Sentences with phrase «modern phenomenon»

He explained that an emphasis on text and historical context is flexible enough to be applied to modern phenomena like radio and the internet.

The use of equipment that could display animated images in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion is a more modern phenomenon that gained wide popularity with the development of motion pictures.

So, to wit, I like what he has to say, and am further enlightened about how at least one of my fellow citizens (who happens to be Muslim) views the «take» of that uniquely modern phenomenon known as reality TV on his sub-culture.

Yet it is this very process of rational justification that makes fundamentalism a very modern phenomenon, one that sets it at odds with the more ancient tradition of inerrancy found within the Church.»

Legal questions can arise when two growing modern phenomena coincide.

The art fair is a strangely modern phenomenon and it is stranger still when one sees a Joseph Beuys felt suit on sale in one of the heavily crammed booths at Art Basel Hong Kong.

Those who think of marriage counseling as an exclusively modern phenomenon may be surprised to read that Gregory counsels those who are married to «study to please» their sexual partner.5 Partners in marriage are above all counseled «to bear with mutual patience the things in which they sometimes displease each other «6 (cf. Gal.

So I think it's safe to say that what we're doing now with indigenous ingredients is a pretty modern phenomenon.»

This season's first three episodes crackle with repartee that breezily references such modern phenomena as the gay hookup app Grindr («I could get finger herpes from scrolling,» Jack complains), the state of being woke, «fake news» and a «Ryan scale» for potential suitors («He's a Reynolds - point - Gosling!»).

Following an initial period of influence from these movements, characterized by Korean informel, Tansaekhwa developed as a distinctly modern phenomenon, a blending of tradition and innovation exemplary of Korea's new presence on the world stage.

Obesity is a relatively modern phenomenon; whereas past governments were concerned with inadequate nutrition and underweight children, politicians now launch initiatives against childhood obesity and encourage voters to slim down.

«In order to stay ahead of the game, it is essential for retailers to incorporate technology in their marketing and communication strategies and be very cognisant of the influence of social media and modern phenomena like blogging.»

The dramatic search for survivors turns into a televised media event - the first, Greene argues, of a very modern phenomenon.

The Middlesbrough coach is addressing the rise of a growing modern phenomenon — the striker who does not score.

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If you thought helicopter parents were a modern phenomenon, you clearly haven't seen Alexander Hamilton's letters to his son while he was studying law.

«Thus Islam's holy war, the lesser jihad, remains a modern phenomenon.

For this reason we probably ought to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish thought — the former being that modern phenomenon all democratic persons are eager to combat; the latter the expressions of hostility or dislike found in earlier periods as a result of the specific religious and historical role the Jews and their antagonists have played.

The former was a conversation about television and the modern phenomenon of media.

By contrast, Hindutva is a modern phenomenon, a South Asian species of what the political scientist Benedict Anderson described as an «imagined community,» an ideological construct used to project a unifying identity where traditional forms are diverse and insufficiently pliable to political purposes.

The oldest and most basic form of the human social group is the family — not the nuclear family (which is largely a modern phenomenon) but the extended family.

The debate over when life begins is not a modern phenomenon, but one the ancients understood and considered crucial.

In this book I have tried to sketch the rise, nature and extent of the modern phenomenon of fundamentalism and to deal with it as sympathetically as possible.

To understand the modern phenomenon of fundamentalism, it is not sufficient simply to explain the origin of the term.

The modern phenomenon of «depression» has religious, not purely contextual, origins.

In the wake of the Anthony Weiner scandal, the Washington Post's calls attention to the modern phenomenon of the «e-fair.»

Although globalization is a modern phenomenon, the idea of a global consciousness and society goes back a very long way, and originated as a religious vision.

Sociologist Dianna Pearce coined the phrase «the feminization of poverty» in 1978, but it is not a modern phenomenon.

The fact that fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon is not at all obvious at first, simply because it makes its claim on the basis of something which has long been central to the religious tradition in question: the appeal to Holy Scripture.

Fundamentalism is the modern phenomenon by which people, perhaps afraid of the uncertainties of the future, and certainly distrustful of the modern world, have raised their Holy Scripture into a tangible idol.

It isn't about this modern phenomenon we call «vision» today.

The modern phenomenon of «cheap chicken» has come at an enormous cost to the animal and constitutes the world's biggest animal welfare disaster, with 50 billion chickens raised intensively for their meat annually, worldwide.

Even those who spoke of it with some trepidation saw it as a modern phenomenon, often as ineluctable, and as something to which the political order needed to adapt.

It has created the modern phenomenon of rented property being destroyed, electricity being stolen with human trafficked gardeners and intensive production of high potency cannabis.

«While many think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it has — in a sense — always been with our species,» says Petersen.

The findings indicate that coral bleaching is a «modern phenomenon» driven by global warming, says study co-author Prof Nick Graham, a Royal Society university research fellow and chair in marine ecology at Lancaster University.

Spaces that mimic the outdoors are thought to boast some of the brain - boosting, stress - soothing principles of nature and stave off the modern phenomenon known as nature deficit disorder.

The use of cosmetics is not a modern phenomenon.

I learned a very interesting fact recently, one that can give us guidance on how to overcome the modern phenomenon of chronic fatigue: about 70 percent -LRB-!)

Many of these perimenopausal symptoms are a relatively modern phenomenon, stemming from a dysregulated HPA axis.

These are some of the burning questions we put to visual language doyen Neil Cohn in an attempt to shed some light on this modern phenomenon.

Online dating may be a modern phenomenon, but advertising for love goes back centuries.

Del Toro brilliantly takes the modern phenomenon of loud noises and quick reveals and administers it a royal swirly.

That is almost certainly to do with its online connectivity, turning the retro shooter into a modern phenomenon.

The days when a finished game was released out of the box are over and it is a modern phenomena to boot up a game and receive a gameplay altering update.