Sentences with phrase «public imagination of»

Her mature landscape work, having struck deep roots in painting tradition, shaped public imagination of the Land of Enchantment more effectively than any tourist bureau.

The Emin that spoke that morning was docile and content — far from the sharp tongue and fierce confessional force that dominates the public imagination of her.

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On the eve of his second federal budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau doesn't loom large in the public imagination.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

Inexpensive, small scale and non-traditional marketing tactics can be extremely effective ways of promoting your brand if the idea catches the public imagination and goes viral.

A companion enterprise device, though, won't do much to capture the imagination of a public gripped with iPad fever.

But the years of fighting changed the place of the military in the Canadian public imagination — and Canadian political calculations.

Driven by innovative apps, inexpensive cloud computing and the widespread use of mobile devices, the Sharing Economy has captured both the imagination of the public and the investment dollars of venture capital investors.

David L. Gould, who had been a professor at the University of Iowa until Hsieh convinced him to move to Las Vegas and take the title «Director of Imagination,» wrote a public resignation letter blaming the layoffs on «a collage of decadence, greed, and missing leadership.»

While wearable fitness trackers and calorie counting apps have caught the imagination of the public, they account for a relatively small portion of the dollars invested in the space.

But the absence of God from our public life and imagination may, in the end, be even more thorough.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

This position signifies a failure of theological and moral imagination, and raises the question of why the church reacts automatically in public debates instead of helping to advance the discussion.

A full defense of this intuition as true (i.e., as «public») demands the kind of argument and modes of reflections which I have attempted in my recently completed work on systematic theology (The Analogical Imagination).

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

The idea of broadcasting as a force in the public interest, a display case for the best of America «s creative arts, a forum of public debate — advancing the democratic conversation and enhancing the public imagination — has receded before the inexorable force of audience maximization.11.

Perhaps because Cicero happened to translate that particular dialogue for his aristocratic Roman public and thereby unintentionally made it one of the few texts from Plato available to the Latin West in the early Middle Ages, this image of God as Artificer proved to have a tenacious hold on the medieval imagination.

In the same way, public nakedness is shameful because it incites lust, and se.xual sin is rooted in desire (the imagination of a sinful act), as implied in Exodus 20:17 and addressed by Christ in Matthew 5:28.

The fourth is a continuation of the third, an effort to reflect upon and reenact the delicate process whereby the mind and the imagination move from the place of hearing to the public celebration of the thing heard.

An effort to reflect upon and reenact the delicate process whereby the mind and the imagination move from the place of hearing to the public celebration of the thing heard.

«The Exorcist» captured America's imagination about demons taking over a person's body and profoundly shaped the public's perceptions about the process of throwing those devils out.

In how many Christian imaginations and theologies, private and public, does Jesus the Christ swoop through the 33 years of his life, dipping briefly into the world of matter before soaring off toward the real point, the resurrection?

Singular psyches are better conceived, in the view I have been sketching, as fleeting nodes in a multi-layered semiotic network whose connectivities are both ensured and characterized by shared modes of symbolization, or signification, such as language supplies.24 Here the «We» often claims the last word, but so long as some vestige of radical imagination remains, singular psyches are not subservient to public customs, institutional definitions, entrained instincts, ingrained habits, and soon.

Retreating to the countryside will do very little to stave off the left's increasing domination of academic discourse, which in turn has very real consequences on the way in which the public's philosophical imagination is shaped.

If the public had the imagination to see the opportunity, and knew that the best professionals want to work on teams and not in isolation, this would be an ideal time to bring some of them back to hospitals and centers.

It is possible that a new momentum may be found through the conception of a new type of broadcasting which captures the public imagination as Oral Roberts did in 1970, or through the emergence of new personalities.

In recent years, Thomas and other alternative scriptures (and books about them) have captured the public imagination and the interest of members of mainline churches.

Co-founders Abby Berman and Matt Sorum believe that it is morally and ethically incumbent upon the public - at - large to foster the creativity, hopes, dreams and imaginations of our children.

Some teams, like the San Francisco 49ers, the Chicago Bulls, Manchester United, and the New York Yankees have captured the public's imagination and have millions of fans.

Although Nevada casinos remain restricted from posting betting lines on non-sporting events today, they learned something even more valuable; the value of the publicity associated with setting a betting line on something that captures the public's imagination.

The public opinion seems to be that Wright - Phillips is rubbish because of his somewhat undeserved England appearances (Capello is overrating him so everyone else must underrate him) but he isn't a bad player by any stretch of the imagination.

«If President Clinton came in from his running and ate french fries that are baked, healthy and low in fat, that would capture the imagination of the American public,» said Peter Kwiterovich, professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

So I had to get deep I had to get spiritual I had to get all sorts of things and the first six weeks of me breastfeeding my first son was so emotional for me, because I had to deal with a lot of things and I'm saying all this because once I got over that nursing in public was empowering beyond imagination.

For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state unequivocally that the posters are the figment of the imagination of the originator (s), and we call on all Ghanaians and the general public to treat the poster campaign with the contempt it deserves.

Much else matters: party, ideology, public opinion, crises external and internal, leadership's quality of imagination and purpose, especially.

If the referendum educates the public in the power of their voice, and if it educates masses and elites to expand their moral imagination enough to recognize the complaints of the other side, this experiment, although probably not the best outcome, has the epistemic value desired by proponents of deliberation, and its long - term effect may be more electoral stability and a renewed aversion to change for the sake of change.

Those opposing the cuts, some of which are rightly lamented, should stop blaming their failure to capture the public imagination on the rioters and the media and simply tell us what the alternative they want actually is.

This is no easy task: it involves embracing a different kind of politics, and it certainly means finding someone who can capture the public's imagination.

And fourth, imagination and innovation as we harness the opportunities of technology to transform the way public services are delivered.

Miliband himself has now begun to outline how he believes Labour will triumph come 2015, stating that the party «must regain its economic credibility, have a credible program of reform for public institutions, and capture the imagination of the majority of Britons to want to get on in life and see their families prosper».

«I think I'm the leader who can fire the imagination of the public as well as the party, unite the different talents of the party and be a credible prime minister.»

The public must know that our client, in discharging his duty to his principal, General Ibrahim Babangida, GCFR can not by any stretch of the imagination be said to have committed a crime that warrants such negative publicity.

«I do think the Labour party does have a problem of announcing very small policies that they're trying to get a daily headline out of and actually the problem is they don't really capture the public's imagination,» he told the BBC.

IMAGINATION The minister will warn that the country needed to wake up to the «hideous reality of austerity Conservatism» in which Mr Cameron's party planned to hack billions of pounds from vital public services.

Issel may be promising not to use (or failing to «envision») public money for acquiring an NBA team, but Kentucky economic development secretary Terry Gill seems to have a better imagination, telling the Courier Journal: «I think the state and local government, we certainly have a role to play but we should not be burdened with too much of that risk.»

In his piece trumpeting the election as proof that «a different kind of progressive politics can capture the imagination of a public ground down by economic crisis», Ed Miliband's strategy adviser, Stewart Wood, admitted that «New York City is not the UK, and a mayoral race is not the same as a British general election».

«Both fairs still capture the imagination of the public.

The Comte de Buffon's lively writing transformed our ideas of Earth's fauna and fired the public imagination.

Subtle cosmic vibrations kicked up by swirling black holes have captured the public imagination — and the minds of the physics Nobel Prize committee members, too.

Someone complained, possibly miffed that photos of beleaguered polar bears then captured the public imagination.