Sentences with phrase «popular imagination»

(Reuters)- Alphabet Inc's non-advertising business, which houses its cloud unit, Pixel smartphones and the Play store, has long been sandwiched between Google's advertising juggernaut and its moonshot ventures that have captured popular imagination.

The hold he still has on popular imagination derives from that moment when Albert Einstein — the patron saint of reason, all - knowing, unknowable — smoothed balm on the terrible wounds of the 20th century.

Moscow Conceptualists Elena Elagina and Igor Makerevich have created a specially commissioned installation reflecting on the mythical and poetic power of the cosmos within Russian society, and the way in which space exploration entered popular imagination with the arrival of television.

Is this a case of a careless executive, pushing its fault on, and infernally scapegoating an already notorious National Assembly, which has not, for once, fired popular imagination?

«Utopia - writing,» she argues, interacted with social experimentation and the more popular imagination to create social innovations in every sphere from the economic (the trade union movement, profit - sharing, social security, scientific management) through political (parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage) to the social (universal education, child welfare practices, women s «emancipation,» New Towns, social planning.

There are dozens of books and articles from the past half century, all arguing that, far from being the Boy Scout of popular imagination who slew Goliath, the David figure who supplants Saul as king in Israel is a devious, double - dealing thug.

These second - and third - century texts which challenged emerging orthodoxy reflected popular imagination.

Public Enemies, for instance, takes the public conflict between Dillinger and Purvis — archetypes of American popular imagination — and connects it to the rise of surveillance, telecommunications, modern banking, and fascism, producing something that often feels like a creation myth for the latter part of the 20th century.

His activity, however, revealing his ambitions, his character, his physical and mental gifts, tells us much about him, which may be why he has had such a long run in popular imagination.

In the 1960s and 1970s, as fine art photography entered the mainstream art world and captured popular imagination, Weston finally gained fame and fortune.

They dream of a Russia in which church symbols, rituals, moral values, and teachings take hold of popular imagination and play a leading role in shaping society.

Even in the popular imagination Mars is associated with life, but scientifically it's a place where maybe... it's a place that could potentially support human life.

Eclipsed in the popular imagination by Apple and battered by the earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand, Sony looks as defeated as ever, predicting another loss for this fiscal year, this time to the tune of US$ 1.2 billion.

That means that individuals could print sweets for themselves instead of the sort of thermoplastic trinkets that currently represent what is achievable with 3 - D printers in the popular imagination.

The bill's wide support (it passed 390 to 23) indicates just how well - loved start - ups are now in the popular imagination.

The much - hyped wearable - faux - pas bombed as a consumer offering — and, at least in the popular imagination, has joined the grand pantheon of flopdom alongside such legendary names as New Coke and the Edsel.

According to the popular imagination, there's definitely a correlation between the kind of music a person likes and their personality.

Today, Blackberry is a distant memory in the popular imagination.

Mark Zuckerberg has been immensely successful in capturing the popular imagination of budding and aspiring entrepreneurs...

Itâ $ ™ s remarkable that this event still holds such sway over the popular imagination despite other more recent instances of hyperinflation.

Lots of liberal academics teach «social justice,» but the idea hasn't captured the popular imagination or infused our real constitutional interpretation.

Undoubtedly, in the popular imagination at least, the reception of this sacrament was previously associated with the moment of death - and many may have failed to receive the sacrament in consequence.

But Einstein's theories also caught the popular imagination in a way that allowed people to think that everything is relative.

One task of theology in Latin America is to retrieve and refigure the rich symbols evoked by the clouds of powers and principalities dear to popular imagination and religion.

In For the Glory of God, Stark makes a case for the progressive and rational nature of Christian belief by exposing a number of falsehoods and antireligious myths that have enjoyed a long run in the popular imagination and the academic world.

In the popular imagination, the Inquisition was seen as a greedy body obsessed with profiting from the misery of its victims.

Or is it better to say that the Aristotle we've been taught about is actually a fiction who got his name from this one fellow who really existed but did nowhere near as much as has been attributed to the Aristotle of popular imagination?

That question has tantalized generations of scholars and seized the popular imagination.

Here we must hasten to point out that among Christian thinkers over the centuries the conception of God has varied considerably more in expression than is often popularly supposed, and theologians have always wanted to guard themselves against the implications of such crude and concrete images of God as may have been prevalent in the popular imagination.

At the same time, faster and more centralized communication enlarged the power of big - city newspapers; at the turn of the century their muck - raking reporters captured the popular imagination with crusades against corruption and fraud.

The myth of the noble savage lives on in the popular imagination.

Thornton may have been addressing members of the Church of England, but his paper was actually a discussion of Spiritualism — a faith which had a hold on the popular imagination at the time.

It seemed ironical to me that a Christian theologian who took seriously the ultimate unity of all things in God was regarded in the popular imagination as a Godless iconoclast.

In the popular imagination, this fact doesn't seem to matter because Carp is so tough he doesn't care.

Liston was far from the sullen, insensitive brute of the popular imagination.

When we first started working with photographer India Hobson, we wanted to get a glimpse into the places where designers and makers really work — not the vast white - walled studios of popular imagination but the real - life spaces: the kitchen tables, living rooms and make - shift printing tables.

«It is almost unbelievable how this fountain has captured the popular imagination, «said park district Supt. George T. Donoghue, who two weeks after its opening was forced to order one - way traffic on the «east outer drive «and the «west outer drive «(Lake Shore Drive and Columbus Drive) during the evening hours when the fountain «s light display was in progress.