Sentences with phrase «sense of the history of»

Most of these books will have an updated Star Wars novel timeline, to give you a sense of the history of the expanded universe.

However, this shows a poor sense of the history of the industry — because just a few decades ago, the majority of both profits and stability came from the midlist, not the breakout hits.

The Original Spa Rooms offer the character and sense of history of the originals, high ceilings and parquet floors, but have been given all the attributes a discerning guest might expect.

Within the park you can get a real sense of the history of the area through Stone Age burial chambers, Roman forts, churches and castles.

I mean as much as it creates greater ambiguity, it also reveals both a sense of history of the layering of the paint while, at the same time, anchoring the whole image so that it doesn't float in the picture plane.

You can get a sense of the history of painting within Saville's work so it also reminds me of other artists who inspire me such as Seventeenth century Dutch still - life painters, Picasso, and Lucien Freud.

Now cut down and stretched, these readymade canvases are typically from the 1940s and 1950s, and carry with them a sense of the history of that time.

The exhibition is organized around themes of lightness / airiness, portraiture, and variations around the same images and subjects, all presented with a penetrating graphic clarity and keen sense of the history of image - making.

The critic, William Meyers, writes that «the snapshotlike pictures taken between 1970 and 2012 on the Lower East Side have the sense of history of a family photo album, and much the same sense of nostalgia.»

Not exact matches

«Stepan's history of eradication efforts gives you a good sense of how involved the work can get, how many different kinds of approaches have been tried without success, and how much we've learned from our failures,» he writes, though he also warns that, while extremely valuable, it is far from a page turner.

Bankers look at your personal credit history (credit cards, mortgage payments and personal bills) to get a sense of your track record with financial responsibilities, says Michael Toth, Senior Vice President of Business Banking at KeyBank.

Forrec says the theme will imbue St. Elizabeth with a sense of history, strengthen community ties and emphasize that the site is a real town — not merely a collection of homes for people living out their final years.

So again, this idea of consolidation was more about looking at history, trying to understand how markets trade, and the sense that there's probably more wage inflation than people perceive.

A visibly emotional French President François Hollande opened the final day of the conference, known as COP 21, by appealing to the delegates» sense of history.

His vision of the history of the industry was as assured as his sense of where it would go.

Rowson says this section can include discussions of a company mission statement, what is its reason for being, who are its customers, what is its position in the marketplace, etc. «You might talk about the founder to get a sense of the company history or culture,» Rowson says.

And knowing that I am part of history gives me a sense of accomplishment.

Her talk says it best, but it took no time to learn from her a sense of the challenges, risks, and history of black travelers.

It made sense that people would buy it to communicate, and Apple got lucky that it became a big gaming device,» says Pachter, throwing cold water on the possibility of Apple repeating history.

Unfamiliar Territory Several speakers shared a sense that we're at the dawning of some new age in terms of technology, of ethics, and of human history.

Yet it makes sense for a school that has a storied history of spawning innovators and entrepreneurs.

Japan — which has its own troubles with perfectionism — has a gorgeous history of wabi sabi, an aesthetic sense wherein cracks in clay or wrinkles in skin are signs of beauty.

It has taken years to digest this material and make sense of it, but new and striking findings have made it possible to rewrite the history of what has come to be know as the Terror, or the Great Purge.

Since mobile phones are one of the most widely deployed technologies in history, it makes sense that mobile will start driving global Internet penetration, which currently stands at 36 %.

«There are always going to be historic or symbolic elements founders can embed in their culture, to make sure a sense of history remains,» says Zook.

A story about an entrepreneur's experience that led him or her to found a company, or one about the history of a particular product, for instance, can enhance a company's culture by conveying its heritage or sense of purpose and direction.

It's almost like, depending on what you're reading or what you collect — whether it's a series of Harry Potter books or a series of Vogue magazines — it creates this sense of community around this history and legacy, and one built on the next.

There is nobody to blame for this abandonment of common sense - it is simply the market being the market and we're doomed to repeat history.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of reading about events that shaped history is getting a better sense of what actually happened.

Though there are community dinners and trivia nights, and a sense that founders are part of making history, it can be a lonely place.

Steve Ketchum, executive director of Sound Point, told Bloomberg that in Puerto Rico, «there are no obvious great economic difficult situations... We are comparing Puerto Rico with some of the worst situations of sovereign debt in history and it simply does not make sense to us, especially since Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States.»

Whether a personal loan makes sense for your business will depend on a variety of factors, including your business's finances, your personal credit history, and how much you plan to borrow.

But it makes sense, and these courageous entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders are clearly on the right side of history.»

There is nobody to blame for this abandonment of common sense — it is simply the market being the market and we're doomed to repeat history.

The instant nature of the internet skews our sense of history and time but serious business builders have always recognized that it is never «easy» to build a successful business.

Common sense tells us — and history confirms — that the simplest and most efficient investment strategy is to buy and hold all of the nation's publicly held businesses at very low cost.

There is a growing awareness that scientific and technological progress can not be equated with the progress of humanity and history, a growing sense that the way to a better future lies elsewhere.

Let's take apart the history of Alberta bitumen discounts so that you can actually get a sense for what's going on.

As one of the most successful investors in history, it makes sense to explore the principles and ideas he used to achieve his wealth.

Korea is a homogeneous society where national pride is singularly strong, while Canada's history and diversity give us a different way of defining our sense of «nation» and what makes us proud.

He uses history to debunk long - term prediction models and shows the common sense of looking at markets through the long lens of history.

There is a long history at play here between Kanye's obsession with celebrity, his sense of kinship with bombastic figures like Trump, and his very public struggles with his mother's death in 2007, his mental health, and his recently disclosed opioid addiction.

(And, really, anyone who could claim that laissez - faire capitalism creates a culture of non-coercion, contrary to the lessons of history and common sense alike, clearly was not a serious thinker.)

Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people can not but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times «by the sword» to get them to abandon their faith.

Thus, in a compelling sense, the Christian narrative» indeed all of history» is a story appreciated most fully when read «backward,» in the exegetical light of that resurrection.

In any case, the lessons of recent history still have not translated in the WCC into some sense of reservation, of tentativeness regarding grand world - order schemes.

History shows that religion has been able to bring unity and a sense of purpose to people all across the globe.

I must report at once that in Victims and Values: A History and a Theory of Suffering Joseph A. Amato has turned his apparently impossible assignment into an exciting book that is multicultural and multidisciplinary in the best sense of those much - abused terms.

It simply means we determine objective (over figurative or culturally and historically conditioned) based on common sense and the knowledge we have of culture, history, authorship, etc..

There is in fact a side of Harry that can inspire and be inspired, that runs on a sense of history and human significance on the civilizational and cosmic scales.