Sentences with phrase «of a modern classic of»

That film is Call Me by Your Name, an adaptation of the 2007 André Aciman novel that is something of a modern classic of gay literature.

Terry McMillan, the acclaimed author of modern classics of popular fiction like Waiting to Exhale, returns June 7 with I Almost Forgot About You.

Originally designed in 1987, Abalone is something of a modern classic of abstract strategy.

Not exact matches

Logo of the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, regarded today as a modern classic.

So when a major television network repurposes a classic, chilling tale for a modern audience, it has the makings of TV gold.

Perhaps the most interesting of these devices, at least from the perspective of mobile enthusiasts, is not a smartphone at all, but a modern version of a classic workhorse of a feature phone, the Nokia 3310.

The new smartphone has an updated screen design that looks decidedly better and more modern than the OnePlus 5's classic design, and there are a couple of feature updates that some original OnePlus 5 owners may feel they're missing out on.

His experiments, writes Tim Harford, «are a modern classic in evolutionary biology, and a striking example of how a population adapts to a new problem.»

In addition to comfort, the use of an innovative knit upper and an ergonomic outsole gives the classic wingtip design a modern look.

Charlie Chaplin's classic film Modern Times — one of the last silent films -LSB-...]

The new book is fully endorsed by the Napoleon Hill Foundation and is the modern - day version of the original classic «Think And Grow Rich ``.

Wolff's other books include, TELEVISION IS THE NEW TELEVISION, a look at the war between old media and new; AUTUMN OF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet yearOF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet yearof the early internet years.

For what it's worth, in my own subjective opinion, a modern day type of Hypatia / Galileo might be modern author D.M. Murdock, who is an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College where she studied Classics, Greek Civilization.

Old heresies never die, but we would have thought that of all the classic heresies, Arianism is the one moderns are least likely to revive.

I recommend the classics like Chesterton, Aquinas, A'Kempis, Lewis, Bonhoeffer, Frankl but there are a number of modern people too who have illuminating stuff to say, Lucado, Graham, Colson, Sheen, Bannon, others.

In her classic 1958 essay, «Modern Moral Philosophy,» she urged her contemporaries to stop working with the concept of «moral obligation.»

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 By George H. Nash Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 467 pages, $ 24.95 George Nash knows as much about the intellectual history of modern American conservatism as anybody, and it is a pleasure to have his classic 1976 study again available.

This may be partly because the moderns had some success in undermining confidence in the classic proofs by their criticism without winning any lasting confidence in their own, but the main cause is not any defect in the proofs for the existence of God, at least in the classic proofs, but the general discredit which has fallen upon all systems of thought which ante-date the last century.

We are thus able to align our theology with the scientific and philosophic disciplines which already have made the conversion to the modern dynamic world - view from the classic static world - view — hence from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican, from the Aristotelian eternal species to the Darwinian evolution of species, from the metaphysical to the temporal or historical and evolutionary in philosophy and theology.

Perhaps you thought that the classic works of high modernism - works like Ulysses or The Waste Land - were important because they had something pertinent to say about the spiritual conundrums of modern life.

In the 1980s, a young priest trained in classics at the University of Oxford noted that, though the gospels are not biographies in a modern sense, that doesn't mean they are not biographies.

As a matter of fact, Bultmann's Jesus and the Word of 1926 was prefaced with a classic statement of the modern view of history, and on this basis he states that his book reflects his own encounter with the historical Jesus, and may mediate an encounter with the historical Jesus on the part of the reader.

Modern scholarship lays stress on parables as metaphors.104 The root of the study of metaphor is traced to the Greek classics, where it was understood as a single word.

The revival of the study of the classics of the ancient world was destined to lead to the emergence of the modern world by reawakening that inquiring mind that marked at least some of the early Greeks.

Hubbard is echoing Edward J. Carnell, his predecessor as president of Fuller Seminary, whose book The Case for Orthodox Theology is perhaps the classic statement on modern evangelicalism:

In addition to its classic and philosophical expressions, the idea of freedom through understanding runs as a leitmotif through the whole history of modern science and humanism.

(Unlike his article on the classics in education, which was in part a strong dissent from the report of the Commission he had belonged to in 1921, the added philosophical material in Science and the Modern World seems to presuppose and supplement the Syllabus; the drastic changes that mark a departure by Whitehead from the basic outline of the enterprise don't appear until 1929).

In John Baillie's widely acclaimed modern classic, And the Life Everlasting, the biblical doctrine of the resurrection has almost moved out of sight, being replaced by an emphasis on eternal life as a quality of life which transcends death.

For alcoholics who have tried and failed time after time to stay sober by themselves, for alcoholics who have tried and failed after using any one of innumerable techniques, that which finally does keep one sober becomes «God» (Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories [New York: Bantam Books, 1992], p. 208; bold face added).

Another excerpt from some recent work: The basic political premise of techno - politics is that the classic question regarding competing claims to rule has been decisively answered: instead of Plato's philosopher king we get its emasculated modern descendant, the rational bureaucrat.

He convincingly disentangled the various strands of pride and presented them in ascending sequence, one of the keenest products of his thought that was to become a «modern classic.»

Baxter, commenting on the relative success or failure of modern playwrights to reconceive a classical play, observes that «this «shaking up» of a classic demands the power to impose a new pattern on the broken pieces after the jolt has occurred.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

The classic example is the insertion of the «Epochal Theory of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.

Dreher's delicate treatment of our national dream gives the book a claim to being a modern American classic.

One of modern Christianity's most beloved authors and thinkers, Lewis is remembered for classics including Mere Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters.

Finally, Tillich's greatest weakness was his relative inability to discern in classic religious symbols the fresh complexity of meaning that he found (with ease, insight and fluidity) in symbols from ancient Greek and modern secular culture.

Explicit use of classic Jewish images, the vivid presence of modern - day horrors: Many have found the White Crucifixion a disturbing work, and not just pious Jews.

The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories.

Some historians of the American experience emphasize the radical break between the ancient, classic tradition of the «liberal» arts and the modern liberal tradition.

The evangelical modern classic God's Plan for Man relates a terrifying account of Voltaire's last days: [Voltaire] was well known as an outspoken opponent of Christianity, and predicted that it would cease to exi st within 100 years.

The evangelical modern classic God's Plan for Man relates a terrifying account of Voltaire's last days:

It is a classic error of modern thinking simply to equate immorality with causing suffering.

The network's entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt was recently speaking at a Television Critics Association event about its upcoming Will & Grace reboot, and said that he wants to bring back even more of the Peacock's modern classics.

Dinner at Talavera Restaurant at Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale Talavera introduces a modern take on the classic steakhouse, with unique steak and seafood pairings, a range of specialty sides, accompaniments and starters as well as comfort desserts to - die - for.

I love things that I don't know and I love modern and healthy interpretations of old classics.

Vegan mac and cheese hot, cold, with ketchup, with bbq sauce, with curry, with peas (peas are always good in mac), in a bowl, on a plate, with a fork, with a spoon... maybe your hands... However you dish it up, this one - pot vegan mac and cheese will only leave you feeling comforted, healthy, and full of plant - powered love in a much more modern version of the ultimate American classic (traditional American mac may have originated in New England church potlucks or from Thomas Jefferson bringing a recipe idea over.

Butter cake from Modern Classics Book 2: Cookies, Biscuits & Slices, Small Cakes, Cakes, Desserts, Hot Puddings, Pies & Tarts (Morrow Cookbooks) Cake: 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon (127g) unsalted butter, very well softened 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup + 1 1/2 tablespoons (218g) caster sugar 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups + 1 1/2 tablespoons (225g) all purpose flour, sifted 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, sifted 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, sifted pinch of salt 1/2 cup (120 ml) whole milk, room temperature Icing: 1 cup (140g) icing sugar, sifted 1 - 2 tablespoons lemon juice or water Preheat the oven to 160 °C; butter a 20 cm (8in) round cake pan, line the bottom with baking paper and butter the paper as well.

Their book is a mix of both classic recipes and modern interpretations, many of which I had never even heard of (Kvass, anyone?).

This is one of our all - time favorite recipes, and for good reason: it's a modern take on a comforting classic.