Sentences with phrase «overwhelmed by the culture»

The faith has been overwhelmed by the culture, producing what is rightly called cultural Christianity.

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Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love And Play When No One Has The Time, spoke at WorkHuman about the stress caused by a culture that glorifies constant busy - ness.

The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture... has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new knowledge, by the scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.

For Hamann, by contrast, the kenosis of God illuminates and transfigures everything, grace transfuses all of nature, culture, and cult, and so his humor has a wealth, an overwhelming hilarity, and a truly Christian mirthfulness that Kierkegaard's does not.

Usually we are overwhelmed by our fallen culture & forget how to listen.

God's people are always, it seems, in danger of being overwhelmed by the larger and dominant culture surrounding them.

Contemporary culture has made this already impossible job description all the more difficult by providing an overwhelming number of baby products, ever - changing safety guidelines, complex parenting philosophies, and endless opportunities to feel like we're doing it wrong and everyone knows it.

The U.S. strategic culture is also shaped by its unique history, abundant natural and financial resources, overwhelming optimism, and idealism.

Unlike other dating agencies, with eHarmony, you won't be overwhelmed by hundreds of profiles and the unforgiving swipe culture.

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Maybe the entire album is a meme itself, a grand existential joke critiquing the all - conquering rise of Internet culture by parodying its overwhelming randomness.

What made the film so brilliant and compelling despite its theoretically repellent cast of characters is that instead of going for cheap shots or silly attempts at psychological insight, Coppola simply observed them in ways that helped inspire a certain understanding into their mindsets and how they had been shaped and influenced by a celebrity - obsessed culture that overwhelms them on a daily basis.

Humanity feels overwhelmed by the major powers in the service of monopoly groups that command their economies and that do everything to defend their interests, disregarding laws, cultures, traditions and religions.

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The scenes in Michael's paintings are quiet, the participants are paused as they stand withdrawn, juxtaposed against a dynamic population; they are overwhelmed by mass - culture; one which has been composed from the interaction, assimilation and constant change of subcultures.

Overwhelmed by loneliness and isolation due to the unfamiliar culture and large city, the artist used the camera to find «individual human presence» in a swarming metropolis.

The works of young American artists Cory Arcangel, Shana Moulton, Jessica Ciocci & Jacob Ciocci of Paper Rad, and Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch are all characterized by an overwhelming color - charged aesthetic, unhinged narratives and a deluge of content that pitches itself against the excesses of consumer culture.

Her interest in natural science and cyclic rather than linear conception of time — reinforced by the overwhelming exuberance of nature in Brazil, which prevaricates the immediacy of urban digital culture — has put her in the role of facilitator for balance, gravity, pressure and tension to act as the main agents for her sculpture and installations.

Works by such Pop artists as the Americans Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana and the Britons David Hockney and Peter Blake, among others, were characterized by their portrayal of any and all aspects of popular culture that had a powerful impact on contemporary life; their iconography — taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and all forms of advertising — was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of the precise commercial techniques used by the media from which the iconography itself was borrowed.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

While this doesn't excuse it, industry veterans aren't surprised by the complaint, saying that many of Canada's restaurants have a workplace culture that is overwhelming male, close - knit, and full of sexualized banter.

Gupta came up with the idea for Lily after moving to New York from India, where she felt overwhelmed by the foreign shopping culture.

There are a zillion reasons why this works for us but a few are: 1 - it allows us to actually be together - there is no hiding out in a room alone (so we do institute a «quiet hour» during the day so we all can find some solitude) 2 - it's absolutely counter culture to have bigger and better but we enjoy that we make the most out of what we have and use our savings to have «experiences» rather than things 3 - it allows us to make updates and changes to the house bc we aren't spending a lot on heating, cooling, furnishing etc. 4 - it staves materialism and consumerism to a degree 5 - it's easier to work room by room like you are doing bc it isn't overwhelming time wise or financially.