Sentences with phrase «of cultural taboo»

It's a bit of a cultural taboo to take food out of your mouth in Japan, so these sticks of pineapple - flavored «gum» are actually taffy made to look and chew like gum.

Overnight, many of the cultural taboos associated with overt commercial profiteering on campus began to evaporate.

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Just goes to show how much of Church taboos are in fact cultural rather than «scriptural» in nature.

I would settle with doing away with the cultural taboo against discussing the likelihood of God being real.

Post-modern radicalism postulates that the individual, in order to exercise his right to choose, must be able to free himself from all normative frameworks — whether they be semantic (clear definitions), ontological (being, the given), political (sovereignty of the state), moral (transcendent norms), social (taboos, what is forbidden), cultural (traditions) or religious (dogma, doctrine of the Church).

«The taboo of discussing «strange» cultural and the — now more than ever — different world of dietary issues, both personal and medicinal, is addressed in a casual, fun and inspiring story involving two friends.

The bright spots shared several characteristics, including high levels of local engagement in resource management, high dependence on local marine resources, and protective cultural taboos — such as excluding fishers from outside the local village.

Nevertheless, the work remains an outstanding model of scientific bravery in the 20th century, with its insistence that sexual acts be described as healthy functions of the human body and that cultural taboos not stand in the way of science.

For many of us there can be numerous social and cultural taboos associated with this area and a degree of embarrassment when talking about it.

Self massage of the breast is very important as well and many women are afraid to touch their breasts because it is a cultural taboo.

Surveys conducted years ago show a drastic increase in the number of interracial relationships or marriages, thanks to the constantly changing cultural taboo.

Surveys conducted in the past years show a drastic increase in the number of interracial marriages or relationships, thanks to the changing cultural taboo.

Kicking off our guide to the season's cultural highlights, we head to the cinema for the return of Blade Runner, a tale of taboo sex and Armando Iannucci's stunning Stalin satire.

It's interesting to think about Philadelphia, dated and slightly stereotypical as it is, as a product of its time and an effort to broach a taboo subject in light of today's cultural movement in Hollywood for diversity in storytelling.

The insanity of the plot, the cultural taboos at its center and the daring opacity of its prologue (another tool revisited in

From the celebrated film Juno to a pregnancy boom at Gloucester High School, in Gloucester, Massachusetts (where 17 girls confessed to making a pact to become pregnant together), plus the high - profile pregnancies of 16 - year - old actress Jamie Lynn Spears and 17 - year - old Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a more accepting attitude seems to be replacing an old taboo, and students are not immune to the cultural shift.

His performances» raw intensity often included the graphic acting out of taboo ideas and behaviors, acting out against the imposition of cultural norms by television programming, Disney.

They act as remainders from architectural projects lost and reminders of popular cultural taboos.

Inverting the vegetarian premise of this edition of Food Art Week, MOMENTUM uses the occasion of our partnership to engage with five artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and our Artist Residency Program (MOMENTUM AiR) who work with meat as an artistic medium, and as an effective commentary upon cultural practices and taboos.

I explore issues of violence, social taboos, political conflicts and human behaviors by deconstructing iconic cultural imagery as a form of critique and analysis.

The exhibition will address his «prodigious and penetrating contribution in the taboo subject of sexuality, portrayals thereof, and its indissociable link to the boundless promise conveyed by the cultural, material and economic bounty of post-war American society.»

From cultural taboos to symbols of power, tattoos, piercings and other forms of body modification have played significantly different roles within different societies for thousands of years.

Following on from French President Emmanuel Macron's promise last year to return African cultural heritage, the president of the ethnographic Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris, Stéphane Martin, has signalled that the institution is open to the idea, telling The Art Newspaper that «if together, and possibly with international co-operation with other Western partners, we can build one, two or three safe museums in Africa, I would not even consider transfers of ownership as taboo».

Despite a cultural taboo, Namdakov has addressed the subject of Genghis Khan, sculpting the great Mongolian leader in bronze (2003, 2011) and acting as art director in the film Mongol (2007), for which he received Russia's Nika Award for Best Art Direction.

This Dionysian work of kinetic theatre, described by the artist as a «celebration of flesh as material», explored the way social dynamics change when cultural taboos and restrictions are lifted.

This alleged «cultural evolution» encourages the artist to deconstruct and build artifacts in which he mixes — without taboos — the trivial, decorative and well - measured paraphernalia of luxury culture with elements from the suburban culture: snake skins, leopard patterns, gold and fake carbon fibers that aspire to shine in an asphaltic grey.

It is dedicated to today's cultural avant - garde: art that defines itself unconstrainedly through the breaks in life — even by breaking taboos — in the tradition of Jewish collectors, who have always promoted the latest trends in art.

Since then, she has explored a range of cultural and political taboos.

Margaret Harrison tackles gender politics through the use of iconic characters such as Captain America and Playboy pinups, Meriem Bennani's animations explore Muslim cultural taboos, and Jamian Juliano - Villani's surreal paintings distort familiar images from pop culture and comics.

The real issue and taboo is what cultural do all of these groups have in common that create such a willful blindness that existed in the AGW movement and reaction?

«This report notes cultural taboos surround this issue in some countries, preventing progress,» says Zafar Adeel, Director of UNU - INWEH.

This week, Publishers Weekly described the book as «an astonishingly forthright work by a Canadian lawyer [that] traces her painful personal journey through chronic loneliness in light of social taboos and changing cultural and medical notions.»

Alice Ray, co-founder and CEO of Ripple Effects, maintains that «there are so many familial and social pressures on kids, we want to give them a way to get supports for those needs without having to break cultural taboos.»