Sentences with phrase «very ancient idea»

This is, in fact, a very ancient idea.

Duffy, the author of a popular history of the papacy, Saints and Sinners, offers a fresh defense of some very ancient ideas.

While the final girl has provided rich fodder for film theorists, especially regarding her complex reprocessing of gender mores, what often lingers unrecognised is how the final girl improvises new technologies in the interests of survival: the only place in Western culture where there still persist very ancient ideas about technology as a weapon of the weak, and the means of prevailing when defeat appears inevitable — a tendency pushed to its speculative extreme in The Last Girl Scout.

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The idea of selling out seems very ancient now,» Gardner says.

I have one idea of my own that will probably sound crazy, because we have this idea that ancient people were very primitive.

The idea that an ancient or billion year old world is the proven and evidenced fact is so very closed minded and from Engineer to Engineer, that is what will hold you back and limit your thoughts and life potential.

Once Christianity became permanently divorced from its Semitic origins in Judaism, and was proclaiming its Gospel in a pagan context where the ancient mythology was still very much of a reality, it was natural that the idea of the unseen divine world above should steadily become more dominant in Christian thought.

On the ideas in his talk, Kurian writes: «Stromatolite is a fossilized record of ancient microorganisms that stretches back to the very beginning of life on Earth nearly 3 billion years ago.

Obviously, this idea of healing is very strong in the work of Joseph Beuys, and a part of an ancient tradition of art making.