Sentences with phrase «of lost civilization»

Taylor's skillfully crafted sculptures not only provide reprieve for besieged coral reefs, but also are reminiscent of a kind of lost civilization of grace and beauty that can be rediscovered, if we choose — a profound alchemy where human intervention is transformed from blight to life.

Installed along a 300 - yard stretch of the untouched terrain of the High Line, Bove's sculptures reveal themselves among the unruly vegetation, like mysteriously pristine ruins of a lost civilization or a contemporary version of a Zen garden.

Bove's sculptures reveal themselves among the unruly vegetation like pristine ruins of a lost civilization.

The wilderness is appropriately dense with foliage, and the barren towns alongside the riverbanks are stacked with the steel carcasses of automobiles and other tell - tale signs of a lost civilization.

Laid among the ruins of a lost civilization, a «world where mankind is not the dominant species, and highly advanced machines sit at the top of the food chain,» Guerrilla Games describes.

Less one location and more of a multi-day trek through the remnants of a lost civilization, it's utterly full of different subjects to try capture.

Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya by William Carlsen, details the 1839 journey of two explorers, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who uncovered and documented what would come to be known as the ruins of the Maya civilization.

The story of that lost civilization is just now being learned.

News of this lost civilization began leaking out in the 1970s, when archaeologists came to dig in the southern reaches of the Soviet Union and in Afghanistan.

Watch as they explore the legendary ruins of lost civilizations, seek out their descendants, and find the ancient mysteries these sites have hidden for generations.

It is a land where coral reefs swarm with rainbow - hued fish, postcard - perfect islands are ringed by white sand beaches, and Jungle Rivers flow from forest - clad mountains that hide mysterious caves and the stone temples of lost civilizations.

As Rosenthal says, Hulusi reflects on «ruins and the abandoned places of lost civilizations» while suggesting an idealized place, with the landscape in a primordial balance between harmonyand beauty, and at the same time referencing socio - political history and the mechanics of image making.

Peake and Shani are interested in exploring the fluid mythologies and imagined futures of lost civilizations.

Not exact matches

If something catastrophic happens to Earth, we lose billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of advanced human civilization.

His was not the carping of the exile who despises what he has left; it was the sharp, penetrating, and ultimately compassionate (because true) critique of one who mourned the catastrophic condition of contemporary Arab civilization, the hijacking of Arab politics by self - serving dictators, virulent anti-Semites, and Islamist fanatics, and the untold lives warped or lost in consequence.

The dawning of the Age of Aquarius is now in its sunset repose and the bright young things who seem to be cropping up now all over the place with new information from Fortescue and Ratzinger, may either be the professional mourners for a lost civilization, or the sparks of a looming golden age.

Without acknowledging that we are, in our virgin beginnings, the humble, barefooted recipients of a grace and a call that are the foundation of all we can ever hope to accomplish, our civilization loses all perspective and our power inevitably corrupts us.

Western civilization is not lost beyond the possibility of salvation, not yet irrevocably doomed to death, if we can find the right answer to the almost overwhelming challenge which the future offers to our time, in the form of purposeful, vital and inspiring images of the future.

First they lose faith in the 6 - day creationist god, then in the bible - dictation god, then in the male - supremacy god, then in the european - supremacy / western - civilization / colonialist god, then in the anti-gay god, then in the pro-war god, then in the American - exceptionalism / manifest - destiny god, then in the anti-palestinian god, then in the controller - of - everything - that - happens god, then in the design - engineer god, then in the penal - substitutionary - atonement god, and so on.

The striving for success, security, and influence may be regarded as the losing attempt to save life — an attempt in which contemporary civilization, with its promise of material abundance and of power to control the conditions of existence, is deeply involved.

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

If a wall of separation is erected between religion and the state (and its schools), that wall will prove to be a tomb in which church, state, and schools will decay with a civilization that has lost its soul.

Never before has there been a civilization that was scattered as the Jews were and their language lost, come back together along with their language and reestablish their nation (all of which is foretold in the Bible).

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

This book is about how we as Christians can live the gospel in a meaningful way in a world that has lost all sense of meaning:» In a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most useful thing a Christian can do is to live» (p. 77).

He has built up a complex civilization, but he may lose it because, in his proud hour of achievement, he has so largely lost or never developed the inner resources that are needed to keep a possible boon from becoming a calamity.

Centered around Percy Fawcett, who traveled across South America as a cartographer in the early 20th Century, The Lost City of Z doesn't just follow an epic story of one man obsessed with discovering a mythic civilization that exists only in rumors and sparse ruins.

It's a million miles, easy, from civilization, lost among stands of white fir and cedar.

Perhaps a latter - day Charlton Heston, pursued by jackbooted apes on horseback, will stumble on the statue of MJ that stood outside the United Center — right arm rising out of the sand of some beach, basketball held high, like Lady Liberty's lamp: The only relic remaining of a long - lost civilization.

A non-religious Jew born in the eastern lands of the then Austro - Hungarian Empire, his numerous novels are a long elegy for a life and a civilization lost.

So José Iriarte, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, has opted for drones to search for the region's lost civilizations.

Impressed but still skeptical, the doubting Thomas professor demands proof of his interlocutor's divine power, which Klaatu delivers henceforth by causing civilization to stand still for an hour through the cessation of all electrical transmissions (except those where lives would be lost).

In my opinion, Hancock's idea is based entirely on negative evidence — what he thinks is wrong with the accepted archaeological timeline — and he offers no positive evidence of this purported lost civilization: no metal, no writing, no tools and not even pottery.

Unless such losses are stemmed, the kinds of data needed to better understand the growth of Mayan civilization and to provide stronger lessons from the past will be irrevocably lost.

After the great fall from the cataclysm around 13,000 years ago humans fell into a dark age and much of the civilization knowledge was lost.

An archaeologist searches for both treasures and trash — the signs of our earliest ancestors, a lost civilization or our recent past.

Trekking through the Amazonian jungle, I stumbled across an ancient training plan, written in hieroglyphics on the wall of an temple from a long lost civilization.

However, in the interest of being intellectually honest, I need those who do subscribe to this idea to explain why those who are seemingly «metabolically damaged» (chronic dieters, numerous diseases of civilization) lose weight on very high - carbohydrate diets like the ones espoused by McDougal, Ornish, Esselstyn, Furman, Barnard, Graham, etc..»

The untold history, the knowledge of the ages long gone, lost civilizations, the occult, the hidden powers of the human brain, the supernatural... — this all is of great interest to me.

Remember this is an allegory not unlike Luis Buñuel's surreal masterwork «The Exterminating Angel,» in which the rich, unable to leave a party, lose the thin veneer of civilization.

To that end, the Daniels flirt a little too hard with going full indie - movie maudlin on our asses, the whimsy reaching critical levels when Hank and Manny, in their attempt to reconstruct the civilization they've lost, begin creating a dollhouse jungle society, like something out of a Michel Gondry wet dream.

Throughout Lost Planet 3, there are a number of pretty on - the - nose corollaries drawn between current fears of global warming and fossil fuel consumption and the game's background story of the Earth's slowly collapsing civilization.

This polished reboot covers all the bases for an adventure game - shipwreck, lost civilization, hostile inhabitants, supernatural intrigue - and for a while, these well - worn elements work together because you're focused on the task of mere survival.

A remnant is something that is left over, like scraps of food after dinner or relics from a civilization lost in history.

Perhaps inevitably, the author's unique manner of prose, animal point - of - view, and comments on violence and civilization get lost in favor of a somewhat simple but plenty poignant human - driven story.

The Lost City of Z: Director James Gray turns the story of real - life British explorer Percy Fawcett — and his repeatedly thwarted attempts to discover an advanced civilization in the Amazon jungle — into a meditation not just on colonialism, but on an entire culture's inability to see past the assumptions built into labels.

9) «The Lost City of Z» Smart Rating: 87.83 Release date: Friday, April 14, 2017 Genre: Adventure, historical drama, biography Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller Description: At the dawn of the 20th century, British explorer Percy Fawcett journeys into the Amazon, where he discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.

The Lost City of Z tells the true story of famed British explorer Percy Fawcett, who, in 1925, ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned.

The Lost City of Z recalls the true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.

It was the reaction of many who, earlier this year, saw The Lost City of Z, James Gray's arty period epic about an early - 20th - century British explorer searching for a new civilization in the Amazon.