Sentences with phrase «own grand narratives»

He barely mentioned the taxi industry at all in his speech, choosing instead to frame Uber in a grander narrative.

«The failures become part of the grand narrative of progress: «That had to happen, and I needed that setback, or I wouldn't have made this discovery»,» he says.

Meanwhile, here's a liberal article that complains that the Democrats never developed a grand narrative to defend ObamaCare.

«It's not a series of unconnected stories, it's one grand narrative.»

The war and its outcome do not vindicate a grand narrative of historical inevitability but bring all parties under Divine judgment.

Paul's argument works within a grand narrative (or drama) involving God and humans.

The «grand narrative» implied by these assumptions is called into question.

The simplistic gospel of being saved from earth for a home elsewhere in heaven has been replaced by a grand narrative of God's redemption story that encompasses social justice, creation care, and a fresh vision of the mission of the global Church.

Of course, a liberal arts approach to education underpinned by such a grand narrative is not the only possibility for Catholic educators.

What this grand narrative might cover also needs explanation.

In our view, a liberal arts approach also emphasises a respect for the past; the significance of grammar, logic and rhetoric; and the notion, popularised by the historian Christopher Dawson, that ideas develop within cultures, which means that a grand narrative must necessarily underpin the curriculum.

Some scholars, like James D.G. Dunn, don't see a grand narrative in Scripture.

Regarding the «eternal purpose», I agree with N.T. Wright that there is a grand narrative of the Bible.

Here were people who had been distanced from a grand narrative of the spiritual and the sacramental and I was reminded of Mother Teresa's words that she had to come to the West to see «spiritual» poverty».

Do we only criticize scientists who draw inferences for the meaning and purpose of human life from their larger visions of the cosmos and our place in the grand narrative?

The use of such words in attempts instantly to marginalize the speaker stands within the framework of a grand narrative of oppressed peoples.

A genre of writing that fascinates some scholars and clergy consists of books and articles written by scientists who, venturing beyond what can be securely proved, present larger visions of the cosmos, life, the beginning and the end of all things, and the place of the human in the grand narrative.

Essentially, it requires understanding Ecclesiology (p. 16 - 17), understanding Christology (p. 29), understanding the grand narrative of Scripture (p. 21, 30), and then reading Scripture in light of these three areas (p. 41 - 42).

The world of parents and siblings can be portrayed as interesting but ultimately irrelevant to the grand narratives of the time.

My point is that rather than look for the most correctly indoctrinated, we shld appreciate the heart that is correctly turned toward the good, regardless of the doctrines they may confess.We don't know the doctrines of the Roman Centurion or if he even had any, but the story suggests his heart and will were in the right place.I don't read that Jesus took credit for it.Don't let the Pauline «sub-narrative» blind you to the «grand narrative.»

Post-modern skepticism regarding absolute truth, or a grand narrative that is reliably true, seems to mean that truth is discovered from within human experience or perhaps even tailor made.

He went against the projection of the game as a very serious and gladiatorial battle, against the gritted teeth and crunching tackles, against the super efficiency and grand narratives.

In contrast, the interpretation of history brings in philosophy — materialist or idealist, determinist or voluntarist; it brings in rhetoric — a grand narrative or random stories; it brings in politics too — top down history or history from bottom up.

Wale Adebanwi, en route to a new professorial chair at Oxford University, England, had gathered a lean but powerful assemblage, for a select reading of his new book, The Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (NY, USA: University of Rochester Press, 2016).

He has refused to be rushed into a grand narrative, let alone policies, during his first 12 months in the job.

It needs a grand narrative that is not only distinctive and true to its values, but also appealing to the whole nation.

There are, however, a couple of exceptions to this grand narrative: Homo naledi and Homo floresiensis *.

The dna molecule, Kean asserts, is the «grand narrative of human existence» — and he boldly sets out to tell the tale, not only explaining genetics and its scientific history but linking Mendel's pea shoots to the evolution of early humans.

«But one definition people use is the «end of grand narrative» — the end of the idea that there is one answer to the world.

Historians tend to be suspicious of anything that would be called a grand narrative, yet even some of them have recently made an effort in a field called world history, starting with the beginning of writing or agriculture or even anatomically modern humans.

Although they are, in cosmic terms, mere scraps — insignificant to the grand narrative of heavenly expansion — planets are the most diverse and intricate class of object in the universe.

Like the composer Stew did in his 2006 rock musical «Passing Strange,» Eagle makes grand narrative connections across «Brick Body Kids...» and does so through his skills as a storyteller and rapper with a sublimely confident flow.

Fiona (Jessica Lange) is finally dead, after one last inevitable revival or fake - out or reversal, and apparently destined to spend her eternity catfishing with the Axeman (Danny Huston) in a realm presided over by Papa Legba (Lance Reddick), a demonic entity that's retrospectively revealed to be entirely superfluous to Coven's grand narrative scheme.

Neither a standard biopic nor a conventional chase movie, it fuses both into a grand narrative experiment that imagines the battle of wits between a poet, Chilean great Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), and policeman (Gael García Bernal)-- artist versus repressor — as a noirish travelogue where nothing is quite as it seems.

Like in Metroid Prime, the narrative in The Swapper is doled out in bits and pieces through computer logs scattered about the space station, and they come together to reveal a grander narrative lurking beneath your actions.

Once I followed King's lead by focusing on intimacy and letting go of my aspirations of a sweeping and grand narrative, the project finally become manageable.

«For people who are story junkies, for people who like to collect every audio log or text log out there, people who want to have a grand narrative to their game, I think they're going to be really surprised and delighted by what we have prepared for them,» said lead writer John Gonzalez.

Trevor — the funny but ultimately terrifying lunatic — is the embodiment of what the game actually is: an experience uncomfortably pinned between grand narrative ambition and open - world incontinent madness.

«For people who are story junkies, for people who like to collect every audio log or text log out there, people who want to have a grand narrative to their game, I think they're going to be really surprised and delighted by what we have prepared for them.»

The connection between abstract painting and painting's self - definition is always seen as central part of Greenbergian doctrine, an extension of the grand narrative's account of the arts «coming into their own» in the 18th and 19th centuries which Wolterstorff describes.

This conscious «lightness» was perhaps at first rooted in his generation's rebellion against the grand narratives of academy artists, but the joy of free expression that followed from this lightness has remained throughout more than two decades of Song Dong's artistic practice.

Hundley's work reflects an artist seeking to simultaneously acknowledge a grand narrative while constantly tearing it apart, leaving a generously mysterious space for the viewer.

is my response to the collapse of the grand narratives and absolute belief systems represented by the traditional historical bust.

Carrot - stamping is a technique by which the artist escapes the hierarchies and grand narratives inherent in traditional painting, and which allows unforeseen, subtle nuances and patterns to emerge in his work.

Declan Clarke's powerful films intertwine personal subjectivity and action with grand narratives and explorations of the historical edifices of power.

Rogier understands that expressionistic painting is part of a larger trajectory or continuum, an unexhausted unfinished project expanding beyond the mythic, grand narratives of progress upon which it was initially predicated.

The Egg and The Fly are themselves elements that augment, contradict, inform and articulate new ways of understanding The Book; a proxy for our grand narratives.

The singular artist, her patented methodology, her hand, her oeuvre, a life primed for retrospection contra the looming anticipation of death, banal idioms whose meanings have worn through semantic satiation, the grand narrative of painting and its anthropomorphic object, legends of pop culture, salient reason itself — all appear to instinct as enframing devices or resistances to subvert.

«What interests me about Wool» the artist and critic Joan Waltemath has said, «is how, at a time when painting was not on the map, he really did the nuts and bolts work to find a way to make it possible to get back into that grand narrative.

Shirin Neshat casts aside her split - screen explorations of gender and exile for grand narratives.