Sentences with phrase «of a renaissance man»

He was born in the waning light of the last epoch of triumphal Christian humanism, the inverted double of the Renaissance Man, and his story was a satire in the full Attic sense: a satyr - play concluding a glorious but exhausted drama, at once mocking and celebrating the cycle it brought to a close.

A riveting retrospective plumbing the depths of the brilliant mind of a Renaissance man underappreciated in his own time.

not the world of the Renaissance man who looked for his weather clues out of the window; but the world of men who turn knobs to hear a taped message... electronically transmitted from some windowless booth.

Hailed by poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire as the paragon of a Renaissance man, Savinio was not only an exceptional visual artist and member of the Parisian avant - garde, -LSB-...]

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Some of the things that people may not know was that you were a Renaissance man.

Walter Isaacson has written biographies of some of the most brilliant people to ever live: Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Ben Franklin, and now, Leonardo da Vinci — the archetypal Renaissance Man himself.

And while the concept of the frank personal testimonial as a marketing tool isn't necessarily new — the old Hair Club for Men commercials from the»80s come to mind — in the age of the social media «overshare,» it's undergoing a renaissance.

The roots of today's bourbon renaissance go back to 1984, when Elmer T. Lee, who manned the radar in a B - 29 bomber during World War II and later became the master distiller at the George T. Stagg Distillery — now called Buffalo Trace — created Blanton's, the world's first single - barrel bourbon.

Five hundred years ago, the Renaissance scholar Pico della Mirandola delivered his famous «Oration on the Dignity of Man,» which defined the role of humanity in creation.

Washington Post: Muslims look for mates in D.C. at annual speed - dating event The swelling crowd of several hundred single Muslim men and women at the Renaissance Washington hotel meant the evening of speed dating and socializing known as the Matrimonial Banquet was about to begin.

The 15th - century Renaissance scientist Pico della Mirandola articulates this view, by putting these words into God's mouth: «We have made thee [«man»] neither a thing celestial nor a thing terrestrial, neither mortal nor immortal, so that being thine owne fashioner and artificer of thyselfe, thou maist make thyselfe after what likeness thou dost most affecte.»

In upholding beauty, we prepare the way of a renaissance when civilization will center its reflexion, far from the explicit principles and degraded values of history, on this living virtue upon which is founded the common dignity of the world and man, and which we have to define now in the face of a world that insults it.

Jaeger holds that this model»... can be pursued through the Middle Ages; and from the Renaissance the line leads straight back to the Christian humanism of the fathers of the fourth century A.D. and to their idea of man's dignity and of his reformation and rebirth through the Spirit.»

Favreau continues, «Elon is a paragon of enthusiasm, good humour and curiosity — a Renaissance man in an era that needs them.»

Studying the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages — from rabbi in the first century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the 19th and 20th centuries — Pelikan suggests that the way a particular age depicted Jesus is an essential key to understanding that age.

The first wave of this revolution — inaugurated by early - modern thinkers dating back to the Renaissance — insisted that man should seek the mastery of nature by employing natural science and a transformed economic system supportive of such an undertaking.

The Renaissance, with its new and optimistic estimate of man, suggested that man could shape his destiny without God's gracious help.

Modern man has taken his cue from the Renaissance and feels that man is both good and self - sufficient, thus rejecting the Reformation idea that man is finite, corrupt, and in need of God's grace.

Niebuhr grouped sectarian Protestantism with the Renaissance because it shared the Renaissance emphasis upon grace as Power in man, the impulse toward the completion of life.

Many contemporary images show European men of the Middle Ages and Renaissance wearing headgear that looks like turbans.

Like the scholars of the Renaissance, these religious men saw no contradiction in being at the same time humanists.

The church must absorb what is valid in the Renaissance attitude toward history and yet retain the Reformation emphasis on the equal need of all men for divine forgiveness.

He was a Renaissance man in every sense of the word, truly one of the towering intellects of our time.

From the time of the Renaissance, in other words, the cosmos has looked increasingly like a cosmogenesis; and now we find that Man in his turn is identified with an anthropogenesis.

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

First, there is the problem that Iago is the villain of the play and not its hero: far from looking like the complete Renaissance man, he resembles nothing so much as the unstable, decentered postmodern subject.

A deep - level cure for the «spectator-itis» of laymen and the one - man - show orientation of ministers seems to be emerging in the «lay renaissance» — a contemporary movement of profound significance for the mental health mission of our churches.

The men of the Renaissance began to turn away from the eternal and the absolute (as commonly conceived) and to concern themselves with the world of nature and of internal human experience.

One of their students was Nicholas of Cusa (c.1400 - 1464) who has often been regarded as the model of a «Renaissance man»; he became a cardinal, yet he was also a mathematician, a diagnostic physician, and an experimental scientist.

In this sense — in a way different from Thomas Jefferson, who was a son of the Enlightenment with its catalogs and methods — Alinsky might indeed qualify as our recent Renaissance man.

But we miss the real spirit of the reformation if we do not see the element of the renaissance with its acceptance of man's natural life as essentially good and the scene of his creative action.

Renaissance man and Enlightenment man refurbished this concept of progress, putting, man at the rudder to direct the course of the future.

In it he makes this comment, «we live on this side of a rupture which divides the whole history of mankind into two sections; the one extending from the cavemen to the men of the Renaissance, and the other covering this post-Cartesian world of ours.

The men of the Renaissance were self - confident, believing in themselves and in man.

But Croce did not «go to the people,» did not wish to become a «national» element (just as the men of the Renaissance — unlike the Lutherans and Calvinists — were not «national» elements), did not wish to create a band of disciples who... could have popularized his philosophy and tried to make it into an educative element, starting in the primary school (and hence educative for the simple worker or peasant, i.e., for the simple man of the people).

But he was unlike the Renaissance man in that his own personal problems lent a bitter urgency, a sense of emotional desperation and intensity and determination to all he said, eyes flashing, calm voice firmly enunciating, occasional smile revealing a man still with roots deep in the Saxon soil from which he continued to draw a stream of homely metaphors and coarse comment.

Johann Lang, in a letter to Spalatin in March 1516 (shortly before he was appointed to Erfurt) referring to the large numbers of students who were dropping out of the courses on scholastic philosophy and theology, and explaining the rebirth of biblical studies (he used the Renaissance type word reviviscere) and the new Strong interest in antiquae scriptores, identified the phenomenon by pointing to the international influence of Reuchlin and Erasmus, «men of great erudition and integrity».

The logo, presented as an icon on top of the stopper depicts Bacchus posed like Leonardo da Vinci's Virtuvian man harvesting local bergamot, encompassed by the irregular shape of the fruit — referencing Rosolio's renaissance credentials.

After a bitter ending to his once - promising career as a member of the Washington Wizards, the Brooklyn Nets big man is experiencing a Big Apple renaissance.

Yet that renaissance man image hid a fiercely competitive streak that has fuelled all of his best teams.

That comeback draw coupled with their valiant performance away at Man City last week, in which they almost came from two - goal down but ended up losing 3 - 1, could be the telling signs of a Wolves renaissance.

In the interests of balance, Fellaini was used to great effect by Van Gaal as a «withdrawn target man,» but his performances quickly dropped off after a six week renaissance.

From Da Vinci: The Renaissance Man to The Action Bible, the graphic novel industry has come a long way from the days of Archie and Jughead.

It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God's ability to create.

The Governor knows that investing in infrastructure means creating jobs and strengthening our economy — since day one he has stood by the side with the men and women of our state, and this renaissance is the cornerstone of that commitment.»

We must reject the western conception of humanism which developed during the renaissance when human endeavors were devoted to material gains and adapt to African humanism which sees man primarily as a spiritual being endowed with dignity, integrity, respect and value.

I would have liked to have been an artist in the Renaissance, when there were values, values tied to the beauty of man.

The life of this green Renaissance man is quite extraordinary.

A renaissance man of the microbiome, his lab studies the gut bacteria of everything from cows to sloths to pandas.

The Renaissance man reputedly slept almost exclusively in power naps: 15 - minute siestas every four hours, equaling a shockingly low total of 1.5 hours a day.