Sentences with phrase «whole twentieth century»

That they exist is self - evident in the fact that the temperature only varied by plus or minus a tenth of a percent over the whole twentieth century.

Not exact matches

Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $ 60 Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

Sir Rudolf Peierls, another leading twentieth «century physicist, said, on the basis of quantum theory, «The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being... including its knowledge, and its consciousness, is untenable.

So too today, instead of engaging with the entirety of the twentieth century Magisterial teaching concerning artificial contraception — Pius XI, Pius XII, Paul VI, John Paul II — The Tablet focuses on Humanae Vitae and seeks to knock that down so as to knock the whole edifice of teaching in this area.

Taken as a whole, this deposition of Whitehead's can neither be subsumed under any movement of the twentieth century nor accurately represented as the joint influence of recent thinkers on its author.

The great twentieth century Hindu thinker Sri Aurobindo, in his Life Divine has an evolutionary framework and sees the whole process leading the soul to full awareness.

In the twentieth century, H G Wells said Muhammad was a man «whose life on the whole was by modern standards unedifying.»

For the first time in human history we have, in the twentieth century, been able to construct a fairly clear picture of the whole globe in our mind.

It is for this reason that the kerygma has become a whole unified theological position which has just as nearly swept the field in twentieth - century theology as did the theology of the historical Jesus in the nineteenth century.

It was fully expected that during the course of the twentieth century the whole race of humankind would be incorporated into Christendom.

’25 Moral concern can not be separated from inner transformation, but, as twentieth - century religious leaders of several traditions have insisted, such inner transformation also embraces a concern for the well - being of the whole society.

The prayers range over the whole of Christian history, including many from the familiar Christian figures (Ignatius, Polycarp, Cyprian), but some from little - known heroes of the faith, Jonas of Beth - Isa (fourth - century Persia), Noel Pinot (eighteenth - century France), Gabra Michael (nineteenth - century Ethiopia), Yona Kanamuzeyi (twentieth - century Rwanda).

The revolution was to mount until in the twentieth century every people, tribe, and nation was profoundly altered and the whole human race was ushered into a world which in time dimensions was rapidly shrinking and which was displaying common cultural features.

Although the series as a whole is temporally and geographically defined by twentieth - century Britain, each mystery immerses the reader in a different world.

Devolution in the late twentieth century has brought a considerable degree of legislative autonomy to both Scotland and Wales; and yet the Westminster Parliament retains the power of legislating for the whole of the UK.

The whole ensemble has a distinct early - twentieth - century - boheme flavor, with a wonderful modern twist.

The great Ben Hecht (The Front Page, Twentieth Century, Gunga Din, Notorious, Kiss Of Death, and a whole lot of uncredited work on some of the best films of the 40s and 50s) wrote the screenplay.

By employing Twentieth Century print and visual media, leaders like Mao, Putin, Kim Jong - il and his son Kim Jong - un, and others have successfully manipulated whole populations and controlled their totalitarian regimes with iron fists.

For instance, in Four Posters: Figure in Front of a Mantel (1984), a gift - shop poster of Balthus's Nude Before a Mirror from the Metropolitan Museum proclaims: «Some details are decorative... but the whole is totally twentieth century.»

French artist Caroline Achaintre's visually striking, witty ceramic sculptures and hand - tufted wall hangings bring together a whole host of references such as catwalk fashion, carnival, and death - metal iconography, as well as Primitivism and Expressionism — early twentieth - century Western art movements that borrowed heavily from non-Western and prehistoric imagery to find new ways of representing the modern world.

There aren't many twentieth - century American painters who have had powerful and distinctly contained phases of work within their art as a whole.

Intelligently and carefully edited by Thomas Weski and Heinz Liesbrock, this superb volume makes an argument for photography as the definitive art form of the twentieth century by presenting whole series of works by the medium's pioneers, instead of isolated individual photographs.

The three works selected for Soundtracks are Sphere Packing: Mozart (2014; white polymer, 565 audio channels), Sphere Packing: Wagner (2013; glazed porcelain, 110 audio channels), and Sphere Packing: Cage (2014; plastic, 269 audio channels)-- an abridged walk through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.2 The series as a whole, featuring seventeen composers, constitutes nothing less than a broad history of classical music, with surprising insights in terms of productivity, ranging from seventeen compositions (by Claudio Monteverdi) to 1,128 (by Johann Sebastian Bach).

«My work, as a whole, attempts to represent late - twentieth - century systems of communication and organisation.

Ashton notes «because Tàpies is a copious commentator, his sources are well known» ranging «over the whole of literature, including origin myths from East and West, philosophy from ancient to modern, art history from the caves through the twentieth century, poetry, magic manuals, and daily newspapers.»

In addition to showing works by early twentieth century famous painters such as Picasso, Braque, Dubuffet, and Kurt Schwitters (creator of the Merzbilder collages and the «Merzbau», a whole building filled with objets trouvés, destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943), the exhibition also showcased assemblages by American artists such as Man Ray (1890 - 1977), Joseph Cornell (1903 - 73) and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as lesser Californian assemblage artists such as Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and Edward Kienholz.

[23] J. M. Gregory et al., «Twentieth - Century Global - Mean Sea Level Rise: Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of the Parts?»

Accordingly, in 2012, an international team of prominent sea level researchers published, Twentieth - Century Global - Mean Sea Level Rise: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts?

In the Gregory (2012) paper Twentieth - Century Global - Mean Sea Level Rise: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts?

Table 2 of «Twentieth - century global - mean sea level rise: Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?»

Table 2 of «Twentieth - Century Global - Mean Sea Level Rise: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts?»