Sentences with phrase «world culture seems»

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If you believe pop culture, the top of the business world might seem something like the 80s movie Wall Street — competition is fierce, rivalries are plenty, and greed is good.

It seems lately like every startup that finds a bit of success grows convinced its culture and genesis myth are special and need to be shared with the world.

In today's highly technical and globally competitive business world, it might seem that remarkable leaders need to have a heightened understanding and appreciation of technology, multi-national cultures, and global business trends.

The cultures of business and the Navy may seem worlds apart, but that doesn't mean the latter can't inspire the workplace.

It seems like every startup that finds a bit of success grows convinced its culture and genesis myth are special and need to be shared with the world.

Don't Fuck Up the Culture seemed to create a few sympathetic nods and rolling eyes for it's Silicon Valley myopic view of the world.

In a cluttered world that never seems to stop or slow down and a culture that measures your worth by what you produce silence is a much needed practice.

I get what you're saying and in essence, I agree, the church seems to the world a myopic organism, focused less on the work of the church in Acts which provided real spiritual and physical care for the masses, and more on church culture and agenda.

While neither our secular or ecclesiastical culture is perfect, there seems to be more fear and hate in «the church» than in «the world.»

In response to growing cries «for retribution, retaliation and revenge,» a number of Quaker organizations issued a Call for Peace on September 29, «challenging those whose hearts and minds seem closed to the possibility of peaceful resolution,» and pleading for «people of goodwill the world over [to] commit to the building of a culture of peace.»

He seems to assume that Christian culture and politics in other parts of the world can be understood through categories derived from the past 200 years of Western liberal democracy and misses the fact that these communities have histories of their own.

At times, it seems that the purpose of listening is simply to occupy the time until Muslims, for example, make the same transitions that Catholics and Protestants did centuries earlier so as to «find themselves increasingly at home in a dynamic, liberal, and capitalist world that is full of many faiths and many cultures.»

These are difficult days for many of us as we figure out how to follow Jesus or be faithful while the culture is changing and church is shifting and politics is enraging and the world seems on fire.

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

It seems true that disaster coverage on media are having an effect (perhaps a disquieting effect) on vast numbers of individuals around the world and, therefore, leaving some kind of imprint on our humanity and modern culture.

In today's world, especially in our anxious Western culture, we seem hell - bent on happiness and on any shortcut that can get us there.

This approach may seem overly limited due to the fact that it proceeds through the narrow defile of one cultural fact, the existence of written documents, and thus because it is limited to cultures which possess books, but it will seem less limited if we comprehend what enlargement of our experience of the world results from the existence of such documents.

The so - called «neo-pagan» culture that reared me, with all its dogmas, has never quite seemed to muster the passion to hate the material world or to fanatically pursue the spiritual.

More Than Faithful Presence Charles Colson Hunter and I Agree on Culture Making (He Just Doesn't Seem To Know It) Andy Crouch Faithful Presence Is Not Quietism James Davison Hunter Two other resources are worth considering: Ken Myers interview with James Davison Hunter Mars Hill Audio (Volume 101)» How Not to Change the World» Andy Crouch Books & Culture (May / June 2010)

The fact that, in spite of its early association with that world and of the antagonism felt because of this seeming alliance, Christianity won some adherents from other cultures is evidence of the striking universality and vigor of the impulse which created it.

You know, I seem to recall another time in world history when we stood down and aloud a man to take over Greek cultures without intervening, and if we keep appeasing him Cams going to be starring in American History X2 and doing radio commercals for sunscreen by spring break.

There always seems to be some amount of debate in regards to fashion and world cultures.

It's true that elimination communication is the norm in most of the world, and I am planning an upcoming post on how something that seems so fringe in America has been the norm for centuries in other cultures.

While the idea of drinking milk from a camel may seem strange to those of us who grew up in the west, cultures around the world have consumed it for thousands of years.

The other thing is that the obesity epidemic doesn't seem to have reached this part of the world yet, although with the Westernising of Asian culture it won't be long.

It's clear that the cultures of the world are already beginning to intermingle, and, for many reasons, it seems likely that the world of the future will be one where different nationalities and ethnic groups are closely connected.

The Moon seems to have been honoured in every culture, and the world's major religious celebrations are linked with If you want to get better at something you need to practise regularly.

It just seems hard to believe that so many beautiful, intelligent, talented young women are ready to be online ladies who go on russian dating agency and prepared to leave their native country and journey around the world to marry a man from another culture.

The above is not a self - indulgent intro but a way of telling you how «Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World» seems to have been made specifically for me and everyone of my generation who more or less carries that same pop culture baggage.

Peter Strickland, whose other feature movie «Katalan Varga» is about a woman traveling in the Carpathian Mountains with a small boy seeking vengeance against her abusers, is on a similar track in his sophomore feature about Gilderoy, an innocent abroad who seems too overcome by inertia to escape extreme culture shock and thereby reverts into his own hallucinatory world.

His father (Roshan Seth) has become minor celebrity as a trendy Buddhist guru but Karim is still looking for his identity in a world where racism simmers and culture is in such a state of flux that anything seems possible.

What is striking about the film is what Jarmusch drapes over these visual and auditory flourishes with the content of the characters and the content of this world, and how unconcerned it seems to be with the prior history of vampires in literary and pop culture.

Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights makes our social - media - driven celebrity culture such a centerpiece of its story that this old - fashioned romantic drama set in the world of showbiz seems more topical than it actually is.

Since pop culture began caricaturing her as the World's Greatest Living Actress, every film in which she's starred has on a certain level played as a one - woman show, with even the most venerable of her cast mates seeming to serve merely as space - fillers.

The novel, written in 1930, anticipated not just a second world war but a tabloid culture that would become, if anything, more fevered: One could plug in Page Six and Iraq, and Vile Bodies would seem even more startlingly contemporary.

It also fits in with the culture of our world today as this issue seems to be in the news on a daily basis.

When leadership becomes an exercise in maintaining (and advancing) our position, we fail to nourish school cultures based on creativity, openness, and comfort with ambiguity — qualities defining many leading - edge businesses that still seem scarce in the world of education.

«World over, we seem intent on splintering ourselves into as many sub-groups as it will take for us to feel comfortable in our skins again,» writes Harmony Siganporia, who in the aftermath of Brexit revisits the teachings of poet, folklorist, scholar and grammarian AK Ramanujan to further explore the meanings of context - free and context - sensitive cultures.

Every year Stan Stalnaker and his team of global citizens gather their experiences around the world and summarize in this, their now famous Hub Culture's Zeitgeist Ranking, the cities that for a variety of reasons seem to be at the center of the Universe.

It seems as though we want to see something different, something painfully and splendidly and authentically a world apart from our own culture.

I'm somewhat perplexed as to what is going on in the world today, when only a few years ago it seemed that people were embracing other cultures and it appeared that people were evolving a level of tolerance, understanding and respect for others.

Rich in culture and history, Papua New Guinea seems a world away.

As the 2015 - 2016 art season comes to a close with our 27th International Juried Exhibit we look ahead to next season with both eagerness and trepidation, for the world seems to be more and more difficult for art, for culture and for peace.

Thumbs - up, thumbs - down — how truncated these gestures become in a consumer culture that relies so much on the agency and individuality of its participants, though in this case the thumb does not seem to pass any judgment or offer any expertise on the digital world it inhabits.

In the work of this artist — born in 1972 in San Antonio, Texas, and now working in Los Angeles — certain relics of art history seem mingled with the debris of the media world, as if both — the avant - garde and pop culture — had exploded in the collision.

More than that, artists exploring identity have done much to displace the role of the individual: far from confirming narcissism, the idea that identities are culturally constructed, relative and discursive, would seem to have much more to do with them looking at the broader world of visual culture.

Although the culture of indigenous Amazonians may seem antithetical to the swanky aura of a Chelsea gallery, Neto serves as a more than adequate cultural intermediary for these two disparate worlds.

The remote glacial landscape might seem like an unlikely place to grow a contemporary art scene, but on 12 June the Norwegian ministry of culture announced it is launching an art foundation and artist residency in the capital of Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost town, where the sun never sets during summer.»

In today's culture it seems that awe inspiring moments can be overlooked and often forgotten in the fast - paced realities of the modern world.

FRANKFURT SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE January 30 - May 4 Curated by Matthias Ulrich In an era when the entire world seems to be on the move, tourism points to the double bind underlying our culture's...