Sentences with phrase «of modern manners»

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand carries within its deceptively charming pages a fully realized morality tale, a study of modern manners vs. well worn tradition, racial and cultural issues, religious tolerance, and the power of love to overcome all obstacles.

The original, which featured Barbara Harris and a young Jodie Foster, has been tweaked into a high - class comedy of modern manners.

Not exact matches

-- Mary M. Mitchell, etiquette expert, syndicated columnist, and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern Manners

Diane Gottsman is a national etiquette expert and modern manners professional, sought out industry leader, television personality, accomplished speaker, Huffington Post blogger, author, and the owner of The Protocol School of Texas, a company specializing in executive leadership and etiquette training.

Modern Portfolio Theory was developed in the 1950's with the belief that portfolio returns could be maximized for a given amount of investment risk by combining assets in a particular manner.

Th UK Methodist Church I go to basically has the «ordinary good manners» rules you might expect to find anywhere in society (if you weren't busy being too modern to believe in manners at all) and I've seen no trace of any other rule.

The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

First, God is not conceived in a manner that conflicts with modern persons experience of change and temporality.

To say that God undergoes change while not relinquishing the perfection of enduring concern for and preservation of the world is to conceive God in a manner that does not deny the modern experience of temporality and yet retains the biblical insight that God is actively involved.

In like manner the verse drama J. B. — Archibald MacLeish's modern retelling of the Job story — seeks not rationally comprehensible solutions but rather an artistic evocation of this «leap of faith.»

To sum up: Modern young people need to be taught manners: not the code of the emancipated ego, nor the pattern of conformity to the will of the majority, but the action - language of democracy, with due respect for worthy traditions from the past and determined criticism of unworthy ones.

For the opposing position, Buchanan quotes George C. Ball: «The urgent need of modern man [is] to use the world's resources in the most efficient manner.

The fact that there is relatively so little concern for manners in modern American society is not a consequence of democratic commitment but a sign of uncertainty and indecision concerning our values.

The shallowness of some of the values promoted by the globalized media, such as mere external show, privilege, power and prestige would have to be reflected in a manner relevant to modern situations.

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

The overall style of Sleeping Beauty is also more modern than that of the older Disney fairy tales; both figures and backgrounds are somewhat sharp edged and angular, in the manner of 1950s commercial art, rather than softly rounded as in the earlier films.

It symbolizes a unity which is not simply a formal bond that circumscribes the unfolding of individual powers in an always equal manner, but rather a process of unified development which all individuals go through together [«On the Concept and the Tragedy of Culture,» by Georg Simmel, in The Conflict in Modern Culture, translated by Peter Etzkorn (Teachers College Press, 1968), p. 28].

St. Thomas Aquinas is one of the pillars of Western philosophic inquiry and applied logic in manner so fastidious that many modern people still can't keep up.

In like manner, we are saying that the modern, inherited, institutional form of church has strayed far, far afield from the New Testament concept of «church» in the teachings of Jesus and the apostles.

He thinks that Bukhari's screening of the Traditions was done in a manner, «in no way inferior to modern methods.

You used to run into people in the bake shop, the butchers, the candle - stick maker, the church narthex and the women's relief society... So there were plenty of opportunities to discuss all manner of things and to share life, seasons, festivals, deaths... Modern life, suburbia, commuting, everyone working at all hours... has killed much of this face to face life and contact in so many spheres, depending on where you live.

Much in the same manner modern Humanists interpret all positive religion from an anthropological point of view.

However, maybe someday when our governments can build modern transportation infrastructures, provide quality education for all of our children, hire enough judges to handle cases in a timely manner, control crime, and balance their budgets, then maybe they can start worrying about art museums.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

When Jesus represented Abraham in Paradise saying to Dives in torment, «Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish,» (Luke 16:25)-- as though such reversal of circumstance, issuing in a permanently divided humanity, some in bliss and some in torture, would be an ethically adequate ending to the human story — he spoke in the traditional manner of Judaism, but the modern conscience remains unconvinced.

There are some distinguished and competent thinkers and writers in those circles, to be sure, but by - and - large the support for it has come either from ignorant laypeople who find its authoritative manner of speaking emotionally appealing or from those who belong to what might be called reactionary conservatism and who are annoyed by much that is found in the modern world and eager to return to «the old time religion.»

But instead he have to persuade Moslem newspaper all over the world not to print headlines of «Islam is under attack», instead it should print; I, Rauf has learn tolerance and freedom to change religions in America, it is very good, many (stupid) American has convert to Islam, also to print «the Muslim radical in the Muslim world» have to realize that the American troops are educating our barbarian manners into a modern democratic tolerant society such as me, Rauf has received here in America.

They feel that the fragments of meaning present to us must somehow be united in a manner that modern culture fails to accomplish.

In a similar manner, Ellul has shown earlier that we have preferred the wrong sort of revolution (Autopsy of Revolution, Changer de révolution), given ourselves to the wrong sort of prayer (Prayer and Modern Man), allowed the idolatrous city to dominate our affections (The Meaning of the City), and substituted facile belief for vital faith (Living Faith).

They held that the basic authority of Islam is the Qur» an, together with the Hadith — both interpreted in a modern manner.

Encompassed at all corners by such fine a cadre of companions, knights, and flags as could be wished by any modern mistress between her piles of trashy plastic bags, take care you mind your station and your manners.

Without a retrieval and a renewal of the Catholic understanding of sacrifice we can not hope, in the modern world, to foster our people's spiritual life in an integral manner.

With the familiar faces of Dick and Jane, this little book is a perfectly cheeky take on manners for the modern day.

Or you might consider the modern twist: The Unplugged Night, where computers, TV, Blackberries, iPhones, and all manner of electronic gizmos are shut off for a fixed amount of time while you all play board games or take a family walk.

I also had occasion to condemn his uncouth and uncultured manners and character of insulting and undermining elders and his superiors when he attempted to corruptly induce me to approve the payment of a US$ 1.3 million alleged judgment debt to Isofoton SA in 2011 — see «People Are fed Up With Ablakwa's «Lies»», Modern Ghana 13th July 2012.

«What we really need to work on is enforcement of current laws and examining ways to make the workplace more flexible to better accommodate the tremendous pressures on the modern family in a bipartisan manner.»

Using a description of the relative acceleration of neighbouring particles falling under the influence of gravity, he is then able to derive the classical Newtonian theory in a «modern» manner.

«A key feature of these modern plagues is alteration of the gut microbiota in a manner that promotes inflammation,» says Gewirtz.

An aeroplane operating against armies in the field would, therefore, probably use shrapnel, an explosive shell filled with hundreds of bullets and equipped with a time - fuse in such manner that it can be exploded above bodies of troops on the march, supports, reserves, wagon trains, camps, etc. shrapnel is considered one of the most effective projectiles used in modern warfare, and it does not require a military expert to imagine the havoc it would work on a body of troops en masse.

The modern processing of soy which involves grinding up the leftover soy protein, the waste product in the production of soy oil, and putting it in all manner of food products which line our grocery store shelves makes for a dangerous and health robbing line of consumer goods.

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Gorgeous Scandinavian modern perforated brass pendant light in the manner of Paavo Tynell.

Modern wrought iron fire tools in the manner of George Nelson and Paul McCobb, 1950s.

Too many woman look stuck in a time warp by over eulogizing the styles of the past in a head to toe manner and never making room for the modern or current look.

Monochrome casts off its Sixties connotations for good, as designers play with all manner of decorative devices to give black and white a fresh, modern makeover.

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The writing team of Krasinski (who also stars), Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, have fashioned a screenplay that extracts the maximum jeopardy from a scenario antithetical to modern life and manners.

Redolent with the weave of Cajun, African - American and post-bellum white money, here was a piquant and funny accommodation of the manners and mores of the traditional woman's picture to the emotional and social realities of being a white middle class paraplegic in modern Louisiana.

While the movie is about a fairly important event in modern medicine — the discovery and recognition of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a very real problem within the sport of football — it's told in such a dull, straightforward manner that its message doesn't resonate.