Sentences with phrase «peasant life as»

As Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School in London from 1876 — 1893, he made a dynamic impact on British art education both as a painter and etcher, and exerted a decisive influence on the representation of peasant life as can be seen in The Tinker 1874.

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For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see intrinsic value in the whole of the living world than by those who are concerned chiefly for peasants and workers.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

It is this quality of freshness and of acute and sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life which we may claim is characteristic of Jesus, since we have demonstrated that it is lost in the transmission of the tradition by the Church, and it marks these two similes as dominical.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90

The recognition of the parables as being drawn from the daily experiences of the peasant life, in the first century Palestine, 150 lays stress on the close connection between ordinary day - to - day experiences in life and the message concerning the divine rule.

As John Crossan points out, demonic possession flourished among the lower, oppressed peasant class to whose health and liberation Jesus devoted his life.

In the stars, as well as in the everyday facets of the simple life of the peasants, he felt the presence of the divine.

I like the way Alan Hirsch describe the «message» of the Bible as being «simplex» simple because it can be understood by a child and an illiterate peasant complex, because we'll spend our entire life always discovering new aspects of it, and struggling to know more and more God and Jesus, and «the mystery» which Paul was running after (Phil 3)

[6] Tolkien saw no essential difference between Fairy Story and Myth («the higher and lower mythologies») for «the inhabitants of Olympus and Faerie live by the same life just as in the mortal world do kings and peasants», and this life is breathed into them by their author.

An artists» colony of peasants began painting firing clay and writing poetry as a way of reflecting biblically on their living conditions.

Back then, when someone explicitly identifies him or herself as a «Christian», the image is someone who does missionary work, living among peasant villages, not to prosyletyze but to provide education, basic health care, and crisis relief.

If you have doubts, compare level of life of the poorest people in the an urban ghetto in USA vs. random poor worker or peasant in USSR who lived far from the center in late 1980s or 1960s (when people were not artificially subcidized by selling oil to the west as under Brezhnev).

A case in point: the Arara people, who had been called the scourge of the Trans?amazônica Highway for their attacks on work crews but today live as poor peasants fully dependent on federal aid.

Cusack's Curtis as action man in a plain black suit and tie (his limo driver's outfit) or plastic surgeon Dr. Gordon Silberman (Thomas McCarthy) as a scrubs wearing amateur pilot, mommy Kate (Amanda Peet) in her best weekend peasant dress with casual hoody thrown over the top, even Tamara (Beatrice Rosen) as the bimbo with a heart of gold — don't judge a person by their stilettos; she may look like a whore but will happily save a couple of kids above her own life.

In the end, as in most films of this type, the DEA triumphs in its land war against the peasants, and Statham can get back to his life.

Pacha (boasting the commanding vocals of John Goodman, as the start of a short but fruitful relationship between the actor and Disney) is a large, kindhearted peasant whose family lives on the hill where Kuzco plans to build a new dream home.

Gulliver's captivity is short - lived as is the Lilliputians» fear of him, as he befriends lovelorn peasant Horatio (Jason Segel, doing an admirable, casual old English accent) and saves Princess Mary (Emily Blunt) and her father King Theodore (Billy Connolly) from kidnapping and fire, respectively.

Lesson 1: Villages and Towns Lesson 2: Religion and the Church Lesson 3: Crime and Punishment Lesson 4: The Murder of Thomas Becket Lesson 5: Life as a Medieval Knight Lesson 6: King John and the Magna Carta Lesson 7: The Peasants Revolt, 1381 The lessons on Thomas Becket and King John also have newly designed assessments that reflect the demands of the new GCSE.

The peasants will automatically pick these tools up and be assigned their roles in life as archer and builder respectively, thus you've learned how the basic requirements to slowly construct and defend the kingdom.

Hard working peasant Goodman Higgins was seen to be sighing wearily today as he learned that the entirety of his life would need to be rebooted once more.

They Coming is heavily shaped by Meris» upbringing as a migrant from Haiti — living in the Bahamas - where «they coming» was more than often a derogatory slur to both indict the peasant like status of Haitian migrants and also reinforce the sub ‐ humanness of that community.

The other traditional classes of history and portrait painting were present, but the period is more notable for a huge variety of other genres, sub-divided into numerous specialized categories, such as scenes of peasant life, landscapes, townscapes, landscapes with animals, maritime paintings, flower paintings and still lifes of various types.

A star in the firmament of late - 19th - century artists sometimes dubbed as British Impressionists, Sir George Clausen's highest prices (around # 500,000) have been for his 1880s scenes of rural peasant life, flecked in sunlight.

This body of work is heavily shaped by Meris» upbringing as a migrant from Haiti — living in the Bahamas - where «they coming» was more than often a derogatory slur to both indict the peasant like status of Haitian migrants and also reinforce the sub ‐ humanness of that community.

Another important trend was the production of genre paintings with humorous portrayals of life, such as Threshing Rice (1780), in which Gim Hongdo (1745 - 1806) depicts a lazing, pipe - smoking farmer overseeing hard - working peasants.

And we needed to live as peasant farmers.

That said — if prisoners, albeit ones condemned to death, do give their consent informed and freely to the use of their organs for transplantation after death, or indeed an impoverished Indian peasant, who is unable to support his wife and large family, consents to the donation for cash of eg a kidney, and this money will guarantee the family's life and future — can such autonomous action be regarded as unethical and should it be outlawed?

Dead peasant life insurance has led to many class action lawsuits against companies abusing this strategy of purchasing corporate owned life insurance, also known as COLI, on its non-key employees and has also led to the IRS establishing specific guidelines and requirements for all employer owned life insurance policies purchased after August 17, 2006.