Sentences with phrase «impulse toward»

As a counter to the summer blockbuster impulse toward revenge in our culture and our relationships I think step eight of Dr. Luskin's nine step process is poignant and timely.

This aspect of the decision reveals an impulse toward structuring decision - making around hearsay admissibility from the top down.

The show surveys the recurring and widespread impulse toward geometric abstraction in modern and contemporary art.

Some artists in the second part of the twentieth century sustained the legacy of Kazimir Malevich, Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, et al. — notably Gego, Nasreen Mohamedi, and Agnes Martin, who shared an impulse toward abstraction that can be seen as the materialization of a mental space striving for an impossible perfection.

In «Double Feature,» his first exhibition with Honor Fraser, Mario Ybarra Jr. explores the probably universal impulse toward cinematic identification, playing with the ways in which we project ourselves into the roles we encounter on the silver screen — or the flickering pixels of late - night television, as the case may be.

That same impulse toward excavation animates many of his installations, which range from layered broken walls to geodefilled caverns to melting portals.

A series of cursory strokes, both scribbles and letters, run across the dense medium - gray, crayon - and - oil ground and remind us of the origin of the impulse toward mark making and its kinship to the marking of a letter.

The second section, «Reductive,» considers the period 1920 - 1950, and examines the work by Piet Mondrian, Kasimir Malevich, and Wassily Kandinsky, exploring the impulse toward a visual language that expresses thought and emotion without representation or other associations to the world around us.

(c. 1916 - 1917) Linoleum cut title page with watercolor & gouache additions from a portfolio of six linoleum cuts June 11 — August 18, 2008 This exhibition, which inaugurates a series of newly opened galleries on the Museum's second floor, surveys the widespread and recurring impulse toward geometric abstraction in modern and contemporary art.

If I distrust Olitski more than ever and in a whole new way, I can at least see the same impulse toward squeezing paint out of the tube and getting it on the wall.

Bray's inherent impulse toward tinkering and constructing language from its bare bones concludes in something unexpectedly elegant.

So millennials feel most confident about their impulse toward travel, but remain conscious of their spending.

It is unfortunate that the author is so powerfully attracted by the impulse toward maximum outrage that he winds up spending too much time way out over his skis.

In the spaces between these competing stories, Partovi and Panahi mine tensions between safety and danger, between creative expression and the impulse toward destruction or surrender, and between fear and resistance.

In both cases the impulse toward revenge is clearly and honestly marked as a form of regression toward childhood or more recent traumas, not as any sort of catharsis or adult achievement of justice.

Some sociobiologists argue that an impulse toward violence is written in our genes, but archaeologist Joyce Marcus sees a more modern origin for war in the charred remains of old stockades in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Nowak disagrees: He argues that so - called kin selection is just one of several mechanisms driving a more general impulse toward cooperation.

The impulse toward global fellowship is not mistaken, however wrongheaded the prevailing ideologies of globalization might be.

In the field of law we note the same impulse toward Islamization.

Could it be though, that such communities of faith carry in themselves the world's emergent impulse toward being comprehended by deeper dimensions of harmonized intensity and aesthetic enrichment?

It not only appeals, like Christianity, to the impulse toward self - denial and self - sacrifice — an impulse which can, of course, be enlisted in a bad as well as in a good cause.

The impulse toward apolitical ministry is understandable.

These had perverse tendencies, but de Lubac could draw upon their impulse toward solidarity, which, as he demonstrated, is truly realized in the Church's universal mission.

Though the roots of this impulse toward service were Protestant, its fruits were more broadly moral and less distinctively Christian.

This distillation of the process becomes neatly linear in the classroom and initially satisfies an impulse toward ordering the chaos and disconnectedness of sermon preparation into some significant process.

Except for his impulse toward assertive self - defense, he had no quarrel with the Jewish past.

He believed that the impulse toward a better society was the fruit of Jesus» proclamation of a kingdom of love, divine in its origin, growth, and consummation, sustained by the Holy Spirit, made manifest and operative as the will of God is done in human society.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Niebuhr grouped sectarian Protestantism with the Renaissance because it shared the Renaissance emphasis upon grace as Power in man, the impulse toward the completion of life.

A strong impulse toward ecumenical unity emanates from the personal and spiritual writings of this self - described «maverick Baptist working for the United Methodists» in search of «catholic» reality within the «basic unity of... the church as the Body of Christ» («Church History Is My Vocation.»

Attempts to reconceive the contexts of ordinary life and neighborhood, to replicate with more a sense of realism than an impulse toward beautification, to help imagine the lives of the people who built and used old houses of worship, make preservation worthwhile.

Both a zealous commitment to congregational autonomy and a strong impulse toward cooperative ministry underlie the organizational history of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

In both the Roman Catholic and the fundamentalist Protestant traditions there is an impulse toward contrition for what is recognized as sin and a channel of escape, but relatively little attention is given either to the more subtle sins of the spirit or to major social evils in which as sinners we all participate.

In my vision, the fact that each actual entity, in its very nature, embodies an aesthetic impulse toward order, meaning, and value is sufficient in itself to ground the religious intuition of a character of permanent rightness permeating the nature of things.

Where beastly things happen to masses of people because of the cruelty, corruption, incompetence, or absence of government, there will be among the powers of the world a strong impulse toward thinking that something should be done.

Each and every actual entity is a concrescence of given elements under the aegis of an aesthetic impulse toward order, meaning, and value, i.e., toward the emergence of Beauty.

While Pagels argues that the phenomenon of pre-Augustinian Christian celibacy was an expression of this early Christian impulse toward freedom (rather than of a hatred of nature or the body), she thinks Augustine's defense of celibacy is the very antithesis of freedom.

Recently, conservatives like Jerry Falwell have recovered the impulse toward «reformation of manners» that motivated 19th century evangelicals.

Her name, her body, and the shack she lives in blur into the unreality of dreams — but an unreality different than that of her initial impulse toward «a dream somebody had, and wrote it down, and it ended up in this book,» because her name, her body, and her shack all do exist.

However, we're most attractive to those lurking near the exit door (or on the other side) when we curb this impulse toward triumphalism or battle - minded pride.

There's a common attitude among traders who see potential for a big score or have seen enough deals on which they acted cautiously go right through the roof to have an impulse toward risky behavior.

Citizens believe in God, but their liberal religion has few holds on duty (this is not a book to cheer liberals) and rigorous sectarian religion promotes few impulses toward the public good; rather, it stands off, supporting privatism beyond church, individualism in the public zone and incoherence overall.

Meanwhile our rigorous sectarian religion promotes few impulses toward the public good; rather, it stands off, supporting privatism beyond the walls of the church, individualism in the public zone and incoherence overall.

There are neglected impulses toward Christian unity latent within the conservative, and even fundamentalist, sector of American evangelicalism: a passionate concern for theological truth - telling, an unflinching allegiance to the holy scriptures, an evangelistic and missionary impulse to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all persons everywhere, an ecclesiological postulate of an invisible church known only to God.

Loathed by some and revered by others, Lynch's dark fable of small - town decadence has a way of crawling under the skin, pricking at the nerves and teasing the impulses toward violence and voyeurism.

As unlikable as he can be, you don't want bad things to happen to Keith, so his impulses toward retaliating against the thug who grandstands against him are dismaying.

All children get frustrated and have aggressive impulses toward other children, but good caregivers know how to prevent or manage behavior problems.»

With these influences Haring was able to push his own youthful impulses toward a singular kind of graphic expression based on the primacy of the line.

He is also confronting head - on the impulses toward showmanship and responsibility.

Beginning with acquisitions from the core collection donated to the Museum by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Strange Bodies attempts to show how expressionistic and surrealistic impulses toward human representation have evolved.