Sentences with phrase «uses as a touchstone»

There has, however, often been a tendency in the church to sanctify a particular phrase or title and to use that as a touchstone of orthodoxy.

Bonhoeffer deals with the early heresies condemned at the Council of Chalcedon, which he uses as a touchstone for his Christology.

Project Zero, a research organization at the Ed School, is developing an online learning community to accompany this walk — a community in which school children from around the world come together to follow Salopek's momentous journey and use it as a touchstone to learn about history, each other, and themselves.

Using as her touchstone the writings of James Baldwin, a teller of painful truths himself who lived in Istanbul throughout the 1960s, Hansen examines not only the Middle East but also an America that once broke Baldwin's heart, and that remains painfully at odds — whether in the failings of its public - education system or its aversion to providing essential health care to all — with its self - identifiers of goodness and grace.

Light and the Unseen recognizes this history and takes it as its point of departure, using it as a touchstone for further exploration.

The true position was that it had found those terms to be unfair in a consumer contract using as its touchstone the typical consumer so as to apply the Art 4 criteria as best it could.

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Because of the presupposition present in evolutionary theory, Whitehead used consciousness as the touchstone of human experience.

What we are proposing, in effect, is to use material established as authentic by the one sure criterion as a touchstone by means of which to judge material which itself would resist the application of that criterion, material which could not be established as dissimilar to emphases of Judaism or the early Church.

Mr Bauman shared a post saying: «I shared the gospel with them using Romans 6:23 as the touchstone verse.

There is a baffling variety of types and degrees of the disorder, so that if one uses any generalization as an infallible touchstone, he will be led astray in dealing with individuals.

We use the online dating category as our touchstone.

Yet, while those films used the experiment as a touchstone, allowing the story to take on more aspects of a thriller, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film is less concerned with thriller elements, but rather the loss of individuality the participants experienced, and how quickly the guards began to abuse the prisoners, most of whom quickly bent to authority.

Chris Salmanpour, a writer who was discovered through a partnership between The Black List, StudioCanal and The Picture Company to find new voices among EU writers, penned the adaptation of Russian Spy, which is using movies such as Marathon Man and Three Days of the Condor as touchstones.

An iconic use of the haunted - doll trope, this Alberto Cavalcanti - directed tale of a ventriloquist and his seemingly sentient (and malevolent) dummy has stood as a touchstone of the subgenre — everything from the Anthony Hopkins - starring Magic to recent offerings like Annabelle owe the British horror sequence a debt.

«Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter» is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses «Fargo,» the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life.

These familiar touchstones are used as a point of reference to gradually draw you into a world that feels familiar yet distorted, much like the shimmer world of Area X itself.

Their story of using data for meaningful change can serve as a touchstone to inspire others.

This charming memoir from a blogger - turned - writer chronicles her quest to visit all of the places that nomadic children's writer Laura Ingalls Wilder called home during her long lifetime — and used as inspiration for her Little House series, a literary touchstone for generations of women.

Using sites like this one as a clearing house, a touchstone, a place to make sure you know what you're doing is a good way to keep yourself in the know.

The Hampels used the fund as a touchstone of their opposition in part because «pressure to contribute was considerable, and armbands and pins were distributed for public display to...

Helen uses White as a kind of touchstone or measuring stick for herself: as a hawker, as a person struggling with grief, and as a member of the larger human community.

The Pre Plus comes with an inductive back battery cover so you can use the phone with the Touchstone charger out - of - the - box, as well as 16 GB of internal memory (double the memory of the original).

Using the exhibition title «MOMMA» as touchstone, a scathing comparison is drawn between what's for sale at MoMA and what's not (gift shop versus exhibited art).

Using these works as touchstones, Goldstein and Rojas - Sebesta will share their insider perspectives to illuminate the tension — and synergy — between collection display and collection stewardship.

Johns» striking use of popular iconography, «things the mind already knows,» as he put it (flags, numbers, maps), made the familiar unfamiliar — and made a colossal impact in the art world, becoming a touchstone for Pop, minimalist and conceptual art.

The artist's delight in surface textures and fashion — as with von Bonin's repeated use of Yves Saint Laurent as a touchstone appropriation and material surface in her work — implies a positioning of the dandy in absentia.

A theatrical performance, developed using this exhibition as a touchstone, will take place on Saturday 12 November 2016 at Wexford Arts Centre.

An essay by curator Sarah Suzuki uses an extended investigation of «Snow» (1964 — 1969), a complex book - sculpture, as a touchstone from which to further investigate Roth's use of language, iconography, technical innovations and relationships to other artists.

Ferrer conceived these paintings using the sculptors and painter as raw material, a touchstone for his rich imagination.

As such, the acquisition supports Touchstone Rochdale's ongoing programme of using contemporary art to newly contextualise and reinvigorate elements of their social history collection, reflecting Tompkins personal interest in creating the possibility of new meaning through her practice.

This year, Tohme invited the Brussels - based Egyptian curator El Fetouh to participate, and the latter responded with a small but complex exhibition that used three historical exhibitions — the first Alexandria Biennial (1955); «China / Avant - Garde» (Beijing, 1989); and the First Biennale of Arab Art (Baghdad, 1974)-- as a conceptual springboard for probing the ways in which such historical touchstones have remained fertile territory for artists engaging with — and altering — narratives of modernity.

He uses abstraction as part of a larger vocabulary, in which installation, sculpture, painting and photography serve as touchstones for experience.

The exhibition is accompanied by new scientific studies of Picasso's working methods and a groundbreaking book that uses the painting as the touchstone for examining an array of issues vital to modernist culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.

(4) for someone who (like me) generally respects your opinion and uses your technical expertise as a touchstone for evaluating technical questions they are incapable of understanding (either by way of insufficient background or intellectual limitations — or both, as in my case), you undermine your own credibility by accusing someone who at least seems to be engaging in good faith, of engaging in bad faith.

There are lots of theories around as to why, pictorially at least, we're unhappy with the perfection of the present, ranging from the view that our notion of authenticity is slow in catching up with technology, and still uses paper as the touchstone, to the argument that young people who use smart phones and these «aging» apps, in the words of Will Self, «have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.»

Use our intensive care nurse resume sample as a touchstone to take the «pulse» of your resume and see where it stands right now.

Use the ad as a touchstone and make sure your cover letter and cover letter both reflect exactly what the employer wants.