Sentences with phrase «marked by contradictions»
Nairobi, Kenya, the hub of East Africa, is a bustling city marked by contradictions — for example, it houses a combination of highly developed corporate high - rise offices and traditional African trade markets consisting of temporary kiosks and relatively permanent dukas.
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At the same time, it is a society «marked by many contradictions.»
The Bible is full of contradictions even Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John can not agree of the details and travels or Jesus... The King James version was put together by 47 Religious Scholars the picked which stories to include... saying the hand of God guided them... to pick which to include... all were written long after the death of Jesus, all by those that said God guided their hand... and yet some were not included... The dead sea scrolls do not agree with the Bible... We can not say for sure exactly what Jesus will do with the Devil after he is defeated... is he cast into the burning lake of fire..
Much of that expansion, both internal and external, was marked by heightened contradictions of what was set forth in the Gospel.
The screenplay by Steven Zaillian (based on an article by Mark Jacobson) does a decent enough job keeping that tricky contradiction at bay until near the end, when we're supposed to buy that Lucas was somehow a victim.
Each story is told in electrifying detail and each marked by the ambivalence and contradiction that make human actions so hard to make sense of.
All About America represents six decades of photographs by this North Carolina native thus far, from iconic photos of Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, the Woodstock music festival, and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations to his later study of the social landscape of America from coast to coast.The result is a unique testimony to the stresses, contradictions, and joys that have marked Americans» modern lives.
Mark Amerika's artworks move beyond the idea of conceptual collages to present a vision of the world that is made of undecipherable constructions, contradictions, multiplicities and vagueness: a world of tenuous connections that, by impeding a clear vision, leads the viewers into abuse and exploitation.
On view at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery from September 10 through October 30, 2004, this period interior offers a glimpse into the 1930s: a decade of unparalleled contradiction and complexity marked by the depths of the Great Depression and the height of the modern age.
Gottlieb's embrace of this visual contradiction is complemented by his gifts as a colorist; just as with the soaring chromatic expanses of Mark Rothko, Gottlieb used color as an expressive agent.
I loved Barnet Newman and Hans Hofmann (already a contradiction) and was inspired by works of Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, and Morris Louis.