Sentences with phrase «new thing under the sun»

That the third democratic wave should be so Catholic, Huntington suggests, is a genuinely new thing under the sun.

It is new, in that this focal expression of God in Christ is the opening of a hitherto unknown possibility of life for men; as St. John Damascene said long ago, this is «a new thing, the newest of all new things, the only really new thing under the sun.»

Of course, cutting and pasting scanned signatures is a very new thing under the sun.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Working for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, Bernards was going around the country, much in the manner of an itinerant preacher, alerting people to a new thing under the sun, «the Jewish - Christian dialogue.»

The course of human events flows erratically; these days it seems that there are, indeed, new things under the sun.

The Royal Academy of Arts presents No New Thing Under the Sun open in the Tennant Gallery through 9 January 2011.

So do all manner of cultural warnings, from the hubris around which Greek tragedies are built to the lamentation of King David's preacher: «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity... the Earth abideth for ever... and there is no new thing under the sun.»

It came in a passage from the King James version of Ecclesiastes (the «there is no new thing under the sun» book; a short, well - written, skeptical blast worth reading in full):