Sentences with phrase «venerable tradition»
The phrase "venerable tradition" refers to a long-standing practice or custom that is respected and admired for its age and history. It suggests that the tradition has been followed and passed down through generations, earning reverence and admiration from people. Full definition
«Paul, Apostle of Christ may fall into that creakily venerable tradition of impeccably British - accented biblical pageantry, but from the first frame, Hyatt's approach is marked by clear - eyed intelligence and a refusal of the obvious.
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when, in fact, a particular cultural configuration of Catholicism is undergoing change as it accommodates, in accord with venerable tradition, a new cultural circumstance.
In this he was standing in a long and venerable tradition within the Church....
Sentiment rarely makes for good science, but it's nonetheless pleasing that researchers have found good reasons to continue one of astronomy's most venerable traditions.
The 4th of July is associated with loads of venerable traditions including town parades, barbecues, picnics, fireworks, and events paying tribute to our nations independence.
Art News June 2014 Ann Landi Paul Pascarells's 16 recent works call to mind several venerable traditions: Japanese screen painting, Asian landscape in general, and Abstract Expressionism, especially of the spontaneous Pollock drip school.
The institution's first female director opened a new program of exhibitions, extending Kunsthalle Basel's venerable tradition of featuring emerging artists and experimental exhibition forms.
We were told to see the long hours that physicians and medical students invest in the service of science and patients as an expression of this venerable tradition of healing.
That venerable tradition of Catholic moral teaching is in danger of being reduced to the level of a bumper sticker.
Institutions are not having a very happy time of it these days, and the Church, despite its long and venerable tradition, is no exception.
President Ronald Reagan was the last major public figure to speak of America as a city upon a hill, and his allusions to that venerable tradition were derided as a gross instance of either naiveté or hubris, or maybe both.
And not only did he pronounce decisively upon disputed points, but he was willing to pit his judgment against the venerable traditions of his nation, and even, it would appear, on occasion against provisions of the Law of Moses, divinely inspired as it was believed to be.
Unless one counts the Holy Innocents as the first martyrs, and there is a venerable tradition that does just that.
In keeping with our venerable traditions, Labour should respond by proposing ways to slowly rebuild our country's collective sense of self.
Rewarding campaign loyalists with government posts is a venerable tradition which spans all levels of government, from village halls to the White House.
Historically provocative documentary about a Salt Lake City girl's efforts to form a gay high school club, tied to the venerable tradition of homosexual repression in the United States.
There's a venerable tradition of Los Angeles soul music — not just R&B crafted by California - born musicians like Etta James and Brandy, but the litany of wistful songs about La - La Land and its deferred dreams, from Dionne Warwick's 1968 «Do You Know the Way to San José» to Rufus featuring Chaka Khan's 1977 «Hollywood.»
For as much as his film taps into a venerable tradition of observational realism (witnessing, never editorializing), it's not «objective.»
That would be our protagonist, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal), who soon begins a sly flirtation with Le Saule Pleureur's beautiful sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon); she in turn introduces him to the venerable tradition of French cooking, which he becomes determined to master.
Once in a while more drastic measures will be taken, such as reconstituting the school with new staff, but the old staff is usually just shuffled around the district (the venerable tradition known as «passing the lemons»).
George Bush, then, was standing in a venerable tradition when he proclaimed the importance of optimism in all circumstances.
Battle Worlds: Kronos is a back - to - basics turn - based strategy game — set on a playing field divided into hexagons — in the venerable tradition of the Panzer General series.
Super Mario 3D World is comfortingly familiar, built on a venerable tradition of headbutting bricks, coin collecting and stomping on cute beasties.
She riffed on the venerable tradition of slapstick in her 2006 piece Target Practice, a wall covered in smashed pie tins that was shown at MoMA PS1.
One of the latest to breathe new life into this venerable tradition is Chicagoan Rebecca Shore.
She has been one of the most talked about artists of the past decade, consistently finding new narrative structures to infuse the venerable tradition of painting with an unpredict - able expressionism.
We encourage permeability within and outside of our discipline to remain responsive not only to paintings» venerable traditions, but also to its increasing hybridity and ongoing redefinitions.
In this sense, while often derided as superficial or merely entertaining (as if art must either make us think or feel, but never both), audio - visual art here takes its place in a venerable tradition stretching back to the Renaissance discovery of linear perspective as a way of immersing the viewer in the painting's reality.
Pairing artists with choreographers often produces transcendent results, and it has a venerable tradition — Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham, for instance.
While flowers have always functioned as a poignant punctuation within such iconic early paintings as Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott, 1969, or Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy, 1970 - 1971 (both Tate, London), it was with works such as the present one that Hockney first began to intensely explore the venerable tradition of still life painting on its own - prompted, in part, by the sudden passing of his closest and most valued confidant, Henry Geldzahler, in 1994.
Katie Haw, director of the Archives of American Art, said in a statement how invaluable these artist talks are: «Artists Talk on Art continues a venerable tradition, extending back to the nineteenth century, of artists gathering in studios and clubs to talk about issues of common concern.»
«Through the Artist - in - Residence program, we hope to carry on the venerable tradition of providing artists with opportunities for creative expression in some of the country's last remaining wild places,» said Sauer.
Featuring primary - colored geometric forms and grids, her compositions instantly evoke Piet Mondrian, at the same time hinting at a venerable tradition of European pre-war geometric abstraction of the sort practiced by Jean Hélion.
Blending tradition with a vibrant, fantastical realism, Aiba's unconventional sculptures point to new horizons in a venerable tradition, by allowing us to peer into an idyllic world where nature and man live harmoniously, side by side.
As one meteorologist complained, geology textbooks in 1990 were still copying down from their predecessors the venerable tradition that the age of the dinosaurs (and nearly all other past ages) had enjoyed an «equable climate.»
[p120] Peremptory challenges have a venerable tradition in this country as well: