Sentences with phrase «widely over the cultures»

Coontz ranges widely over the cultures and societies of the world, discussing a great variety of marriage practices.

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The brutalities of the Chinese regime have also had a toxic effect on China's public moral culture, as was demonstrated last year in a widely - viewed YouTube video: a truck driver in a Chinese city ran over a small child who was crawling across the street, stopped» and then ran over the child again, as if the toddler were so much road - kill.

The former Labour cabinet minister has been widely expected to take over from Boaden and his political background has led Tories including John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary, and Damian Collins, a member of the culture select committee, to argue that his appointment could jeopardise the BBC's impartiality.

Widely known for the chalk board paintings he created in the mid-1990s, over the years Simmons's work has been defined by his interpretations of race, social issues and hip - hop culture.

An early member of the Chicago - based 1960s collective the Hairy Who (which later morphed into the Chicago Imagist Group), Wirsum's works speak widely to the canon of modern artists who privilege experimentation and transgression over cohesive style, and who used popular culture as if the boundaries between high and low had never existed.

Vicuña is also widely known for her performances and participatory interventions, which are designed to «bridge the gap between art and life, the ancestral and the avant - garde,» such as her performance of Paracas (2008) at the Brooklyn Museum, where her eponymous film, referencing the ancient Andean culture, was projected over the artist and a textile background.