Sentences with word «raison»

It's funny how quickly a shift in perspective can change an opinion, but then again, doing things quickly is the entire raison d'être of the sixth - generation Camaro 1LE.

It's my morning bowl of raison d'etre (thanks, Homer).

For a machine whose raison d'être stands or falls on a purely emotional purchase decision — after all, a Golf can be had for less with the same powertrain choices — the Beetle convertible's surprisingly practical.

Saving public money is apparently the entire raison d'etre of this government, but while Grayling bleeds cash with his overstuffed prisons, there's no investigation of how to spend taxpayer money most effectively.

Indeed, it might be argued that nothing less than the whole raison d'être of the state itself was fundamentally and irrevocably altered by both of the world wars, together with the intervening Great Depression.

Meanwhile, the artist began a phase of introspection — not looking for his own raison d'être rather than that of painting.

La raison d'être, perhaps?

That was not exactly intentional, but had everything to do with (white) disco fans simply permitting themselves to re-embrace the original raison d'etre of the whole Afro - American pop music phenomenon: good - time dancing.

Psychiatrist Dr. Charles Raison told CNN that meditating for even five minutes a day can lead to major benefits.

Even though Amazon invited the NY Times to the stage to help pump up the volume, newspapers are not the primary raison d'être of the new Kindle.

And Wendy's toddler's entire raison de etre is to show up from time to time with a portable potty, sit down and poop.

With his exhibition, Tayou asks: «la raison du plus fort est - elle toujours la meilleure?»

The Aventador J is equipped neither with a navigation nor car audio system, nor does it have the associated screen or air conditioning controls — these would simply detract from its one and only raison d'être as an extreme driving experience.

The general response from everyone I've put that question to is that Cuomo hasn't gone nearly as far as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, in antagonizing the unions by preserving their main raison d'etre: Collective bargaining.

Starring Miranda Raison, Sam Keeley, Daniella Kertesz, Elarica Gallacher and Lorna Nickson Brown.

Wheat and wine achieve their ultimate raison d'être in the eucharistic chalice.»

Raison d» Etre does indeed present an historic and robust review of the works of an artist about whom John Szarkowski wrote in the 1964 MoMA catalogue:

You'll hear it repeated a lot by both disillusioned Labour and Tory MPs, and it provides a convenient founding raison d'etre.

«La Biennale must present itself as a place whose method — and almost raison d'être — is dedicated to an open dialogue between artists, and between artists and the public.»

RAISON D'ETRE - «Halcyon» has an Opening Reception on Saturday, November 26, 2016 from 6 to 10 p.m. Artists on view include Kate Zambrano, Kit King, John Wentz, Victor Grasso, David Cheifetz, Aaron Westerberg, Alpay Efe, Matthew Bober, Daniel Maidman, David Stoupakis, Che Smith, Derek Harrison and Jackee Sandelands - Strom.

Guests feel the heated concrete sculpture La dà © raison by French artist Pierre Huyghe.

Part of the answer is that such case is simply doubting the exaggeration of the alarmists, for which there is no other raison d'etre.

I think one of the reasons for the weakness of denominations and the relative vitality of ecclesiastical bodies and sects is that history is often a denomination's most important raison d'être, while theology plays a secondary role.

And I'm glad the measurements weren't too bad I'm going to use this recipe to make a cinnamon raison bread soon!

I missed out the maple syrup and used honey to sweeten also added raisons.

They were amazingly distressed, with cracking, scratching, gouging and much obvious changes of form... Matisse was always possessed of a remarkable raison d'être, was engaged in meaningful and purposeful action over many decades, dispelling any reputation as a nervous ditherer.»

Other clubs have done it but our sole raison d'etre is profit.

The UK intelligence establishment has had a renaissance after the post Cold War doldrums and a new raison d'etre with the emergence of global terrorism.

French startup Happns raison dtre is bringing the real world back into mobile dating apps with a location - based system that lets users.

French startup Happns raison dtre is bringing the real world back into mobile dating apps with a. Say hello to a more effective dating experience!

More than anything, Fonda gives this glossy, reasonably entertaining rerun an American raison d'etre.

His famous dictum, «Tout le monde a ses raisons,» applies to Assayas's characters, but with a modern twist: how rapidly those reasons shift, and how rarely we know precisely what they are.

and «The Crying Game,» for example — the PGA has now explicitly aligned itself with the drearily homogenous lot of precursors (the Guilds, the Broadcast Film Critics, even the BAFTAs) whose self - admitted raison d'être is not to express their own conception of the year's best, but simply to anticipate that of the Academy.

RAISON GALLERY - «Quintessence» has an Opening Reception on Saturday, June 10, 2017 from 6 to 8 p.m..

This is not so for the great majority of Ph.D. programs, whose funding and perceived raison d'etre come from doing research.

As for the film's seeming raison d'etre, the walrus - ization of Wallace (walrus, Wallace — get it?)

Philanthropist and businessman Joseph Rotman (of the Rotman School of Management) is the institute's founding chair, and forging ties between scientists, government and business is one of its official raisons d'etre.

Name a target market — teens, Hispanics, newlyweds, high - tech workers — and you'll find a financial start - up whose raison d'être is serving it.

And it's also true that Shoppers has offered a sort of convenience store annex to its personal care raison d'être for years.