Sentences with phrase «whose idea of a world»

Compared with other pro sports, the Tour is stodgy, a place for privileged and pampered white men whose idea of a world crisis is not enough courtesy cars and too many spike marks.

Not exact matches

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan says he was only aware of Styles thanks to his kids, but had no idea of the sort of global appeal the singer - whose about to embark on a solo tour across the world - had with pop music fans.

Crowdfunding has opened a whole new world of fundraising for entrepreneurs whose ideas are too out there for traditional sources of capital.

Traditionalists find themselves ill at ease» to put it mildly» in today's postmodernist intellectual world, a world whose «animating spirit,» as Gertrude Himmelfarb puts it, «is a radical relativism and skepticism that rejects any idea of truth, knowledge, or objectivity» («The Christian University: A Call to Counterrevolution,» FT, January).

This is how many times the idea of HYPOCRISY rears its ugly head, because to onlookers, even a sincere believer in God whose life does not match his worlds LOOKS like a hypocrite.

Kaplan agreed with Whitehead that the combination of the ideas of Aristotle's «unmoved mover» and God as eminently real, in Christian theology, led to the disastrous concept of «an aboriginal, eminently real, transcendent creator, at whose fiat the world came into being, and whose imposed will it obeys» (PR 342).

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

One idea is that the elves represent something of the contemplative, withdrawn as they are from the world, living peacefully in hidden places like Rivendell, whose ambiance is described by the author with the love and awe of a person who has experienced the depth of retreat - like stillness.

While some may balk at the idea of getting into bed with a corporate partner of such size, and one whose fortunes depend on people eating meat, Memphis Meats explained that the move would «help us advance clean meat and achieve our ultimate vision: a world that is better for humans, animals and the planet.»

Does the idea of joining a team of smart, passionate professionals whose goal is to connect the world to golf sound exciting?

The feeling that somebody has just passed away whose horizons and global appeal extended the international significance of this country is omnipresent — as well as the prevailing idea that his death marks an end of one era... Even the other Vaclav in the presidential office, his successor Klaus, who has been Havel's rival and critic ever since 1989, is now giving him credit — to the degree of admitting that we owe his predecessor «like nobody else for the international position, prestige and authority of the Czech Republic in the world.»

Most annoying of all is a woman whose conversation revolves around the idea that she knows she's beautiful (especially if she's not), and the world should kiss her feet.

The Continental is a world wide chain, a Hilton for assassins if you will, and the perks don't stop at room service and a doctor, there's also a tailor who specialises in tactical suits and a sommelier (whose idea of a party is very different to ours).

About Forum for a New World Governance «An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come» Victor Hugo Why have we opened this Forum for a new World Governance?

The idea emerged from the publisher's realization that the e-book represents a unique platform for publishing shorter works whose printing and distribution in paper format would not be commercially viable, together with the emerging importance of the digital platform among readers in the Spanish - speaking world.

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world - and in the process created modern environmentalism.

The major idea of this and all the previous games of the series is drastically different from Diablo's creed: whereas in the latter the setting is effectively reduced to a handful of cities with no more than 30 inhabitants in all of them, whose only purpose in life is to repair the character's broken sword or sell him a couple of potions, the world of The Elder Scrolls (called Tamriel) seems to be even better and more detailed than the real one.

As the idea for Iniva developed, it grew to encompass internationalism and the study of global artistic practice; the remit being that Iniva should seek out and champion artists from around the world whose work and ideas would provide new perspectives for Britain's then predominantly western - centric view of the visual arts.

This will come as no surprise to fans of its co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist, whose publications, projects and patronage of artists amount to a sustained attempt to reconnect art, ideas, and the world and have made the Serpentine the most creative public art space in London.

Gander is an inventive polymath, a creator of worlds and teller of tales, whose making takes forms as varied as a lecture series entirely based on «loose associations,» a nonlinear narrative of wildly disparate ideas and images found and collected by the artist; re-creations of children's tent - forts sculpted in marble; the construction of complex mechanisms to generate a gentle breeze that wafts through a gallery; a conveyer belt carrying sculptures that can only be seen through one window; or detailed designs for an art school that may never be realized.

Between their combined insights and understandings — in addition to introducing me to artists whose ideas, and ways of working were new to me — my world expanded.

For an artist whose output extends far beyond the fine paintings of World War One and exceeds the parameters of British landscape painting within which his work is usually understood, the recurrence of certain themes and preoccupations — a sense of significant place, and the idea of trees as sentient, mystical beings — creates a satisfying symmetry to his career.

The group exhibition Speak, running concurrently at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, proposes Latham as an «open toolbox» for younger generations of artists whose diverse practices share affinities with Latham's ideas and world view, revealing how they continue to resonate today.

This is a commissioned work, conducted by a choreographer, theorist and artist, and whose brief, according to the curator, was «to show how one can transform that idea of crossing [the virtual and physical worlds] or living between these spaces.»

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

A pioneer of photomontage, whose images of women presaged the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Second Wave Feminism half a century later, Hoch was a pivotal figure in Dada, the anti-art movement that outraged conventional opinion in the final years of World War One, working alongside iconic male artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann.

Museum Founded by Larry Aldrich in 1964, The Aldrich is dedicated to fostering innovative artists whose ideas and interpretations of the world around us serve as a platform to encourage creative thinking.

Ad Reinhardt, whose black paintings seem a world away from Grill's lively color - forms, shared with Grill a metaphysical approach with his idea that «art is involved in a certain kind of perfection.»

«But the younger Moore was much more of a radical, aesthetically and politically, whose works were formed in the wake of the carnage of World War One, in the light of new ideas about sex and the unconscious, and amid the growing political tensions of the 1930s.»

Founded in 1994, Iniva has become highly respected for seeking out and championing artists from around the world whose work and ideas provide new perspectives on cultural identity and the diversity of society.

It is interesting how the diversity and multiplicity that has existed in Kallat's own practice, from materials and media to ideas and meanings, is also evident in both the Museum's centuries - old exhibits as well as the artist's works on display — thereby making «Earth Families» a befitting stage to showcase the oeuvre of one of India's most significant contemporary artists, whose work is part of several public and private collections across the world.

Cramer, whose works often suggest a subjective perception of the world surrounding us, brings to this exhibition a combination of thoughts represented through a variety of media — from his intimate artist books to site - specific installations such as Empty Room, where for the duration of the exhibition, a room in a house somewhere in the countryside of Portugal is kept completely empty, making one reflect on ideas of presence, absence and the human collective unconscious.

Rachel Pritzker is president and founder of the Pritzker Innovation Fund, whose mission is to support the development and advancement of paradigm - shifting ideas to address the world's most wicked problems, with a focus on the policies and technological innovations necessary to provide clean, cheap, abundant energy for all on an ecologically vibrant planet.

That shock will be felt most especially by the world's climate alarmist Establishment, whose scientists and learned institutions have staked their reputation on the idea that CO2, not solar activity, is the prime driver of climate and that the planet is on a warming trend not a cooling one.

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