Sentences with phrase «of peasant life»

The other traditional classes of history and portrait painting were present, but the period is more notable for a huge variety of other genres, sub-divided into numerous specialized categories, such as scenes of peasant life, landscapes, townscapes, landscapes with animals, maritime paintings, flower paintings and still lifes of various types.

As Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School in London from 1876 — 1893, he made a dynamic impact on British art education both as a painter and etcher, and exerted a decisive influence on the representation of peasant life as can be seen in The Tinker 1874.

He is best known for depicting horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents.

Notable for the diversity of his painting style, his work includes academic portraits, Millet - like scenes of peasant life, and Monet - inspired nature scenes.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for Literature in 1938 «for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces».

Outside Italy, he became a forgotten man until he bounced back in 1978 with his masterpiece The Tree of Wooden Clogs, a three - hour survey of peasant life at the turn of the century, which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The solidarity of the social group is not typical of peasant life.

The book includes subplots of love stories and conspiracies, along with interludes of a peasant life marked by a spiritual wisdom and uncomplicated human decency that the sophisticated have discarded with contempt.

The recognition of the parables as being drawn from the daily experiences of the peasant life, in the first century Palestine, 150 lays stress on the close connection between ordinary day - to - day experiences in life and the message concerning the divine rule.

The contrasting final chapters, «The Mountain Glory» and «The Mountain Gloom» [70] provide an early example of Ruskin's social analysis, highlighting the poverty of the peasants living in the lower Alps.

Not exact matches

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the teenagers and the other, «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity including Mormonism, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Paganism, and Christianity by the «hatters», «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life (e.g. Do No Harm).

For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see intrinsic value in the whole of the living world than by those who are concerned chiefly for peasants and workers.

Much of the claimed gain comes about in the shift from self - sustaining peasant life to dependence on the market, and many are skeptical that the small gains in income mean that those involved are better fed, better clothed, or better housed than before.

In the South, of course, among the peasant - farmers, the battle against living patent and the genetic genie, is one of the most advanced signs.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

Beyond pondering how is my life like or not like Calvins, or like or not like Jesus of Nazareth, how is my life like or not like their and others» peasant followers.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

It is this quality of freshness and of acute and sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life which we may claim is characteristic of Jesus, since we have demonstrated that it is lost in the transmission of the tradition by the Church, and it marks these two similes as dominical.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life e.g. Do No Harm.

The original simile, therefore, represents the kind of acute observation of Palestinian peasant life that is characteristic of the parables of Jesus.

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

A Christian historian tells a true story about a peasant in the 1600's living under the rule of the Catholic Church.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life e.g. Do No Harm.

The parable of the Soil has been called a «parable on parables» because of the life of God that it witness to through an abundant harvest.145 At the arrival of the harvest, the peasant is overjoyed for the opportunity for his involvement in the creative process of producing something.146

«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90

During the process of growth, there is a reversal in the life process of the peasant and the sown seed.

The peasant life witnesses to the constant efforts on the part of the farmer despite all odds for the sake of mere survival.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will converge these religions into some simple rules of life, e.g. DO NO HARM.

Life had never been easy for Jerzy — born sickly into a peasant family where hard physical labour was part of daily life, he had done his chores uncomplaininLife had never been easy for Jerzy — born sickly into a peasant family where hard physical labour was part of daily life, he had done his chores uncomplaininlife, he had done his chores uncomplainingly.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life.

Van Gogh remained in the Borinage after the church withdrew its support, and he began his artistic career by making drawings of the simple life of the Belgian peasants.

Recognizing the flaws in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», «kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

In the stars, as well as in the everyday facets of the simple life of the peasants, he felt the presence of the divine.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» should converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

the dalits and the peasants who live by the land, and women who are in a sense the creators and sustainers of life are protectors of ecology.

I like the way Alan Hirsch describe the «message» of the Bible as being «simplex» simple because it can be understood by a child and an illiterate peasant complex, because we'll spend our entire life always discovering new aspects of it, and struggling to know more and more God and Jesus, and «the mystery» which Paul was running after (Phil 3)

The Bible was not the ingrown musing of some remote peasant folk; it was the achievement of a people whose painful destiny it was to live at the crossroads of the ancient world; it gathered up the best that that ancient world had created and, under the genius of a people who were uniquely fitted for their task, transmuted all into forms and expressions of their own incomparable convictions.

[6] Tolkien saw no essential difference between Fairy Story and Myth («the higher and lower mythologies») for «the inhabitants of Olympus and Faerie live by the same life just as in the mortal world do kings and peasants», and this life is breathed into them by their author.

I gave up the life of the conventional world, recognizing it to be no life, but a parody on life, which its superfluities simply keep us from comprehending,» — and Tolstoy thereupon embraced the life of the peasants, and has felt right and happy, or at least relatively so, ever since.

So it was a pleasant surprise to me at the end to discover that the compassionate, resourceful, and brave peasant woman we had followed throughout the show turned out to be the love of Robin's life.

at the same time the parable of the talents came to mind and having grown up in Brazil, with parents who were peasants in pre-communist Russia, it was ingrained in me to become an engineer to be successful which I became after i came to the «land of milk and honney, where money grows on trees» and many foreigners aspire to do the same to come and live here, the good ol USA...

In this parable we find again the sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life so characteristic of Jesus.

Friere was successful in reaching the peasants of Latin America because he insisted that, first of all, they explore what is wrong in their lives and why they tolerate it.