Sentences with phrase «shaped by outside forces»

Neither, however does a knee - jerk belief that everything is due to the individual, that nothing is shaped by outside forces and the structure of civilization.

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The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.
In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the ancient Greeks» idea «that one's life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»
In shape, they range from squares to frieze - like panels... By forcing one to scrutinise closely, the form draws one into Lozano's domain while distancing it from the outside world: this is a place where you have to strain to comprehend clearly.
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