Sentences with phrase «own abiding interest»

As a Catholic professor of corporate law, I have a deep and abiding interest in what Catholic Social Thought has to say about the economy and economic regulation.

His abiding interest is not religion or cultural identity, but money.

Whichever is right» whether marriage is or is not a purely private matter in which the state has no abiding interest» the deeper and more immediate danger of the marriage issue for Christians is its potential use by gay activists to undermine the autonomy of the Church and other religious entities.

This work was followed by The Moral World of the First Christians (1988), a book that underscores Meeks's abiding interest in the moral values and attitudes of these early generations.

Credit: NASA Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO and one of the richest people in the world, has an abiding interest in the future of space exploration.

And a variety of intricately carved animal sculptures — lizards, serpents, eagles, even an oversize stone carving of a flea, with careful attention given to its bloodsucking mouth parts — attest both to the Aztecs» skills as artisans and their abiding interest in the natural world.

This pattern repeats a handful of other times, and though the series resolves itself in a typically traditionalist fashion, Fifty Shades Freed solves many of the franchise's problems in its simple yet abiding interest in Ana's pleasure.

Assayas brings over his abiding interest of the persona swap motif, and the film is essentially a psychological war of attrition between the two women.

It's entirely possible Werner Herzog could find philosophical wonders and dilemmas making a documentary about your shoe collection, but until then we'll have to settle for this prolific filmmaker's abiding interest in the vastness of humankind's dreams, desires and actions.

By the same token, Anderson's much discussed penchant for virtuosic camera maneuvers and creating holistic, heroic movie - movies is perhaps revealed by Inherent Vice to be somewhat less impressive than his intuitive facility with actors — don't forget he molded art from lumps of clay like Mark Wahlberg and Adam Sandler — which suggests that his abiding interest might just be in homo sapiens as well.

«Jill Carlson embodies the many qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: the commitment to international development through the expansion of educational opportunities, a deep and abiding interest in advancing social equity and development through education, a rich combination of deep knowledge about the field of international development, strong analytic skills, outstanding leadership qualities, and a strong moral compass,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

AW: Given its small size TFA's greatest positive impact may be the creation of a new generation of education and societal leaders with abiding interest and direct experience in the problems of educating our nation's disadvantaged.

Chad maintains a deep, abiding interest in public education.

Specializing in estate planning, estate taxation, and tax exempt entities, Tom has had an abiding interest in improving K - 12 education throughout much of his professional life.

Christine brings an abiding interest and experience with mindfulness, brain research, and classroom rigor.

AIR has an abiding interest in conducting rigorous studies that address pressing educational issues, particularly in the area of principal professional development and performance evaluation.

I'm fairly well informed on Vietnam and our war there and it has been of abiding interest given the loss of friends and relatives who died for it or of it as well as my own activism during the time.

A journalist with an abiding interest in news events?

My own abiding interest in the study of peace and environmentalism began in the highlands of Kenya where I grew up, and was nurtured during my studies in the US and Germany, and teaching at the University of Nairobi.

Heide Fasnacht has shown an abiding interest in states of instability.

Naida Osline is a Los Angeles - based artist who combines and manipulates images sourced from both analog and digital processes, in which she blends conceptual and documentary photographic practices with an abiding interest in the transformative, mythical, and ethereal nature of existence.

Put it down to her abiding interest in eastern religion, which she never practiced, or to her perhaps closeted sexuality, which she did little to claim.

They have an abiding interest and passion for art as collectors of established and emerging contemporary artists.

Crucially, they were also expected to seek permission to install their work in the public domain, breeding both confidence and an abiding interest in context and site - specific work.

Virginia Overton's work demonstrates an abiding interest in reclaimed mass - market materials, including lumber planks, doors, shelves, and industrial lighting.

«Pictures with problems» are Peter Saul's abiding interest.

Cool, clean compositions of Emilio Sánchez, such as Untitled, Bronx Storefront, «La Rumba Supermarket» (late 1980s), reveal his abiding interest in the dramatic interplay between light and shadow, creating abstract geometric patterns.

It brings together a new generation of artists across Europe who have taken an abiding interest in the areas of human experience that are beyond ready explanation or beyond plain sight.

My initial and abiding interest is abstract and to represent a sense of light, space, and place for contemplation.

But as well as a great feel for materials, Orozco has an abiding interest in geometry.

Philpot's abiding interest in African forms appears in hand - carved wooden staffs and a stunning beaded stool adorned with rhinestones and cowry shells.

From large - scale installations to intimate displays, the work on show will exemplify the abiding interest in clay as a medium for making and exploring ideas.

As has her abiding interest in letting a whole world of references in, and in bending established conceptual frameworks to new and contemporary ends.

Moreover; his work has a highly refined aesthetic that is informed by his abiding interest in architecture and music, by fields as seemingly disparate as fountain design and traditional Japanese theater, translation, astronomy, psychoanalysis and Morse code... Objects and experiences are juxtaposed — and arranged «in concert» inviting reflection and interrogation.

His deep and abiding interest in printmaking facilitated a major revival in the medium, and his achievements in lithography were instrumental in the creation of a contemporary market for prints.

Trained in France, Germany, Italy, and England, several generations of American artists helped to bring Impressionism to our native shore, creating an abiding interest in spontaneity and furthering an interest in the capturing of light's most fleeting and spectacular effects.

Even so, his central interests will make themselves clear; expect intricate urban landscapes, a close attention to repetition and patterning, subtle references to consumer culture, and an abiding interest in controversial figures like the infamous 1970s terrorist Carlos the Jackal.

Cichocki curated one such group exhibition, the vibrant and unflinching Desert Island, at Coachella Valley Art Center in the city of Indio, on view through April 20, and featuring the work of some 24 artists in photography, painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and video, all with their own abiding interests in the region, not all of whom live there, but all of whom do their best, most explosive and salient work in the desert lands.

She has a deep and abiding interest in the personal and cultural expression of memory; it is at the core of her work.

His abiding interests in the physical and material multiplicity of means continues, but is today less overtly descriptive.

The artist's abiding interest is in moments of unexpected emotional intersection, his bodies always taut with aggression and sexuality, defensiveness and vulnerability, pathos and humor.

With a reduced pairing of two colors, «DUO» articulates Stanczak's abiding interest in music and intuitive use of color to achieve visually harmonic vibrations.

They require us to redefine our perceived categorizations of gender and identity, allowing for more nuanced systems of classification and a greater understanding of their abiding interest in role exchange.

These works extend his abiding interest in serialisation, with the possibilities for repetition across all three panels of each triptych.

Here, PEET has laid out almost all of the core elements to his practice: a love of analog, shown by his use of nondigital elements such as Wite - Out, pen, typewriter, and scraps of paper; an abiding interest in coding and symbols, demonstrated by the various signs and distinctly PEET - ian vocabulary inside; a challenge to consumerism and the pervading class system, indicated by his adoption (and transformation) of elements of Marx and Engels's famous manifesto; and finally, a pure, simple, visceral love of materials and process.

Others, such as Sheeler, took the stark, yet impressive geometry of the new industrial landscape as a point of departureThe exhibition also examines another familiar subject, the human figure, which proved to be of abiding interest to the artists of this generation.

Abiding interests in science fiction, cybernetics, and information architecture guided his art toward an investigation of the relationships between man and society's pervasive systems of power, access and control.

The role of the written word in / as art is of abiding interest to me.

One of only a few women associated with the land art movement of the 1970s, Michelle Stuart has also had an abiding interest in photography.

Both artists professed an abiding interest in classical mythology and the unconscious and sought to explore archetypal and timeless forms in their work of this period.