Sentences with phrase «who evince»

Moreover, few studies focus on the many African American youth who evince highly conventional sexual partner trajectories, i.e., youth who have only one partner or abstain from sexual activity across time.

Mr. Greenshields wished to help and encourage serious art students, artists and sculptors who recognize that there is no short cut to competence and who evince a willingness to do the hard work and subject themselves to the discipline required for the mastery of their craft.

D: We desperately need leaders who evince some respect for science, rather than one who seems proud of his ignorance.

She probes the antic recklessness and wanton secrecy endemic to love affairs, breathing life into mistresses who evince the agency, autonomy, self - direction, and order of this definition — attributes far removed from the type of lasciviousness once meriting containment by legal statute and exile in imperial Rome — as well as to those who, by choice or circumstance, fell prey to their lovers» manipulation.

Christian ethicists usually have no great difficulty in admiring and even recommending these virtues, also in cases where they do not fully or even partially endorse the theological and philosophical presuppositions of people who evince them (such as, for instance, Latin American Pentecostals, Muslim fundamentalists, or neo-Confucian businessmen).

Reliably, the inmates who evinced the most contempt and anger toward gays were more highly aroused by pictures of naked males than were those whose attitudes were more neutral.

Not exact matches

I argued that the opposite is true: Teachers who respond to a student's question by admitting ignorance evince strength.

The historical lesson here is fairly unambiguous, although as always it is disappointing that economists who do propose such a solution for China evince so little curiosity about the historical precedents.

Anyone who reads The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, however, must recognize that, far from being uncritical, Novak evinces an intense and well - informed sense about where the American experiment has gone wrong and is going wrong» from race relations, to the urban underclass, to crime, and the debasement of popular culture.

I am haunted by having left a man in desperate shape in order to respond to another who, at the level of party conversation, had evinced interest in «doing more,» yet who had created a world of work which did not allow him to step into another world.

Fulham have a decent home record, and have won convincingly against some of the mid-table teams; Dempsey has been their most influential player, and has received able support from Dembele and Hangeland, who has proved to be a huge threat in corners as evinced by his brace against Brum last weekend.

Still, as evinced by the Make Your Own Web Ad contest, his campaign messaging online and off has focused on attacking the Democratic nominee — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, rather than going after self - funded conservative Carl Paladino, a dark horse GOP primary hopeful who's gained prominence in the polls.

He also, however, established a trademark persona that carried him from project to project: that of a slightly sardonic, wizened everyman who nonetheless evinced an unmistakable degree of sensitivity and emotional fragility beneath a tough exterior.

Those who would make the claim that Malick has looked backwards with an uncritical eye need look no further than a simple juxtaposition late in the film that finds Opechancanough (Wes Studi), observing with wonder the ability of man to sculpt nature as evinced by a topiary garden in England.

Remarkably, Yellow Hawk evinces no bitterness about his situation as a prisoner, along with his family, of whites who invaded his land, as we're meant to identify with Blocker's resentment of Native Americans who were presumably fending off intrusion.

When her co-worker and colleague, Violet Miller (Anne - Marie Duff, excellent)-- who's daughter Maggie (Grace Stotter) we saw Norman molesting earlier — is too beaten and bruised by her abusive husband to testify regarding women's working conditions at an imperative parliamentary hearing Maud reluctantly agrees to evince testimony in her place.

Evoking the colonial decay of Greene's work while evincing one of the best performances of Michael Caine's career, The Quiet American stars Caine as a British journalist in Vietnam who falls in a hopeless kind of love with a beautiful girl a third his age.

But it scored points with me through its satirical depiction of a highly intelligent young woman who's abruptly demonized and / or patronized by her peers for daring to evince a modicum of sexuality.

As he walks, he berates the progeny who gapes up at him stupidly, evincing no awareness that the shit is about to hit the fan.

With the aid of ensemble players who maintain admirably straight faces amid the absurdity, director Jack Plotnick gets an impressive amount of mileage from a concept — characters in a futuristic sci - fi setting evince «70s angst and attitudes — that might seem at first blush barely adequate to sustain a «Saturday Night Live» sketch.

There is in this tale of a man who has super powers, but refuses to be a hero, evinces a bold and bracing willingness to engage in a complicated form of self - reference and self - mockery that fearlessly breaks the fourth wall with a breathtaking geometric progression through time and space and other movies while including us in on the joke.

(As evinced by the many, many readers who complain about short stories not being novels.)

Recent Los Angeles exhibitions have evinced a number of painters who continue to grapple with the problems of contemporary abstraction with rigor and seriousness, testifying to its continued viability.

But what they don't see is the diversity of ordinary sensible people who are in fact evincing confidence in that science by * using * it.

The reason they evince «climate skepticism» in responding to survey items on «belief in» human - caused global warming is that those items aren't measuring what people know; they are measuring «who they are, whose side they are on,» in a mean, illiberal, collective - knowledge - vitiating, individual - reason - effacing cultural status competition.

Adolescents living in high - risk families who carried at least one DRD4 long allele and were assigned to the control condition evinced greater escalations in drug use than did (a) adolescents who lived in high - risk families, carried the DRD4 long allele, and were assigned to AIM, or (b) adolescents assigned to either condition who carried no DRD4 long alleles.

Compared with those scoring low on narcissism, those high on narcissism, who were the least physiologically reactive group, evinced greater proactive aggression, whereas those showing a pattern of coactivation (i.e., sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic reactivity) evinced greater reactive aggression.

The master of this technique was woodworker and architect George Nakashima, who believed that furniture could evince «the soul of a tree.»