Sentences with phrase «mood of the times»

He did not mind speaking against the dominant mood of the time as long as he knew that he was speaking the truth.

Its curatorial direction changes from year to year, often moving to reflect the political temperature and aesthetic moods of its time.

This is the characteristic mood of our times, in which not even the colossal destructiveness of two world wars and the possibility of the third have greatly disturbed our trust in human achievement.

That brings him far closer to the philosophic mood of our time than any rigid Whiteheadian scholasticism would allow.

Now surely Lib Dem pro-Europeanism has been loud and clear, a heart - warming clarion call in the growing Euro - sceptic mood of the times.

While 2017 has seen the release of many films that capture the current grim mood of the times, the release of this child - friendly crime - caper / prison film right at the end of the year is a much needed tonic.

In the 1960s, she created light - filled images in oils or acrylics in keeping with the hedonistic and optimistic mood of that time.

Thoroughly in harmony with the mood of their time, they set about to suggest to the Christians ideas by which they could understand themselves in a new way.

William Butler Yeats anticipated the mood of these times in his poem «The Second Coming»:

The development called forth anew as history goes on will often be seen to depend on orthodox and Catholic doctrine which was unpopular at the time, perhaps which went clean contrary to the mood of the times, and the always ready concessions of well - meaning heresy.

As Badinter herself agrees, when we look to gurus, whose opinions change with the mood of the times, we lose our way.

They act like justice is an absolute concept when in reality systems of justice are derived from a multitude of sources such as common beliefs, previous laws, religion and the mood of the times.

President Theodore Roosevelt captured the mood of the time when he said in 1915 that «it would not be merely a misfortune but a crime to perpetuate differences of language in this country» and recommended that immigrants who had not learned English after five years should be returned to their countries (cited in Castellanos, 1983, p. 40).

The piney woods of East Texas set the mood of the time and place evoking mystical elements that both cower and protect.

Hirst is too anomalous an artist to be a weather - vane, but he is an astute reader of the mood of the times.

We will see what happens, but it is a sign that greater collaboration among disciplines fits with the mood of the times.

Many Directors were around through the «Prohibition Order» where one was deemed to be guilty till proven innocent was the mood of that time.