Sentences with phrase «national character»

We know from several studies of national character strengths that hope and optimism fall quite a long way down the list.

And yes, it made us different to everyone else, with a firm and distinct national character.

For this reason, they are proud of their particular national character.

But the film is neither a double star turn nor the best kind of courtroom drama; it is a sort of epic mosaic of national character.

Slavery and murdering an entire continent of people didn't really make for a strong national character in our formative years.

Retail shopping, the news business and politics have taken on a more national character because the Internet lets people connect along interest lines rather than by geography.

«This exhibition is just the beginning of our work in telling the story of New York's colonial history and how our settlement by the Dutch has shaped not only our local character but aspects of state and even national character that we think will surprise and delight our visitors,» said Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Education and State Museum Director Mark Schaming.

But it also reveals a far more nuanced, subtle national character than the bullying superpower we usually envision.

«The idea was that people's attitude towards cycling may have to do with certain puritan aspects of the Norwegian national character,» says Fyhri.

Not only does Schrader exaggerate Richie's changes of approach in his successive books, from 1959 to 1971 [Japanese Cinema: Film Style and National Character] to 1990 [Japanese Cinema: An Introduction], to 2001.

Nolling felt the problem had its roots in German national character.

Troy Goodfellow writes on his blog Flash of Steel about «The Aztec National Character» as seen through the lens of videogames, and in particular, the Civilization series.

For the first commission of Billboard Series, Catherine Biocca proposed National Character, in which an animated head of a classic sculpture...

As an essential component of an emerging Japanese national art, Yōga was transformed from a scientific, utilitarian tool of dubious aesthetic merit to an ambitious artistic arena for elucidating national character and demonstrating Japanese mastery of international (Western) cultural standards.

This book has lots of stuff I love: contrasting national characters (mostly Germany vs. France) and contrasting cultural moments (Vienna early 1900s vs. America today).

In his essay «Of National Characters,» Hume writes: «I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites.

Outstanding Achievement Award 2008K In recognition of many years of dedication and service to the promotion of character development in school districts across Canada) National Character Education Conference

He is particularly interested in the saccharine vision of the American national character reflected in kitschy objects and advertisements, which he both mimics and mocks.

Despite its problems, he believes that the Australian educational system can compete with almost any in the world, thanks to the demanding English - style educational system, the government's recent changes under Batterham's leadership, and a strong national character, which enables Australians to «punch well above their weight in international terms.»

They are central to our national character and our politics.

To the more poetically minded, Canada's new - found reputation — on which it can now capitalize for years to come — speaks to our national character.

«Donald Trump's demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character.»

This archetype is part and parcel of our national character and it is important to hold fast to this mythology to inspire our next generation of Coopers as we confront the new frontier of space.

Conservative HP boss Meg Whitman defied her political party to call Trump a demagogue that «undermined the fabric of our national character.»

We're moralistic libertarians, a national character trait unlikely to change.

He was speaking not of the price of constructing the rapidly developing housing units and actual cities on the West Bank, but of the cost to the national character.

Regardless of whether it is framed in its religious or its secular context, regardless of whether the object of one's energy is external or internal, America's understanding of her national character continues to place work at the forefront.

While not denying the impetus that abundance gives to the spirit of competition, I think it is more enlightening in this context to stress the similarity of focus in both the religious and the secular versions of America's national character.

And while most of the population is made up of nonobservant Jews, even these people are willing to take note of the writings of Deuteronomy and the Talmud in reaching judgments about the national character.

While both Kerr and Hoffer have recognized important aspects of America's national character, their insights seem to be helpful primarily in indicating two facets of a more basic drive that motivates the modern American.

David Potter has perhaps most forcefully argued that the competitive spirit has been the major determinant of America's national character.

If there is such a thing as a national character, and we think there is, the character of America is now being tested as perhaps it has not been since 1941, and an awful lot has happened to us as a people over those sixty years.

Not everyone believes the myth about Juan Diego and the miraculous image on his cape, but everyone recognizes the national character of the cult.

Every national character, as Erik Erikson has pointed out, is constructed out of polarities.1 In America the polarities have been so extreme that they have often seemed impossible to reconcile in a single picture.

The opening chapter on Emerson, whose thought created «most of the context of these five books,» criticizes him for extolling the virtues of unrestrained individualism to the point of romanticizing a national character prone to hubris.

The national character of the Anglican Communion was no less tribal in its identity.

But they risk everything — their national character and their capacity to succor the downtrodden — by permitting uncontrolled mass migration of peoples who know nothing of their culture, in such huge numbers and at such speed that they can not possibly be assimilated and integrated into this or any future generation.

Several decades later another Easterner, Walt Whitman, shattered the reigning forms of poetical expression and in a flood of tumultuous verse wrought out a voice for America's vague but deep and powerful feeling for her national character and promise.

My impression — based, admittedly, on limited experience — is that Dalrymple (and Davenport - Hines) are right about the dramatic change in British public life and national character.

At least some of our citizens have come to see that the present organization of our economic life, including the corporation, threatens not only our democratic government, because of its inordinate political influence, but also our national character and form of life, because of its propagation of the idea of wealth as merely the accumulation of consumer goods.

What better symbol of our national character than the sleek insouciance of the brown - headed cowbird right on the dollar bill itself?

It can set the tone and become the embodiment of the nation, of national character.