Sentences with phrase «on popular imagination»

Nostalgia isn't the sole factor accounting for the pull Abstract Expressionism has on the popular imagination.

Within the images, Thomas digitally removes slogans and product names from historical and contemporary advertisements, «un-branding» them and asking us to confront the impact of images on the popular imagination.

Exploring the visualization of African - American identity and white femininity within the same eras, Thomas removes slogans and product names from historical and contemporary advertisements, asking us to confront the impact of images on the popular imagination.

Long extinct animals have a powerful hold on the popular imagination.

The hold he still has on popular imagination derives from that moment when Albert Einstein — the patron saint of reason, all - knowing, unknowable — smoothed balm on the terrible wounds of the 20th century.

Thornton may have been addressing members of the Church of England, but his paper was actually a discussion of Spiritualism — a faith which had a hold on the popular imagination at the time.

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The Gundam series, which has been on Japanese TV since the 1970s, captured the imagination of a whole generation and continues to be popular to this day, with a «real - life size» 20 meter (65 feet) high Gundam robot mechanical statue even becoming the latest tourist attraction in Tokyo.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

On a wave of popular youth appeal, Corbyn as suffering servant and capitalist reformer has captured the imagination of those seeking a new political future.

Such traditions of popular political participation in serious trouble because the cultural grounds on which they have stood are beginning to come apart, to ravel out, to lose coherent purchase in our imaginations.

Even as they complained about his leadership, Cox was off into new territories, raising respectful questions about the necessary role of play, ritual, and imagination, questions about the undeniable strength of the popular devotions of stubborn peasants — in Latin America under the traditional power of the landlords, and among the shipbuilders and electricians of Poland, who had the foot of communism on their necks.

«It is almost unbelievable how this fountain has captured the popular imagination, «said park district Supt. George T. Donoghue, who two weeks after its opening was forced to order one - way traffic on the «east outer drive «and the «west outer drive «(Lake Shore Drive and Columbus Drive) during the evening hours when the fountain «s light display was in progress.

It was driven in large part by the dissemination of arguments that were not really true but which caught on in the popular imagination widely and almost instantaneously.

If the Pacific became in popular imagination a paradise and a place where civilisation ended, those first portraits, representing people as individuals, albeit through western eyes, remind us that mutual learning might have been possible, based on common humanity.

10 Years Offering Popular Quality Products On It's not your imagination — bad boys really are better looking.

Based on the popular toy line, Trolls bears all the earmarks of a blatant cash - in on a recognizable property, with little imagination to speak of and predictable creative choices from beginning to end.

The novels focus on elements that the popular imagination assumes concern most women: eating, food, and clothes.

As mentioned, Regina George continues to live on in popular culture, courtesy of both social media and the wild imagination of girls who came of age in 2004.

Game ofThrones is an epic series whose storylines of treachery and nobility, family and honor, ambition and love, and death and survival, have captured the imagination of fans globally and made it one of the most popular shows on television.

Even that's not the end of it, because once the public embraces a character, and the performance takes on a life of its own in the popular imagination, the character is beyond the reach of the writer, the producer, the director, and even the actor.

Few family rituals have as fixed a place in the American household, and in the popular imagination, as board games, those impromptu or regularly scheduled contests played by parents and children on kitchen tables and living room floors.

His strong stand on freedom of speech and imagination is well presented and his comments on what he was battling, «popular irrationalism», succinct: «The unreasoning mind, driven by doubt - free absolutes, could not be convinced by reason.»

It certainly does not take much imagination to expand this story and its message to the entire Islamic Middle East - especially when we combine this work's portrayal of Afghanistan with the other New Orientalist works on the Islamic Middle East, such as Azar Nafisi's popular Reading Lolita in Tehran, Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul, Geraldine Brooks» Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, and even scholarly works like Bernard Lewis» What Went Wrong?

The Jungle Book and its characters went on to etched in the popular imagination in India and overseas.

Given that Rajasthan embodies the classic image that fills most people's imagination about India, it's only fitting that one of the country's most popular train journeys, the Palace on Wheels, traverses 3000 kilometers through this colorful desert state.

The sculpturesʼ stripe scheme not only invokes familiar patterns of the popular imagination, such as those on Barack Obamaʼs ties or 1970ʼs Hang Ten shirts, but also the headily disorienting reaction often experienced when facing the canvases of artists such as Bridget Riley or Kenneth Noland.

The nebulous notion of ephemeral storage for digital information captures the imagination of many contemporary artists, and it has also been a popular art subject throughout the ages that can now be marketed as if imbued with a new meaning, with Diane Arbus» 1960 photograph Clouds on - screen at a drive - in movie, N.J., offered by Fraenkel Gallery, being just one example.

Frances Goodman, Ghada Amer, Mickalene Thomas and Joel Andrio use the language and imagery of romance and sex to push against the constraints of popular culture and undermine its hold on our imagination.

If one location has the potential to challenge Culver City over the long - term it may be Hollywood — the gritty, always on - the - verge - of - rebirth neighborhood rife with peep shows and pawn shops, not the glamorous movie factory of the popular imagination.

FREDDIE FRANCIS» MOVIE Doctor Terror's House of Horrors (1965) consists of a series of vignettes which describe the lives of characters whose fate (because of their evil deeds) is to share the same railway carriage on a journey to the «other world» of the popular imagination.

Reflecting on our place in the cosmos, their work draws inspiration from the history of science, popular imagination, and their shared sense of wonder.

Later on, his iconic images would help define the American West in the popular imagination.

The event represents a move away from the post-Katrina daze still imposed on the city in the popular imagination.

Over the past few decades, the term «Anthropocene» has climbed out of academic discourse and into the popular imagination — a name given to the geologic era we live in now, and a way to signal that it is a new era, defined on the wall chart of deep history by human intervention.

Using bright rugs on top of neutral rugs is one popular option, but you can really let your imagination run wild when you go this route, especially if you're overhauling your entire interior space with a new and unique design.