Sentences with phrase «kind of allegiance»

For Notebook editor Daniel Kasman, Ayka is «a bracing dose of the kind of allegiance cinema can have with those for whom simply existing at all is never a simple matter.»

Globalization means that all kinds of allegiances — personal, family, religious and national — are increasingly subject to global concerns.

Not exact matches

The consequences of this kind of uncritical allegiance to family love has been a century of church programs designed to insure the future of Christianity through the children of church members.

I think that kind of perspective, willfully separating that «force» from the flawed characteristics and limitations of man, is more «faithful» than blind allegiance to ideologies KNOWN to have been manipulated by man.

His whole code and one's allegiance to it suggest, however, that somehow, somewhere, human beings have acquired the faculty of imposing meaning on the meaningless; and this imposed order becomes a kind of substitute for an intelligible universe, which may or may not be presided over by a Nature greater than our own.

City officials swear allegiance to the US Constitution, the New York State Constitution, and the New York City Charter, but the bill's supporters did not talk about the explicit prohibitions on this kind of funding in the State Constitution.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

It's hard to watch — and Nolan takes pains to confuse our allegiances in ways that suggest a very British class tension (Borden and ace engineer Cutter (Michael Caine) share a Cockney brogue while Angier, a Yank, is cut from different cloth), a certain nationalism, and, in the figure of Nikolai Tesla (David Bowie) at play mad - scientist - like in a mythical Colorado Springs, a clearly delineated duel between magic and the notion that technology before its time is a kind of witchcraft.

Because as much as I love how MvC does what it does so well, my allegiance has always been to another franchise, that, in my opinion, has reinvigorated the entire fighting genre, given it a whole new style of play, and is easily the most original of it's kind.

There was this kind of mild allegiance, like yeah, we wear shorts, that's our thing.

Not as a sort of allegiance to values kind of thing, but as noting that human rights obligations require that as a profession and in terms of whom we represent we can't be unequal and exclusionary, and that it is reasonable to turn that into a positive obligation to take steps to ensure the opposite is true — i.e., that we are more equal, diverse and inclusive.

I've always been a T - shirt kind of guy, wearing my shirts to proclaim allegiance to everything from my favorite rock groups to science, humor, politics, and the organizations I support, one of which is Planned Parenthood.