Sentences with phrase «of modern takes on»

It's called the Zero and it's from a company called 8bitdo, which is based in China and produces a lot of modern takes on old, retro gaming hardware.

«Victoriana: The Art of Revival» brings together 28 major contemporary artists who encapsulate the many forms and motivations of modern takes on Victorian style.

I think Anne would approve of this modern take on puffy sleeves!

This one kind of makes me think of a modern take on Cher from Clueless (one of my all time style inspirations).

The game, whose roots began in a one - man experiment at studio Ubisoft Reflections, was sort of a modern take on classic platformers that boasted a...

While it opens with the promise of a modern take on the 1983 comedic classic Trading Places — which featured some truly biting racial and social satire — Get Hard rapidly devolves into nothing more than a sorry excuse to trot out the stereotypes it purports to subvert.

A kind of modern take on Capra's It Happened One Night, Rob Reiner's second movie has charming underachiever John Cusack sharing a cross-country ride with prim, pretty Daphne Zuniga.

Longtime Medal of Honor fans will get the most satisfaction out of this modern take on the series, while new fans to the series will most definitely enjoy the games solid single - player campaign and multiplayer mode offerings.

A luxurious roll - top bath takes pride of place in the middle of this modern take on a period bathroom.

The high frame at the top end of this modern take on a four - poster bed is perfect for draping your favourite fabric, in place of a traditional canopy or headboard.

Not exact matches

At the same time, Fisman and Sullivan take on some of the favorite punching bags of modern office culture — meetings, middle managers, expense reports, and the cubicle — and argue why there's good reason for them.

«The U.K.'s airspace was designed decades ago and doesn't allow us to take advantage of the technology on board modern aircraft that would raise capacity, and also reduce emissions and noise for communities on the ground.»

Summary: «A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with the detective now living in New York City.»

The modern Super Bowl halftime show as we know it started in 1991 with New Kids on the Block (previous shows featured a theme with marching bands and various performance groups), and it's stayed relatively consistent since: A pop star (or stars) takes over the field with props, backup dancers, probably pyrotechnics, and possibly even a live band, and goes through a rundown of their hits in a handful of minutes.

Ashton Kutcher gave an emotional speech on modern slavery to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing that took place ahead of Shine a Light on Slavery Day.

Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on Egg McMuffins and switching to cage - free eggs and chicken from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.

The modern day infographic has taken on a slightly different form to that of its predecessors.

For a more modern take on investing, check out the writings of Robert Kiyosaki, founder of the «Rich Dad, Poor Dad» empire of financial information.

Sales tools that integrate and share information take the manual part out of data entry and let modern sales professionals focus on what they're best at.

«Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery taking place in every state across the country,» said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and president of Jet Express, Inc. «With 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads, the industry and truck drivers are in a valuable position to help identify and report possible human trafficking cases.

Whenever you see old episodes of The Brady Brunch on Nick at Nite or whatever, one thought inevitably pops into your mind: This is pretty good, but I just wish somebody would take this beloved concept and update it for modern audiences.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

They are so afraid of being branded an intolerant, a «modern - day» bigot, and what some would characterize, we who take firm stands on most issues, «pharisees.»

If you are not permitted to challenge the Bible, then you will have a very hard time challenging modern psych as well, for they both take on the very unquestionable personality of the same alleged authority.

Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

In the modern period the classical Western deity more and more took on the garb of the One who ultimately validates scientific and industrial progress, including not only much that was truly progressive, but also the industrial rape of nature and, ultimately, through a variety of corporate structures, the oppression of the poor, and the dispossessed.

I often ask my wife if what i did or said was evil and i more often then not get «yes» so as i said before, i believe its a matter of perspective of those involved and the society it takes place in — but now in the modern day where your actions are on youtube in a seconds notice — the world is the final judge... and that does» t bode well for the U.S.

The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $ 60 Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

But doesn't the image of the Church as a «fortified city», taken from the Old Testament, conflict with the spirit of Lumen Gentium, the Vatican II dogmatic constitution on the Church, and Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution the Church in the Modern World?

While it's a pretty irreverent take on nativity scene decorations, whether the creators of the «Hipster Nativity Set» were intending to or not, the concept offers interesting commentary about the intersections of modern millennial culture with the ancient holiday.

This acceptance of what he takes to be «the essence of Christianity» explains why it is possible for Whitehead, in other books such as Religion in the Making and in the chapter on science and religion in Science and the Modern World, to reveal himself as generally sympathetic to the Christian enterprise.

He goes on to mention three possible path, none of which seem very satisfactory, and concludes with, «Whichever of these paths one takes — and there are surely others — we are struggling with the same basic problem, trying to find some solution that will bring the God of the Old Testament into line with our modern God.»

I thought this article was a very interesting take on modern Christianity, but it kind of neglected a large denomination that is heavily involved in social issues.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

Like the modern psychiatrist Dysart in Peter Shaffer's play Equus, he can not take the leap of faith «on to a whole new track of being» he suspects is there.

Monism has taken various guises: from the royal absolutism of the early modern period to the Jacobin insistence on the sovereignty of the people to the virtual divinization of the Party in Marxist - Leninist states.

When we think of his exile from Northampton and his more inclusive exile from the company of all right - thinking modern men, we must apply to ourselves on this occasion the indictment that Jesus made of «hypocrites» who «build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, «If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets»» (Matt.

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

Therefore dialogue between Religion and Secular Humanism as well as between Religions began to take place within the national context on the meaning, values and goals of modern Indian nationhood.

It would be like trying to model 1000 years of global climate change on a TRS - 80 computer when it takes a modern 16,000 processor supercomputer a week to process the data.

It is our belief that, until theology takes such a christocentric vision fully on board and synthesises it with the world of modern science, there will be little genuine renewal of theology and the primacy of Christ will continue to be foreign to the hearts and minds of the people.

Hawthorne noted as much in his short riff on Bunyan, «The Celestial Railroad,» a modern conveyance that promises to bypass the unpleasant parts of the journey, but» woe to the ticket - holders» takes them straight to perdition.

There are also very fine critical essays on great modern French authors, as well as acerbic pieces taking on the puerile atheism of folks like Christopher Hitchens.

At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

To comment on our current situation, the failure to take sin seriously and with it the need for repentance is one of the major weaknesses of modern society and with it the modern church.

The Editor illustrates the nine themes presented in the editorial with quotations taken mainly from the first part of Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

In declaring itself legally autonomous and creating the first body of codified law since the collapse of Rome, the Church took on all the aspects of a modern State.

While the Special Commission convened by Pope Paul VI to look at the question of contraception in the modern world was not directed to consider whether the Church should or could change its teaching, the Commission decided on its own to take up that question and sent reports to the Holy Father that advocated that the Church permit married couples to use contraception.