Sentence examples for academic movements from inspiring English sources

That is because on Sept. 22, my Connections column suggested that the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon could upset the presuppositions of two major academic movements: postmodernism and postcolonialism.

The dancers look like older versions of Billy Elliot, more or less grown-up ordinary folk without super-svelte bodies who have stumbled on the beauty of a ballet class, and without feeling inhibited to confine themselves to academic movements.

Dancers — even when sheathed in tights, tunics, tutus — open their bodies up in the geometrical shapes and academic movements that ballet has codified, and so they make their bodies subject to the most intense scrutiny.

One geometrical construction has real ingenuity: a line of male dancers slowly revolves like the needle of a compass, while a ballerina passes down the line, being partnered, and while the men work ceremonially through the same phrase of academic movements for upper and lower body.

The University of Chicago has been the site of some important experiments and academic movements.

The theological and political and academic movements of white feminism (seemingly inherently) display this pattern in their inconsistent commitments to women of color.

It is just that his choreographic concerns are now directed toward more vernacular, less academic, movement.

In this sense, efficient-market acolytes were like any other academic movement.

Humanism was not originally an academic movement but rather a program defined and promoted by statesmen and men of letters.

To some people, the notion of economists studying emotions like happiness seems odd, but the research is part of a growing academic movement known as behavioral economics.

Senator Obama's ideas, on the other hand, draw heavily on behavioral economics, a left-leaning academic movement that has challenged traditional neoclassical economics over the last few decades.