Today international tastes are being redefined as much by artists, collectors and institutions aggregating in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, Mumbai, Tehran, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Cairo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, and Johannesburg -- some in defiance of authoritarian governments.
Even senior centers are being redefined as places with artists in residence, like Judy Hugentobler, a sculptor from Staten Island.
As the mastery of nature now seemed more necessary and possible, it was fitting that authoritative masculinity was being redefined as a matter of refinement and education".
Brazil's largest city is being redefined, as waves of adventurous urbanites with fresh ideas turn some of the most blighted areas of a haves-and-have-nots metropolis into bohemian playgrounds for artists, performers and revelers of every stripe.
"Bully," Lee Hirsch's moving and troubling documentary about the misery some children inflict upon others, arrives at a moment when bullying, long tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as a social problem.
Military dictators replaced that with "absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah as the basis of all actions" in 1977, and made another change in 1988 that led to our once-secular nation's being redefined as an Islamist one.
In 1946 they were redefined as United Nations trusteeships (see Trusteeship Council).
Achievement is redefined as the ability to attract attention.
In the life of Jesus, holiness is redefined as justice.
Unless "progression" is redefined as local invasion and metastases, the problem will remain.
Left-handers have been redefined as creative, broad-minded, natural leaders.
