Sentences with phrase «than literature of»

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Meanwhile, the body of literature analyzing and measuring happiness is growing and increasingly popular: from 1991 to 1995, Buchholtz writes, there were just four economics papers published on the topic; between 2001 and 2005, more than 100 appeared.

And that's making the film, rather than writing a piece of literature on paper.»

Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

China Literature is akin to Amazon's Kindle service, with 8.4 million pieces of content from more than five million writers.

Estimates for the effect of minimum wage are generally stronger than those in the U.S., and as Morley Gunderson notes in his 2005 survey of the literature:

The results suggest that the tax elasticity of retail activity may be larger than found so far in the literature.

In contrast, a long - standing research stream in brainstorming (psychology) literature has repeatedly found that people working in groups are actually less creative than the same number of individuals working separately.

The evidence for the importance of board diversity is somewhat stronger than the evidence recommending board sizes of five or greater, in large part because there is a significant body of literature indicating that team diversity generally improves performance.

The metal is considered a rabawi item according to the available Islamic literature on the topic, which means it can be traded only on the basis of its physical properties, such as its weight, rather than on its future value or for any speculative purposes.

He surveys Catholic literature from the end of Vatican II to the present and finds dynamic writers with «personal visions of faith fueled by idiosyncratic passion rather than orthodoxy.»

For example, François's new right - wing colleague, Godefroy Lempereur, introduces him to a nativist literature heavy on demographic studies purporting to show that «belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children than atheists or agnostics.

You are no more a scientist than The Three Little Pigs is a work of great literature.

• Kalidasa, Śakuntala (Abhijñānaśākuntalam): As Kalidasa was «Sanskrit's Shakespeare» (though older than the Bard by around a millennium), and as this is his masterpiece, and as it was the German translation of this play that first inspired in Goethe the concept of «world literature,» one really should read it at least once.

• Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl: The greatest work of modern Iranian literature, by a writer whose devotion to Poe inspired at least one work far greater than anything of which Poe was capable.

Williams studied literature under some legendarily distinguished scholars — W. P. Ker, of Epic and Romance fame, R. W. Chambers, and no less a figure than A. E. Housman for Latin, which might account for the fact that though Williams's English is often wonky, his Latin, when he breaks into it, is rather good.

But it is always more than composition; it always requires a substantial amount of reading in English and American literature.

As a result I have been more than usually dependent on the critical assistance of persons who know the literature better than I.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

You see this sort of language a lot in complementarian literature: «real men,» «real women,» «real marriage,» «hardwired,» «programmed,» «blueprint» — as if masculinity and femininity are rigid, set - in - stone ideals to which we must ascribe, rather than fluid expressions of our unique selves.

This vision of childhood, in which the role of parents is to trust children and the role of children is to keep that trust, to be honest and good and, above all, not duffers, is to me a purer, sweeter, and infinitely more potent vision than any other a child is likely to encounter in literature.

And this is not to say the established canon of great Christian literature is anything less than just that.

But the feeling about the city that Melville is trying to express runs deeper than the pastoral commonplaces and reform literature of his contemporaries.

The Reformation, as Butler shows in his review of the literature, countered that heretical «supernaturalism» to less effect than Protestants liked to claim.

Assertions that heterosexual couples are inherently better parents than same sex couples, or that the children of lesbian or gay parents fare worse than children of heterosexual parents, have no support in the scientific research literature.

Drawing on the conventions of the classical literature of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock of symbols and figures of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.

North American publishers other than Orbis, Fortress and Eerdmans are showing little interest in the avalanche of theological literature that has been produced in Latin America — because it has a limited market.

Although it has become part of the conventional wisdom in much of contemporary anti-colonialist literature, both Eastern and Western, it is an oversimplification to dismiss the missions as nothing more than a cloak for white imperialism.

On the basis of my working with poor people over many years and of my study of the relevant literature, I believe that «consumption» is a better indicator of poverty than «income,» much of which is unreported, and undetectable except as evidenced in consumption.

From one perspective, this is a good thing, for the textual evidence of the New Testament is much stronger than any other ancient Greek piece of literature.

In contrast, much of what is said in sermons and written in Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they have.

Despite its considerable currency, the idea of religion as sacred canopy seems not to have been grasped in more than a superficial way in much of the literature.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

But it is in order to ask whether there is not an imperative in every age for the production of «sacred» literature which will express — possibly better than the ancient writings — the deepest religious insights and experiences of civilization.

Sometimes these imperfect human beings find things like arts and literature that explain the truth of what is to be human better than science and history.

That several books or bodies of literature of crucial importance for theology appeared in close proximity to one another still impresses me as coincidental or providential rather than subject to a single sociological explanation.

Here, and in other egalitarian literature, principle is given priority over application; admonition is given preference over description.34 What is dangerous in such a procedure, though it admittedly works in many cases, is the implied epistemological claim that objective, impersonal statements are of a somehow higher order of trustworthiness than the more personal and relational aspects of Scripture.

He would be the Caesar of a Jewish empire no less universal than the Roman; though it would be fair to say that the program drawn up for the «Son of David» in literature not far in date from the time of Jesus has more about justice and moral reformation than about bread and circuses.

His influence was felt in both contemporary criticism and creative literature, but his presence was there more often «in the nuances of stress and intonation than in the form of documented reference.

It is also Holy Scripture and I think that makes it a different sort of book than the great works of literature,» she said.

You can look to the scientific literature or the deaths of numerous children whose parents believed their faith was more powerful than insulin or antibiotics (they were wrong, just like you are now).

The Bible is nothing more than a fictional piece of literature used to control people and to justify one's particular prejudice.

We see the same sort of symbiosis in postmodern literature, which makes precursor texts a part of itself rather than rejecting them.

Nonetheless, I should like to suggest that the form of the holy scriptures of Himayana, conforming to the more introverted nature of Himayana piety, is significantly more «subjective» than that of the Mahayana writings — a religious literature that constructs a monstrously rich, manifold, variegated, and complicated «objective» world.

Scientific naturalists who take this line sometimes add that they do not necessarily object to the study of creationism in the public schools, provided it occurs in literature and social science classes rather than in science class.

This literature contains some stimulating intellectual responses as well as several ad hominem pieces which are more concerned with rhetorical flourish and pietisms than critical reflection.1 There are some who want to rid the church of process theology because it is too philosophical, hence unappreciative of things which are distinctively religious.

He pervades the Gospels much more than in other literature of the...

There is no magic or specialness to the present sanctified Hebrew anthology than to other anthologies: be it the Qu» ran, The Mahabharata, The Writings of Chuang Tsu, The Panchatantra and many many more ancient pieces of literature.

Certainly it assumed definitive form more quickly after Mohammed's death than did any other of the sacred literatures after the passing of the founder of any of the other religions.

The Puranas have had much less attention from scholars than has the literature of India thus far studied.

The term is apt, since this movement shares many features with the romanticism of literature and philosophy — the stress on feeling rather than rationality, on individuality (e.g., the individual nation) rather than universality, on particularity (e.g., of blood and soil) rather than abstraction.