Sentences with phrase «plays personal identity»

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But religion does have a continuing role to play, according to Habermas (here in agreement with Bellah), in providing personal integration, unity, subjective meaning, and a unified self - identity.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Like his two previous prominent roles, it also saw him playing with identity, this time as it relates to both personal relationships and professional status.

Duets is the first feature about karaoke I've seen, and Byrum uses it as a suggestive metaphor for the dreams of three sets of characters who've lost their way in terms of their personal and family identities: a karaoke hustler (Huey Lewis) who meets his daughter — a Vegas showgirl played by Paltrow — for the first time at the funeral of her mother; a traveling salesman (Paul Giamatti) who flips his lid after flying to Houston instead of Orlando and then going home to an indifferent wife and kids, and who eventually splits and hooks up with an ex-con (Andre Braugher); and a young cabdriver (Scott Speedman) who reluctantly agrees to drive a waitress and part - time hooker (Maria Bello) out west.

Nominally a romance about two lesbian lepidopterists with a taste for BDSM role play (ah, that old chestnut, straight out of screenwriting 101), Strickland uses that foundation as a jumping off point for an exploration into personal identity, from the perspective of what lovers will do to keep each other happy and fulfill the needs of a partner, both carnally and intellectually, even if those actions run counter to what they may personally enjoy.

In From EGO to ID (the latter a play on Interior Design), EGO represents personal identity.

It deals with collecting the multiple narratives of artists difficult to classify because they have a very personal speech often linked to topics such as subjective memory, identity play autobiography, poetic senses... His themes of artistic settings are linked to individual symbols and a peculiar structure of their experiences, which has a very significant role in the works of contemporary artists in the IVAM collection as Robert Frank, Bruce Nauman, Christian Boltanski, Cindy Sherman, James Lee Byars, Juan Muñoz or Cristina Iglesias.

The personal tableaux that play across these quilts, table runners, and doilies illustrate different elements of contemporary identity.

A personal counterpoint to 2017: The Mess, the artist plays with the constructs of portraiture by substituting one aspect of the sitter's identity with a painted replacement.

The work of Chelsea Culprit entangles representations of the body's capacity for work, play, display, expression, the performed authenticity of identity, and the intractability of freedom and personal bondage.

Nitarudi Ninarudi expresses the complexity of longing for a place that is alive in the memory in a very different way than in the physical reality — a place as evasive and fleeting as the identities one negotiates when they are relocated, bringing into play issues of transformation, translation, and even personal survival.

Investigating all main aspects of Varela's artistic production, the show explores the role played by identity and personal history, social and political issues, as well as transnational experiences in the definition of the artist's oeuvre.

In his first solo show at Matthew Marks Gallery, he exhibited eight sculptures that expanded on an earlier body of work, dealing with role playing, the skin's role in race and personal identity, and the concept of «passing» in terms of identity.

So you can tell Alexa to turn on the TV in your room, but it seems she won't be able to carry out other commands like playing music or using services that could be directly tied to your identity and personal accounts.