Sentences with phrase «of alien culture»

The raw, organic forms — they look like long - buried artifacts of an alien culture — make a dramatic counterpoint to a new series of highly polished stainless - steel sculptures that, like their predecessors, reflect and refract an illusion of the world onto their sleek, mirrored surfaces.

He will not be engaged in the superficial pursuits of tourists but in the difficult task of trying to make sense of an alien culture.

It is a measure of the genius of the non-native English - speaking Nabokov that he crafted the novel's dazzling prose, of course, but it is just as impressive that this Russian - born writer captured the nuances of an alien culture with such precision and wit.

It suggests the possibility of a string of alien cultures on a single planet which are literally fuelled by the bodies of the predecessors.

Not exact matches

Aliens may be the most immediate pop - culture example of mechanical limbs in action, but the best description of the apparatus» impact on lethality actually comes from Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, in my opinion.

«I thought if ever we were going to do something dramatic and lasting to change Australia's gun laws to prevent the emergence of a more alien gun culture in our country, this was the time to do it.»

If you feel your culture is under threat, however, or is going to be swamped by what you regard as alien influences, or if you want to have some control over the degree to which another culture influences yours — then you may develop a mentality of resistance.

Those of us shaped by the Enlightenment, for example, often think of justice in quite individualistic ways alien to persons of some other cultures.

Traditionally the Christian church has internalized its own experience of exile within an alien culture and adopted a spirituality suffused with exilic qualities.

Islamic culture has been affected by the cultural, social, and political conditions in which it existed and by the challenge which the Muslims faced, a challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free of alien interpolations.

Same - sex acts, sure, but within the confinds of a loving and committed relationship would be as alien to the culture and writers of the bible as a Toyota Prius.

It would be a mistake to see this as entirely inflicted on the immigrant groups by an alien American culture.17 Some form of it is what lured many to these shores in the first place.

This experimentation with symbols and ways of experiencing reality from cultures once very alien to us has even begun to influence some of the established churches.

He speaks of the threat to the composite culture that India has always been, its community life - style, the whole Indian identity which was the basis of a very decentralized notion of living together, working together, having respect for each other's diversity, not have a sense of anything being alien.

All of this may sound absurd to those for whom the theological singularity of Jewish existence and Torah is an intellectual formula rather than a vivid, pervasive experience; and this kind of modesty is alien to a compulsively talkative culture that sees reticence as an obstacle to be overcome.

(24) But is the story so alien and strange that it has no affinity with the culture and experience of the Tiv people?

And the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culture).

There is a widespread tendency in the West to see missions as destroyers of indigenous cultures or else as alien cultural agents from the West.

Japan's Bach boom does, however, have one baffling aspect: how is it possible that melodies and rhythms from eighteenth - century Germany should please people of an entirely alien culture thousands of miles to the east?

Despite all our cultural differences, despite the structures in society and in the Church that obscure our confession of Christ, and despite our sinfulness, we affirm and confess Christ together, for we have found that he is not alien to any culture and that he redeems and judges all our societies.

No longer a persecuted minority religion dependent on the culture of an «alien» world, Christianity now itself became a wellspring of culture.

The general view of polygamy is that it is an institution alien to American culture and generally incompatible with modern society.

We are called to become the church in a culture whose values are largely alien to the Christian message, to be once again the church of the catacombs.

Star Trek has the Prime Directive which directs starship captains to avoid interfering in the development of primitive alien cultures and although it seems to make sense at first glance it's just a fairy tale until we actually find ourselves dealing with such a scenario.

And now the same symptom is easy to see in the violent crises of Islamic culture, which has appropriated many themes of Western anti-Semitism alien to the Qur» an.

«Chopra's speculation on the «God consciousness» of Jesus imports a very alien worldview into the Jewish - Hebrew context and culture of Jesus, and means his language is distorted completely.

Gramsci claimed many workers before the war «had seen in futurism the elements of a struggle against the old academic culture of Italy, mummified and alien to the popular masses.

Even so, visitors remained aliens rather than immigrant members of the nation, except for the few who gave up their former identity, culture and religion, as Ruth did.

The fact is that the «foreign» missionary presence in the life of any church should serve as a particular reminder of the «alien» nature of the gospel to every nation and culture.

It is a result of the sheer energy that it has taken for Catholics to improve their position in a new country and in an alien culture, and it also reflects some social resentment for past disabilities on the part of people who have won social power.

Thus, even before Christianity had a chance to define itself in terms of its own Hebrew origins, it was already being called upon to deal with an alien culture which had a level of philosophical sophistication higher than its own.

Christians were persecuted and were practically exterminated from China by the end of the fourteenth century, not only because they were not in the mainstream of Chinese culture, but mainly because the Christians were supported by an alien political power and they in turn supported that political power.

Yet, sadly, it seems not to occur to many such persons that had they, by accident of birth, been reared in a different faith culture they might well believe just as passionately in a different «one true faith» that today is totally alien to them.

And when we see what God is doing, we can join with culture in standing against war, hunger, and other forms of inhumanity, but infusing such stands with the principles of the Gospel and the example of Jesus Christ (Resident Aliens, 46 - 47).

They love Neymar as much as PSG, but going to PSG matches is another world — the stadium, set amid the wealthy arrondissements of the French capital, has long been alien to the culture of boys from Les Ulis.

I never thought this was an alien culture, but rather a part of modern Chechen civilization.

Needless to say, anti-immigration debates continue to be loud, and are largely informed by a worldview at odds with itself, in which host communities are pitted against a deluge of immigrants — a burden on the economy and a marching in of an inflexible and alien culture.

Now, I'm not going to go into great detail about how I think you might just be missing the point, though I will suggest that perhaps you'd be more persuasive if you considered the question of whether anyone ASKED those «black folks» whether or not they wanted to be brought in chains to the New World, kept in servitude for centuries, stripped of their cultures and their very names and forcibly converted to an alien religion.

This led to a fundamental strategic change as the US and USSR accepted the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), which was, and is still, alien to the American historical strategic culture because it effectively embraces vulnerability.

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Funnily enough, the official state - run Ghana News Agency has not taken down its story that the Ghanaian President unequivocally condemned gayism as being alien to the culture of the Ghanaian people.

We can see now that in the United States as well as in Europe we have the tea party, the neo-conservatives, and the new evangelists that are now creating a new enemy of Islam and the Muslims — portraying them as «a cancer», aliens and foreign citizens, outsiders within, who are threatening the very essence of Western culture.

He said that perpetrating violence in the name of political support and thuggery was alien to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the culture of the people of the state.

She said homosexuality was alien to the Ghanaian culture, therefore, no amount of political manipulation and coercion should make the nation accept it.

Fourthly, it is also germane that the Security Services had made it clear in March 2005, through a report from the Intelligence and Security Committee, that «they operated a culture that respected human rights and that coercive interrogation techniques were alien to the Services» general ethics, methodology and training» (paragraph 9 of the first judgment), indeed they «denied that [they] knew of any ill - treatment of detainees interviewed by them whilst detained by or on behalf of the [US] Government» (paragraph 44 (ii) of the fourth judgment).

But it is instructive to note that, that brand of tribal chauvinism being demonstrated by our respected Awulaemo is aesthetically ugly, intellectually illogical and practically inefficient, very alien to the well known rich Nzema culture and hospitality.

He and his colleagues now hope to gather responses from participants of different cultures, to compare how people across the globe would take the news of alien microbes.

But as we do not know the character of any aliens out there, and as it is difficult to put a value on the benefits to science, culture and technology of finding an advanced civilisation, de Vladar varied the reward of finding aliens and the cost of hostile aliens finding us.

But a handful of real - life archaeologists are already making a bid to study culture in space — of the human, not alien, variety.

Advances in tissue culture, molecular markers, and genomics offer new potential to broaden the gene pool of rice by tapping the genetic variability hidden in the wild species and further enhance the efficiency of alien gene introgression.