Sentences with phrase «of cultural distinction»

To remind us once again that certain films are commercial dreck appealing to the lowest common denominator, whereas others are within a genre of festival films designed to purvey a sense of cultural distinction, is finally to give all the power to the institutional and class divisions that one presumably wishes to challenge.

It involves planned encounters between believers and non-believers of cultural distinction held in various cities, the first at the Unesco building in Paris and subsequent ones in Stockholm and Assisi.

Not exact matches

But their contributions were given to an undifferentiated cultural system that made no social distinctions on the basis of need.

If we can no longer conduct public debates according to the «objective» language of «self - evident truths» — ways of reasoning that purport to cut across religious and cultural distinctions — how will political debate move forward?

Their «criminally stupid strategy» of removing central economic distinctions from the table has made them easy prey for their enemies: «[B] y dropping the class language that once distinguished them sharply from Republicans they have left themselves vulnerable to cultural wedge issues like guns and abortion and the rest whose hallucinatory appeal would ordinarily be far overshadowed by material concerns.»

Mr. Bottum thus portrays too radical a distinction between the West and its Islamic cultural counterparts in a way that suggests the superiority of the former over the latter.

Indeed, with regard to the historical development of philosophy and science we know it to be the case that it was the doctrine of the Fall, which is peculiar to the Judeo - Christian faith, which enabled the Christian culture to maintain an ontological distinction between matter and evil in the face of cultural opposition.

Cultural distinctions as a means of celebration is beautiful, but it can be manipulated by those with a thirst for power to control the masses.

Cyberspace itself is filled with many options for religious identity, but they seem to be void of clear propositional and cultural distinctions.

[I Corinthians 14] John, a distinction is highlighted by your confession, «yes, all of scripture is in fact «cultural» — it is placed first and foremost within the cultural context of the readers».

By accepting from Austin and Holmes an overly sharp distinction between law and morality, by largely abandoning the search for the common good, and by permitting individual liberty or equality to trump most other values, mainstream American law may have had a part in fostering a set of cultural conditions inhospitable to communities of memory and mutual aid.

Jackson makes an important distinction between liberal pluralism as a cultural ideal and as a set of political arrangements.

But, as Christians, we must not elevate the distinction of national, ethnic or cultural identity over our higher identities as disciples of Christ and as human beings, both of which expand our most important communities far beyond the borders of the United States.

We examine congregational practices in terms of organic, personal, social and cultural dynamics, attending to important distinctions and interrelationships.

The truth that the New Humanity is open to all irrespective of racial or cultural distinctions.

Among those who believe that fundamental changes in American society are essential for the fullest achievement of the good life, a distinction can be made between the cultural transformationists and the political reformers.

At a later cultural stage a sharp distinction is usually made between two kinds of existence which, it is supposed, may occur separately as mindless matter and as disembodied mind but, at least in man, in an association of body and soul.

Among Americans there are, in fact, many distinctions, that are differences of greater or lesser degree, between «us» and «them»» economic, racial, educational, political, cultural, religious.

The goal, or at least the effect, of such image adaptations of the Christian faith to the culture is to erase the distinctions between the Christian message and the cultural environment.

The distinction recognizes significant contribution to historic preservation and sustaining the economic, environmental and cultural heritage of the community.

I am willing to accept that its not cultural but why the stark and clear distinction between two rather large groups of informed commentators?

A man of distinction, Thing, in a letter to the editor this week, argues with sponsors that parking issues are only incidental to a project that will considerably enhance the cultural and economic life of downtown Kingston.

«Some of them are actually codified rules changes and some of them are cultural changes, which aren't less important but I want to make a distinction,» Williams said.

From the moment of birth humans possess the capacity to make distinctions between speakers of their native language and others, which helps understand how infants and young children are tuned to quickly acquire the knowledge of their society and adopt to their cultural environment,» said Dr. Marno.

In a 2005 article in the Journal of Biosocial Science, the scientists attributed Ashkenazis» intellectual distinction to a religious and cultural environment that blocked them from working as farm laborers in central and northern Europe for almost a millennium, starting around A.D. 800.

Adds co-author Anna Shoemaker, also a PhD at Uppsala University «The 50 questions in this paper make no distinction between the history of people and landscapes, or natural and cultural, the two are fundamentally connected.»

For the detritus of this dreamland, L.A. serves to level the distinction between teenage idol and drug dealer; it is a landscape where one's identity is provisional, contingent on cultural license.

Subsequently, using its successful Harlem model as a starting point while accounting for key operational and cultural distinctions, Democracy Prep opened thousands of high quality public school seats in Camden, the South Bronx, the District of Columbia, Baton Rouge, and Las Vegas.

But locals also know that the city has the distinction of being Alberta's cultural, governmental and educational centre.

The town of St. Augustine, Florida, carries the unique distinction of being the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States, a cultural honor that the landmark Casa Monica Resort & Spa has embraced since it opened back in 1888.

Cedar City: Cedar City, Utah has earned the distinction of being Festival City, USA due to the incredible theatrical and cultural offerings, like the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Neil Simon Festival, Groovefest and the Cedar City Livestock Fest.

Drawing inspiration from its PX program partners, expert staff and advisors, Conservancy members, and the general public, the Parks Conservancy is uniquely qualified to partner with the Presidio Trust, National Park Service, and the Bay Area community to create a 21st century cultural destination of distinction in the Golden Gate National Parks.

It is such that now, rather than trying to split the cultural distinctions of art forms from different countries, game makers can travel across the world taking bits and pieces of things they learn and enjoy, and then glue them together in their work to expand their creative possibilities beyond the confines of their native culture.

Questioning the distinctions between high and low art, Ceramics presents new works that are an appropriation and celebration of the cultural and historical vernacular traditions of her native Poland and a wider European context.

Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics with many accolades such as the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983, the Tenth Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Newington - Cropsey Foundation in 2008 and in 2014 he was the first recipient of the Gabarron Foundation Award for Cultural Thought.

This concert featuring Arto Lindsay echoes the themes of cultural experimentation and artistic cross-pollination explored in the exhibition, breaking down the distinctions between American and Brazilian rock music, pop music, experimental music, and improvisation.

Untitled (Human Mask) captures a number of significant themes in Pierre Huyghe's body of work: the enigmatic and uncanny situations found in the film suggest a collapse of biological and cultural distinctions.

Rather than drawing a distinction between the world of art and architecture, his approach to design seeks to cross creative platforms and to establish a cultural intersection.

In his early career Warhol forced the cultural establishment to integrate signs of crass consumerism (the Soup Cans) and commercial exploitation (the Marilyns) into the world of high art, thus helping to destroy the very distinction between high and low art.

Mirza asks us to reconsider the perceptual distinctions between noise, sound and music, and draws into question the categorisation of cultural forms.

Imperial mastery relied on techniques of translation, assimilation, hybridisation and mimicry, and although the exhibition presents these exchanges as creatively fruitful, they often also betray imbalances of power and oppressive cultural distinctions.

[20] By adopting a phallus, Benglis physically and symbolically muddies the distinction made between these two types of gender performativity and ultimately overturns them, resulting in a positive assertion of femininity's sexual and cultural power.

A series of performances and video installations realized between 2014 - 2015 addressed the complexities of communication and the deconstruction of iconic symbols, simultaneously investigating how the political relationships and cultural distinctions between their two countries manifest on a micro or personal level.

Born in Brazil, Shiokava is ethnically Japanese, and his work embodies a cultural hybridity played out in the distinction between his wood and macramé totems, which he says represent, respectively, the Japanese and Brazilian sides of himself.

A provocation of the Western art world, it not only demands more recognition for African contemporary art, but also raises the question of why these cultural distinctions exist.

Through her physical manipulation of these collected «cultural artifacts,» Peterson navigates the distinction / categorization between trash objects and art objects.

In a variety of ways Nástio Mosquito is pointing us towards a future in which clear distinctions made between art forms, between popular culture and fine art, and the categorisation of cultural identities will have become either redundant or irrelevant.

In doing so, Mirza complicates the distinctions between noise, sound and music, and alters the function and meaning of everyday objects and socio - cultural constructs.

In this observation of the common acts of negotiating life's most basic needs, I hope to draw attention to distinctions between social structures and scientific research and their cultural consequences — how they are engaged and mutually transformed.

He seems to reject his sources precisely as he draws upon them, to thumb his nose at the very cultural precedents he reveres, and to pay no attention whatsoever to distinctions between different sorts of painting.