Sentences with phrase «more popular imagination»

«Utopia - writing,» she argues, interacted with social experimentation and the more popular imagination to create social innovations in every sphere from the economic (the trade union movement, profit - sharing, social security, scientific management) through political (parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage) to the social (universal education, child welfare practices, women s «emancipation,» New Towns, social planning.

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Itâ $ ™ s remarkable that this event still holds such sway over the popular imagination despite other more recent instances of hyperinflation.

And we should certainly dread whatever rough beast it is that is being bred in our ever coarser, crueler, more inarticulate, more vacuous popular culture; because, cloaked in its anodyne insipience, lies a world increasingly devoid of merit, wit, kindness, imagination, or charity.

Here we must hasten to point out that among Christian thinkers over the centuries the conception of God has varied considerably more in expression than is often popularly supposed, and theologians have always wanted to guard themselves against the implications of such crude and concrete images of God as may have been prevalent in the popular imagination.

As one of the Second Vatican Council's more enthusiastic experts — as well as one of its first critical interlocutors during the years of its sometimes questionable presentation in the popular imagination — Ratzinger can scarcely be accused of having a less than astute sense of the context within which the Church has to evangelise.

The public's imagination about Neanderthals became more captured in popular literature in the 1920s.

Looking sad eyed and put upon by fools, Paul Giamatti breaths life into one of the more shadowy founders of the American republic in the popular imagination.

The popular inaugural show, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 — 2008, is the first exhibition to look at the site not only as a strip of sand in Brooklyn but also as a seminal place in the American imagination — a muse for artists for more than one hundred and fifty years.

This section of the show includes straightforward depictions as well as works that deal in a more oblique way with aspects related to the American territory, for instance questioning the way it is understood and represented in the popular imagination, or by presenting it as a beautiful and privileged spectacle ripe for plundering (by the movie industry and others).