Sentences with phrase «isolationism which»

A world in dissolution deserved better of the artist than an uneasy aesthetic isolationism which identified virtue in art with the rural western idyl of Thomas Benton, the backwoods folklore of John Steuart Curry, and the somewhat satirical ancestor worship of Grant Wood.

The most important reason, doubtless, for the prevalence of such «social religion» in modern Christian churches is their reaction against the isolationism which long characterized many of them.

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While in the same breath he talks about «Putting America First» - which to some sounds like a return to U.S. isolationism - Trump makes it clear he has big plans to write a whole new chapter of the nation's war on terrorism, which dates back to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.

The slogan, popularized by 1930s Nazi sympathizers, has raised fears of a new era of zero - sum politics and isolationism, as well as worries about which Americans will, in fact, be put first.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

That inward turn has sometimes sparked accusations of isolationism — charges which have not always been entirely unfair.

The future, I have said, depends on the courage and resourcefulness which men display in overcoming the forces of isolationism, even of repulsion, which seem to drive them apart rather than draw them together.

Politics of self - imposed isolationism with regards to Syria led to this horrific situation, which sadly illustrates so much of what the year has encompassed: an appalling lack of human decency, a moral bankruptcy that will define the absence of responsibility toward human suffering.

by Walter Chaw The urban surfaces of Americana are lent the sheen of Edward Hopper's neon isolationism by cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchía in the appropriately named Confidence, which finds director James Foley back on noir ground, where his footing is firmest.