Sentence examples for contemporary conceptions from inspiring English sources

Lumpen is a Russian modelling agency challenging the contemporary conceptions of beauty.

Burke's Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, published in 1757, marked an unexpected departure from contemporary conceptions of taste and signalled a major turning point in aesthetics.

Boundary-crossing looms large in contemporary conceptions of Marlowe, who more and more seems to stalk the cultural landscape as a sort of hose-wearing James Dean, mutinous and doomed.

Modern theoretical accounts of chemical bonding are quantum mechanical, but even contemporary conceptions of bonds owe a huge amount to the classical conception of bonds developed by G.N. Lewis at the very beginning of the 20th century.

The preservation of opportunities to live well, or at least to have a minimally acceptable level of well being, is at the heart of population ethics and many contemporary conceptions of sustainability.

This understanding, it turns out, is not that different from contemporary conceptions of the mind, as many of his discussions bear considerable relevance to discussions in the cognitive sciences.

The relationship between appearance and financial success is unsettling because it offends our contemporary conception of fairness; it challenges the idea, popularized by Horatio Alger, that it's possible to improve a bad hand with hard work and perseverance.

The contemporary conception of the betrothal period as an extended occasion for retail consumption and elaborate event production is a boon for wedding professionals, among whose gloomier number are those who have feared that the traditional American wedding may be going the way of the traditional American nuclear family.

A very common contemporary conception of the innate comes very close to the implications of the water metaphor, i.e., that which develops under normal conditions.

The Classical Formulation involves principles governing six different concepts: an agent, action, could have done otherwise, event, cause, and causal determination.[5] Note that this formulation involves a mutually inconsistent set of propositions, and yet each is (seemingly) rooted in our contemporary conception of the world.

Taken together with contemporary norms that shape our understanding of past architecture (Spector 2001), preservation and conservation are at least partly bound to present-day design conceptions.