Sentences with phrase «shaped by a desire»

Or to what extent has Christian African American political thought in the past half - century been shaped by a desire simply to be full - fledged participants in American culture and to what extent has it been shaped by a separatist impulse?

It is simply ludicrous to suggest that her philosophy is shaped by a desire for more money.

«(A) s a man, his entire life has not been shaped by a desire for, or a rejection of, a fluffy white dress.

These findings also show that children's food preferences may be partially shaped by a desire for the toys featured in TV ads.

The political body, a key concept of the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985, is bound by the poetics of subjectivity, shaped by desire, and disobedient and resistant in the face of political turmoil such as oppression, violence, and dictatorship.

The life stories of the protagonists — a taxidermist and writer working at the museum — elucidate how the presentation of those facts is shaped by the desires of individuals.

From its beginnings in experimentation by mid-19th century scientists and gentlemen of leisure, photography has been shaped by the desire to understand and explore the medium's essential materials.

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Both insist they are mere platforms that are informed and shaped by the input and desires of their users.

Part of the change is shaped by Tacoma's growing population in the region, and a desire by Simon to maintain the mall's relevance, the documents submitted to the city say.

He starts with the EIA estimates of costs of different generation sources, realizes that with those numbers the GEA mix is cheaper than what it replaces according, declares that «it is likely to be the case that the new estimate has been shaped by political pressures within the Obama administration» and therefore dismisses them, and then shops around for a prediction more in keeping with his desired conclusion.

Couples should be encouraged to «shape» new desired behavior patterns in each other by affirming even very small steps toward those goals — e.g., «I really appreciate your hanging up your clothes, dear» (ignoring other messy behavior that hasn't changed).

The desire to re-image redemption may seem the height of folly or, worse, arrogance — folly when one considers the extent to which we have been shaped by patriarchal Christianity and arrogance when one considers the profound healing that both women and men have experienced by embracing Christian truths.

Many go off by themselves, and then create an idea of God to shape their own desires.

Yet our political culture has been so thoroughly shaped by a pattern of weakening that it can not accommodate this desire for the sacred.

The churches have constituted themselves the official guardians of the need, with the result that some of them actually pretend to accord or to withhold it from the individual by their conventional sacraments, — withhold it at least in the only shape in which it can be an object of desire.

Theology - even in a completely non-foundational, web - like rationality signified and shaped by emerging technology - is ultimately constricted by the technological elite who are more able to control information flow in a way that meets their wants and desires, even when these wants and desires are for the purpose of bettering the rest of society and humanity.

Religious consummation is the entrance into a state of fulfillment by one whose aspiration has been so tuned and shaped by particular anticipations of that state, and by anticipatory participation in aspects of that state, that this end represents the perfect marriage of desire and actuality.

Make individual raviolis by cutting with a round cutter or using a knife to make desired shapes.

Divide dough in two and form into desired shape by hand.

My initial desire to work at Ben & Jerry's came from my love of gooey marshmallow swirls and fish - shape chocolate chunks, but it was sustained by two factors unrelated to my sugar addiction and aspiring tree - hugger identity.

She uses reason, power, and shaping by regime and reinforcement to achieve her objectives, and does not base her decisions on group consensus or the individual child's desires.

For an unusually shaped pillow, always begin by filling the smaller areas then work your way outwards to ensure that it takes shape as desired.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

One state party chairman who talked with Priebus over the past week said he was convinced the chairman wanted to come back, and that he was motivated by a desire to prove that the RNC has never been in better shape than during his tenure — despite polls suggesting his party's nominee, Donald Trump, is headed for a crushing loss in November.

By carefully coordinating bursts of light and oxygen to firm up the resin where desired, the system makes complex, 3D shapes.

As we spread into the cosmos, the route we take will be shaped by old and familiar human desires — and perhaps even a dash of religious fervour

Old views of the shape of Europe were conditioned by the Second World War and the desire to guarantee peace among nations by unity.

If you have a mixture where chemical reactions can result in different outcomes, you can, by choosing the required pulse shapes, select the desired outcome,» says Tolstikhin.

DNA origami, developed 10 years ago by Caltech's Paul Rothemund (BS» 94), is a technique that allows researchers to fold a long strand of DNA into any desired shape.

A crystal is really just a very large macromolecule, and could be used for richly varied complex chemistry if assembled atom by atom into desired shapes with strategically placed defects and dopants.

Analytical tests from Vanderbilt's Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Nashville, TN, as well as the University of New Mexico's Center for High Technology Materials in Albuquerque, NM and Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy Team (http://quantumdot.lanl.gov) confirmed that the final products had the desired shape, composition and behavior by analyzing individual quantum dots at the atomic level.

So if you're not in good shape yet, don't try too hard to cut down the body fat, because you can't achieve the desired effects by simply becoming skinnier.

Maybe you're driven by the desire to lose weight, tone your thighs, shape your shoulders or flatten your belly?

Whether they feel theirs is too flabby, too flat, or even too large, the desire for a tight, toned rear end is pretty much a universal sentiment among the female population, only surpassed by the mystery of how to actually get one's rear into such shape!

The basic principles of strength training involve a number of repetitions (reps), sets, tempo, exercises and force to cause desired changes in strength, endurance, size or shape by overloading of a group of muscles.

Again, Stewart doesn't shape her role by what men want or desire and Em doesn't exist solely to leverage the growth of the male leads.

Dana, you started us rolling a couple of days ago by acknowledging how deeply our collective plunge into life under Trump shaped our perceptions over the past 12 months, and it's true — I went through most of 2017 desiring, seeking, and finding films that would tell me something about how we got here or about the way we live now.

Such integrated ecosystems need to be thoughtfully shaped and orchestrated daily by astute school principals with a clear understanding of the desired totality, the requisite digital acumen and the wherewithal to lead a total school community on an ongoing evolutionary journey.

The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.

This is a book to be read and absorbed by any school leader desiring to shape strong, positive cultures.»

Murder happens in every time and place, but the specifics are shaped by the fundamental preoccupations of that society — its deepest fears, its priorities, its most intense desires, its history, its darknesses.

Her mixed media works are shaped by questions about self - awareness and relationships in a world of dualities, desire, spirituality, survival and love.

Mixed media works are shaped by questions about self - awareness and relationships in a world of dualities, desire, spirituality, survival and love.

For the first time in her practice, she overtly manipulates her surroundings by drawing the folds of her curtains in order to shape the growing line of sunlight into desired configurations.

They signify art as commodity - fetish / object - of - desire / desired - object by exaggerating references to commodity manufacture - as in the printed surfaces, the repetition of the same shapes and imagery, the synthetic palette (hues typical of process inks used for photocolor separations), and the stacking (an allusion to surplus goods and conspicuous consumption); and by conflating these with burlesque allusions to sexuality and eroticism - as in the greasy holes of Painting of Depth or the pornographic photographs of Untitled (1986).

Artist's Biography Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare) belongs to a generation that has demonstrated its ability to lucidly reflect upon the difficult and often traumatic underpinningsof local histories.The use of a nuanced examination of how the contemporary is shaped by memory and desire, convulsion and spectacle, plays a central part in his work.

Driven by a desire to tell a story in every picture he takes, Teller has shaped his own distinct and instantly recognisable style which combines humour, self - mockery and an emotional honesty.

The Dust Channel, a video by Roee Rosen projected in Gallery 3, explores ideas of purity, containment, contamination and desire through the format of an operetta set in the residence of a couple whose fear of dirt, dust, or any alien presence in their home takes the shape of a perverted devotion to home - cleaning appliances.

By recombining the letters that spell out a wish into a new symbol, Burgher's pictures of sigils literally encode desire while embodying it abstractly through shape, color and composition.

Known for his hyperrealist sculptures, Matelli's work and hyperrealistic sculptures are shaped by internal desires and external forces.