Sentences with phrase «prevailing ethos»

I was in such a situation myself once when it became clear to me that my values were at variance with the prevailing ethos.

As transhumanism becomes more prevalent, as the sexual revolution identifies more perversions as «rights,» as technocracy overtakes ethical reasoning and truth is more frequently confused with power, believers will find themselves ever more frequently in the position of explaining that some realities are not contingent on the prevailing ethos of culture, or on our judgments, or on the fleeting whims of self - definition.

Yet another example: the monetary health of denominational bureaucracies is delicately dependent on harmony with the prevailing ethos of the culture with respect to «controversial issues.»

To characterize Wiltshire as Olympus is to resist the prevailing ethos of bureaucratic individualism that denies binding myth, indeed any binding force other than utilitarian contracts.

In Darwin's day, the prevailing ethos of so - called free - market capitalism treated the planet as a limitless resource, and its atmosphere and oceans as an equally limitless repository for waste.

I still get giggles for a quip I wrote over 30 years ago in my first endurance training book relating to the prevailing ethos of the endurance community: «if the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn.»

By making work that articulated an alternative to the prevailing ethos, but was neither nostalgic nor backward - looking toward the gestural, Robins belongs to an unnamable group of artists that includes, among others, Catherine Murphy and Sylvia Plimack - Mangold, who also refused to join any club.

Put another way, the prevailing ethos was «by one's expertise shall ye be known.»

Back when Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children was founded, the prevailing ethos of naming entities was to say what they do.