Sentences with phrase «public things»

I'll get over it, get excited about summer and go full force on this white legs in public thing soon enough.

Of all the things you do as a sales manager, this is the most public thing you do in your business.

Today's technology allows private things to become public things.

I'm still not comfortable with this whole talking to yourself in public thing, I'm just not there yet.

In it, Nikole Hannah - Jones writes, «Democracy works only if those who have the money or the power to opt out of public things choose instead to opt in for the common good.

Professor Hittinger observes that the present system «has made what used to be the most loyal citizens» religious believers» enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.»

You're out, in public, doing wondrous public things with your beloved cherubs.

While presenting himself as a religious thinker rather than a theologian, he was attempting to do the authentically public thing that many theologians had lost the nerve to do.

«My sport is a very public thing, and I feel like the most vulnerable place for me is on the starting line of a race.

Hunting, woodland protection and the outdoors were presumably, in their various overlapping ways, among the values that moved diverse parties into coalition on this issue: conservationists, who value preservation, progressives who value public things, and conservatives who have a distinctive connection to a certain aristocratic or pastoral sense of Englishness.

BH: In the context of what we've been talking about, the state itself can be seen as an important public thing.

If youre into sneaky outdoor public things..

«It seems clear to me after several months in Congress now that there is an ideological offensive against public things,» Rep. Jamie Raskin (D - Md.)

«We may infer that holding environments are necessary, in particular, to democratic life, especially if we extend Winnicott's and Arendt's accounts to think specifically in terms of public things.»

Like the other historians of his school, he can only conceive of liberalism as a stark world of possessive individuals, utterly indifferent to public things.

Now responsible and honest public relations are a necessary instrument in our complicated society, and there is no institution that does not need to make use of this instrument in order to communicate to the public the things it stands for and the reasons for supporting its work.

Beth: I don't think it has to be a public thing.

What we've seen over the last 20 years of neo-liberalism is a tendency to privatise or undercut those public things.

We have talked a lot about publicity and public things, but to be really clear it is around these things that equality and liberty and justice take shape.

This isn't to reduce things to pure materialism — everything has a life in language — but in their thingness, public things have a kind of finitude to them, and the friction that comes of fighting over finite things, that friction can be seen as the electricity of political life, or one source of its charge.

Public things, to borrow from Wittgenstein, can not be anything or nothing.

BH: As your example suggests, there is often a way to cobble together a coalition of people who all agree on the importance of a public thing, but for very different sorts of reasons.

If you actually succeeded in turning politics into mere proceduralism — completely procedural practices with none of the tumult and chaos that attend democratic forms of life — you lose the things you need for a democratic form: first, the tumult and spontaneity and even surprise that attend entry into the public sphere, and, second, public things.

In this sense, the votes on devolution were republican - that the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly depended on the approval of electors made them «public things».

As Robert Hutchins once wrote, they are part of the res publica, the public thing.

Looked at in sequence, they seem to represent the Arendt / Winnicott trajectory — from held to holding to action in concert — all in relation to a public thing.

The morning before I went to the opening of «Hold Me» I was reading the epilogue of Bonnie Honig's Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair.

A reflection on Erin Hayden's solo exhibition «Hold Me» in relation to Bonnie Honig's «Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Thinking Out Loud)», Abraham Lincoln in the Land of Lincoln, democracy, play, and the public.