Sentences with phrase «notion of a place like»

Again, that fact doesn't obviate the option of (or indeed the need for) social critique; it just means that we can't reasonably roll our eyes at the very notion of a place like Hooters, and then merrily skip down to the neighbourhood bar where the waitresses wear short skirts and tube tops all summer.

Not exact matches

Fear of it is used to perpetuate a status quo where men hold power and women stay in their place, to foster the notion that women are like children who need to be protected by male - dominated laws and institutions.

However, our discussion and defense of Plantinga has shown that, when worked out coherently, the classical theist must affirm a notion of omnipotence practically identical to that of the process theist — i.e., our discussion demonstrates that the classical theist must, like the process theist, acknowledge that human freedom places necessary limits upon God's power in both the moral and natural realms.

For instance, after I had presented a long and careful account of the notion that the basic actualities that make up the world are sentient creatures, a very intelligent and scholarly neuroscientist said to me, «I still can't imagine what it would be like for an atom to have feelings, and I still can't see any good reason to believe this in the first place.»

Aside from this being a palatial issue, to my mind, this lack of respect is entirely due to places like hardware stores and pharmacies, bless «em all, selling less - than - stellar fruitcakes, pretty well killing the notion that fruitcakes can be sheer delight.

However, rightwingers come up with all sort of farfetched notion about why the two aren NOT similar, like «the trial something the state is organising for its own purpose in the first place.»

Then, as now, the prevailing notion was that the sensation of different smells is triggered when molecules called odorants fit into receptors in our nostrils like three - dimensional puzzle pieces snapping into place.

Not only can money be an aphrodisiac for men and women, like beauty, though neither are bad in themselves, both can lead to all sorts of bad judgements if the person involved has not resolutely made up their mind beforehand to always go for the most Godly options placed before them and consult him in the process and give up their own notions of what's right for them (often God has something totally different, more suited and better for believers).

This exposure tears away at our preconceptions and notions of what these people and places are like.

I'd never say I'd fall in love with a place without having experienced it (sorry, but despite that romantic quote floating around, I think it's a bit of a silly notion)-- but now that I know more of what I like in a destination, I'm quite looking forward to San Francisco.

With attendance of more than 900,000 visitors throughout the year, 2017 saw such landmark presentations as No Place Like Home, which traced the artistic appropriation of domestic objects from the early 20th century through today; Ai Weiwei: Maybe, Maybe Not, examining notions of individuals» relationship to their social culture; as well as bodies of work by acclaimed Israeli photographers Ilit Azoulay and Micha Bar - Am.

Andre was at the forefront of this crusade, and his sculptures — comprised of systems of regular units placed in grid - like formations and lying flat on the ground — became synonymous with this radical new form of art. 100 Copper Square is an outstanding example of the work he created in the 1960s and rejects the notion of sculpture as an object mounted on a pedestal and viewed from a distance.

At the same time they explore themes like: the notion of belonging, identity to a place and the politics of the body... the extensions they take in our lives and the changes that will occur.

Works like John Gerrard's Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), another work having its U.S. debut in Truth, which uses new technologies to reconsider the very real place of Spindletop, Texas, the birthplace of the modern oil industry, and comment on the ways technology itself impacts notions of what is real and what isn't.