Sentences with phrase «intellectual circles»

Sadly, from my point of view, this option is viewed with great suspicion in intellectual circles.

She'd run intellectual circles around someone like..

If such a decline has occurred it has probably taken place in two areas — influence on the practical affairs of the community and standing in intellectual circles.

Alogism After breaking with Larionov, Malevich came into contact with a new intellectual circle of modern artists including the writer Kruchenykh and the composer M.V. Matyushin.

History is filled with people who have great - sounding advice for the Bible and the Church, or people who have predicted the end of the faith... those people are long since gone, many of them their writings forgotten by any but the highest intellectual circles... but the Bible remains, and will remain.

Some of the earliest examples of conceptual portraiture in the show reflect Americans» awareness of the political turmoil in Europe during WWI, and the fluidity between artistic and intellectual circles on both sides of the Atlantic.

Within intellectual circles in United Methodism these developments have caused some consternation.

But at Harvard and elsewhere in the modern intellectual world, the left has generally predominated, and so most of the political lunacy emanating from intellectual circles has had a leftist cast.

PECC is a unique tripartite partnership of senior individuals from business and industry, government, academic and other intellectual circles.

Active in Catholic intellectual circles, he gave papers denouncing «the poison of collectivism.»

Concerned as he was to assert his distinctiveness within Viennese intellectual circles by every possible means, he yet retained a lifelong lingering desire to lose himself in German culture, and above all, in the German language.

As I write these words, The Holocaust Industry is causing enormous debate in British intellectual circles.

Our interviews suggest, however, that many are not committed to any broader purpose, such as shaping the next generation of religious leaders, or molding undergraduates into citizens who understand the importance of religion whether or not they practice it, or making the case for theological perspectives in intellectual circles where theology is viewed with suspicion.

Nonetheless, Betka rescues Jan from the spiritual loneliness of Prague and introduces him to the underground intellectual circles of the city.

It wishes to be taken seriously in secular intellectual circles, yet no Catholic thinker alive today has the respectability in those circles which Gilson, Maritain, Dawson, Mauriac, or Waugh enjoyed.

In order to probe further this aspect of theology, I will briefly enter the debate that is taking place in Indian intellectual circles between those who support the secularization option and those who advance an antimodern or critical traditionalist option.

They virtually run intellectual circles around this charlatan.

This basic decency, which refused to be taken captive by political or philosophical partisans, made him unique in French intellectual circles.

The leadership campaign was fought out amongst Oxbridge graduates, two of the candidates were sons of a left - wing historian with connections deep into North London Labour intellectual circles.

«Yes, Andrew doesn't come from lefty intellectual circles.

Some in the conservative intellectual circles were saying McCain should replace Palin or Palin should drop out.

Another American with strong ties to Parisian intellectual circles who features prominently in the exhibition is Charles Demuth.

The six installations included in the show were created at a time when earnest discussions around identity politics in liberal intellectual circles were causing a backlash from conservatives, straight white men, shock - jocks, gross - out cartoonists and moviemakers, as well as bad - boy contemporary artists such as Rhoades.

In this vein he was strongly influenced by the writings of the French post-structuralists — notably Jean Baudrillard — whose ideas were widely discussed in New York intellectual circles during the early 1980s.

Intellectual circles of confusion leading you nowhere, living in disbelief the evil one crouches at your door, patiently waiting to subdue you, becoming another twisted member of his tortured flock.

«It is time to face the fact, long suppressed in the highest intellectual circles, that a religiously diverse culture will be an intellectually richer culture.

Some of the earliest examples of conceptual portraiture in the show reflect Americans» awareness of the political turmoil in Europe during World War I, and the fluidity between artistic and intellectual circles on both sides of the Atlantic.

In intellectual circles in California, it is more acceptable to be a Buddhist than a Christian.

The attack on capitalism in some intellectual circles has opened up a new front: entrepreneurship itself.

It suddenly became very popular in intellectual circles to assert that morals were relative and that there were no absolutes.

By the thirties these voices became a major force in creating a new climate in which adherents of the earlier synthesis were increasingly on the defensive in intellectual circles.

By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.»

While St. Thomas is generally gaining wider appreciation in intellectual circles, many disagreements remain.

It is therefore an optimism about the future, and will remind some of the venerable doctrine of progress over which we have preached so many funeral orations In their zest and optimism such men are still isolated voices, for complaints about the vulgarity and crudeness of a world moving too fast still predominate in intellectual circles.

The Islamic revival in India, which occurred earlier than in Egypt, became known in the intellectual circles of Indonesia later than the revival in Egypt because it used the medium of the English language.

There is a widespread loss of belief in religion, especially in intellectual circles.

Genetics, environmental factors, and possibly even hormonal influences in early life could play a role, although the debate over how and why rages in intellectual circles.

«Being away from the suffocating environment of Pakistan, because it was nowhere near as progressive as it's become today, at least in the intellectual circles I move in now, helped me to find my voice,» she says — the voice that would allow her, decades later, to plunge into writing that covers taboo and divisive topics like women's rights, beggars, Muslim male privilege, honor killings, and head coverings for women.

And the September issue of Vogue runneth over with a 16 - page Edith Wharton - inspired spread styled by Grace Coddington, photographed by Annie Leibovitz (who, according to Anna Wintour, prepped for the shoot by reading almost everything Wharton ever wrote) and starring some of our favorite authors as Wharton's intellectual circle — plus an essay on Wharton titled «The Custom of the Country» by Colm Tóibín.

In intellectual circles he was known as an epilogist; among laymen he remained anonymous, never once asking for his name to appear at the close of the work he sealed for others.

By taking Gray into his confidence, Darwin ensured that Gray became his American gatekeeper, and Gray worked skillfully to guarantee that Darwin's books were well published and widely disseminated, and that his ideas received a fair hearing in intellectual circles - despite disapproving of many of their implications.

Kudo was equally critical of Western Humanism, a reaction which became evident in his work once he and his wife, Hiroko, settled in Paris in 1963, where he became associated with the artists like Erro, Arman, Spoerri, and traveled in an intellectual circle which included Jean Jacques Lebel and Pierre Restany.

A topical figure today, he was also one of the leading lights in the intellectual circles of the late 13th century, in which Arab, Jewish and Christian philosophers and scientists alike participated.

Dr Anja Baumhoff, lecturer in history of art and design at Loughborough University, who worked on the Barbican's Bauhaus show and has lived in the UK for eight years, believes the 2006 World Cup helped popularise German culture beyond artistic and intellectual circles.

During this period Greenberg also served as an editor for Partisan Review (1940 — 42) and Commentary (1945 — 57), entering the intellectual circles of prominent mid-century figures such as Saul Bellow and Lionel Trilling while also publishing monographs on the work of Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, and Hofmann.

Emmanuel was Melanie's older brother, who tutored her in Greek and Latin and who introduced her to the intellectual circles of Vienna.