Sentences with phrase «since classical times»

They show Nauman walking in the asymmetrical stance of contrapposto, familiar in sculpture since classical times, both toward the viewer and away, and in positive and negative and fragmented images.

Although uncertainties about the nature of these virtues have been raised since classical times, Gardner reveals that in an age defined by vast technological advancement and relativistic attitudes toward human nature, current trends are largely a product of postmodern thought and digital media.

Although uncertainties about the nature of these virtues have been raised since classical times, Gardner reveals that in an age defined by vast technological advancement and relativistic attitudes toward human nature, current trends are largely a product of postmodern...

Since classical times, lavender has been one of the most popular perfumes in the Western world, and it continues to hold sway today in several beauty industries.

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As it happens, the Times Literary Supplement gave the book to the philosopher Anthony Kenny to review, perhaps because he could never be accused of any parti pris in this debate, since he has in the past leveled his own severe criticisms against classical Christian theism for relying on an «outdated Aristotelian cosmology.»

These difficulties facing the classical atomic theory are well known: secondary qualities remain inexplicable; no meaning can be given to the notion of an external world outside of the sense organs of the observer; organic time must be reversible — which it is not; we can never choose among hypotheses, since all of our mental states follow «from necessity,» so we don't have theories, but can only report autobiographies, and so on.

Serious authors no longer appear for thoughtful interviews on nighttime television, we don't have variety programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show that reserved some space for ballet and classical music, and Time Magazine hasn't had a classical musician on the cover since 1986.

Why: The festival was started in a bid to promote Indian classical dance and held at Konark Temple where this beautiful dance form has been nurtured since ancient times.