Sentences with phrase «like most traditions»

Bridal showers are a wonderful tradition but, like most traditions, their modern applications raise many questions.

It is a limitation of New Thought that, like most traditions that trace their evolutionary roots in terms of the ancient Greek philosophers, it does not acknowledge the African (Kemetic) contributions to the Greek wisdom teachings.

Not exact matches

As a result the Wesleyan tradition, like most other classical traditions, has had both its fundamentalist and its more liberal wings of interpretation.

Most of what passes for Christmas traditions are in fact Pagan / Heathen, like the lighted and decorate tree, candles in the windows, wreath on the door, caroling from door to door, exchanging gifts, etc..

The most deceptive aspect is when one steals from already established religious traditions (like Hinduism / Yoga) and then pretends to teach.

But it is so open to be all - inclusive, all - consuming, like a unifying theory that applies to everyone from atheist to believer in any religious or spiritual tradition, that most wouldn't accept me as a part of their club.

All I am saying, is that historically the church, like most churches, have an infinitely longer tradition, goal and history of positive spiritual guidance and positive impacts on the world than they have negative.

It is important to acknowledge that, like most congregations, they are very aware of the way in which they are free to shape their own particular lives around a wide variety of traditions and practices.

like most of us, inherited an immense tradition that there ought to be justice.

And the relationships that have meant the most to me, that have brought me closer to the Table, have been those in which we talk to one another like normal people, employing the language of our shared faith tradition when it illuminates the truth, but not when it obscures it.

All disciplined thinking, even when it proceeds — as most of it does — in the solitary confines of the study, derives from and therefore depends upon social processes like language and tradition.

«What is sacrificed within the tradition today,» the application says, «is that which we value most highly in life and hold to with most passion: time, security, certainty, comfort, convenience, ignorance and the like.»

That customs and traditions are out there for you to learn and enjoy, but they change over time and are not set in stone like most religions would like to enforce.

Most Christians do not accept Mormons as one of them because of their different traditions and religious habbits, much like the Mormon Church refuses to recognize the FLDS and their child brides and multiple marriages as one of them.

Rather than finding that most teens are reverential toward the symbols that represent what is most meaningful to them or even the symbols most closely associated with their own tradition, as Fowler asserts in his oft - cited argument of adolescent faith development, I found that teens actually approach all religious symbols more like what Frederic Jameson called bricoleurs.

In the pre-Enlightenment period, a notion like «Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch» did not function so much to invite inquiry into the mind, circumstances and psychology of Moses as it did to unite the literature under a single coordinating point of view, urging the reader to see a synthetic purpose within even the most heterogeneous and diverse collection of traditions.

In fact, you could argue that Millennials» comfort with re-examining long - held traditions — and, sometimes, jettisoning them without hesitation — is one of their most Christ - like qualities.

And an old historical relativist perspective reminds me that, like most Christians, my being such is an accident of history and biology just as accidents of history determine other religious traditions and who belongs to them.

Like in most Southern families, part of what makes the holidays so special is the tradition surrounding the food that is served.

I love it because most often traditions come out of nowhere like that.

Like most countries, Australia has a long tradition of backyard food growing, yet this dwindled significantly with the rise of the supermarkets and fast food in the post-war era.

Yes, there are some silly traditions that most people enjoy but don't take too seriously and there are annoying stupid fans like every other school.

This annual ode to gluttony and debauchery is one of the proudest and most bizarre traditions but, like many other proud Americans, my eyes will be firmly glued to the screen.

Our family, like most, have tried - and - true holiday traditions that we follow and cherish each year.

«This challenge exceeded the ones presented by the likes of those who had failed to tackle this nascent conservatism (George McGovern), represented the dying flame of liberalism's most successful days (Teddy Kennedy), or embodied its rich intellectual tradition (Patrick Moynihan),» Ambar writes.

How could this happen in a «good ol' boy» city like Savannah, «steeped in Southern tradition, none too welcoming of any Yankee, especially not a New Yorker, especially not a woman, and most certainly not a Jew,» declared Brett Harrell, a former student of Weiner.

In this country Arthur C. Clarke is the most famous, but younger writers like Paul McAuley, Steven Baxter and John Gribbin are continuing the tradition.

But scientists are starting to figure out how greenhouse - gas emissions are beginning to threaten some of the things Americans love the most — including holiday traditions like ham and wine.

Although I don't blog... I've been baking with Almond and Coconut flour for a very long time now... I buy all my almond flour from Honeyville... (like you, not paid to say so) and Coconut flour from Tropical Traditions or Honeyville (again, not paid to say so...) I like the fineness of their nut flours, which produces a lighter product far superior to most other brands... I'm also sugar and gluten free...

Of course this epiphany for the most part continues to elude modern science, which due to monied interests and its myopic pursuit speculative, novel solutions, has little time for moldy old traditions like food fermentation.

In India, Saree is there national dress and there is a big tradition to wear Fancy saree on weddings and parities.It is alluded to be the most simple and easy option to look beautiful.In India's Film Industry Bollywood actresses has followed the saree as their dress code, hence saree styles gained rapid popularity and they are also liked by international ladies fashion.

Although the weather has for the most part felt like anything but fall this season, I'm still going about my business indulging in all my favorite seasonal traditions.

Far from being a wedding taboo, 42 % of people surveyed say it's actually the single - at - a-wedding tradition they're most likely to enjoy (for context, the second most - liked tradition, being actively set up with other singles, only got 19 % of the vote!).

As expected, the music is the best part, continuing The Lonely Island's tradition of combining catchy beats with silly lyrics to create songs that rival most stuff on the radio, like the recently released «I'm So Humble» and a Macklemore - inspired track about equal rights in which Conner reaffirms his heterosexuality after every line («I'm not gay!»).

Education «reformers» often proclaim they are carrying on the tradition of great civil rights leaders, employing the rhetoric of that movement while in reality pushing measures that exacerbate inequality and impact most harshly on children and communities of color - like school closures, privatization, and over-testing.

To engage students in learning, a master teacher must, as Carol Ann Tomlinson and Amy Germundson write (p. 27), do something like create jazz: One must borrow from many traditions to compose the melody line, blend surprise and improvisation, and, most important, connect with those for whom one is performing.

Most research around teacher diversity has focused on specific populations such as black men or Hispanic teachers or has looked at areas like Texas, California with long traditions of immigration.

Like Touring's other creations since its rebirth as a serious concern in the mid-Noughties, most notably the Bentley Continental Flying Star of 2010, and 2013's Alfa 8C - derived Disco Volante, the Berlinetta Lusso will offer customers extensive latitude in colours, materials and detail execution, as per the great Italian coachbuilder's tradition.

Despite mass tourism, you can still find authenticity and tradition in the world's most beautiful places like Venice, Italy - you just have to know where to look.

The tradition of elegance and grandeur live on in the most elegant ballroom in Americus with unique features like antique chandeliers, 20 - foot ceilings, original tile floors, and hand hewn woodwork.

With food like this in these mountains, we couldn't resist bringing you one of the world's most celebrated culinary traditions.

Breath of the Wild isn't just the most radical departure from the Zelda tradition in its 30 - year history, it's the first Nintendo game that feels like it was made in a world where Half - Life 2, Halo, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Skyrim happened.

While the game itself was ripe with content, most people didn't like the «advanced» movement system — a sentiment that is understandable since it continued with the break in tradition that Advanced Warfare started.

I would like to start a new tradition - answering some of the community's most asked questions in every Status Report and post it to a special thread on our official forums.

Perhaps one of the most familiar motifs of painting, the bowl of fruit still life, like Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit (1599), has come to represent an entire tradition of art making.

Most interestingly, the weather depicted in Wilson's paintings provides an immersive experience for the viewer, steeped in human vulnerability and anomie, an inspired tradition which extends back to epochal paintings like J.M. Turner's «Sunrise with Sea Monsters» (1845) and Gustave Caillebotte's «Rainy Day» (1877).

like classical music, we are drawn to create variations inside this most certain golden age of expression... don't get me wrong... 20th century western fine art is a fine tradition of work from which to appropriate and fetishize.

Cao's art bridges into visual arts with the use of popular culture and shifts through different subcultures and phenomenon to create the surreal landscapes that she is most known for — actors incased in Burberry behaving like dogs reenact a hysteric day in the office, ordinary people dancing to hip - hop on the street, people dressed in Chinese shopping bags and a stage production incorporating Guangzhou's street youths are just a few examples of using the city's everyday life to analyze and render the current social situation where traditions and new influences are constantly in conflict.

Furthermore, even if most of his landscapes do have an Irish flavour, they fall squarely within the European plein - air painting tradition of the likes of Nathaniel Hone the Younger (1831 - 1917), Augustus Nicholas Burke (1838 - 91), Frank O'Meara (1853 - 88), Roderic O'Conor (1861 - 1940), Walter Osborne (1859 - 1903) and John Lavery (1856 - 1941), as well as Newlyn artists Stanhope Forbes (1857 - 1947) and Norman Garstin (1847 - 1926), to name but a few.

While it is true that many of the more recent works follow the traditions of constructed sculpture that originated in Cubism and were defined by Russian Constuctivists like Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko, most of these remain attached to the wall, and some continue to use color as painters do.