Sentences with phrase «powerful examination of»

This powerful examination of a crucial dichotomy in the civil rights movement focuses on two polar opposites — one man committed to ending segregation, and one just as determined to see it maintained.

This thorough, clear, and riveting exposé offers a powerful examination of the American prison industrial complex.

Kirn's willingness to examine his own culpability in accepting these falsehoods makes his memoir a powerful examination of deceit and its even creepier cousin, self - deception.

Written in a voice that is at once hopeful, cautious, and completely lost yet utterly knowing, Fountain's novel delivers a brilliant, powerful examination of how modern warfare affects soldiers who have returned home.

Isabelle Huppert gave a pair of extraordinary performances this year, and while «Elle» is a knockout, I ultimately responded more to Mia Hansen - Løve's quiet, powerful examination of a philosophy teacher forced to reassess her life when she loses almost everything that defines her.

In her début book of short stories, the Canadian author makes disconcerting symbols out of everyday objects like sewing machines and canned food and offers up a powerful examination of the human (and often female) body under attack.

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A examination of the need for Canada to adopt a broad Asia Pacific Gateway Strategy to focus resources and attention on this country's ties with the increasingly powerful Asian economy.

One more factor is very powerful in shielding technology from examination: liberal democratic individualism — the notion that the individual is to be the judge of what is the good life for him or her.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

Through shortened patient examination times, higher patient throughput, and lower cost per MRI examination, EPI may become a powerful tool for early diagnosis of some common and potentially treatable diseases such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

With a closer examination, trial by trial for each subject, they saw that what really reflected attention and impacted perception were discrete, powerful bursts of beta waves at frequencies around 20 hertz.

I respect your position here Tony, but I found DISTRICT 9 one of the most powerful films of the years, a persuasive and wrenching examination of man's inhumanity to man.

Watchers of the Sky, an intricate and immensely powerful documentary, directed by Edet Belzberg, is both the story of Raphael Lemkin as well as a harrowing examination of genocide, past, recent, and ongoing.

Critics Consensus: After Love isn't easy viewing, but its brutally honest examination of a crumbling family offers powerful performances and penetrating insights that make it well worth the effort.

He beat out Robert Towne for the job, pitching the film as an examination of the characters that inhabited these powerful bodies: why did they always do the right thing?

The resulting examination of the personal toll of political unrest is slow - moving yet sensitive and intimate yet intriguing, painting a powerful portrait of love and loyalty — aptly illustrated by the connection with Bonny the cat that provides the feature's undercurrent of emotion — against the odds.

In her review of the film for the BFI, my good friend and collaborator Sophie Mayer astutely links Stories We Tell to the feminist classic Daughter Rite (1978) by Michelle Citron, and what I love about this connection is the fact that it perfectly crystallizes how experimental and powerful Polley's examination of female identity — both hers and that of her elusive mother — is.

Shengchang Tang, principal of the Shanghai High School (the leading high school in China), said that the standards and examinations in the Shanghai province are a powerful tool that parents use to exert pressure on their children as well as on teachers and principals.

Because past statutes dictated teacher effect data could only be used if a teacher had a three - year average to examine — and tenure may be granted at 27 months — most teachers were granted tenure without examination of perhaps the most powerful tool available.

Using powerful protocols for collaborative learning conversations, our Mills Teacher Scholar inquiry sessions support teachers to engage in goal setting, examination of student work, reflection, and articulation of next steps.

At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian's masterpiece.

Called powerful and provocative by the Seattle Times, this examination of the destruction of homeless animals as a solution to overpopulation challenges conventional practices and offers alternative strategies toward ending the killing of healthy, adoptable animals.

Known mainly for his powerful depiction of faces, Van Mullem's artworks are noted for their psychological penetration and for their deep examination of the relationship between the artist and his imaginary subject.

At once a moving elegy and instigator, The Sound of Silence is a powerful testimony in Jaar's longstanding examination of political injustices and the limitations of their representation through imagery.

Curator Michael Klein, who has been studying and assembling a small exhibition of Hartigan's works from the early 1960s, thinks a new examination of Hartigan's achievement is overdue, and he asks a powerful question: just where where does her art, and the art of other pioneering women artists of the 1950s and 60s fit into the «canon» of American painting?

Image credit:: Tumbling Green Popcorn, Flickr, a2thegeezus By George Grattan Earlier this week I joined a number of Earthwatch colleagues and other interested filmgoers at a screening of the documentary Flow, an emotionally powerful (but narratively flawed) examination and indictment of the privatization of fresh water supplies throughout the world.

Examples of my experience in such matters are a euthanasia case (2016), where the charge of murder was dropped upon my revealing, at the defence examination, that the presence of a prescribed, very powerful and hazardous drug, (fentanyl), had been missed by both the prosecution study and analysis of the case.

The advantage of arguing the case through a witness on direct examination is that it is powerful and undeniable, and it allows you to repeat and emphasize important points.

«Many of the most powerful emerging machine - learning techniques are so complex and opaque in their workings that they defy careful examination.»

An examination by The New York Times and The Observer of London reveals how Cambridge Analytica's drive to bring to market a potentially powerful new weapon put the firm — and wealthy conservative investors seeking to reshape politics — under scrutiny from investigators and lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic.

In four powerful parts, this section breaks down this conversion into our «Recovery Targets»: 1) Psychological Examination of Feelings; 2) Seeking, Establishing, and Engaging in Community; 3) Truth, Trust, and Territory; and 4) Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith.

An examination of the predictive associations of individual disorders in developed countries revealed that depression is among the strongest predictors of suicide ideation (OR = 3.3), but is much less powerful in predicting progression from ideation to plans (OR = 1.5), planned attempts (OR = 1.5), or unplanned attempts among ideators (OR = 1.2).