Sentences with phrase «modern character of»

Like the Focus, the same Ford kinetic design shapes the distinctive features and surfaces of the Energi's dashboard, reflecting the modern character of the exterior.

Not exact matches

The press release announcing the release of the unconventional real estate trailer describes the video's main character as «a modern day Cleopatra, complete with golden ladies in waiting.»

OK, prepare to suspend your disbelief: The mystery - adventure drama is based loosely on Washington Irving's 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and follows the character of Ichabod Crane, who has woken up after sleeping for 250 years and is now partnered with police Lt. Abbie Mills in modern day Sleepy Hollow, N.Y..

Most of us will never need to know which characters map to which Unicode numbers, but modern computing could scarcely do without Unicode.

Not unlike Wolfe, his satire of the modern world's oversized egos occasionally turns his characters into cartoons (Yount's wife is a socialite who is selfish to absurdity.

He yearned for the taste of a really great adulterer — a Renaissance libertine of character and spirit, capable of sinning heroically — instead of the cramped souls of the modern age, almost too insubstantial and pathetic to be worth damning.

We have to do the sociological work about how a medium or genre's overall popularity might be changing the mores and character of the entire society, or even of modern humanity simply.

It isn't surprising that as the audiences who first became fans of characters like The Avengers, X-Men and Deadpool get older, that their modern movie adaptations will be marketed more toward adults.

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

The story behind SIL's rise and of Kenneth L. Pike, the key character in that rise, is one of the most interesting episodes of the modern missionary movement.

Alisdair MacIntyre, who is a fairly transparent inspiration for this idea, suggested we retreat from modern institutions into small monastery - like communities in order to rebuild the moral foundation of character — an integrated set of beliefs and morality — that modernity has undermined.

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

But even the people who downplay his significance as an agent of historical change acknowledge the pathbreaking character of his writings, and just about everyone grants that he was the founder of modern Jewish philosophy.

I will argue in what follows that these metaphysical characters do not necessarily follow upon the adoption of a logic that is not dialectical, i.e., modern mathematical logic.

One of the reasons why it is imperative for us moderns to get back to essential Christianity is that we may realize afresh the revolutionary character of its message.

A last assumption in The Tablet's editorial concerns the character of modern non-acceptance of the Church's teaching.

In the early modern period, political thinkers formulated a new conception of natural law, whose distinctive character has defined a distinctively modern tradition of thought about natural or human rights.

While we certainly need to be careful about putting theologians like Bonhoeffer on too high of pedestals, I still feel as though there are things about him that are both commendable and, if repeated by modern Christians, could help shape our collective character for the better.

But we need to note that the images and metaphors that were used in the modern revival of concern for pastoral care, with which I am in deep sympathy, have only recently become concerned about shepherding, and for a time were quite different in character.

According to Deadline, filmmaker Jared Hess (the director of comedies including Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre) will direct NickToons, an adventure comedy featuring characters from «90s and early 2000s Nick shows including Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats, The Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, Aaahh!

This approach has the advantage of rendering Leviticus immediately useful to the modern preacher, but it papers over the book's special character and the uniqueness of its message.

In Father Joe, Powers has achieved that rare accomplishment of creating a fully rounded character like no other in modern fiction.

In this modern vision, as in ancient gnosticism, the decline of real narrative has gone hand in hand with a blurring of the dialogical or event - character of man's existence and of the relation between God and Man.

From a book review highlighted by our friends at First Thoughts: «Marxists can account for the singular, closed character of modern society by invoking Marx's theory of historical materialism.

The communists absurdly boast of their material success; at one point, characters describe shoebox Eastern Bloc cars as the world's best, and Bucharest as «one of the most modern cities in the world.»

What the term is meant to designate is indicated rather indirectly by the character of modern church architecture and by the perverted form in which the idea occurs.

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

Niebuhr took the traditional Protestant doctrine of original sin, stripped it of its literalism, and used it to explain the real character of modern society.

But there is nothing in the scientific picture of the cosmos that forbids our envisaging the story of the universe, in its modern scientifically established character, as simultaneously a story shaped by the same promise that becomes explicit in historical revelation.

Prof. Bushman, the character of Elder Price, an American Mormon missionary in modern - day Uganda, questions his faith, but regains it while performing the song, «I Believe.»

Except for certain developments in the modern Western world, there has always been a consciousness of the numinous character inherent in the religious communion, in the ecclesia, the qahal, the ummah, or the samgha.

Stokes moves exceedingly close to Neville's description of Being - Itself when he characterizes creativity as «indeterminate [having] no character of its own,» yet possessing a fundamental (reality not reducible to the characteristics of the actual entities («Recent Interpretations of Whitehead's Creativity,» The Modern Schoolman, XXXIX, 2 [May 1962], 32sf.

The author looks at the pluralist character of modern society, the place of media within it, and the nature of the media.

He observes a surprising contrast between the self - consciously non-ethical character of modern economics and its historical evolution as an offshoot of ethics.

The fabric of modern society is honeycombed with instances of lack of veracity, of basic honesty, and of that virtue so fundamental both to Christian character and to an ordered society which perhaps had best be called integrity.

The native genius and character of the several peoples of the Western world; the profound significance of the Greek intellect still potent in the analytic mood of the present; the constructive, organizing genius of Rome: all these and much more have gone into the making of the modern dwelling of the human spirit.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

In another way this same test of character illustrated in the expansion of the powers and privileges of modern women.

This ideal is breaking down at some points in modern India, but for centuries and even today in most respects Sita embodies the Indian ideal of feminine charm and loveliness and character.

Michael A. Ledeen is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of more than twenty books, including Machiavelli on Modern Leadership and Tocqueville on American Character.

We agree about this, and also, in principle at least, that demythologizing throws into sharper relief the paradoxical or scandalous character of its claims, so that they become as clear for modern man as they were in apostolic times.

For MacIntyre, the practices necessary for training in practical reason through which we acquire the ability to act intelligibly requires the systematic growth of human potential by acquired excellence that can not help but challenge the character of modern moral practice and theory.

However, modern science has shown us that the table is not finally understood as a single entity but rather as a society of entities exceedingly different in character from the smooth, hard, passive, still, impenetrable surface we seem to experience.

In Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1975), C. N. Manlove has argued that the use of the supernatural — and I would include magic — is not simply a possibility in the fantasy tale; it is a driving force in the story and takes a central role in the development and shaping of characters as well as plot.

The beauty the world has to offer is what is lost by the «Rationalist,» the type of modern man whose character Oakeshott sketched in his most famous essay, «Rationalism in Politics,» first published in 1947 and republished fifty years ago in his essay collection of the same name.

Through this war of liberation, and the preparatory modern nationalistic movement beforehand, a new Indonesian society was created, which has been pluralistic in character.

Bultmann agrees that modern man can not accept the mythology, but he does not want him to have to content himself with a timeless sublimation of the gospel: he is looking for another alternative, which will rescue the historicity of the gospel and so retain its character as kerygma.

Over the course of the last century, the modern university has ceased to attend to character formation, or it has imagined that such attention should be an «extra-curricular» enterprise having little or nothing to do with knowledge.

Some of us are, no doubt, guilty of having written in such a way that Whitehead's emphasis on the individual was separated from his equal emphasis on the social character of every individual and have thereby failed to challenge the damaging individualism of the modern era.

The narrow and exclusive assertions of Christian fundamentalists give the impression to the modern world that theirs is the only genuine form that Christianity can assume, and hide the fact that the secular world owes its origin and character to its Christian matrix.