Sentences with phrase «urgent sense»

Increasingly, though, a conviction has coalesced among many Arab and U.S. science advocates that the current moment in history requires a deeper, more urgent sense of engagement.

How much better would most superhero movies be if, rather than fall back on the plain anonymity of World War I and II villains, they rooted themselves in a live, urgent sense of culture?

But the world is waiting in another, more urgent sense, because the pope isn't just a spiritual leader to Catholics.

In the urgent sense that they must somehow deal with mystery, in their intention to speak the unspeakable, architects have introduced devices and details into their church buildings that they would not use in «secular» projects.

What he has, too, is an urgent sense of economic and social crisis - a sense of what has gone wrong in social democracy as well as in wider society (he talks not of a broken society but of a «social recession»)- and the desire to do something about it.

I came to Parsley Health more out of curiosity than an urgent sense of need.

It's not an overly visual movie, but McCarthy's brightly - lit shots, and a spare music score by Howard Shore, give the many dialogue scenes an urgent sense of rhythm.

With its urgent sense of history, sweeping emotion, and winning young narrator, Mal Peet's latest is an unforgettable, timely exploration of life during wartime.

But at the same time, «this sequel to Super Mario Galaxy takes everything its predecessor did and maintains that urgent sense of wonder and discovery, creating a world that copies its past self, yet keeps the freshness that made it so exciting when the first game debuted two years ago.»

Recently feeling an urgent sense of justice, I could delay no more.

Their consistent pictorial power, however, reflects an urgent sense of purpose rather than self - indulgence or bravado.

This participatory dimension to his practice, where projects are also documented by diaries and films, reflects an urgent sense of interconnection: «Society and art», he says, «should be like breathing — one breathes in and the other breathes out» (2008).

Through a variety of sculptural and installation processes, Austin composes situations characterized by instability, impermanence and illusion — inviting from their visitors an urgent sense of empathy, mindfulness and openness to the unknown.

Dynamic male bodies are placed in close quarters, while crosshatched strokes and exaggerated poses contribute an urgent sense of discord to his subject matter.

Yet, these new works evolve further, capturing an urgent sense of contemporaneity.

Hippenstiel is drawn to that thingly quality of a painting's being, its sheer existence, and a powerful and dynamic application of oil and impasto give his works an urgent sense of materiality.