Sentences with phrase «modern attempts»

Featuring Greek, Roman, and Early Christian antiquities from the Smart Museum's permanent collection and loans of prints and illustrated books from Renaissance and Baroque Europe, this exhibition examined the religious life of things, both in their ancient contexts and in modern attempts to interpret them.

The Brooklyn Museum and the Tate Modern attempt to, and in some respects succeed in also querying those experiences in massive shows, the crown jewels of their respective exhibition seasons.

Whanger contends that no modern attempts to reproduce the image on the shroud, using the techniques available to medieval forgers, have ever been able to reproduce the complex nature of the image.

Modern attempts to offer a rational account of the relationship between mind (its rational unity) and nature (understood as the realm of finitude, chance, contingency, and decay) have fallen prey to a seemingly simple yet extremely stubborn dualistic dilemma.

Any modern attempt at the invention of a Don Juan, or of any similar archetype of animal vitality or spiritual revolt, would fail almost inevitably.

The «deep ecology» movement is a modern attempt to seek to enlarge one's sphere of identification with nature to care as deeply and compassionately as possible about the fate [of the earth] not because it affects us but because it is us» (Fox 1984 p. 200).

Modern attempts to date the birth of Jesus by astronomical calculations concerning the brightness of a star are not reliable either, since the visit of Wise Men from the east is almost certainly legendary.

At the same time, modern attempts to construct a view of Jesus that omits any emphasis on the death, focusing instead on a message or practice Jesus taught without reference to his own fate — which are implausible as history and often lack distinctive Christian character.

At the same time, modern attempts to construct a view of Jesus that omits any emphasis on the death — focusing instead on a message or practice Jesus taught without reference to his own fate — are implausible as history and often lack distinctive Christian character.

There's little evidence of innovation in this film, which opens with some eyeroll - inducing text introducing, sigh, found footage of a séance from 1973 before fast - forwarding to a modern attempt at the same, filled with pseudoscientific jargon and equipment that looks like it's on loan from Egon Spengler.

With representative voices for each period, from those who covered it to those who survived it, Belzberg illustrates how the early efforts of linguist - turned - activist Raphael Lemkin resonate through the modern attempts to curtail ethnic violence and establish a global framework for prosecuting its most egregious offenders.

It's something that has been missing from some of Sonic's modern attempts — the labyrinthine, multi-tiered levels that casual gamers will move through with relative ease, but more experienced players will explore, discover new routes and hidden areas full of bonuses and traps.