Sentences with phrase «sense of modernity»

A natural wood table provides a rustic influence, while arty lights add a sense of modernity.

This simple DIY sofa table not only helps you save on space but also brings with it a great sense of modernity.

The house looks plain on the outside, and I don't get the sense of modernity in any of the design or the exterior architecture of the building.

He might have seemed, at the time, to be speaking for the great cultural movement about to emerge — for James Joyce, with his layering of classical myth and the profane reality of early - twentieth - century Dublin in Ulysses; for Picasso, whose postwar art of pastiche seemed to disassemble and recombine historical styles just as his earlier work had taken apart and reconstructed pictorial space; for Stravinsky, whose music had found a sense of modernity in both primitive ritual (The Rite of Spring) and the mincing artifices of the eighteenth - century ballroom (Pulcinella), and who sought for his Oedipus Rex «a medium not dead but turned to stone.»

NPR finds «a brave sense of modernity and freedom» in The Art of Romaine Brooks at Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The flat - bottom steering wheel, overall plastic quality and the layout will convey that sense of modernity.

Hi Shannon, this is an incredibly glamourous outfit, love the floatiness and fabric of the dress and the cutouts add a lovely sense of modernity, you look sublime!

The dramatic print, designed in - house, adds a sense of modernity to the softly scuplted sihouette.

Amir Adnan has designated these all kurtas with the pure sense of modernity.

For such a classic name, Daniel has managed to evoke a sense of modernity giving it a new and incredible dual appeal.

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To grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.»

Thus a Canadian tends to associate the negative aspects of modernity with capitalism, its more positive sides to some inarticulate communitarian sense that is not capitalist.

If there is a sense in which addiction can be called a disease, it might be as the «disease of modernity,» a symptom of humanity's escalating disenchantment with authority, especially divine authority.

I think he and people around him have a sense that the church's pendulum swung too far toward the firm reassertion of Catholic rules and vision of the Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and so on.

The word «nihilism» has a complex history in modern philosophy, but I use it in a sense largely determined by Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom not only diagnosed modernity as nihilism, but saw Christianity as complicit in its genesis; both it seems to me were penetratingly correct in some respects, if disastrously wrong in most, and both raised questions that we Christians ignore at our peril.

Here's one sentence: «It seems to me that MacIntyre's image of modernity as an integrated, monolithic condition only makes sense within Marxist assumptions that....

Whatever Leo Strauss» personal disposition on the question of Biblical religion (and he certainly seems not to have been a believer in any familiar sense), he remains an indispensable thinker for believers because of his unrivaled deconstruction of the faith of modernity.

Now, with unseemly haste, the year 2000 rushes toward us, and with it what many sense to be the end of modernity as we have known it and the beginning of a world whose character we have yet fully to discern.

Like the ancient dybbuk separated from its body and consigned to wander the world, modern man senses his detachment from life as the peculiar curse of his modernity, the price paid to Satan in return for distance.

But as Novak points out, at least one reason for this quasi «religious subscription to the norms of modernity is precisely the sense that, in contrast to Christianity, Judaism» as primarily a behavioral rather than a doctrinal religion» is ideally suited to worship at the Kantian altar.

On the other hand, the so called Transcendentalist school of thought - in its broadest sense including Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan and Henri de Lubac - has attempted to develop a synthetic world view for modernity.

Even if we have never heard of the word» «modernity,»» we sense in inarticulate ways that we embody much that is «modern.»

This discovery is a product of our modernity in the sense that it expresses the backlash of the critical disciplines — philology and history — on the sacred texts.

Here's one sentence: «It seems to me that MacIntyre's image of modernity as an integrated, monolithic condition only makes sense within Marxist assumptions that he has clearly abandoned.»

The first of these is that while the Western world is now «post» - modern in the sense that modernity is dying around us, it is not «post» - modern in the sense that any new thing is yet replacing it.

Its» 129 villas offer a sense of heritage presented with modernity and drama, with some accommodations perched on a hillside.

The couture context made it feel even more relevant and punchy: it highlighted a sense of urgent modernity that made everything else feel suddenly old.

This white Christian Dior wool and silk crepe jumpsuit was a study in sleek glamour with its plunge neckline and wide - leg silhouette adding a sense of sultry modernity.

For both Sen and Appiah, one senses a leaning over backwards to weaken the identification of Muslim with an enemy of the West and modernity, or African with the primitive.

There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity.

In connecting this concept, the hotel commissioned celebrated Chinese artist Man Fung - Yi to create a life - sized infant elephant metal sculpture to grace the hotel's lobby and give a sense of place through an exciting blend of modernity and Sri Lanka's nature.

Viceroy reinterprets today's sense of history, modernity, tradition and innovation in a uniquely timeless way.

He says in part, «[Ofili] asks questions about our time through intoxicating visual compositions that examine peripheral modernities and enable us to make sense of our world.»

The work nonetheless leads into the following two sections, the Pavilions of Traditions and of Shamans, which accurately point to an increasing sense of doubt across some quarters of the Western world as to whether the promise of modernity and the progress of Enlightenment have resulted in a step forward for humankind.

Street scenes and studio shots, while formally distinct from each other, all capture a pervasive sense of freedom and identity amongst youth in postcolonial Mali and continue to speak to a shared spirit of modernity and diaspora.

Their work can be seen to explore a sense of nostalgia for the future through references that oscillate between the aesthetics of 20th century science fiction, cold war propaganda and fin - de-siècle modernity.

Distant worlds and stimuli with apparently nothing in common attain a happily eccentric coherence in Ernesto Esposito's collection, in which can be felt a sense of vitality, albeit veiled by melancholy, which it is hard not to refer in some way to Naples, where the designer was born and has chosen to live, and where he very young began collecting in the 1960s in the lively climate of avant - garde modernity enjoyed in the city.

«One way of understanding the relation of the terms «modern,» «modernity,» and «modernism» is that aesthetic modernism is a form of art characteristic of high or actualized late modernity, that is, of that period in which social, economic, and cultural life in the widest sense [was] revolutionized by modernity... [this means] that modernist art is scarcely thinkable outside the context of the modernized society of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This exhibition is comprehensive, informative, fascinating and simply brilliant, allowing the viewer an insight into this short - lived art movement that attempted to make sense of the rapid modernity that was sweeping through their lives.

Omer Fast's new exhibition at the Chinatown branch of James Cohan Gallery, August, revels in the power of the Western imagination to utilize non-white cultures as a way to role play and «time travel» into playgrounds for voyeuristic pleasure - seeking that reinforce Western modernity's sense of superiority.