Sentences with phrase «immediate events of history»
If we can derive no meaning for our lives from our involvement in the immediate events of history, perhaps we can endow them with significance as a part of an overarching movement toward a distant consummation.
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Purely formal evaluations of the meaning of an event or a person in the immediate historical sequence are of course necessary; but a judgment of value depends upon a point of view which the writer imports into the history and by which he measures the historica1 phenomena.
Starting with his famous painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, the artist gained immediate attention, even acclaim, painting historical subjects, often done tongue and cheek, of events in popular American history.