There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with
the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.
Her concern to sustain certain benefits of Christian belief without preserving the foundational commitments of that belief links Murdoch to that great
tradition of Romantic theologians and poets — figures such as Friedrich Schleiermacher, William Blake and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Such cosmologies are almost always «vitalistic» in the sense of requiring auxiliary and somewhat ad hoc hypotheses to account for the apparent violation of the law of entropy in the impetus toward greater complexity manifested in the evolutionary process.6 Evolutionary cosmologies thus perpetuate a much older
tradition of Romantic Naturphilosophie far more than providing a fully contemporary philosophy of science or some sort of «scientifically - verified» philosophy.7
While the American
tradition of the romantic comedy has waned in recent years, Justine Triet's portrait of a woman at a crossroads in the courtroom and bedroom proves the beloved genre is alive and well in France.
In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American
tradition of the romantic sublime.
Their current work explores the relationship between contemporary art making practices and the historical
tradition of romantic landscape painting.
For all the surprise it caused over the Atlantic, abstract expressionism was not the start of something, but rather a beautiful ending, the epic finale of a long
tradition of Romantic nature painting, gone up in the fireworks of Newman's zips, Pollock's drips and the smoky miasma of Rothko's colour fields.
Conscious of the nineteenth - century German
tradition of romantic landscape painting, Hütte depends upon compositional and structural devices, whilst refuting its tradition of emotional excess and self - conscious pathos.
Many of the works harked back to
the tradition of Romantic landscape painting.
The motionless Cunningham is as much a still life as a portrait, as are the of tables full of apples in the Hamburger film, while there's a whole
tradition of romantic landscape in the changing light and effects of weather in the poet's East Anglian garden, culminating in the arc of a rainbow.
While studying painting at Central Saint Martins and at the Chelsea School of Art in London, he developed his unique approach; in works evoking
the tradition of romantic landscape painting, Doig drew attention to the act of applying paint to the canvas by combining abstracted elements with ordinary subject matter.
The superabundance of his pictorial energies - the expression of a power almost grotesque in relation to its situation - link Pollock to the tribal art
tradition of romantic exaggeration and hyperbole.
Not exact matches
In China, some
romantics are choosing french fries instead
of the wedding
tradition of holding a cherry between their mouths before kissing.
Boasting
romantic 18th - century architecture, and a rich artistic and cultural
tradition, the colonial city
of Cuenca is set high in Ecuador's Andes Mountains.
Allowing for the remarkable contrasts, Ker believes he can still trace at least one theme through the work
of all six
of his subjects, a theme that has little to do with the obvious «motifs»
of English Catholicism such as «aestheticism, a love
of ritual, ceremony,
tradition, the appeal
of authority, a
romantic triumphalism, the lure
of the exotic and foreign, a preoccupation with sin and guilt.»
Contemporary
romantics are given to disdaining the etiquette
tradition of their own modern culture, while waxing sentimental over similar practices in what they regard as more authentic cultures.
Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great
Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most
of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the
romantic comedies and tragedies
of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.
The
Romantic tradition to which Melville at least partially belonged modified this pastoral motif in a number
of ways, but it never lost its certainty that cities are perverse, the swarming nests
of all that is evil and unnatural.
At the same time, much postmodern thought perpetuates Romanticism's narcissistic glorification
of emotion and irrationality, except now without the
romantics» esteem for
tradition and the people.
Lindbeck's «experiential - expressivist» model does a reasonably good job
of accounting for the
romantic and mystical streams
of liberal theology, but it does not account for variants
of liberal theology that make gospel - centered claims (such as the
tradition of evangelical» liberalism), that base their affirmations on metaphysical arguments (such as the Whiteheadian process school) or that appeal to gospel norms and metaphysical arguments (such as the Boston personalist school).
The drama itself is a mix
of elements the composer drew from the
traditions of German
romantic opera and its opposing
tradition of Franco «Italian opera.
I'm always interested to know how men experience this
romantic stuff — I mean outside
of the Mariological
tradition.
Jazz, perhaps, but will it continue on as a living
tradition in its own right or simply be remembered as a particular period or phase in the history
of Western music, like the Baroque or
Romantic?
Captain Scott was a morbid
romantic, the victim
of a
tradition of heroic failure, says Roland Huntford — and Amundsen's diary makes much better reading
By setting your table with your very finest, you can make a
romantic Thanksgiving dinner for two a special celebration that honors the
traditions of Thanksgiving in elegant style.The specialness
of this table is built around glimmering gold.
The food here classic Italian, hitting all those dreamy date night notes, but the really
romantic reason to come here is the
tradition of love notes.
Wales has a whole host
of native
romantic traditions that set it apart from the rest
of the UK — learn one or two and we promise you'll sweep your Welsh date off their feet in no time.
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Edinburgh; a city steeped in history,
tradition and a wealth
of romantic restaurants to woo the person
of your dreams
of their feet.
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of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim
of each assessing the other's suitability as a
While many people prefer online dating to the
tradition dating approach, is online dating a safe alternative to the traditional way
of meeting potential
romantic life.
Dating is a stage
of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim
of each assessing the other's suitability as a Culture
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Another part
of the
tradition,
of course, is the
romantic date.
Dating is a stage
of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim
of each assessing the other's suitability as a Around the world, people celebrate the end
of the dismal winter weather with unique festivals and
traditions.
To wit: Given the rich
tradition of comedies
of humiliation, it's hard to believe that until The 40 - Year - Old Virgin there hasn't been a major Hollywood laugher set around the
romantic fumblings and flailing
of an adult virgin.
But who she is when she's not on the job is a cipher; we only know that Paula shares a pad with Kit, a cute - loopy weirdo who, in the
tradition of eccentric
romantic - comedy roommates in the person
of irresistible comedienne Zooey Deschanel, sashays away with the picture every time director Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon) gives her a chance.
«Following in the
tradition of great
romantic comedies like Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The Proposal, The Pre-Nup is a wholly original
romantic comedy
of errors about what happens when you mix Brits and Americans, marriage and family, and money with love.»
Swept off your feet, in the grand
romantic tradition, Alma is hardly a rough diamond — raw silk, perhaps — but Reynolds intends to craft her into a figure
of absolute elegance.
«Psycho» (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) retained its power to chill us and while watching Hitchcock's plushly
romantic «Rebecca» (1940) we were reminded
of the impressive
tradition of British noir.
This charming and comical chef d'oeuvre offers a
romantic and cordial reverie in the
tradition of Jean - Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin (1966) and Pierrot Le Fou (1965) as personable young adults estimate their lovesick aches and irritations to pop songs and incidental toy airplanes.
So I wasn't surprised that, when given the freedom to create a personal story, Chris Rock would be more than capable — and Top Five is a very effective, often hilarious adaptation
of Rock's stand - up in the
tradition of classic
romantic comedies (actually, structurally, the film is closer to screwball comedies
of the 1930s and 40s — but more on that in a bit).
It's hard to understand what exactly is tethering Esti to her obviously miserable life (her
romantic connection with Dovid is perfunctory at best) beyond the simple notion
of «
tradition.»
Aged twenty, brought up in an academic environment and a relative comfortable and stable background, I was also equipped with a rich and
romantic notion
of Great Britain; grandeur
of Theatrical
traditions, graceful and elegant lifestyles
of the «upper - classes», associated with King Arthur, the Tudors, beautiful gardens and estates, such as recently shown in successful series like Downton Abbey etc. etc., the actual reality
of life would prove differently.
Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement
of progressive education within the
Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view
of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery
of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé
of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification
of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).
The building
of «self - esteem» and «community» has been part
of the same progressive project, coalescing in today's dominant K - 12 paradigm - constructivism - which combines the child - centered, nonjudgmental, nonhierarchical, teacher - as - facilitator classroom (rooted in the
romantic tradition of Rousseau) with a cooperative learning regimen (rooted in Counts's vision
of a New Social Man).
Reflection is a
romantic thriller fueled with heart - pounding suspense and high - octane action in the
tradition of Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and Michael Connelly.
This fascinating city with its
romantic charm takes you to an epoch
of royalty and
tradition.
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The combination
of Balinese
tradition and modern internal design provides a comfortable and
romantic atmosphere.
«The Dead Rabbit takes a time - honoured
tradition of hospitality, a sense
of history and young, dynamic staff and turns them into a modern Irish bar that is accessible, irresistible, even fiercely
romantic.»