Sentences with phrase «political fervor»

1965 — 1975, is an exhibition curated by Rodrigo Alonso with more than a hundred drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs, documents and records of performances and artistic actions from a key historical period characterized by explosive creativity, intense political fervor and a redefined role of art in society.

But in times like these — after «Brexit» and the election of President Donald J. Trump, with the rise of populism and return of nationalism and with intense political fervor and uncertainty in Europe and beyond — can a Biennale curator turn away from politics and focus on art for art's sake?

What is lost in all of the political fervor surrounding local control is that students and parents can't know if their state's investment in education is putting students on equal footing with students in other states.

I can imagine why it appeals to her: «Cradle Will Rock» boasts a tremendous lineup of talent and it wears its righteous political fervor on its sleeve.

As the movie presents it, their relationship — formed from an alloy of political fervor, professional respect and sexual hunger — was certainly volatile.

Despite the political fervor over finally tackling high property taxes, New Yorkers might not feel much of a break even if Cuomo's plan passes.

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And it would be a further miscalculation for churches to try to borrow a sense of particularity from the fervor of a particular social or political cause.

It is true he imagined himself engaged in what he called a holy crusade» and sought «teachers animated with apostolic fervor,» but he «was resigned in advance to seeing the results disappear as soon as the political wheel turned.

It is punctuated by earthquakes, fires, and plagues, and shot through with religious fervor and political intrigue.

«I think the political leaders last year saw the depth of the support, the fervor of our advocacy and they're all coming together to say... «We're going to make it happen,»» he added.

Serge Bozon's sharply political comedy — a giddily imaginative reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale — stars Isabelle Huppert, who revels in its sly blend of dissonant humor, intellectual fervor, and macabre violence.

Two of Spielberg's recent history films were also made in a messianic spirit of topical fervor: «Munich,» a dread - inflected thriller that addressed the post-9 / 11 world, and «Lincoln,» a kind of dramatized time machine that commented on our own increasingly fractious and divided political arena.

Despite the heated political themes, Citizen Ruth appears to spoof both sides of the issue sufficiently, and with such fervor, that I had no idea which side it wanted to take except to make the point of how much of a spectacle has become of such a serious issue.

If the franchise continues to feel a bit dull — heavy on the drama and light on the excitement, with pageantry long in the rear - view — there's a respectable purity in the films» political cynicism and populist fervor.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

As the vanguard of an anti-testing fervor that has spread across the country, New York's opt - out movement has become a political force.

Election Fervor: For 40 Years, «Teenie» Harris Photographed Pittsburgh's African American Community, Including Major Political Moments

Blurring the boundaries between public and private, Mate emphasizes the domestic and political elements in objects of nationalist fervor.

This attitude combines the unlovely traits of religious certitude and fervor with political partisanship into a stew that produces appalling disregard for both one's opponents and scientific accuracy.

You guys seem to operate with your own set of rules that are distinct from other branches of science (no doubt due to the messianic fervor of being deep in the political arena).

Gradual understanding that the role of CO2 was artifactually exaggerated may lessen the fervor for political activism, and increase the desire to actually figure out how the climate works.