Sentences with phrase «take on the contradictions»

From desert scrub to cold blue sea, it carries an eloquent yet hard - edge take on the contradictions of a place so difficult to define.

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However, for those who insist on trying to find some meaning from it, they are forced to decide which side of the contradictions to take and since much of it is untrue, they also must guess as to what part of the bible they should accept and what they should ignore as just a fable.

On the one hand, the comrades take refuge in outdated forms of communication and esoteric arts and crafts instead of occupying themselves with the contradiction between the present constitution of the media and their revolutionary potential; on the other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its aesthetiOn the one hand, the comrades take refuge in outdated forms of communication and esoteric arts and crafts instead of occupying themselves with the contradiction between the present constitution of the media and their revolutionary potential; on the other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its aesthetion the other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its aesthetic.

But there was always a spin, an explanation, an excuse, another take on another verse, a clever rationalization despite a glaring contradiction.

Its way around this contradiction is to get its allies to shoulder the burdens it won't take on itself.

Those of you who say that taking the bible as a parable is picking and choosing might benefit from looking in the mirror (or a book on scientific history) and realize that most of the things you use rely on seeming contradictions with the bible.

When Jesus died on the cross he took all of our sin past present and future with him so this why there is this supposed contradiction as Christ had not paid the penalty at this point of the Bible for sin.

He had sued The Mail on Sunday, and he might have taken heart when, early in August last year, Brian Davies, Auckland (N.Z.) district police commander, stated, «We have found that much of what was reported seems to have been founded on rumor and speculation which, upon investigation, has evaporated in a mishmash of contradictions and uncorroborated allegations... some witnesses had allegedly received offers of money and other inducements for their information.»

Theresa May is a walking contradiction: the authoritarian who took on the police, the Remainer who would pursue a tougher Brexit deal than the Leavers, the politician who refuses to play the Westminster game.

«I think it's a contradiction for the demand to be put on municipalities to find their way back to self - sufficiency, and at the same time the opportunity to generate revenue and to sustain itself is taken away.»

What I took away from this video was the rabbi saying they have a choice — that they don't have to vote for Cuomo whose values are in contradiction of theirs on homosexuality and abortion.

While Helen Mirren is fine in taking on the lead role (it's a male role in Shakespeare's play), the film still has too many contradictions and falls flat.

Jobs can take hours to complete, and this is et another way Bravely Default plays on the overall theme of contradiction: should you put the game into Sleep Mode to build up some Sleep Points, or should you watch your village blossom while you complete another quests in the main game?

Massa Lemu is a Malawian visual artist and writer whose multi-disciplinary artistic practice takes the form of drawing, performance, and multimedia installations that are concerned with the contradictions of migration within globalization and the effects of an immaterial, flexible and mobile capitalism on the post-colonial subject.

Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class.

To get to Lee Bontecou's studio, you take a train from New York, through Philadelphia, past rolling farmlands and small towns and the curious contradictions of the Pennsylvania landscape: the ominous white towers of Three Mile Island on one side, an Amish farmer plowing behind four sturdy horses on the other.

As a material «insensibl [e] to contradiction», wax's ability to take imprints of the unique landmarks of the skin connects it to strategies of surveillance and data collection that measure visual, behavioural or chemical characteristics, connecting Hershman Leeson's hotel tableau to her later invented character.14 The artist described Roberta Breitmore as «my flippant effigy» and «a dark, shadowy, animus cadaver».15 Similarly, The Dante Hotel was for the artist simultaneously a scene of death and «a means of survival».16 As such Thek's and Hershman Leeson's volatile effigies connect two very different bodies of work and different political movements — the counterculture, gay rights, women's liberation — to make visible the restraints placed on the subject.

When one examines the troubling contradictions — astonishing cruelty, environmental and health risks, economic imbalances — involved with the business behind and mass consumption of meat, vegetarianism takes on the urgency of much larger debates in which the survival of the human race is at stake.

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