Sentence examples similar to a naturalistic element from inspiring English sources

Yet, as Positivism gave way to Naturalism as the dominant force in 20th century Anglophone philosophy, scholarship on Hume has increasingly emphasized the naturalistic elements in Hume, while reinterpreting, even downplaying, his skeptical tendencies (Kemp Smith, 1941; Stroud 1977, Garrett 1997).

Mumford's lighting in the musical "King Kong," while incorporating naturalistic elements, is generally upfront, more purely expressionistic, to suit the heightened reality of the musical and the monumentality of Kong himself: the great ape's rampage through the Broadway Theater District has the spectacular lighting befitting a Broadway show.

But the addition of these naturalistic elements has hardly made Hecker's music more linear or accessible if anything, it's become more unsettled.

Transcendence properly understood--a naturalistic transcendence--embraces the non-rational, not the irrational.

As if afraid he might be viewed as merely a craftsman rather than a true artist, Mr. Stankard has ventured to add some non-naturalistic elements to his repertory.

"If you're going to use non-naturalistic elements in the novel, they have to grow out of a real vision," he says, and in Shame, he gazes directly at the regimes of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Muhammad Zia ul-Haq (with an admixture of Iskander Mirza for good measure, not least in the characters Iskander Harrapa and Little Mir Harrapa).

I responded immediately to the surreal, non-naturalistic elements of the original text.

Though there are echoes of Wagner (the score uses the "Dresden Amen" so prevalent in Parsifal) as well as of Mussorgsky's Boris, which combine to give Kitezh its epic sweep, it is the non-naturalistic elements that predictably bring out the best in Rimsky's music, as in Fevroniya's communing with nature in the opening scene before she encounters Vsevolod for the first time.

With this move in a naturalistic direction, Porta strove to eclipse the astrological elements of his theory.

Keep the documentary element (the interviews) straightforward and make the dramatic elements feel as real as possible, filming in a naturalistic style with good actors and no apologies.

Even more radically, the new creationists also reject essential elements of scientific methodology, which they claim to be a naturalistic metaphysical dogma.