Sentences with phrase «of the taboo on»

An amusing example of this taboo on confronting a dressed lady with a naked man is embodied in a group portrait of the members of the Royal Academy in London in 1772, represented by Zoffany as gathered in the life room before two nude male models: all the distinguished members are present with but one noteworthy exception — the single female member, the renowned Angelica Kauffmann, who, for propriety's sake, is merely present in effigy, in the form of a portrait hanging on the wall.

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A version of this article appears in print on November 16, 2011, on Page C1 of the New York edition with the headline: Female Comedians, Breaking the Taste - Taboo Ceiling.

But in a country where a discussion on the definition of its national identity has remained a taboo for decades and tensions between communities endure, such a tragedy usually feeds support for populist parties in the longer run.

But your projection of religious taboo on science is absurd.

«Maybe having married clergy will help us all move on from a culture of sexual taboos,» Albert Cutié writes

San Francisco attorney Alan Marks recently broke the taboo on discussing that problem, suggesting in the columns of the American Bar Association Journal that ethical rules are mere «showpieces» that leave the most severe ethical dilemmas untouched.

This has been such a taboo subject in the Church... and hopefully a time is coming when it won't be about «putting up with» people, but rather «persevering with» people on our journeys, regardless of where any of us start from or hardships we face along the way.

The post «war «taboo» on serious discussion of the Holocaust was not broken by the 1967 Arab «Israeli war, as he repeatedly asserts, but by the Eichmann Trial of 1960 «62, as every serious account of this subject notes.

As I have always said, the worse side of religion is its hold on the taboo switch — its ability to turn on guilt using sanctimonious triggers with threats of exclusion, death and hell.

Taboos on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence on ceremonial exactness in sacrifice these and similar legalisms have as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to make human relationships with them safe and profitable.

From vindictiveness to magnanimity; from tribalism to universality, from the regret of penalized men over broken taboos to the penitence of humble men over personal guilt; from supplications for physical benefits to prayer as the fulfilling of interior conditions of spiritual growth; from the desire to impose man's will on a god to the desire that God's will should be done through man — such are the developments revealed in the recorded prayers of the Bible.

Tradition is no longer a taboo word and traditional forms of prayer are once more being rediscovered and recognised as a treasure store and a priceless patrimony handed on to us by the saints of God across the ages.

As modern knowledge advances and hitherto insoluble problems are solved, a good deal of religion will be seen to be based on false premises, to be inadequate for modern conceptions of the universe, or to be little more than a collection of superstitious taboos.

Taboos vary by culture becuase religions develop based on the laws of darwinian evolution in that different environments bring about different religions.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

Ms. Brown and those she has brought on board to create the new New Yorker are of the arrested adolescent school of journalism in which «creativity» never gets beyond self - congratulatory daring in defying putative taboos.

Where the taboos were simply pushed aside by reason, as in India and Greece, rational reflection on the nature of the good life became possible, but the sense of ought, expressed so powerfully in the taboos, remained unrationalized, whereas among the Hebrews the question of what one ought to do preoccupied rational attention.

Which leads to the necessity of codes, rules, regulations, laws, mores, taboos and expectations, because it is only when someone measures up to something or doesn't measure up to something that it can be determined where they are on the value line.

Her earliest work on the relationship between ritual purity and holiness, and her later work on the true literary and theological meaning of the Book of Leviticus do much to counter the neo - Freudian view that Judeo - Christianity is based on a primitive, superstitious, patriarchal, taboo ridden ideology.

On the issue of polygamy, I want to point out that inbred marriages are a taboo among our people — Christians, Muslims, and traditionalists.

After every one of the Bach Collegium's performances Suzuki is crowded on the podium by non-Christian members of the audience who wish to talk to him about topics that are normally taboo in Japanese society — death, for example.

It is perhaps no surprise that someone who has spent a lifetime opposing the teaching of his own church on so many different issues (to the complete confusion of Protestants such as myself, I hasten to add) should choose to end his life in breaking one last church taboo.

On the contrary, one enthusiast, admitting that such activity could be increased said that she didn't think that this was necessarily harmful - she spoke instead of the value of removing taboos and seeing sex as «valuable and life - enhancing», an odd expression to come from one associated with provision of abortion.

Is the apparent taboo on socialism due to the enormous repressive power of American capitalism, its power to throttle effective criticism?

The observance of tribal taboos and ritual ceremonies, along with such restraint on daily conduct as would protect and further the interests of the tribe, constituted a man's duty, and every detail of this complicated obligation was regarded as the will of the tribal gods.

Many other biblical scholars share this view, which helps make sense out of why eating shellfish and charing interest on loans might have been considered taboo to the ancient Israelites, but not Christians today.

Should we place a taboo on consumption of ice cream because some people overdo it?

Rick and Kay Warren's recent willingness to speak publicly about their personal tragedy has lifted the lid on the often - taboo subject of mental illness in the Church.

The South African soccer team the Kaiser Chiefs organized a national awareness day; in Burkino Faso, activists partnered with a trucking union for monitoring purposes; drivers of moto - taxis in Thailand keep watch for child sex exploitation; Nepalese trafficking survivors formed Shakti Samuaha, a nongovernmental organization that lobbies officials to make policy changes; organizations in Bangladesh have focused specifically on the taboo topic of male prostitutes and have opened shelters for exploited children.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

When this is understood, Hart's litany of capitalism's supposed abuses — pollution, the confiscation of property, unsafe working conditions, etc. — can be seen not as the inevitable result of unchecked market behavior but as a profound betrayal of the very taboo against the initiation of force that capitalism depends on.

S * e * x was taboo in the classroom, but running amok on the playground, out of sight of the Principal.

Earlier this month the vice president of Germany's bishops» conference, Bishop Franz - Josef Bode, suggested that the Church's current «silence and taboo» on the issue of same - sex marriage were unproductive.

(c) They are the product of moralism in that they focus on surface behavior, ethical trivia, or on feelings and impulses which are taboo in one's culture.

The fundamental insight expressed in Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism is not that religion actually began with the brothers of the primal horde cannibalistically consuming their father, but that human civilization rests in part on the fact that men are driven to both express and repress their parricidal inclinations.

The three of us are working on a kind of an art food installation — it's almost like theater but not dinner theater — that will be based around themes of food, fetish and some very taboo subjects.

They are notoriously, viciously competitive (their mother has a video of them singing «We Are the Champions» in three - part harmony after a Thanksgiving game of Taboo to prove it), but the fact that as children they had to go back to the same house and sleep under the same roof of their double - wide trailer isn't lost on them.

Just when the world had finally moved on from the Mariah Carey New Year's fail, mascots from other sports might find making a joke of it slightly taboo, however, The Coyote used it as an advantage during the half time show in the San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Raptors game.

but the feminists have successfully made the detrimental affects of daycare a taboo and mum topic)... worrying about making someone feel bad is not on my radar in the least... people need a good dose of reality

Photo by Antenna on Unsplash While pregnancy and infant loss is still considered a taboo topic in many situations, there has been a lot of work done to bring awareness and empathy.

I feel like sometimes it's a bit taboo because a lot of women are afraid of not having enough, so it's almost not sensitive to rave on about having sooooo much milk, even though it can cause it's own special issues.

She fears that anyone who breaches the taboo around pointing this out can expect to face a sea of angry people hellbent on silencing the errant observer.

I get the impression that putting a younger baby in a separate room is far more taboo than bedsharing (anyone admitting on a parenting forum to moving a four month - old into its own bedroom is likely to be shouted down for playing Russian Roulette with their sweet baby's life, whereas bedsharing, although controversial, is routinely recommended as the solution to all sleep and / or feeding woes, including by one of my health visitors) yet both are contrary to official guidance, at least from the NHS.

Drawing on child development theories, neuroscience research, archeological and anthropological findings, Breastfeeding Older Children explores the myths and reality of what to many is a taboo practice.

d) Take on the taboo of corruption in UK politics (lobbying, revolving door, party financing, parliamentary standards)-- acknowledged as a key corruption issue for the UK by everyone except those who are themselves in politics;

Many of the members hailed the unity the Council showed as it lined up unanimously behind the new speaker, and amid the swell of agreeability Councilman Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens)-- who was a candidate for the position early on — stood out when he said debate should not be taboo.

The types of ballots ruled taboo by the judges include categories of absentee ballots submitted by non-registered voters, absentee ballots inside a return envelope not signed by the voter or absentee ballot applications that were not signed, and absentee ballots that were dropped off in person on election day.

But some anthropologists said his 1968 ethnography, Yanomamö: The Fierce People, exploited the tribe by breaking their taboo on using the names of the dead; others argued that its emphasis on violent encounters helped governments justify invasions of Yanomamö territory.

The bright spots shared several characteristics, including high levels of local engagement in resource management, high dependence on local marine resources, and protective cultural taboos — such as excluding fishers from outside the local village.

With the realization of possible therapeutic benefits of psychedelics to reduce anxiety and chronic pain, however, the societal taboos against scientific research on their neurobiology have somewhat relaxed.