Sentences with phrase «sweeping vision of»

She proposed to replace it with a sweeping vision of schools as «community schools,» providers of every service children and their families might need.

Along the way, Anderson through the persona of Mick takes on big business, imperialism, the police, the class structure in Britain, Cold War politics and paranoia, scientific irresponsibility, and bourgeois hypocrisy, while also building a sweeping vision of human limitation.

The Apollo program fit into a sweeping vision of human space exploration — sometimes called the «von Braun paradigm» after rocket scientist Wernher von Braun — that included not just lunar expeditions but winged spaceships, orbiting space stations and piloted missions to Mars.

However, it is Edwards» insistence that God works only through natural, secondary causes alongside this sweeping vision of the scope of God's work that led me repeatedly to questions and difficulties.

The fate of the book is merely a detail in the sweeping vision of Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking), but it is exemplary: Just as....

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After days of following Elon Musk's verbal bread crumbs on Twitter, the billionaire entrepreneur published his «Master Plan Part Deux» on Wednesday night, outlining a sweeping and grandiose vision that laid out future Tesla vehicles, shared and autonomous cars, and combined solar panels and batteries.

He offers sweeping statements about redefining the retail business and soaring visions of the digital future that take the listener into a heady atmosphere of Big Ideas only tenuously connected to the quotidian, earthbound business of selling $ 45 slim - fit gingham shirts.

President Donald Trump will launch a major push for a sweeping tax overhaul with a speech Wednesday in Missouri aimed at convincing his base — and the rest of the nation — that he has a fresh vision for «unrigging» the American economy and isn't just repackaging the trickle - down economics of past Republican presidents.

Since all that we have known as Christian existence, or personhood, or even humanity is swept away in the new visions of our time, faith requires that we affirm their death.

According to the rabbinic cycle of Torah readings, this is when we come down from the great heights of Genesis and Exodus, with their breathtaking perspectives and sweeping visions, and enter the flat and seemingly arid plain of Leviticus.

Hartshorne himself writes with large strokes, with sweeping insight - his concern is to state his vision of God and then to look outward to other traditions and show the superiority of his own conception of God to alternative conceptions.

When Galileo swept the heavens with his telescope, he was hunting for a larger vision of the universe.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

The magnificent sweep and vision of John's Prologue identifies the coming of the Word with the creative and sustaining power of God in Genesis (cf. Jn 1, 1 - 5 and Gen 1, 1 - 5).

Hence right - wing conspiratorialism is enfolded in a more sweeping religious vision of armed struggle in the end - time, when the aware and the saved battle with the mysterious hidden «they» who manipulate power — in guises as varied as the FBI, the Federal Reserve, the Trilateral Commission and the Anti-Defamation League.

With a very different mindset, as R.R. Reno points out, the thinkers of the influential schools of Transcendental Thomism and the Nouvelle Theologie have swept away the old synthesis without replacing it with a viable new one: «the collapse of neo-scholasticism has not led to the new and fuller vision sought by [these thinkers].

The second half was more even but we did not create too much until Iwobi started and finished a sweeping move with Ramsey collecting a ball of vision and skill from the young Gunner and crossing it back for him to score.

Capable of sweeping up in front of the back four, he is also adept at launching counter-attacks thanks to his quick thinking, vision and passing technique.

A person's apparent weight has no direct relationship to their actual health, and unless you are Superman and can scan their internal organs and vital signs with a sweep of your X-ray vision, you can't tell how healthy a person is just by looking at them.

But when you promote sweeping cuts to benefits received by under - 25s as the opening vision of what a Conservative government would do, then you've decided to really go for it.

But some critics question whether he is the man for the job — given his reflexive cautiousness, incessant Wall Street boosterism and a lack of sweep in his political vision.

On Monday, March 12, Rep. Adriano Espaillat held an Inwood Rezoning Forum where he presented a sweeping vision for the future of Northern Manhattan.

Noam Chomsky stands in the tradition of the great Enlightenment thinkers who combined a sweeping intellectual vision with meticulous technical analyses.

With the bustling of cars, pollution in the air, and irate individuals inhabiting the city, I can understand why I usually try to block out the outside world when I run, but this time, let into the moment of jogging down the street, I began to see a new vision: crisp air caused a puffy cloud to form with each exhale, and with the drifting leaves on the sidewalk, I began to perceive the beautiful birds sweeping through the city, people - watching from the trees.

Sweeping down a staircase, a vision of loveliness, you create one of life's memorable moments in a classic Audrey Hepburn design.

One can also nitpick about Jessica Alba being a little light when playing the desperation of a blind woman whose restored vision is more than anyone bargained for, but she's credible enough within the framework of a strong script and atmospheric direction to sweep her along.

Most of this shouldn't work — and some of it, like Emory Cohen's bizarre trip to Cuba, really doesn't — but Marling and Batmanglij attack this wonky material with so much passion and sincerity that it's hard not to get swept up in their brain - scrambling vision.

We then fade to a long, extended shot of a prison janitor sweeping away the piss and feces of the prisoners that's flowed out into a prison hallway, then see extended scenes of Sands in the throes of dying: Scenes of bed sores, blood in toilet bowls, delusions, hearing loss, and then a final vision, near death, of a young Sands running in the woods.

Although Edith is fond of Dr. Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam), she is a budding writer swept away by the Bronte vision of the Sharpes.

The spray sweeps up a wall of mist that limits vision of what's beyond.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Department of Arts Education, with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCASE) and Ingenuity Incorporated (IIC) is pleased to present the Chicago Public Schools» Arts Education Plan, profiling CPS» six arts education priorities that form its sweeping new vision and direction for making the arts part of every CPS student's educational experience from pre-school to graduation and beyond.

Coming out of a sweeping turn, I nailed the throttle, grabbed fourth with that wonderfully precise, solid feeling aluminum - ball shifter, and saw the needle sweeping toward the 100 - mph mark before visions of a Michigan jail cell intruded on my reverie.

The swept roof and small back window restrict rearward visibility, while the lack of a rear wiper makes wet - weather vision harder again.

A sleek, sweeping proportion is the foundation for this vision of a contemporary grand tourer, with a 400 - horsepower twin - turbocharged V - 6 driving the rear wheels.

Drawing its styling cues from the 2014 VisionC concept, the new VisionS sports a wide Skoda grille and four swept - back LED headlights, plus a large full - length lower air intake that dominates the lower bumper and leads to what appears to be another pair of intakes.

From the award - winning author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far - flung islands of the South Pacific.

Such feelings can come from small things; in a fey vision of fairy dust swirling in marble moonbeams, or at the end of an epic where a wave of emotion washes over you, sweeping away the mundane world for a moment.

With his sweeping vision, deftly interwined plots, feel for the workings of power, and indefatigable commitment to human dignity, Tezuka elevated manga to an art form.

It's easy to get swept up with visions of idyllic beaches and dreamy sunsets but one always ends up confused when it comes to choosing an ideal island getaway for oneself.

Armed with dreamy visions of fresh brie cheese, gothic cathedrals and men with French accents sweeping me off my feet, I said no to another year of frat parties and Natty Light for the beauty of France.

He goes on to liken Sean Murray to Peter Molyneux, being swept up in the concept and vision of a game and taking us all along for the ride, but ultimately falling short of those ideas.

All painters make a thousand decisions, step by step, as they move through their process from inspiration to the final sweep of their brush or palette knife, but those working representationally make those decision by responding to something in front of them, to reference materials, or to a concrete vision.

Richter applied the paint in thick brushstrokes, or with rollers and an aggressive sweep of a squeegee (ironically, a tool commonly used for window cleaning and clarifying one's scope of vision).

While his current exhibition, entitled Sound and Vision, emphasizes his most recent works, Russo has been practicing with this technique over the years since rapidly changing home entertainment technology swept away VHS and cassette tapes, turning them into tokens of nostalgia.

Deitch's buzz - driven vision of how to run a museum collided with that of Schimmel, who was known for sweeping, meticulously researched and often expensive exhibitions that examined themes and movements in contemporary visual art.

But, the memory of a great Guggenheim retrospective now 25 years ago («Mario Merz», 1993)-- where his art consumed the building like plants do a jungle, his grand igloos and sweeping neon Fibonacci numbers vying for attention with lizards and even a motorbike — remind me that, now more than ever, we need to see the scale of life in art and belief worth fighting that comprise Merz's vision.

An ardent advocate of conceptualism, postminimalism, happenings, and performance, and of artists as varied as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly, Szeemann developed a new way of exhibiting art, closely collaborating with artists and incorporating a sweeping global vision of contemporary culture.

Across these canvases, works take the shape of timeless spaces, familiar but foreign, with sweeping perspectives evoking a spectrum of imagined memories from the Jurassic period and post-apocalyptic visions of the future.

A sweeping survey of American art at the turn of the 20th century, American Visions: 1870 — 1940 traces the emergence of a truly American style of painting by concentrating on regional artists» colonies established across the United States during this period.

His brash style may not be to everyone's taste; some of his goals (hyperloops, Mars missions and the like) might prove overly ambitious; the whole endeavor could yet falter, but the sweeping vision contained in Tesla's master plan has to be the benchmark for any and all businesses seeking to prosper in a decarbonizing economy.