Sentences with phrase «just social convention»

That does not indicate he actually believes it or not, like if I say god bless you, it is not an admission that I think that there are gods, it is just the social convention.

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In this sense marriage, family, sexuality is something inscribed into our identity as human beings and not just a set of social conventions.

Just as the naming of things represents a child's first act of classification and an ability to share in social conventions, the naming of factors that shape one's experience is the first step towards understanding how those factors influence one's thought and behavior.

Actor Bradley Cooper was just another celebrity face in the crowd at the convention last night, but many Republicans on social media took vocal exception to the «American Sniper» star's attendance.

Larger Pacific Striped octopus; image courtesy of Richard Ross Of the hundreds of known octopus species, most are anti-social, practice safe sex (to avoid getting eaten by a mate) and lay just one clutch of eggs before dying.The poorly understood larger Pacific striped octopus, however, seems to break from these conventions: They are somewhat social, they mate face - to - face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.The octopus is so rare that science has yet to even give it a formal Latin name.

And yet, his latest work plays just as much like a blown - up, fun home image of Mike Judge's «Idiocracy,» as it too uses the conventions of science fiction to mount a caustic social satire.

Just try not to swoon as Bathsheba and Gabriel defy social convention and pursue a relationship based on mutual respect and vigor atop a hill as majestic as the steed she loves to hurtle into the sky on.

History detail, and a nice one to include not just for versimilitude, but for making a subtle point about the layers of social convention and bias that this novel reveals.

(I just moderated a panel on social media for authors at the annual Left Coast Crime mystery convention).

Your stay at Kimpton Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City drops you just around the block from the Salt Palace Convention Center, the hub of conference and event activity in downtown Salt Lake City, with events ranging from tradeshows and conferences to business meetings and social events (including modern - day gatherings like Comic Con).

How many times these days do people meet, especially guys plus girls, and they don't have a wee drink just out of basic social convention?

Be yourself, just with a better understanding of the social conventions that make you appear normal.

But Locher, whose work has been exhibited internationally, including at Aperture Foundation / New York, Le Dictateur / Milan, and Fashion Space Gallery / London, and has appeared in numerous magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, W, Neon, and Interview hasn't just done it for fun; sometimes confrontational, often amusing, her photographs are intended to raise serious points about politics and social conventions.

Just's pictures are notably conjured through the manipulation of both social and cinematic convention; his use of appropriation mutates to bend the conventions of mainstream Hollywood productions while building from their structure.

Do not have rules just for the sake of having rules or conforming to social conventions.