Sentences with phrase «of cultural reference points»

As the influence of cable TV and then the Internet came grew, the number of cultural reference points became comparatively larger and less widely shared.

So, many of your cultural reference points will NOT be identical.

Not exact matches

This human point of view calls for further elaboration, for one often sees reference to the cultural and historical conditionedness of Scripture as though it were a cause for concern.

Do we need common points of cultural references for our society to endure?

However, rather than simply accepting the opinion of states and critical Western scholars as the point of reference, the edited book Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South by Rama Mani and Tom Weiss addresses the important and so far under - researched question of what scholars and activists from the global south really think about the R2P principle and how the R2P implementation process can account for those southern concerns and insights.

Whether it be pure physical attraction or a desire to meet someone who shares your specific cultural reference points, ethnic dating is a category of online dating that has grown exponentially in the last few years.

I grew up in the age of Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert and John McEnroe vs Everyone, though, and that match was a common cultural reference point.

Audiences familiar with Key and Peele's pop - cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «Point Break» (all of which figure into one of the movie's better visual gags).

With first radio and then television, both passive receivers, becoming ubiquitous presences in people's homes, culture was united in the limited number of options available, and thus coalesced around a comparatively small number of widely shared cultural reference points.

Since his early days with «Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story» and «Safe,» Haynes has developed sophisticated narratives out of existing cultural reference points.

Inquiry within this phase of the group interactions is subtle; people here can become sensitive to their cultural norms; ways of acting and thinking they assume must be true because they are their only point of reference.

While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.

Here, Bas takes as a point of reference the charged cultural climate of 1960s San Francisco, where a church was founded for which «hell» actually meant «heaven».

Anton Ginzburg uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations of art's capacity to penetrate layers of the past.

Phillipson's recent exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection, through the flesh - tone scenario, the imported combi - boudoir (2013), saw the artist create a multi-layered installation that investigated the relationship between virtual and tactile spaces through cultural references as diverse as point - of - view «selfies», experimental architecture, supermarkets, museums and pop videos.

Either as a pop cultural reference point or the conceptual link between the speculative practices of contemporary art and science fiction, this trend has seen dozens, if not hundreds, of international and Australian artists creating sci - fi - inflected pieces, with exhibitions around the world surveying their work.

But for Maria Brito, the similarities became apparent after her research into the reasons why Classical Greece became such a reference point for Western civilisation: «Ancient Greece was, in many ways, similar to what New York is nowadays: an art - centric place filled with curious thinkers, creative artists, and centres for cultural advancement propelled by a cosmopolitan view of the world.»

Together with these collective points of reference, The Puppet Show poses a larger cultural question: why do puppets matter now?

Meandering between image and object, Atterbury makes reference to cultural and geographical points of origin.

Thus, «New voices: a dslcollection story,» reveals the practice and works of China's youngest generation of artists, who have distinctly different points of cultural and historical reference in comparison to their predecessors.

The absence of that biographical fixture would likely result in the viewer having no immediate reference point, no mental springboard from which a meaningful discussion on cultural and psychological migration may be introduced.

Playing a central role in London's cultural landscape, the Whitechapel Gallery is an international point of reference for art internationally.

I point to that comment thread because it contains many long comments with references to positive results bias and the deep cultural dysfunction of the scientific community.

On this point, the court declined to admit the evidence and further held that: «[i] t would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Statute of Frauds and with the valid public policy need for certainty in real property transactions to imply a term or condition into the Deed of Gift based on a general cultural norm or tradition and the mere reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.»