Sentences with phrase «weight of tradition»

Serious Irish writing must involve a solitary hero coming to self - consciousness, throwing off the dead weight of tradition (especially Catholicism), and having sex happily ever after.

This was the issue when Martin Luther stood unafraid against the full weight of tradition and dogma, and in the name of God's Word insisted that the Church was wrong.

It would be a rash man indeed who would attempt to toss away the vast weight of a tradition which insists on the role of Moses as law - giver.

They may celebrate nature, address our relationship to a rapidly changing environment, or mark in a personal and meditative way the passage and power of light in time and space; other artists» works concern narratives of access, migration and destruction, while others still test the historical weight of the tradition.

The weight of my tradition identifies regeneration with the work of God in baptism.

By all means, defend marriage, invoke the weight of tradition, make all the arguments you can invent with all the passion, compassion, and cunning you can muster.

Despite the weight of this tradition, Genesis 12 undeniably does not begin with Abraham's merit.

And they carry the weight of tradition: chances are they were definitional to your own high school experience.

The moment discarded the weight of tradition, in his own earlier and much looser style, deriving from Abstract Expressionism.

When a painter faces a blank canvas, that weight of tradition is daunting — you are doing the same thing Caravaggio and Rembrandt did.

The echo of the Stein portrait invokes the weight of history, the weight of tradition, the weight of the medium.

Gold leaf and oil paint have the weight of tradition behind them, and don't declare their toxicity.

The cyclos, submerged in deep water, represent the weight of tradition and reference Vietnam's historical past in the context of the country's struggle with the processes of modernization.