Sentences with phrase «on twentieth century»

For instance: in support of «temperatures and causality» he cites a paper by Zhang et al on «Detection of human influence on twentieth century precipitation trends».

Zhang, Xuebin et al., «Detection of human influence on twentieth century precipitation trends», Nature 2007

It remains his most important statement on twentieth century art.

She received a doctorate from Yale University in 2009 for her research on twentieth century British art and architecture and is the author of lengthy critical essays on the work of many modern and contemporary artists, including Rasheed Araeen, Kader Attia, Rina Banerjee, Frank Bowling, Lara Favaretto, Leslie Hewitt, Asger Jorn, Wangechi Mutu, Ed Ruscha and Yinka Shonibare.

It also examines Picasso's enormous impact on twentieth century British modernism, through seven exemplary figures for whom the artist proved an important stimulus: Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney.

The programme you've announced for this year has an emphasis on the twentieth century; a show covering a century of British figurative painters centred on Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud; a show on the art after the First World War, followed by a show of the Victorian pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne - Jones...

Focusing mainly on twentieth century abstract and minimal art, the Collection's exhibitions, hosted in the Daimler Contemporary gallery, are always well put together with a strong art historical message and a clear concept.

«The Xbox game Halo Wars 2 is shaking things up musically as the first game soundtrack in 12 years to recorded with American Federation of Musician union players on Twentieth Century Fox's Newman Scoring Stage, where composer Gordy Haab conducted an 80 piece orchestra last fall for the February release.

Kristin Chenoweth hits the red carpet following the opening night performance of her Broadway show On the Twentieth Century on Thursday evening (March 12) at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City.

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«On the Twentieth Century» needs stars, and for the most part this production delivers them express.

Andy Karl and Kristen Chenoweth in the Roundabout Theatre Company's «On the Twentieth Century.»

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It should not be surprising that Principia Mathematica has had no significant lasting influence on twentieth century mathematics.

The three books (by François Furet, John Gray, and Fukuyama) so ably reviewed by Mr. Anderson each offered a valuable perspective on the twentieth century.

I have a hunch that, as history looks back on the twentieth century, the most chaotic of all centuries, certain Christian artists will be remembered simply because they hammered in a few firmly embedded nails.

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If you're not familiar with Alien Day, it refers to an annual promotion from Twentieth Century Fox that centers on the famed movie franchise Alien.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was customary to hold weddings on weekdays, according to Country Living.

China's power may pass that of the U.S. if the government focuses on «twentieth - century» issues, according to Ian Bremmer.

It is based primarily on the growth model developed by Japan in the twentieth century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many countries.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

The federal government, of course, also continues twentieth - century transfer payment programs for provincial spending that live on in our century.

Consider not just the appalling record of the twentieth century; consider as well the sullenness of so many high school students today, the emptiness of their elders in college, the despair of the underclass, the desperate fun - seeking of the jet set, the divorce rate, the incidence of child abuse, and on and on.

In Germany, keen Jesuit intellectuals like Jakob Notges and Anton Koch led the assault on Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the Twentieth Century.

In 1901, eleven years before he drowned on the Titanic, the English newspaperman William Thomas Stead wrote a book called The Americanization of the World: The Trend of the Twentieth Century.

Russia at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century was developing quite dynamically, and had they gone on that way it would have been much better.

The Church has a narrative of the twentieth century that focuses on the hundreds of thousands who suffered for their faith.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

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.

To miss the significance of that at this, the end of the twentieth century, is to lose one's grip on a realistic appreciation of affairs both domestic and foreign.

De Deo Uno works — treatises on the one God — were common in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

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.

«It is very difficult to interpret their behavior based on our own twentieth - century standards,» one of the lawyers told the Times.

After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

At the close of the twentieth century, with ecological deterioration accelerating and the nuclear threat ever with us, we need to feel not acceptance but the challenge to join forces on the side of life, for while we, like all creatures, are ultimately part of a universe that is brutal and may well end, we have, while we live, a part to play different from that of any other creature: we are responsible agents who can join with our loving parent to help our own and other species to survive and flourish.

The historic fact remains, and we in the twentieth century, with a conception of God infinitely greater than that of any previous generation, may have to short - circuit the centuries and let the startling truth break over us afresh — that we live on a visited planet.

A Desert in Bohemia is a welcome addition to the growing literature on what happened to ordinary and not so ordinary people in the bloody second half of the twentieth century.

It is the need to get further light on this question which has led in the twentieth century to a radical rethinking of the nature of pastoral care.

Furthermore, I have argued that on some of these points the changing situation and growing knowledge of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would have led Wesley to come down at a different place.

For me to suggest that much of what followed right into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is not intended to be dismissive of intellectual giants whose efforts far outstrip my own.

Sir Rudolf Peierls, another leading twentieth «century physicist, said, on the basis of quantum theory, «The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being... including its knowledge, and its consciousness, is untenable.

If the nineteenth century liberal theologians concentrated on immanence, the neo-orthodox theologians of twentieth century so stressed God's sovereign transcendence that any sense of His presence in the world was almost lost.

So too today, instead of engaging with the entirety of the twentieth century Magisterial teaching concerning artificial contraception — Pius XI, Pius XII, Paul VI, John Paul II — The Tablet focuses on Humanae Vitae and seeks to knock that down so as to knock the whole edifice of teaching in this area.

When artificial forms of contraception were coming into common use in the first half of the twentieth century, they were vigorously opposed by some on religious grounds.

Thanks to Hegel's emphasis on relation, however, this personalist approach to the Trinity enjoyed a brief twentieth - century revival in the idealism of Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965) as well as in Barth's very different notion of reflective selfhood.

If this faction mutes the premillennial debate, it has not yielded so readily on another movement that like evangelicalism and fundamentalism could easily be called «the religious phenomenon of the twentieth century» — Pentecostalism.

The end - times of the late twentieth century are on a global scale, and it is not only Christians who are at risk.