Sentences with phrase «men of letters»

Almost one and a half month after the official opening of the Exposition universelle, Rodin inaugurates his own exhibition: artists, politics, connoisseurs and collectors, men of letters and journalists, musicians and dancers of all the nationalities attend the lesson of the sculptor.

33 Masson, evidently with Breton in mind, claimed that «the spiritual directors of Surrealist painting» were men of letters who were «very liberal in matters of [artistic] structure.»

A reimagining of Gerhard Richter's 1972 installation of 48 Portraits of men of letters, Herzog's piece sets itself apart from the original through its commitment to materiality.

But the truth was far worse — for they were men of letters.

It is not to produce two hostile camps — of engineers and of men of letters — who neither understand one another nor care to.

It is a tribute to the power of this feeling that Melville — who almost alone among mid-nineteenth century men of letters in America pierced through the general moral optimism of the expansive spirit of the time, revealing in powerful fictional characters the ambiguities, the tensions, and the dark depths of evil and delusion — that Melville should have written these sentences.

Small groups of philosophers, scientists, scholars, and men of letters were increasingly convinced that the rising merchant and bourgeois class were destined by «the laws of nature and history» to replace the aristocrats of the old feudal order.

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

Stephen King, who started his full - time writing career with the horror classic, «Carrie,» is now a full - fledged man of letters.

Russell Kirk, a mystery writer and «Bohemian Tory man of letters,» in one variation of his «canons of conservatism»:

Whatever the future holds for Chesterton's cause, his greatest legacy isn't about being a brilliant intellectual, or an immortal man of letters, or even a possible saint.

Klassen invites readers to consider that there is much more to this Middle English man of letters.

Above it all is the picture of Runciman the tease, the inventor of his own image, the deliberate player of parts, the disengaged audience to his own choreography, but also the man of letters, a consummate stylist who used historical events to explore ideas about people and the world, a writer of epics and romances.

In the nineteenth century, the scholar and the man of letters were both acknowledged.

It was not a preacher but England's man of letters, John Addington Symonds, who said, «Such skepticism is like a blighting wind; nothing thrives beneath it.»

As the champion of a kind of conservatism currently in eclipse, and as a man of letters who made his living outside academia, Kirk is in danger of falling through the cracks.

But it is hard not to wonder what might have happened if he had stuck with Tate and Fergusson, and chosen to be more the man of letters and less the public intellectual.

Instead, he argues that Wilson should be remembered as «a man of letters.»

Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.»

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), in his later years hailed as the outstanding living man of letters in the English - speaking world, in his youth a believing Christian, in his maturity held that men's lives are governed by blind, unconscious, purposeless cosmic forces.

When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost not only a distinguished jurist, scholar, and man of letters.

One of the Persian converts to Islam, the famous man of letters Ibn al - Muqaffa, advised the Caliph al - Mansur, who founded the new capital at Baghdad, to promulgate a code of Islamic law, but the lawyers, theologians and scholars, inspired by the general sense of the community, resisted all such attempts at control of belief by the ruling powers.

Reimarus was a historian, but his work was published by a philosophically minded man of letters, Lessing, who thereafter found himself under attack from the orthodoxy of his day, especially that of Hauptpastor Goetze of the city of Hamburg.

His love of the sportis complicated and many - layered, as befits a man of letters.

And Machiavelli the man of letters comes across as humane, witty and decidedly un-Machiavellian.

Leaving school at 14, lumbered with what the British mathematician and man of letters Jacob Bronowski once told him were «muddled mathematical linkages», he soon discovered that he was blessed with a visual imagination more than powerful enough to compensate.

He may have become a leading man of letters, but he did it financed by the ill - gotten gains of early crime.

Zheng, a native of Inner Mongolia, grew up practicing calligraphy with his grandfather and transcribing poetry for his father, a man of letters.

I am an environmentalist, but I am also a man of letters and a farmer.

Not exact matches

Participants included 219 men and women who wrote three letters of gratitude over a 3 week period.

These female journalists, originally numbering 64 in total, have signed a public letter first published by The Hollywood Reporter, calling Brokaw «a man of tremendous decency and integrity.»

On a summer night in 2011, with the New York Mets in the midst of yet another season that would end in disappointment, a very tattooed man named Darren Meenan made his way into a field - level Citi Field seat with a sign bearing foot - high letters: «Don't Trade Reyes.»

Relying on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to the writer's papers and letters, Max paints a picture of a complicated, often - flawed man.

«Though there are thousands of professional investment managers who have amassed staggering fortunes by touting their stock - selecting prowess, only one man — Ted Seides — stepped up to my challenge,» Buffet said in his letter, signed Feb. 25.

The Small UAV Coalition echoed Johnson's concerns in a November letter to the FAA that said, «State and local governments have no authority to govern or regulate the operation of aircraft, both manned and unmanned, in the National Airspace System.»

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Warren Buffet: One of the world's richest men, perhaps its greatest living investor, a global philanthropist, sage, paragon of modesty, and a damn fine letter writer to boot.

On the subject of overshooting, Jeremy Grantham of GMO included a section called «No Market For Young Men» in his third quarter investment letter, with some fairly dismal comments about valuation cycles from a historical standpoint:

my greatest concern is this «new teaching» on cussing is that I don't see it throughout the life, ministry or teachings of Jesus or any of the disciples or really any man God uses in the word... What I do hear Him say is that we will be «judged by every careless word» and that's not legalism, that's red letter.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

We have historical accounts, biographical sketches, songs, poems, prophecies and letters of men and women who were interacting with God.

Outside of the convention center, which drew about 12,000 attendees, mostly Christian, there were two men holding large white signs with black lettering.

2000 years ago: Philo Judeaus said: «The letter of this statement is plain enough; for it is expressed according to the symbol of the part, a half of the whole, each party, the man and the woman, being as sections of nature co-equal for the production of that genus which is called man.»

In this republic of silence for women, men have once again expropriated literacy, hoarded books and banned acts of reading from public places, replacing lettered signs with pictures.

In his apostolic letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente, issued in 1994, John Paul said Christian hope «is not simply a case of man seeking God, but of God who comes in person to speak to man of himself and to show him the path by which he may be reached.»

In his resignation letter, Kensrue said that the authority of church elders to correct leadership at Mars Hill «is trampled under the man - made hierarchies and «chain of command.

The rest of what happened with the churches is man made egos and has nothing to do with Jesus» truth, except He warned about all this in His letter to all of us (the Bible).

And they reduce them to slavery, treating them with afflictions they would scarcely use with brute animals... Therefore, We... noting that the Indians themselves indeed are true men... by our Apostolic Authority decree and declare by these present letters that the same Indians and all other peoples — even though theyare outside the faith... should not be deprived of their liberty or their other possessions... and are not to be reduced to slavery, and that whatever happens to the contrary is to be considered null and void.»

In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul calls both wives and husbands, men and women to «submit to one another out of reverence for Christ» (Ephesians 5:21).

The «discernment letter» written by the six of them that night in Dallas, Texas will go down as one of the most ungodly acts against a woman done by men who claim to be of God, progressive, pro-feminist, Christianity 21.