Sentences with phrase «taboo against»

For one thing, the taboo against piercings seems to be at least in part generational.

In a world where almost a billion people went hungry last year — 119 million more than in 2007 — and with food demand set to double by midcentury, the taboo against GM foods is crumbling.

Prior to the pivotal 2006 intervention by Paul Crutzen (22), which «opened the floodgates» (15), there prevailed a near - unanimous taboo against geoengineering research precisely because of anxieties about the political uses to which it could be put.

The Wild West is untamed and dangerous, so the conventional social taboo against killing is compromised.

In Vietnam, there is no social taboo against asking directly how much something cost.

Maris is about to learn the truth behind the family taboo against salt water.

Our taboo against dog eating says something about dogs and a great deal about us.

But then he doesn't die, and he also doesn't get to kiss the girl, who isn't white but Aaliyah (black)-- mitigating, I would have thought, the taboo against Asian men in American cinema having any kind of sexuality that isn't ridiculous (see: Long Duk Dong) or that involves a white lady.

The reasonable concern that major plot elements not be divulged has spawned a phobic, hypersensitive taboo against public discussion of anything that happens onscreen.

So we can just toss modern taboo against rubbing beef fat on our faces out the window.

Despite the taboo against killing them, in some areas fishermen cut them up for bait to catch bottom - feeding catfish.

Would the ancestors please lift the taboo against hunting and eating lemurs?

I found the argument made by Charter 88 persuasive that the Monarchy helped to legitimise the broader constitutional arrangements, and remove them from public and political scrutiny, with something of a taboo against debating either the Monarchy or the constitution.

Surprisingly, the traditional moral taboo against divorce had little effect on holding together troubled marriages.

Inspired by the childhood of a Chinese - African - Cuban girl who broke Cuba's traditional taboo against female drummers.

There is so much unnecessary taboo against cosleeping in the US — I have found it to be much easier and more restful for me and my children, and they are only little for such a short time!

they faced a cultural taboo against breastfeeding after being raped.

There is a taboo against a man finding his own mother sexy and that taboo can be projected onto the pregnant partner.

This isn't Canada or France, and there is a moral taboo against that sort of thing here because horses are considered a different kind of animal — more intelligent, more beloved, worthy of living out their lives as working animals or pets.

Even boorish undergraduates with no historical knowledge have absorbed the deep taboo against all things Nazi.

We can see, however, that the expressive power of painting can be increased without there being a taboo against references to the physical world.

When this is understood, Hart's litany of capitalism's supposed abuses — pollution, the confiscation of property, unsafe working conditions, etc. — can be seen not as the inevitable result of unchecked market behavior but as a profound betrayal of the very taboo against the initiation of force that capitalism depends on.

Most atheists couldn't run for elected office because there's a taboo against people who don't have the «right» religious faith.

The taboo against smoking cigarettes is an obvious example.

It's a mistake, Dannin says, portray «a single, notorious example as representative of the entire religious movement,» especially when the NOI under Elijah Muhammad «resembled Islam only to the extent of its taboo against alcohol and pork.»

I would settle with doing away with the cultural taboo against discussing the likelihood of God being real.

The patriarchal taboo against women - touching women is an indication that the power of female bonding is a threat to patriarchal strongholds.

Restoring the taboo against anti-Semitism is made more difficult precisely because Jews are so very much part of American life.

There was no reason to expect that the taboo against anti-Semitism, backed by the now - fading memory of the Holocaust, would be spared.

That's why there is such a taboo against atheism, trusting intelligence and questioning dogma, and why faith has such a high value placed upon it.

While the taboo against eating bugs is strong in most cultures, the creatures are nonetheless trending as an environmentally - friendly protein source.

Alcohol is well known to be addictive and has caused untold destruction, yet taboos against its use arguably do more damage, with less resulting moderation, than do appeals to reason and an understanding of the risks.

The cultural taboos against nudity for Christians came not from Jesus Christ, but from Emporer Constantine who founded the heresy known as Catholicism and was continued on by John Henry Calvin.

However, some tribes such as the Apaches had taboos against eating certain animals that they regarded as repulsive: snakes, fish, and owls, for example.

With the realization of possible therapeutic benefits of psychedelics to reduce anxiety and chronic pain, however, the societal taboos against scientific research on their neurobiology have somewhat relaxed.

This breakdown of societal taboos against lemur hunting, a study now shows, combined with weak enforcement of wildlife laws, is contributing to a rise in illegal lemur poaching in the country.

The IS group's attacks are so traumatic in part because they violate the strictest laws of Yezidi society — taboos against conversion and sexual relations outside the community — and so isolate victims from their own people.

Hyperallergic reviews Generations: Joyce J. Scott Sonya Clark and writes that Scott «challenges art world taboos against beauty and humor.»

I am motivated by big ideas such as innovating within formal painting conventions and subverting contemporary taboos against «didactic» or «precious» art.

Not exact matches

(Leviticus 19:2; cf. 20:26; 21:18) Along with moral commands against such evils as child sacrifice, adultery, and sexual perversion are detailed injunctions concerning ceremonial observances, reminiscent of the old taboos.

As in Cards Against Humanity, taboos exist to be broken.

What's worse, the good Muslims of which you speak don't even speak out against the extremists, it being taboo to do so.

But when married couples use contraception, divorces are common even among Christians, and premarital sex is not the grave taboo it once was, where is the rationale for keeping up a barrier against same - sex relations, other than misplaced fear and xenophobic revulsion?

There are a variety of ways in which this is so, but, at the same time, it's clear that certain aspects of pagan familial virtue are not exactly incompatible with the Biblical sacred order that can check or overcome their excesses and pathologies — just as the Biblical order imposes powerful interdicts, not to be confused with taboos, against the kind of violent desires that, to the morbid fascination of the ancient Greeks, deconstructed and destroyed the identities of family - bound individuals.

In its plain meaning, reproductive rights can be reasonably understood as a right to reproduce (for example, against forced sterilizations), a right to refuse sexual relations (i.e. against rape or sexual coercion), and a right to receive medical care related to reproduction without being restricted due to taboos, sexism, etc..

Sexual taboos are disappearing, with no real possibility that the confused category of consent will be able to hold back the tide against total sexual anarchy.

A considerable number of the alcoholics I interviewed had come from rigidly prohibitionist homes and attributed their early excess in part to a reaction against the taboos of their early lives.

Meanwhile, the subject of discrimination remains largely taboo in European academia — especially discrimination against ethnic minorities.

This was somewhat true a few decades ago where bisexual and gay lifestyles were heavily considered to be a taboo by the society or a promiscuous sin against God and the Christian religion.

Fahrenheit 451 pits Michael B. Jordan against Michael Shannon in a world where books are a taboo.