Sentences with phrase «of iconoclasts»

Or perhaps Australia is simply, as a friend calls it, a «nation of iconoclasts».

It is worth noting that Theodor Landscheidt — one of iconoclasts in the «solar - forcing - trumps GHG's» school of European solar physicists — predicted this possible Grand Minimum based on the theory that Gliessberg cycles generated by the Sun's oscillation around it's centre of mass directly affect the Coriolis force perturbing solar plasma flow and the solar dynamo.

There are plenty of iconoclasts in the wings asking why public collections don't sell off a few old paintings, and frankly this lack of regard for national treasures gives them credence.

Imagine a society of iconoclasts.

In the world of Iconoclasts, each person is assigned a strict role; going against «Mother» and her beliefs would label you as a sinner.

A playable alpha version of Iconoclasts is available, and while it's from 2012 and thus probably shouldn't be taken as representative of the final product, it's plenty playable.

Special thanks to publisher Bifrost Entertainment for suppling us with a digital copy of Iconoclasts to stream on the show.

One can only hope that the school system has deafened the children from hearing the claims of iconoclasts, like Robinson, who believe school is about «learning» and «curiosity.»

From a Ruinhunter to a mechanic, Robin (the star of Iconoclasts) is no slouch when it comes to kicking ass.

Recruiting an ever - expanding rogue's gallery of iconoclasts and reprobates including Chevy Chase (Joel McHale), Michael O'Donoghue (Thomas Lennon), Tony Hendra (Matt Lucas), Anne Beatts (Natasha Lyonne) and Harold Ramis (Rick Glassman, «Undateable»), Kenney and Beard quickly create a multimedia empire in print, radio and on stage.

He specializes in the study of iconoclasts and rebels, including the controversial writer and public intellectual Rebecca West.

That year would define the ethos of a generation of iconoclasts, Hitchens among them.

Ok... i consider myself a HUGE atheist... and sort of an iconoclast....

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So I'll bet it was a hoot for him to do Paperback Hero and play something of an iconoclast.

That sequence alone marks her as a bit of an iconoclast, a woman with strong opinions and a quirky, unusual, but well - expressed sense of humor.

Wang has never been much of an iconoclast, and though he has his Pollyanna lapses (as if an aristocratic politician would ever mistake the help for a socialite), it's uncharacteristic of him to be so wilfully ignorant as to consider Gone with the Wind an appropriate book for Opal to read to African - American Gloria.

How about age before beauty... The good ol' boys The life, times and works of an iconoclast filmmaker are examined in Robert Altman: The Oral Biography.

Not exact matches

A business iconoclast in his own right, Kopke is the author of The Generous Leader and co-founder of Institute B, an accelerator for so - called B corps (social benefit corporations).

The Spyder, however, is not the brainchild of a visionary iconoclast, but the product of contemporary corporate planning.

«Only when you consciously confront your brain's reliance on categories will you be able to imagine outside of its boundaries,» he writes in his book Iconoclast.

Yet an eclectic bunch of investors and iconoclasts in the Valley have also plummeted head long into worries over AI coming too soon, and changing human society too fast.

Some claim spawn of satan (as if your are on gods side or satans side), iconoclast, adiamorphic, undogmatic...

Both were middle class products of the English public school system and elite universities; both were journalist - adventurers, disillusioned socialists, contrarians, and iconoclasts.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

The evolutions of socialized cultural bandings seems to always give rise to iconoclast breeders...

As both an iconoclast and a spokesman for the value of play in human experience, Keen needs to be heard.

Iconoclast, with his 16 ounces of grey matter and relative nano - seconds of existence has it all figured out.

Yet at the founding of Protestantism and in its early decades its leaders were very much aware of the power of religious images and did all they could either to remove the images entirely — the iconoclasts» solution — or to recast them in a way that exalted word over image.

As our hampered socialistic world becomes more and more a stewardship of the emotionally transfigured iconoclasts in servile reciprocities, many emotive bases need to be covered.

Many folks have died on the accords from governing servitudes due varying religious iconoclasts of aristocratic secularists in many eras of civilizations.

I count Russell a Puritan iconoclast in his village atheism, with a positive evaluation of what he regards as essential, such as love and knowledge, and above all devotion to Truth.

But the argument against the iconoclasts is utterly fallacious: it is denied that one can have an idolatrous attitude toward an icon, since an idol is the expression of something that does not exist — a fiction, a semblance, a nothing.

This «heresy» is the exact counterpart of the real docetic heresy (of which the iconoclasts were falsely accused), but it is no better!

As for the argument that the iconoclasts were docetics who denied the reality of the Incarnation, this rests on a cosmic conception of a realized Incarnation.

In ascribing a transparency to the word, iconoclasts maintain that revelation removes from both the incarnation and the Scriptures the deforming effects of human representation.

Christian iconoclasts have perennially argued that images have no place in the church because images of human devising fall short of God's self - revealed image in Jesus and the sacraments.

A product fashioned by the combined forces of atheists, booksellers, salaried service writers, iconoclasts, uninformed clergy, misguided Christian writers, treatment programs, therapists, angry bleeding deacons, frustrated failures, and probably the just - plain - ignorant.

Or is it the word of some prophet without credentials who rails against the institutions and feeds the iconoclast in all of us?

Although even the iconoclasts of the early church had believed that divine power could operate for the good of human beings through some specially blessed material objects, the Reformers were reluctant to affirm that God's grace was mediated through the physical world.

And because they gain so much visibility — take on such an aura of authority and religious «truth» — they lead people outside the church to conclude that Christianity really is irrelevant to the world and its problems, confirming them in their resolve to shun organized religion and go their way as humanitarians, free - thinkers or iconoclasts.

It is of course precisely the sort of anti-Christian fury that has made Rimbaud the great hero for subsequent generations of self - styled iconoclasts.

It seemed ironical to me that a Christian theologian who took seriously the ultimate unity of all things in God was regarded in the popular imagination as a Godless iconoclast.

Shen Nong was an iconoclast of Chinese medicine.

It's not like that's from the secret list of some pitching iconoclast, getting ready to change the world.

To him, Dunlap was a pariah, an iconoclast of the cult of bravery, a sub-verter of the English way of life.

An iconoclast with no one to answer to but himself (as far as the summer business is concerned) he is taking full advantage of his freedom to be... Arsene Wenger.

«He's, first of all, a real friendly guy, but almost a total iconoclast.

Hutton, an iconoclast stirred to scientific inquiry by the Scottish Enlightenment, argued instead that many of the rock formations he saw around him could not have formed from gently precipitating ocean sediment.

Wendy Savage, the eminent obstetrician and iconoclast, recently told me that when she was a student in the late 1950s at the London Hospital in Whitechapel, the consultants hardly knew the names of the local GPs, and when they did it was only to complain how frightful they were.