Sentences with phrase «of childhood traditions»

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You know how you only have to do something for a child once or twice, and it somehow turns into a tradition — a cherished family ritual that one violates only at the apparent risk of destroying all good memories of childhood?

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

One can almost sense on the screen the influence of childhood classrooms in a Roman Catholic school (where Scorsese was educated) or in a Dutch Calvinist Sunday school (Schrader's Reformed tradition) in which well - intentioned teachers instilled in two little future filmmakers the idea that Jesus resisted temptation because he was God — so if you don't want to spend eternity in hell, you had better follow Jesus.

During his childhood, Beckwith attended Holman United Methodist Church, known for it's tradition of social involvement and commitment to peace and justice issues.

The problem is to set aside the damnosa hereditas of prejudice, false tradition, superstition, fear, hatred, that survives from the childhood of the race, and to develop institutions adequate to its maturity.

Even after a season of my life when I walked far away from our traditions, gathering the greater story of our Church and history to myself, I now find myself corkscrewing back over and over again to the teachings of my childhood, the songs, the practices.

This may be a church in the tradition of one or the other partner; more often, it is one which is somewhere between their childhood traditions.

It behooves married couples who no longer find their childhood tradition satisfying to search until they find a church or temple which does satisfy their spiritual needs and those of their children.

Maybe that was because of my marginal experiences with the tradition during my childhood — maybe not, but either way we felt like it just wasn't enough.

I pointed out that Luke 4:16 pretty clearly indicates that Jesus had a tradition of attending the synagogue, which probably went back even into His childhood.

Some of these people may feel that their lives are too fragile to risk breaking their ties with the religious traditions of their childhoods.

In «Evangelicals and the Great Tradition» (Aug / Sept 2007), George discusses Beckwith's return to the Catholic faith of his childhood from evangelicalism.

Authoritarian belief is simply the occurrence within our tradition of a fate that tends to overcome all traditions which survive the vitality of their childhood.

Both men have very strong food - related memories from their childhood homes and have combined their culinary traditions to create a beautiful mosaic of food and tradition.

A lot of what we «know» about the Christmas story and Jesus» childhood comes from inference and tradition and may not be too Biblical.

Since starting TLT in 2010, I've made it a tradition to post just before Thanksgiving on the topic that's at the heart of my interest in school food reform: childhood hunger.

Michael on the other hand having grown up everywhere from the beautiful southern British Columbia rich in wine to the gold rush territories of the Yukon and many places in between had never experienced this childhood dream of a tradition.

Dan: I think one of the traditions I will like to take forward is having everyone bring a dessert from their childhood.

Do any of you have a special childhood summertime tradition that you still look forward to every year?

I wish they had talked more about traditions of their childhoods and such.

aaaahhhhhh!!!! I am so excited and can't wait!!!! Christmas time has me reminiscing of my childhood, past Christmas Day's, and family tradition.

One of my annual traditions from childhood is Easter brunch.

Regardless of opinion, he was not only one of the biggest stars of the postwar era but also one of the most powerful, and as the writer, director, and producer of many of his features, he qualified as a comic auteur firmly in the tradition of Chaplin and Keaton.Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, on March 16, 1926, he was the son of borscht - belt comics, spending the majority of his childhood living with relatives but joining his parents each summer as they performed in the Catskills.

It is, in the best Disney tradition, a story of childhood's end, of leaving the family and accepting adult responsibilities.

From Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Year My Voice Broke to Muriel's Wedding and Somersault, Australian cinema has a prestigious tradition of vividly conveying that achingly beautiful, emotionally baffling divide between a young lady's childhood and the mysteries of the adult world that lay before her.

Although Vikander has spent the majority of her acting career so far appearing in «serious» films like 2015's The Danish Girl, for which she won her Oscar, she carries with her from childhood an affection for the cinematic tradition Tomb Raider taps into.

Agnes Bruckner (Venom, Vacancy 2, The Woods, Kill Theory), Sam Ball («The Event»), Haley Hudson («Ghost Whisperer», Killer Pad) and Kathleen Rose Perkins («Lie to Me,» «Trust Me») and Casper Van Dien also star in the ghost story said to be in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Dario Argento's Suspiria and Hideo Nakata's Ringu, «as a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother's death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.»

A boy describes the traditions of Bar Mitzvah, and we follow his journey through the ceremony from childhood to manhood.

Our preschool program emphasizes developing the language skills of deaf and hard of hearing students, while drawing upon the best practices of the child - development tradition in early childhood education for deaf children.

From advocating for improved early childhood education, to increasing the rigor and relevance of curriculum, to fostering understanding of cultural and social mores amongst disparate groups of students, schools will be at the forefront of addressing the heavy - duty issues that the greater population faces as we continue to change in terms of how we look, the languages we speak, and the traditions we celebrate.

Remaking a classic that has dominated the childhoods of so many gamers is a dicey move that requires very strict adherence to tradition and updating but not changing the original medium.

As an adult I do miss the old childhood tradition of unwrapping the season's must - have Nintendo hit each holiday, but then I remember that I can buy my own games and play them as soon as they are released and suddenly it's just not an issue anymore.

Dying eggs for Easter was always a tradition in mine and my wife's childhood, so of course we have to do it for our kids!

Where Salvador Dalí took Surrealism as a license to let his adult fantasies run free, Miró's fields of color never lose their grounding in the tradition of landscape painting and the actual landscape of his childhood.

Lull seeks to embody and perform a delicate relationship between sonic harmony and dissonance, underpinning it with connotations of deeply felt memories of childhood as well as cultural traditions.

Growing up in Israel (to grandparents who escaped from Germany, Poland and Syria) for the first part of his childhood and later on in the United States, Yanai is familiarized with appropriating different cultures and traditions.

Born in 1922 and after a childhood spent in the region of Saint - Etienne in contact with the textile tradition, she moved to Paris immediately after the war, became friends with artists gravitating around the gallery Denise René.

In her work Mendieta was examining the basics of Latin American patriarchy, like early childhood education for girls, tradition and feminist aspects of pagan religion, and its interpretations and reflections in contemporary life.

Having spent her childhood traversing the Mexican / American border, works by Tanya Aguiñiga are rooted in conversations of heritage and tradition in relation to our contemporary experience of place.

These dreamlike sculptures evoke poetic surrealist juxtapositions, exploring the artist's half - remembered childhood tales, as well as the constructed and fictitious memories of childhood, folklore, and tradition.

The varied sources of inspiration in Geleynse's work trace back to the traditions of nineteenth century photography, the mechanical processes behind early discoveries in photography and his own childhood recollections of growing up.

AA Bronson, the last living member of General Idea, was instrumental in creating this book, whose design in based on Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture, an influential publication from his childhood.

The title Ghost: Rhythms itself is an homage to the stories and tales Binion's mother and aunts would tell in his childhood of ghosts and family history, a tradition that stuck with the artist and influenced his desire to use visual language to continue to share narrative.

Her works focus on childhood memories and the importance of traditions in contemporary society.

Drawing inspiration from her own experience, including the Southern California surf culture of her childhood, the San Francisco beatnik era of her teen years, the punk and new wave music scenes of 1970s and early 80s New York, and her formal training as a sculptor and ceramist, Heilmann incorporates a complex amalgam of personal references, cultural influences, and craft traditions in an artistic practice that includes painting, painted ceramics, and constructed furniture.

Suh's full - scale «homes» of semitransparent cloth, including the traditional Korean house (hanok) of his childhood and his apartment in New York, explore basic human values and overarching themes of home, family, tradition and origination.

Ontario early childhood learning and care philosophy and program goals embraces a «social pedagogy tradition», emphasizing the importance of child development and families as partners.

When mentoring engaged couples, my wife Barbara and I encourage them to spend a lot of time talking about their families, because expectations regarding roles, traditions, and conflict resolution styles are largely determined by our childhood experience, and every family is different.

Examples of holiday dreams may include having a shared family tradition, or a parent giving their child an experience they had in their own childhood.