Sentences with phrase «venerable tradition of»

As my original reference to «the venerable tradition of skepticism» indicates, I am in fact well aware of its valuable and indeed fundamental role in the practice of science.

We should really call them «deniers» rather than «skeptics», because they are giving the venerable tradition of skepticism a bad name.

Nevertheless, the venerable tradition of art as social provocation — as in the 1920s with Duchamp and the Dadaists and later online in the 1990s — refuses to die.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For as much as his film taps into a venerable tradition of observational realism (witnessing, never editorializing), it's not «objective.»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

And while it may be wrong to ironize a song - and - dance number that seems intended as a nice send - off for a venerable actor and a semi-venerable character — still one notes that the whole tradition of the musical spectacular is a tradition of lavishly bankrolled excess.

In short, the idea that Christ descends to «the limbo of the Fathers» is part of a venerable Catholic theological tradition that invites reflection, discussion, and debate rather than compels assent.

«When this is all over,» Judah answers, «the tyrant toppled, The killing at an end, all signs of these cruelties long gone, A new government of love will be established in the venerable David tradition.

Institutions are not having a very happy time of it these days, and the Church, despite its long and venerable tradition, is no exception.

The venerable spiritual tradition being invoked here is that of purification through suffering, in the confidence that Fr.

Many contemporary Baptists would be surprised to learn that venerable shapers of the Baptist tradition such as Andrew Fuller, Richard Furman, B. H. Carroll, and even E. Y. Mullins often spoke in an affirming way of «the Baptist creed.»

The best we can do is acknowledge, with Kuntz, that there is a sense in which this unbridled and rebellious extremism in Russell's nature stemmed from a secularized Calvinist evangelical fervor in behalf of the quest for Truth, which constituted a venerable tradition in the Russell family (BR, p. 2).

when, in fact, a particular cultural configuration of Catholicism is undergoing change as it accommodates, in accord with venerable tradition, a new cultural circumstance.

Each of these three theistic authors is engaged in a difficult but necessary task, the attempt to craft a conceptual scheme adequate to the full range of contemporary human experience, giving appropriate attention to the valuable insights of venerable theistic traditions.

For if liberty is deprived of its moral soul, if it is detached from the past and from its venerable tradition, if the continuous creation of new forms that it demands is deprived of the objective value of this creation, if the struggles that it accepts and the wars and the sacrifice and the heroism are deprived of the purity of the end, if the internal discipline to which it spontaneously submits is replaced by external direction and commands — then nothing remains but action for action's sake, innovation for the sake of innovation, and fighting for fighting's sake; war and slaughter and death - dealing and suffering death are things to be sought for and desired for themselves, and obedience too, but the obedience that is customary in war; and the upshot is activism.

At the beginning of it, he gave expression to the agonising questions which must present themselves to anyone leading a movement to upset longstanding practice, and venerable tradition: «I have found it very difficult to justify my conscience; I, one man alone, have dared to come forward against the Pope, brand him as the Antichrist, the bishops as his apostles, and the universities as his brothels.

He headed one of his chapters with a line from the Annales of the pre-Classical Roman poet Ennius — Moribus antiquis res stat Romana viresque — thus linking the Christian Roman faithfulness to Tradition with the pagan Roman appetite for venerable and normative antiquity.

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.

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 drawn - out death of Fiona's father, a royal frog voiced by John Cleese, is a minor tour de force of pathos and slapstick, and there are some angry trees that do justice to the venerable cinematic tradition of angry trees.

In the venerable teen - movie tradition of John Hughes and Cameron Crowe (and in the warm comic spirit of James L. Brooks, who produced the film), Fremon Craig sees her heroine's inner life not as grist for punchlines and gross - out shenanigans but instead as something to be treated with warmth, sensitivity and nary a trace of condescension.

On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, Telluride, the venerable film festival tucked away in this remote Colorado mountain village bucked tradition and did the seemingly unthinkable: it expanded.

And in keeping with past tradition, we're trotting out some of gaming's most beloved, venerable franchises this week for the sole purpose of picking apart their flaws and upsetting their fans.

August 1, 2010 • Tao Rodriguez - Seeger, the grandson of folk all - timer Pete Seeger, has carried on in the family tradition of musical activism, making frequent appearances at the venerable folk festival.

George Bush, then, was standing in a venerable tradition when he proclaimed the importance of optimism in all circumstances.

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.

In addition to these two main traditions there is a Jungian faction, also venerable, and the recent «hidden figuration'theories of Pepe Karmel, presented in the catalogue of the last retrospective, but these latter have the drawback that they treat Pollock's work as if it were analysable in the same way as any historical figure painting.

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.

Wade is working in what by now is a pretty venerable tradition, against the conventional idea of painting» (A. Temkin quoted in, R. Smith, «Dots, Stripes, Scans: Wade Guyton at the Whitney Museum of American Art.»

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.

If the actual materials uses in these pieces are not high - art, the tradition of assemblage is a fact of modern art that is venerable indeed.

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.»

Dean's phenomenologically steeped work relates to radical experiments in film by the Canadian Michael Snow, but they are also part of a more venerable British pastoral tradition that has affected the arts of that island nation in literature and music as well as the visual arts.

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.»

Many venerable publishers like the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (``... established in 1865 as the authorised publisher of the official series of The Law Reports for the Superior and Appellate Courts of England and Wales») carry on the tradition today.