Sentences with phrase «set against a culture»

This low - key tale of a shoeshine man (André Wilms) who takes in a runaway African boy (Blondin Miguel) is set against a culture of unemployment, poverty, and loss.

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The key organs of popular culture have declared dissenting views on sexuality and marriage unfit for polite conversation, setting off occasional high - profile witch hunts against dissenters and enabling an environment of intimidation well beyond those.

Thus it was with a grim literalness that there was fulfilled, in the life of entire cultures and not only of individual families, the alienation described by the saying of Jesus in the Gospels: «I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter - in - law against her mother - in - law; and a man's foes will be those of his own household» (Matt.10: 35 - 36).

The culture war sets the Church above and against the world, rather than in but not of the world.

In a similar way, Catholic teaching today, as notably set forth by John Paul II, strongly encourages the fullest possible cooperation among Christians in contending for a culture of life and of truth against the encroaching culture of death and deceit.

A reaction in the dominant community is already setting in against accepting diversity and in favor of making new efforts at assimilating all into the dominant culture.

We need to set the claims of the Kingdom over against the culture of narcissism.

Extreme fundamentalists who forbid members to watch TV, who sometimes even burn TV sets, illustrate a Christ against culture view.

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

Compare this to the Tory agenda of profiteering and wealth protection for those at the top; creating an army of unemployed people to force down pay whilst demonising the vulnerable, setting people against one another and underpinning the whole twisted ideology with a culture of fear, hatred and selfishness.

«Before, you could in principle test chemical compounds of interest against hundreds of cell lines, but it would require a lab member going to a freezer, taking out hundreds of vials — one for each cell line — and setting up hundreds of tissue culture plates.

Co-written by the duo, its story is a sweeping, multi-generational one set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young — and old — are all major elements in this heart - aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late - 20th - century youth culture.

Set in a dark, comic book world against the backdrop of late 80s counter culture, DEADLY CLASS follows a homeless teen recruited into a storied elite private school where the world's top crime families send their next generations.

It's being billed as «an unlikely coming - of - age story set against the backdrop of late»80s counter culture which follows a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins.»

Lowrider is set against the vibrant backdrop of East LA's near - spiritual car culture and follows the story of Danny (Gabriel Chavarria), a talented young street artist caught between the lowrider world inhabited by his old - school father (Demián Bichir) and ex-con brother (Theo Rossi), and the adrenaline - fueled outlet that defines his self - expression.

Set to debut in 2016, the series will follow a group of street - savvy teenagers in the South Bronx during the 1970s as the cultures of hip - hop and punk collide with new forms of music against a backdrop of violence, crime and other political / social issues of the era.

For this they will need versatility i.e. breadth as a hedge against rapidly changing conditions, an increased capability i.e. depth to engage with complex challenges, along with a diverse set of competencies such as adaptability, increased collaboration between cultures, etc. towards the goal of a sustainable humanity via fulfilled individuals.

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Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well.

Set against the promise implicit in the launching of Apollo, her touching recollection of her youth and teenage years — her strange, unhappy parents, her difficulties fitting into a new school, and her first love — speaks to universal concerns about growing up and resurrects a pivotal episode of American history and culture for a new generation.

A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture — a hurtling, page - turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities

Set against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear for writer's room showdowns and an eye for bad backstage behavior and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come trSet against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear for writer's room showdowns and an eye for bad backstage behavior and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come trset politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come true.

Turin itself has a rich culture with spectacular architecture and famous sights such as the public squares, gardens and castles all set against the dramatic backdrop of the Alps.

A collusion of Asian and colonial cultures is captured in an East - West fusion of architecture, artefacts and landscaped gardens, set against breathtaking ocean views.

This clash of cultures is expressed in the musical score, which sets baroque string orchestra against African percussion and voices.

Appropriating the format of specific paintings by renowned masters ranging from Titian to Édouard Manet, Wiley often depicts his subjects wearing sneakers, hoodies, and other gear associated with today's hip - hop culture and sets them against ornate decorative backgrounds that evoke earlier eras and cultures.

Our film explores six painters known as the Washington Color School movement as a cultural phenomenon, set against a backdrop of explosive politics and intrigue, music and culture.

In Shrines to Speed this reality is evoked by Warhol's image of twisted piles of metal and steel, set against William Eggleston's diptych portraying 1970s pleasure seeking culture with a man and woman posed alluringly, proudly, next to cars which appear not as backdrops for the image, but co-presences, even extensions of the subject's bodies themselves.

Collier usually photographs images that already exist in popular culture — such as record - album sleeves, magazines, coffee - table books, Hollywood film stills, and pictorial calendars — set against neutral studio backdrops.

Directing their critiques instead toward the construction of culture itself, they work against standards set in Europe and the United States even while they are historically participants in these very traditions.

The exhibition at CCS Bard includes more than forty works, and establishes Collier's interest in photographing images that are propagated in popular culture — record - album sleeves, magazines, coffee - table books, Hollywood film stills, and pictorial calendars — set against neutral studio backdrops.

[30] His auction record is # 440,000, set at Sotheby's, London, in February 2006, for Fashion Plate, Cosmetic Study X (1969)[31] For a 2014 retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the government - owned museum insured 246 works of Hamilton for 115.6 million euros ($ 157 million) against loss or damage, according to an order published as law by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.

Max Hollein, «Shopping,» in Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture, Tate (2003) Gabriel Orozco proposes a game where logos and the rules of the market are set against each...

During this exhibition, Doryphoros and Dyson took the place of traditional bronze and marble figurative sculpture on either side of the grand stone staircase, set against the backdrop of casts from the Parthenon frieze given by George IV to decorate Manchester's very own temple to culture.

In Stein's telling, he does emerge as a kind of flawed and accidental holy man — a bungling missionary, set against an increasingly money - bloated art culture, who believed deeply in the work artists do.

The subjects in Wiley's paintings often wear sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps, gear associated with hip - hop culture, and are set against contrasting ornate decorative backgrounds that evoke earlier eras and a range of cultures.

The Bad Faith exhibition will feature the first showing of Common Culture's new work I Dreamt I Was A Monkey — And They Made Me Wear Shoes, a multi — channel video installation featuring «ex — TV «soap» actors performing scenes of discrete social interaction» set against a backdrop of high street consumption.

For the Zwirner exhibition, he juxtaposed these snowy white islands of culture with vibrant green representations of tropical islands — large - scale sculptures of palm trees made from rattan and steel along with paintings of the trees set against brilliant blue skies.

The about: pages contain everything from the story of Mozilla's battle against Internet Explorer and robot pop - culture references to advanced configuration settings, permission management and diagnostic information.

Against these elements which set the parameters for non-discrimination in relation to Indigenous property - land, culture and control - the NIC Principles (particularly principles 3, 4 and 5) are wanting.