Sentences with phrase «of culture critics»

And while the Jerry Saltzes of this world may be looking for a break from the warehouse look, many museums have brought on the wrath of culture critics by adopting more daring alternatives.

Our deep bench of culture critics assembled themselves to break down all their thoughts, feelings, and ideas on Marvel's latest epic.

Not exact matches

It just means that they have somewhere to sit,» says Jason Fried, the founder of 37Signals, a web - based apps company, and a critic of the prevailing workplace culture.

Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion film have taken issue with the director's representation of Japanese culture.

The company's rapid expansion under Josef Ackermann as a global investment bank saddled it with an unwieldy structure and a culture of excessive risk - taking, critics say.

While even his critics, who launched the #NotNolan hashtag on Twitter, note that Bushnell played a huge role in starting the video game industry, they feel the timing is wrong to honor him, given the corporate culture he encouraged and the importance of the #MeToo movement over the past year.

What critics said: «Comic Kumail Nanjiani and his wife / co-screenwriter Emily V. Gordon carve this heartfelt love story out of her health crisis and their own culture - clash relationship.

Last October Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist pop culture critic and a notable target of Gamergate vitriol, canceled her talk at Utah State University after the school received a detailed threat promising a «Montreal style massacre» if she spoke as planned.

International philanthropy and the western world's desire to eradicate poverty and disease can't ever truly rid themselves of their imperialist roots; as many critics have pointed out, the white savior industrial complex has never been more pervasive in global culture.

Kalanick announced his leave of absence minutes before the company revealed a 13 - page list of recommendations from an external investigation intended to reshape an internal culture that critics have called «aggressive» and «toxic.»

Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever called «Tyrant» a «stultifyingly acted TV drama stocked with tired and terribly broad notions of Muslim culture.»

Eliot the poet was a very different man from Eliot the critic, and Eliot the theorist of culture, or so my friend claimed.

Beautifully and honestly written, The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse explores some of the toughest questions confronting artists these days, particularly in our increasingly loud and cluttered creative culture.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

This view of the critic sounds quaint in today's commercial culture.

At its best, Evangelicalism seeks to preserve and foster folk culture and the critics of Evangelical piety need to recognize this....

Admittedly, I'm not a culture critic but I do like my books and my shows so I thought I'd share a few of my favourites from the year with you, my dear readers.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

The gods were the reputed defenders, authors, or even the critics of particular cultures.

Rhetorical criticism of the Old Testament makes comparisons with writings of the time, but New Testament critics can refer to speeches, letters and the instructional manuals that document the rhetorical cultures of Greece and Rome.

«Sir Salman Rushdie is an Indian - born English novelist and critic, famous for fantastical novels about the post-colonial relationship between cultures of the East and West.

Tough - guy New York newspaperman Pete Hamill praised the book as a scathing indictment of the «culture of poverty» (yes, he really uses this phrase) fostered by «Eamon de Valera's Ireland,» while the literary critic Denis Donoghue, writing in the New York Times, presented the book in much the same way (though he clearly lacks Hamill's enthusiasm for the story).

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

It's a lively volume with contributions by Terry Teachout (drama critic for the Wall Street Journal), Carol Iannone (editor of Academic Questions), and Asia himself (a distinguished composer and professor of composition at U of A), among others, and they all get to the heart of the problem of high culture at the present time in America.

The Christian culture critic Ken Myers, editor of Mars Hill Tapes, rightly describes popular Christianity as being «of the world, but not in the world.»

Critics argue that though Niebuhr presents with apparent neutrality a typology of five ways that Christians have related to culture, he subtly asserts his own liberal Protestant bias.

The rise of McCarthyism, according to Lasch, confirmed in the minds of many liberal critics like Hofstadter that mass movements mask ingrained hatred of the other and therefore control must be taken from the people and the folk cultures they foster.

I was bothered by theological critics of literature who, following Tillich's too - easy baptizing of the secular order (epitomized in his phrase «as the substance of culture is religion, so the form of religion is culture»), tended to overlook the differences between Christianity and the insights of art.

By «gay culture» the instruction means the culture of which many of these critics are part.

While some social critics accuse youth of being lazy, indulgent, and narcissistic, others see cultural attitudes about work changing because of a transition from an industrial to a service culture.

He explains more precisely what he means in his response to the critics: «in using the word faith I refer to the metaphysical framework, sharedby monotheism and science (but not by many other cultures), of a rational ground that underpins physical existence.

The French who occasionally have expressed strong fears of US cultural imperialism have received «this shrine of American pop culture» enthusiastically despite some critics describing the Disney invasion as a «cultural Chernobyl» (Marguerite Duras).

Hegel's understanding of the forward progress of the will through the history of culture is richer than Kant's, but it leads to a notion of the completion of the will in «absolute knowledge,» a metaphysical abstraction which Hegel's critics, Ricoeur among them, find pretentious and impossible.

Some of his good friends, as well as his critics, have chided him for a number of years for spending too much time on structural problems of the church and internal issues of ecclesiology; I would now predict a broadening out of various issues of religion and culture.

Unlike some critics of process philosophy, I am not convinced that a «substantial self» is a necessary precondition of moral responsibility; 14 furthermore, I have considerable sympathy for Hall's claim that narrowly moral concepts tend to be overemphasized in our culture at the expense of concepts of aesthetic or experiential value.

I realize that in speaking in support of the idea of the active character of all knowing, I open myself to attack not only from Hall's Taoist perspective but from the standpoint of a number of other significant critics of contemporary thought and culture.

The relationships of Christianity to culture, he points out, have always been far more complicated than the critics recognize.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture.

A slight change of plans here — I had wanted to talk about this recent Conor Friedersdorf piece about the lack of conservative rap critics as part of a three - part essay called «Paradoxes of Conservative Pop - Culture Studies,» but I realized that to really to do that, I would have to talk about rap more than a bit, indeed, enough to demand a Rock Songbook post or two.

Then the longest section «Critics of the Culture» analyses the writings of Christian writers who have criticised the way that society is going: T.S. Eliot; Coleridge; Matthew Arnold; Maritain; Maurras; David Jones, the Welsh poet; Christopher Dawson; Chesterton; Belloc; and Tolkien.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

But I just finished reading two books about what's happening on college campuses now — American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by sociologist Lisa Wade and Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by feminist and social critic Laura Kipnis — and I actually do feel quite blessed that my college days are long past.

Kay, Hutton and Plender are strong critics of shareholder short - termism and Britain's takeover culture.

Many social critics, including Binyavanga Wainaina, Emma Dabiri, and Brian Bwesigye have taken issue with Selasi and the broader Afropolitan discourse — arguing that it reflects an elitist representation of African diasporas, which depoliticizes social relations and commodifies African cultures.

There are a great many intelligent, thoughtful critics of the safe space culture.

Critics see it as a culture - of - corruption breeder that turns public servants into Pez dispensers and gives the competitive edge to those willing to curry political favor by any means necessary.

On sexual misconduct, critics say the statehouse culture values the protection of lawmakers over justice for victims.

In a jibe at what critics see as Mr Brown's control freakery, Mr Milburn calls on him to change the culture of Labour Party politics and to follow Barack Obama's lead by adopting an open, engaging politics «that favours dialogue over monologue».

Many critics of current scientific culture say that the likelihood of widespread coverage has a significant role in funding decisions at institutions.