Sentences with phrase «struggle against tradition»
The standard narrative in 20th - century art history is that painters had to struggle against tradition and conservative institutions to forge a new language of abstraction.
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A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»
Instead of seeing that we are all brothers and sisters on this earth and that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, we create false divisions based on skin color, cultural traditions, religious preferences, and invisible geographical boundaries called «borders.»
Although a cottage industry has sprung up to define jihad exclusively as an internal struggle to gain self - mastery in order to act morally, the classic Muslim tradition also uses the term to denote war against unbelievers to extend the territory governed by Islam (an idea not without its historical analogues in Christianity and Judaism).
And yet in the jurisdictional struggle between church courts and common law courts Coke not only claimed the latter's superiority but justified the claim by reference to common law tradition.20 In so doing he effectively sided with Puritanism in its struggle against Anglican traditionalism.
... needs to rediscover England's radical traditions that are rooted in the long political struggle against dispossession.
A struggle within the Danquah - Busia - Dombo tradition in the lead - up to the election led to Paa Willie Ofori - Atta breaking away to form the United National Convention (UNC) to run against the Popular Front Party (PFP), led by Mr Victor Owusu, in the election.
As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.
Krueger's evident empathy for the Ojibwe and their traditions and values blends seamlessly with horrific violence played out against O'Connor's struggles to heal his family's wounds - and his own.»
In Jamaican tradition, a «duppy» is an evil ghost or spirit; this malevolent supernatural being resurrected by Abdu'Allah highlights the genocidal nature of violence against the black body, and the ongoing struggle with ghosts or spectres from the past, conjured by a hostile world dominated by ignorance and deception.