Sentences with phrase «takes as its theme»

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»
It is this tension of temple and Torah, of conditional and unconditional, of presence and absence that I have taken as the theme of the sermon that follows.
Taking as their theme «Leading the Way», a number of influential speakers will present case studies from across Great Britain and Ireland which will highlight innovation and leading edge developments across the broad spectrum of the highways and transportation agenda.
Barton Fink takes as its theme the writer's block suffered by a screenwriter.
By no coincidence whatsoever, one summer group show in the galleries takes as its theme «I Won't Grow Up» and another, quoting Rimbaud, «Idle Youth.»
Twombly's «Hero and Leandro (After Christopher Marlowe)» takes as its theme the classical legend of the doomed lovers
Dickinson's stand takes as its theme the artist's muse.
Ryan Gander's show at Lisson takes as its theme the notion of art and artist becoming inextricable, the moment in which an artist no longer quite knows how to separate their work from their life.
The solo show takes as its theme the processes of turning external reality into images, as well as the manifestation of inner pictures.
The exhibition takes as its theme the notion of space.
The show takes as its theme «Miseducation,» which is certainly more direct than the Whitney's program, and a nod to the deskilled mode of salon - style presentation demonstrated here.
Inspired by the New Testament, the Pavilion takes as its theme «In the Beginning... the Word became flesh.»
The fifth installment of the «curator - driven» fair takes as its theme «⌘ COPY ⌘ PASTE,» but but don't turn up at Spring / Break expecting to see lots of clever, clip - art - like paintings.
However its 13th World Clean Air Congress in London in 2004, which took as its theme the relationship between Air Pollution and Climate Change, crystallised the Union's commitment to the issue of SLCP mitigation.

Not exact matches

There was a visual theme, as a result — something that took me by surprise.
The bride and groom pick a theme, such as «Vision in White» or «Seaside Serenade,» and the resort takes care of everything from the cake to the bouquet.
And as Bush's campaign has slowly taken shape, critical themes to small business owners have come into soft focus.
The migration of original programming online has been among the biggest themes in entertainment over the last few months, with House of Cards making cable operators stand up and take notice as audiences adjust to watching entertainment on computers and mobile devices.
The notion of casting this Greek movement as «anti-capitalist» is reminiscent of a big theme in the 2006 documentary The Take, which was directed by Avi Lewis and written by Naomi Klein.
Nostalgia for the 1980s and the 1990s has peaked in recent years, as evidenced elsewhere in the fashion world with a denim comeback not to mention listicle upon listicle on BuzzFeed, reboots of countless nineties sitcoms from Boy Meets World to Full House (or original takes on dated themes like Netflix's Stranger Things), or even the release of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition that immediately became The Gift of the 2016 holiday season.
The modern Super Bowl halftime show as we know it started in 1991 with New Kids on the Block (previous shows featured a theme with marching bands and various performance groups), and it's stayed relatively consistent since: A pop star (or stars) takes over the field with props, backup dancers, probably pyrotechnics, and possibly even a live band, and goes through a rundown of their hits in a handful of minutes.
Besides spending $ 15,000 on the 21 Royal experience for Halloween, Madison regularly posts pictures of herself and her daughter doing Disney - related activities, including having a Disney - themed cake for her daughter Rainbow Aurora (perhaps named after Sleeping Beauty), taking multiple trips to Disneyland, and dressing as Disney characters.
«Sea of Thieves» is something completely new: It's a pirate - themed, open - world action - adventure game that's intended as a means of getting players together to take on pirate quests.
-LSB-...] movement as «anti-capitalist» is reminiscent of a big theme in the 2006 documentary, The Take, which was directed by Avi Lewis & written by Naomi Klein.
In the end, when you starve research and development revenue is bound to fall is this path is taken because customers lose interest just as the neglected theme park no longer attracts visitors at its existing ticket prices.
The theme park operators would have taken in a lot less money over the years as well.
As we have said on many occasions, sometimes a theme or narrative around an industry or trend can take on a life of its own.
-- Geopolitical risk seems to be the over-arching theme this week; with market uncertainty (as we can see in stock weakness) over the UK referendum looming, neither the BOJ nor the Fed wished to take too hawkish a tone.
Take the larger list and group it by themes, such as solar systems, solar heating, etc..
Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.
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There are two main themes as I see it: the presence of God, and the journey of being a Christian: songs like «The Road», «Lead Me Home» and «Take me With You», are all about the same thing.
«Before the Dawn», which takes «waking up with worry ahead of the day» as its theme, is the strongest track on the album.
He took the passage in Colossians about «all things» as his theme because he wanted to speak against the dualism of the church and the world which piety always presumes.
We like lambs to the slaughter (keeping to the religious theme) just keep reading and buying and taking the Media's word as gospel (hehe did it again).
The fourth criterion, that these accounts could symbolize these themes without being taken as literally true, is the key to helping us work on proper interpretation.
But at least four interrelated themes in Plato's proposals about the education of ideal rulers took on a life of their own and did shape ordinary paideia as the Christians knew it centuries later.
So the question is: do they reinforce Christian themes, and can they do so without being taken as literally true?
We have, therefore, taken our respective broadcasts as our theme, and have commented on them in relation to each other.
As to the first theme, take this typical passage from his sermon «The Religion of the Day»:
Instead, it adopted the well - known definition of obscenity, «whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.»
As Christians take the next step in liberation thinking, recognizing that the very theme of liberation needs to be extended to the whole of life, two shifts in thought and action are needed.
One of the arguments for long periods away while everything is fine is the prevention of potential problems in the future but Sir Paul Coleridge said there were better ways to deal with any problems, such as going on holidays for couples, organised by Christian groups or with a Christian theme: «I would immensely encourage people to investigate those and take them up.»
While remarking that of course a barbarous age is not expected to hold to modern standards of decency, Chamberlain writes: «At the same time the whole range of literature might be ransacked in vain for a parallel to the naïve filthiness of the passage forming Section IV, or to the extraordinary topic which the hero Yamato - take and his mistress Miyazu are made to select as the theme of their repartee.»
We should know too whether the silence rule of I Corinthians I4: 34 means that, after all, women must not lead in prayer nor prophesy publicly, as 11:4 - 10 seemed to allow them to do, or only that women must take no part in judging prophets, which is the theme of the immediate context, 14:29 - 33.
Set parallel in time, place and theme to Gilead, her prizewinning novel of 2004, Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Home, takes the reader inside the home of retired Presbyterian pastor Robert Boughton for another perspective on Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the family, who left Gilead as a young man after fathering a child.
They would say that John has taken the same sort of spiritual «licence» with the actual events of Jesus, as a consortium of film directors might take with some heroic theme from history, an heroic theme perhaps from the Bible itself.
Esack takes a broader, more traditional approach as he identifies and explicates the Qur» an's key themes and the history and traditions of interpreting the sacred text.
As we explore the path taken by the concept of resurrection over some four thousand years of the cultural history which is our heritage, we shall find the resurrection theme expressed in a great variety of ways.
You are, of course, right that this is a consistent theme of Paul's, but there are others who take «sin lists» (none of which actually includes being gay, of course) as somehow trumping this, rather than illustrating what is not beneficial.
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