Sentences with phrase «prevailing orthodoxies»

His snapshot aesthetic and no - viewfinder style have succeeded in challenging the medium's prevailing orthodoxies.

Here for the first time (give or take one or two irritatingly anachronistic uses of the word «feminist») I found myself unconvinced by this generally sympathetic and entertaining writer, partly because the idea of defined social purpose might tie physicists too closely to the prevailing orthodoxies and pieties of the day.

More specifically, he challenged prevailing orthodoxies on the history and politics of the Palestinians and investigated the role of the intelligentsia in building para-state institutions and in fostering socio - economic and political changes within the Palestinians in exile.

Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the new movie version of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful of anything that does not cohere with prevailing orthodoxy, had expunged one of «the best lines» in the story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.»

It's easy to postulate that homeschooling parents are unusually committed, but these results still challenge the prevailing orthodoxy that societal problems inevitably hold education hostage.

At the moment, as previously mentioned, feminism is now the prevailing orthodoxy.

Naturally we don't know how the planning officers vote although it is likely that Socialism is the prevailing orthodoxy - just as it would be, for instance, among the social workers of Cambridgeshire County Council where Labour have three of the 69 councillors.

The Fed needs more disagreement, and more original thought generally, even if it is wrong original thought, just to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy, and force them to think through what are complex decisions that might have unpredictable second order effects.

His challenge to prevailing orthodoxy also helped to elevate Diebenkorn's national profile.

An earlier group of seven artists in Australia (six of them Melbourne based) called the Antipodeans Group also issued a manifesto to promote modern figurative painting in opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy, which at that time was Abstract Expressionism.

PS: The UK committee system is very strong, including on science and technology issues, and often produces reports which are (a) valuable and (b) counter to the prevailing orthodoxy and / or government agenda, so don't underestimate this opportunity.

[In the comments, Bruce McCullough points me to a blog that disagrees with the prevailing orthodoxy, Climate Audit.]

There are those, like yourself, who think they should be but it seems to me that, rightly or wrongly, the prevailing orthodoxy in the USA, but maybe not Europe, is pretty close to the MMT theory that Mitchell and Wray advocate.

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Soon it branched out, with the launch of Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Peace, all designed to counter what Breitbart described as the «bully media cabal» that ignored stories at odds with prevailing liberal orthodoxy.

Athanasius and other supporters of Nicene theology were exiled and persecuted for defending orthodoxy, but in the end, their tenacity, patience, and thoughtfulness prevailed.

Certainly the Church had not been completely reformed, but it seemed our efforts were bearing fruit and that over time, orthodoxy would prevail.

Yet in other respects — notably our ecclesiastical diversity, the freedom of the Church from state control, and the predominance of liberalism and fundamentalism rather than the new orthodoxy as the prevailing theological climate — our situation is different, and it will sharpen the discussion to keep it within such bounds.

Historical factors thus conspired to ensure that orthodoxy alone would prevail and profoundly shape Western civilization.

Paradoxically, it was another fine drug for orthodoxy, producing laid - back people in tune with the prevailing social ethos.

In earlier eras, other reform orthodoxies have prevailed.

That Held got sick of flatness and the 1960's prevailing reductionist orthodoxy, as represented by Frank Stella and championed by the heirs of Clement Greenberg's theorizing, is not surprising.

We seem to slated for a coolish wet summer in Oz because of the current la Nina, and if the weather stays cool it will be hard for the AGW orthodoxy to get much spin from the prevailing weather.

The husband had to take the chance of her remarriage in accordance with accepted orthodoxy which had prevailed for over 30 years (see, for example, Smith v Smith [1976] Fam 18).