Sentences with phrase «radical break with the past»

Since axial man had appeared in India without demanding any radical break with the past, he left the masses largely undisturbed in their preaxial state.

And the ruling in Griswold itself was not so much a radical break with the past as it was the culmination of a process that began with the nation's experience of World War II.

As for recent privatisations, the Royal Mail had been in state hands long before Labour dreamt up its post-war nationalisation programme, making its sale seem like a truly radical break with the past, not just a resumption of «normal service».

@TheDarkLord: The whole point of Corbyn's leadership was a radical break with the past.

Making a radical break with the past, these artists opened up new approaches and their work received international recognition.

In 1964 Duchamp reproduced his iconic 1919 work L.H.O.O.Q., which signified a symbolic, radical break with the past.

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People often believe they need to make a radical break or big decision to break with the past and then become paralyzed by fear.

A chief difference was that the former, unlike the latter, were led by chief executives of exceptionally sturdy ego who, in their campaigns to consolidate enough power to make a radical break with their collegiate past, used that power as well to sever any capacity of the church to obstruct their personal sovereignty.

Sartre points out that the old soldier chose this meaning for the past, and that he could have chosen to give a different meaning to the past and therefore making a radical break with it.

Modernist design, that radical and iconoclastic break with the past, is now itself a thing of the past.