational independence later provided arguments for advocates of the revolution against England.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

A critical reader may suspect that this idea grew out of later reflection and served an apologetic interest; yet it is true to human nature and experience.

After writing that article, since I am a philosopher interested in practical reason and, in any case, a student of human nature, I wondered what could have made these invitations seem like a good idea to someone.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

While interesting and suggestive, such views also involve considerable problems in both clarifying and justifying the idea of «respect for nature (and the related notions of the «rights» of nature or the need for nature's liberation from human intervention and the imposition of human purposes).

In his account of the movement toward the abolition of slavery, Whitehead faced this problem squarely, In his view the long delay in the abolition of slavery after the introduction of the idea of the human soul does not reflect only human willfulness and stubbornness in the pursuit of unjustified self - interest.

She had some public instincts, it is true; she hated the Lutherans, and longed for the church's triumph over them; but in the main her idea of religion seems to have been that of an endless amatory flirtation — if one may say so without irreverence — between the devotee and the deity; and apart from helping younger nuns to go in this direction by the inspiration of her example and instruction, there is absolutely no human use in her, or sign of any general human interest.

Such judgements and gossip share and thus legitimise the idea that prime ministers should indeed have the power to manipulate us in this way - while the media delights in the personalisation of power and the human interest stories it generates, and dreads dull rules.

HUMANS AND PARASITES I read with interest in Mary Carmichael's «Halting the World's Most Lethal Parasite» the idea of vaccinating mosquitoes by using a human carrier to pass the vaccine on to the mosquito.

«I heard about an interesting idea from neurologist Adam Gazzaley of the University of California, San Francisco, who describes humans as «information foragers,»» Sanders says.

This latter finding is of particular interest, says Christian Doeller of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and might support the idea that humans have a wider network of grid cells that we use to help form memories.

Probably the most amount of interest in the idea that human growth hormone injections could help people to drop pounds and to gain muscle was verified by a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

So, what we did in this experiment here, we gave 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and so forth and we learned something really interesting which turned out to be really quite a momentous idea later because in terms of this application to humans, in terms of this application to nutrition and health in general, what you can see in this particular presentation is that protein fed up to a level about 10 % of the calories, it..., it doesn't..., it doesn't turn on the cancer, but where..., when AS SOON AS THE PROTEIN BEGINS TO EXCEED 10 % THEN IT TURNS ON THE CANCER

in truth i \'m just another human being, looking for others whom i may share some interest and ideas, easy going, laid back type of persona that requires no hype.

It's an unfunny anthropological variety show that takes some interesting ideas (mostly from Don Symons's seminal text The Evolution of Human Sexuality) and misunderstands them, lacking the strength of its convictions necessary to push the leering slapstick into satire.

The idea of shooting an intimate human drama in 3D is interesting but ends up adding nothing, bar making Benoit Debie «s photography feel muddier and dimmer in a film already rendered in a low - contrast palette of browns and greys.

By the rules of teenager - centric action films this makes him Sam's natural arch-nemesis, and «Dark of the Moon» runs with that by the genuinely interesting idea of secret Decepticon collaborators among the human race, helping them with their plans.

But another way to look at «Lo and Behold» is not as an inquiry into ideas but rather as a collection of interesting human specimens.

The most interesting thing about this movie (viewing it in 2012) is the idea people had back then that being free of human entanglements was the only thing worth striving for.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian «It's an adventure which begins by being bizarre and hilarious but appears to run out of ideas at its mid-way point, and run out of interest in what had at first seemed to be its central comic image: humans turning into animals.

«It's a big idea, that we, humans, are the least developed, the least trusted, it's an interesting mirror image of our world, we are the aliens now,»

Like the previous season, it deals with some interesting theories on the idea of free will and the human spirit, what makes a person a person, and the ethical grey areas that come with them.

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As atheists, we simply deny the assumptions of theism; we declare that the God idea, in all its features, is unreasonable and unprovable; we add, more vitally, that the God idea is an interference with the interests of human happiness and progress.

One of the most interesting ideas suggested by Ian Ayers's book Super Crunchers is the role of humans in the implementation of a quantitative investment strategy.

Says WoofTrax CEO Doug Hexter on their app, «The idea came from a desire to help animals and to try do it in an interesting and novel way... we realized - and it's in the press — how lots of dogs are overweight and it's good for dogs to exercise and of course their humans as well.»

What a great idea, it's interesting as I was reading your tips, humans of New York came to mind as someone who does it right.

The Looking Glass Knight is one of DS2's most interesting ideas: the Knight can use its enormous mirror shield to summon enemies, including other human players, into the fight.

During the 30 - 40 hours of main campaign gaming (which I'm so very close to finishing), Watch Dogs twists and turns with loads of genuinely interesting human drama and neat ideas like, why hasn't anyone thought of this before?

These interests fueled the creation of objects that have a profound sense of touch (whether his own or thousands of years of human contact), hold meaning within them, and suggest ideas to the viewer both functional and spiritual.

She is interested in ideas of interference and disruption of long - established systems in nature and human cultures.

Verge Art Fair December 6 - 9, 2012 vergeartfair.com Classified as an «ongoing experiment in art, markets, ideas and the art culture,» Verge has worked with a number of art schools, museums, critics and curators to attract attendees who are interested in art from a human interest perspective, not a financial one.

On the new developments in his art, which make their world premiere here during Singapore Art Week, Shonibare says: «I'm interested at the moment in the idea of the universal human being.

Her unmanned camera panning indiscriminately through the backlots of a film studio, pulling in and out of focus, swinging side to side, is an interesting idea (although of course the viewpoint never settles on anything the human eye could find interesting)- until you learn that it is spelling out the letters of the word Cinematography.

The work relates to my interest on a simple level, of the appearance of a functional form in relation to the body and space, but also incorporates anthropometry — the scientific study of the measurements and proportions of the human body — and ideas about permutation, the body as a fluid term for encapsulation, intervention, figuration, and the politics of exposure.

The idea is to present works that will intrigue the interest around human culture and will promote the diversity found in the synthesis of various personal stories, the intersection of «private» and «public», and the comprehension of the «historical truth» through everyday life experiences.

I'm interested in the idea of surrogate humans.

Emerging from his interest in the relationship between technology and human consciousness, Rafman's works examine ideas of desire — its simulation and enactment.

How dangerous it is to question the ruling paradigm of human caused global warming, a once interesting idea that the United Nations latched onto with all the enthusiasm of a fox in a hen coop, simultaneously drawing the interest of various national governments, and dragging with it many unwitting but eager scientifically credentialed sycophants.

Several Nebraska researchers rejected the idea, saying the budget was insufficient and they would not be interested unless human influences were made part of the study.

The group has come up with an interesting radar graphic, and wants a little feedback.The future scenarios take into account the idea of peak everything - water, oil, carbon emissions... - and what humans are likely to do as a response as we hit our planet's limits.

Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers has some interesting ideas about this in his book «Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self - Deception in Human Life».

The idea of the human and animal waste digester is hardly new, but Mazzotta's design takes it to an interesting new place, seeking to make it part of our everyday lives, not just a love of Ed Begley Jr.'s.

What seemed to them, in a cloud of missionary zeal, like a good idea (frankly, they could not be reasoned with, nor were they interested in evidence, history, human nature, or logic) turned out to a harmful, failed philosophy that, if adopted, would have wreaked incalculable harm, not only on their own nations, but on the whole World.