Sentences with phrase «in alien culture»

There's a road map to saving ourselves in Happy Feet and it has something to do with revelling in difference rather than being repelled by it — of rolling ourselves up in alien culture so that a common language is rooted out.

It is a result of the sheer energy that it has taken for Catholics to improve their position in a new country and in an alien culture, and it also reflects some social resentment for past disabilities on the part of people who have won social power.

Not exact matches

Aliens may be the most immediate pop - culture example of mechanical limbs in action, but the best description of the apparatus» impact on lethality actually comes from Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, in my opinion.

«I thought if ever we were going to do something dramatic and lasting to change Australia's gun laws to prevent the emergence of a more alien gun culture in our country, this was the time to do it.»

Those of us shaped by the Enlightenment, for example, often think of justice in quite individualistic ways alien to persons of some other cultures.

Islamic culture has been affected by the cultural, social, and political conditions in which it existed and by the challenge which the Muslims faced, a challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free of alien interpolations.

In the 19th century, the Protestant Christian missions identified Christianity almost totally with western culture and made religious conversion to Christianity a transference from Indian culture to an alien culture.

It would be a mistake to see this as entirely inflicted on the immigrant groups by an alien American culture.17 Some form of it is what lured many to these shores in the first place.

It appears to them and it appears to me that many churches, ministries are more influenced by culture, more influenced by political ideology, more influenced by American nationalism than by the radical demands by Jesus to live as exiles and sojourners and refugees in this alien world called America.

There is a widespread tendency in the West to see missions as destroyers of indigenous cultures or else as alien cultural agents from the West.

Concluding our six - part series on the Spring Harvest 2005 theme, Steve Chalke focuses on the occasions when Daniel learned to compromise and others when he chose to stand his ground - vital principles for you and me who also live in a an alien and sometimes hostile culture.

Despite all our cultural differences, despite the structures in society and in the Church that obscure our confession of Christ, and despite our sinfulness, we affirm and confess Christ together, for we have found that he is not alien to any culture and that he redeems and judges all our societies.

We are called to become the church in a culture whose values are largely alien to the Christian message, to be once again the church of the catacombs.

I love the part where she talks about the faith - based children's in her home seem to be about a culture completely alien to the one in which she actually lives.

Star Trek has the Prime Directive which directs starship captains to avoid interfering in the development of primitive alien cultures and although it seems to make sense at first glance it's just a fairy tale until we actually find ourselves dealing with such a scenario.

And now the same symptom is easy to see in the violent crises of Islamic culture, which has appropriated many themes of Western anti-Semitism alien to the Qur» an.

Gramsci claimed many workers before the war «had seen in futurism the elements of a struggle against the old academic culture of Italy, mummified and alien to the popular masses.

The fact is that the «foreign» missionary presence in the life of any church should serve as a particular reminder of the «alien» nature of the gospel to every nation and culture.

Thus, even before Christianity had a chance to define itself in terms of its own Hebrew origins, it was already being called upon to deal with an alien culture which had a level of philosophical sophistication higher than its own.

Christians were persecuted and were practically exterminated from China by the end of the fourteenth century, not only because they were not in the mainstream of Chinese culture, but mainly because the Christians were supported by an alien political power and they in turn supported that political power.

Ideology, seen from within, has no outside; in this sense one does not transgress its outer limits as one crosses a geographical boundary... It is impossible to come to its frontiers from within... in discovering its demarcations, ideology discovers its self - dissolution; it can not survive the «culture shock» consequent on its stumbling into alien territory adjacent to itself....

Yet, sadly, it seems not to occur to many such persons that had they, by accident of birth, been reared in a different faith culture they might well believe just as passionately in a different «one true faith» that today is totally alien to them.

And when we see what God is doing, we can join with culture in standing against war, hunger, and other forms of inhumanity, but infusing such stands with the principles of the Gospel and the example of Jesus Christ (Resident Aliens, 46 - 47).

Needless to say, anti-immigration debates continue to be loud, and are largely informed by a worldview at odds with itself, in which host communities are pitted against a deluge of immigrants — a burden on the economy and a marching in of an inflexible and alien culture.

Now, I'm not going to go into great detail about how I think you might just be missing the point, though I will suggest that perhaps you'd be more persuasive if you considered the question of whether anyone ASKED those «black folks» whether or not they wanted to be brought in chains to the New World, kept in servitude for centuries, stripped of their cultures and their very names and forcibly converted to an alien religion.

Of course, in return, we have rap music, goat curry and a far more vibrant and diverse understanding of cultures which were once alien to us.

We can see now that in the United States as well as in Europe we have the tea party, the neo-conservatives, and the new evangelists that are now creating a new enemy of Islam and the Muslims — portraying them as «a cancer», aliens and foreign citizens, outsiders within, who are threatening the very essence of Western culture.

He said that perpetrating violence in the name of political support and thuggery was alien to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the culture of the people of the state.

Fourthly, it is also germane that the Security Services had made it clear in March 2005, through a report from the Intelligence and Security Committee, that «they operated a culture that respected human rights and that coercive interrogation techniques were alien to the Services» general ethics, methodology and training» (paragraph 9 of the first judgment), indeed they «denied that [they] knew of any ill - treatment of detainees interviewed by them whilst detained by or on behalf of the [US] Government» (paragraph 44 (ii) of the fourth judgment).

But a handful of real - life archaeologists are already making a bid to study culture in space — of the human, not alien, variety.

Advances in tissue culture, molecular markers, and genomics offer new potential to broaden the gene pool of rice by tapping the genetic variability hidden in the wild species and further enhance the efficiency of alien gene introgression.

To anyone new to Stranger Things Imagine ET, Aliens, The Goonies, The Thing, IT and many other 80's -90's Science Fiction / Horror films books mixed together that was infused of so many pop culture references from the same time that they become hard to keep track of at times well THAT is pretty much Stranger Things in a Nutshell!

In episode 103, Penn & Teller spend three days at a UFO convention and visit an alien - abduction group therapy session as they explore the psychological explanations for - and the influences of pop culture on - the typical abduction story.

Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), after trying and failing to match Ebony in wisecracks and firepower, gets sucked into the ship, and it's up to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to rescue him, with an assist from Spider - Man (Tom Holland), a pop - culture geek who wonders if he's in the middle of an «Alien» film, and who Tony outfits with anti-gravity armor.

The mood's mostly pretty dour, which leaves the audience particularly grateful for those who provide comic relief: Dave Bautista's growly Drax, who in one scene is practicing the underappreciated art of standing really, really still; Tom Holland's chipper Peter / Spidey, taking it all in with wide eyes; Robert Downey Jr.'s ever - grumpy Tony Stark / Iron Man, who's pretty sick of Peter's pop - culture references (particularly «a really old movie called «Alien»»).

District 9 is not only an action thriller, but a thought provoking critique on our own culture that can't be ignored as the Aliens or Prawns (derogetory term given to them by the humans) play a much larger emotional and dynamic role in the film than the trailer or bits of viral marketing let on.

Predator has also had a moderate reappearance in the pop culture of the new millennium thanks to the Alien vs. Predator films in 2004 and 2007.

«When Western culture came in, it was like a tsunami because we'd been closed off for so long,» Zhao says, rattling off the titles of films she remembers seeing: «True Lies,» «Sister Act,» «Aliens,» «Indecent Proposal,» «Pretty Woman.»

But the whole «everything's like this, except when it isn't» thing is an excellent characterization of the general awfulness of the entire movie: the aliens, walking around in their Eddie Murphy robot spaceship body, either understand humans and Earth culture, or they don't, depending on which would be «funniest» (none of it is actually funny, natch).

Blast your way through alien landscapes, seek out valuable secrets, and defeat ancient guardians to unlock powers from a legendary supreme culture in this exciting journey of mystery and adventure.»

I'm resisting the notion of a ranked Top 10 this year because there are enough absurdities in the real world and in pop culture without saying that Good Film A is better than Good Film B. Every movie is a two - hour window onto an alien planet; the infinite differences are what make the medium remain vibrant and mysterious.

In his best, biggest performance since playing Alien in Spring Breakers, James Franco takes the otherworldliness of this quintessential trash culture icon and makes it poignantly, unforgettably humaIn his best, biggest performance since playing Alien in Spring Breakers, James Franco takes the otherworldliness of this quintessential trash culture icon and makes it poignantly, unforgettably humain Spring Breakers, James Franco takes the otherworldliness of this quintessential trash culture icon and makes it poignantly, unforgettably human.

In an interview with Pop Culture, Jake Busey revealed the new Predator will finally reveal why the big game hunting aliens decided to come to Earth in this first placIn an interview with Pop Culture, Jake Busey revealed the new Predator will finally reveal why the big game hunting aliens decided to come to Earth in this first placin this first place.

Given the widespread existence of choice and competition in K - 12 education, it is demonstrably wrong to suppose, as Forum contributor Frederick M. Hess does («The Work Ahead «-RRB-, that «Efforts to cultivate competition may thus foster a culture of schooling that is alien to our educational heritage and may create an incentive structure that distorts educational priorities.»

Let's appreciate the view of Tea Party parents, too, families that feel besieged by a popular culture that's alien to their values and that want some measure of control over what is taught in their children's schools.

The two older girls returned home almost immediately, while the other three were taken in by kind New England families whose alien cultures and traditions slowly distanced them from their memories of home.

What is it like to have to immerse yourself in a culture completely alien to what you are used to?

It's a fantastic place to come if you want to learn Spanish, as you can sign up to a homestay programme for excellent value, or to just immerse yourself in an alternative, but not alien, culture.

He will not be engaged in the superficial pursuits of tourists but in the difficult task of trying to make sense of an alien culture.

Whilst many aspects of life is alien exotic and exciting, the French influence in language, architecture and society makes it easy for weekenders to assimilate quickly with the culture.