Sentences with phrase «rebel against tradition»

Invariably, artists see this commission as a way to either reject the materialism of a commercial Christmas or rebel against tradition.

Having noisily rebelled against Tradition and Authority, it may seem, the founding generation still groveled before God» or at least before God's supposed product, Nature.

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One must remember that the Yahwist document comes to us out of the southern kingdom, which had the royal line of David as its dominant institution, while the Elohist version comes out of the north, where there never was an established royal line, and where the people were constantly rebelling against the southern tradition that wanted to impose the southern king upon the northern region.

At bottom the Samaritans shared the fate of all those who, though appealing perhaps to age - old traditions, rebel against a situation that has evolved over a long period of time, and try to base their life on historical conditions which have long since disappeared.

The reason of Jefferson and Paine and of what Henry May calls the Moderate Enlightenment that informed the Constitution did not rebel against the providential order, but at most rejected the received ways of understanding that order» tradition, authority, revelation, scripture» in favor of trusting in fresh human intellect.

From rebelling against the Nazi regime to collaborating with civil rights activists, they argue: «There is a proud tradition of the revolutionary scientist.»

Denied allowance into the trials of the first borns because she is a girl, Princess Merida instead chooses to find her own way and ultimately rebels against age old traditions.

In 1848, the town of San Pedro was born as mestizo (people of mixed Spanish and Mayan descent) refugees from the Yucatan rebelled against Spanish occupation and landed on Ambergris Caye, bringing with them the Spanish language and rich cultural and religious traditions.

In the milieu of the dominance of Abstract Expressionism beginning in the 1950s, which actively rebelled against identifiable «meaning,» Sharrow remained grounded in a humanist tradition and a social context.

Morton made art in a wide variety of mediums, including drawing and painting, but her sculptures that lay flat on the ground are the most memorable, a kind of an antiphallic statement that seemed to rebel against art - historical tradition, and sculpture's monumentality in particular.