Sentences with phrase «others of my generation»

Others of my generation who had also grown up in legalism regarding or abstention from alcohol perhaps, and so were exploring their emancipation with micro-brews and homemade wine over thick theology books and bible studies and hymn - sings.

I identify with the «Cusp - ers» like me who may remain standing on the sidelines while others of our generation procreate, trying to fulfill our desire for children by playing the role of Auntie and Uncle to our friends» offspring.

91 years old, the same age as my Dad, he spoke about the impact that the creation of the NHS had on his life and those of millions of others of his generation.

Skop and others of her generation are having an impact on the department.

Detailed census data from the 1960s to the 1980s show that members of this group were up to 15 percent less likely to graduate from high school, had among men 5 to 9 percent lower wages (because of disability), and were 15 percent more likely to be poor compared with siblings and others of their generation, Almond reports in the August Journal of Political Economy.

Yet, he was on hand soon after to receive the squalling infant and, along with many others of his generation, to coax it toward maturity.

Between this and the balanced approach Tsui gives to the woman's point of view in many of his romantic films (Working Class, The Lovers, Love in the Time of Twilight, Green Snake, etc) as well as the brilliant job he and Carina Lau do in re-envisioning the notorious Empress Wu in the Detective Dee films, I wonder if Tsui should be getting more credit for progressiveness in his depictions of women, especially relative to such macho directors as Woo, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Ringo Lam, Wong Kar - wai and others of that generation.

Like many others of his generation, Padura had faced the question of leaving Cuba, particularly in the late 80s and early 90s, when living conditions deteriorated sharply as Russian aid evaporated.

I think the women in the book were probably very much like others of their generation.

He then tells the story of his grandfather, who like others of his generation lived through the Depression and didn't have unrealistic expectations out of life.

Japanese culture, mostly in the form of Anime has seen a boom in the West in recent years, so there is clearly a market for people who want games that feel Japanese, but gaming will not be such an obvious gateway drug for a passion for Japanese culture like it was for me and so many others of my generation.

After defining the point and click adventure with Maniac Mansion, and perfecting it with the first two Monkey Island games, he seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth never to evolve his work as so many others of his generation went on to do.

While the others of this generation allow you to put their older brothers in the loft and still play the games it came with, the PS3 allows nothing of the sort.

Like Richard Estes, Chuck Close, and others of his generation, Beckman painted hyperrealist scenes.

The performative nature of the paintings and the artist's self - awareness on camera recalls Hans Namuth's infamous photographs of Jackson Pollock's dramatic painting process — images that have defined our understanding of his active bodily presence.18 However, in Saint Phalle's hands, there is an explicit refusal of the terms of abstraction that Pollock and others of his generation perfected — i.e., the expression of exquisite anguish that could be exorcized by subjective brushwork from the singular, heroic male artist.

«Her market is a good value compared to Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and others of her generation.»

Like many others of her generation in the Bay Area, the artist also worked in a figurative style in the 1950s and later.

These drawings emphasize the figurative and symbolic foundation of Ortman's art, demonstrating the mechanics of his abstraction and showcasing his extraordinary talent as a draughtsman — an interesting aside for a geometric abstractionist shared by others of his generation such as Ellsworth Kelly.

Others of his generation follow the logic of a formula and the shape of room.

Bishop developed his very own idiom that is almost unparalled by any other of his generation.

«They — and many others of their generation — were provocateurs,» says exhibition curator, Rhéanne Chartrand.

Pop Art offered a clear contrast to abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art and artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should be.

Bustamante's early work aspired to give photography the status of painting and can be compared to others of his generation - such as Jeff Wall and Thomas Struth - who deployed larger formats and new strategies to edge photography up the established hierarchy.

MIAMI BEACH — Artist Rosalyn Drexler was once immortalized in silkscreen by Andy Warhol as her wrestling persona «Rosa Carlo, the Mexican Spitfire,» yet Drexler's own powerful Pop Art has never received as much acclaim as Warhol's work and others of her generation.

IN 1996 Nicolas Bourriaud included Lothar Hempel in «Traffic» at CAPC in Bordeaux, France, placing the German artist alongside numerous others of his generation such as Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno, and Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster.

The works of artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should be.

This is what makes the Research Architecture graduates and others of their generation particularly interesting: they are rooting the global coherency of conceptual art strategies in local contexts, offering possible models for the repoliticisation of conceptual art.

To Pollock and others of his generation, Cubism and Surrealism were the most important of the European modern art movements, and in many ways Pollock's works of 1942 - 46 are products of these two influences.

He has never been able to escape what it means to be German and, like others of his generation — he names Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer — he has confronted it head - on.

When I was a young artist I was not sophisticated enough to understand what others of my generation were doing.

Along with others of his generation, like Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley, he was responding to abstract painting from Europe.

She wants to make something fresh out of the ruins she both inherited and inhabits, which means she rigorously ignores the maps that various institutions and authorities have provided for her and others of her generation.

Many of the protesters spoke pointedly about how their parents and others of their generation had failed to bring about the changes they are demanding.

I worked in social model and hospital based treatment programs where I connected with others of my generation who were exploring the impact of addiction on family life and child development.

Not exact matches

And I think they're just of a different generation, a different segment of humanity,» he said, mentioning that he felt Sacca and Mark Cuban understood the products better than others on the panel.

Of that amount roughly 3 cents pays for the distribution network, another 1 cents for transmission, 2 cents for fuel and 4 cents for other generation expenses.

Millennials eat out more than other generations, and more than one - third of them are on Instagram.

The generation that is quickly occupying the majority of business leadership roles is one that's grown up playing video games, spends the most time shopping online, and uses social media more habitually than any other generation.

Founded by David Tedman, Ryan Holmes and Dario Meli as a design and development agency, Invoke evolved into a startup generation engine, spawning one of the country's most promising tech firms in Hootsuite (of which Holmes is CEO), as well as other buzzy names in the sector, like Foodee, Quietly (of which Meli is CEO) and Memelabs.

New billionaires are emerging «every other day in Asia» and a lot of the wealth is coming from first - generation entrepreneurs, says Sara Ferrari of UBS.

Dozens of other companies, from truckmakers like Daimler, Navistar, and Volkswagen to startups like Peloton and Embark as well as Uber's Otto and Waymo, the erstwhile Google self - driving project, are pursuing what they believe is the next generation of trucking.

By eliminating dependence on a certain brand of hardware or generation of server, Francesco Lacapra, 63, and Manuel Terranova, 42, intend to to free client data from individual silos — groups of servers that isolate information sets from each other.

CF: I think it's important that others step up to the plate, and that we have good, ongoing thinking and generation of evidence and ideas to constantly replenish our health care system.

I asked other people to get out of the way and retire as well, to let the next generation take responsibility.

It's so painful to see how most of the other resource rich countries have managed to keep the wealth and jobs for generations to come.

It's not just next - generation West Coast startups heeding the call, either: In 2013, more than 90 percent of Zenefits customers called California home and 80 percent identified as technology firms; today more than half of all businesses using Zenefits services are based outside the Golden State and operate in sectors other than tech.

Cambodia has a couple of other things going for it: Angelina Jolie and a generation of young people determined to rebuild their country from the poverty of previous generations and heal the scars of the genocide.

That's a contested issue in the blogosphere with some saying today's young people are a born generation of business owners and others arguing they're simply victims of the terrible economy forced into finding alternate routes to employment.

In What Matters Most, Hollender, 49, tells how he and his company, Seventh Generation, a manufacturer of environmentally friendly household products based in Burlington, Vt., fell in with the likes of Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's, and other civic - minded businesspeople — entrepreneurs determined to prove that a progressive, values - based company can make a difference.

Though Apple had just released its fifth - generation iPod, the Zune offered some unique features: a built - in FM radio receiver, and a Wi - Fi connection that meant Zune users could swap tunes with one other (unofficially dubbed «squirting» to the delight of reviewers).