Sentence examples for contemporary ethos from inspiring English sources

He knows how to link steps (not everyone does), to invert them and above all to create a contemporary ethos without rejecting classical form; "Haiku" is a formal piece performed to Cage's characteristic alternation of stillness and percussion (including piano).

In Apple theology we have a lots of "I's" but very few "Thous" and this explains much about the contemporary ethos that claims to be more "spiritual" than "religious".

The search for identity, occurring in the context of a contemporary ethos of rugged individualism, collectively carried to extreme, even unto selfishness and narcissism, is an obsession in our time.

The language of heroism may sound quaint by 21st Century standards but nursing heroism is alive and well in the best of our contemporary nursing ethos and practice.

But what has been added to the 19th-century formula is the contemporary setting and ethos.

Yet the texts also reflect the curators' strivings to make the work's ethos contemporary in a way that the Surrealist association encumbers.

To a younger group of writers who have come of age on the Internet, Cooper is known largely for his openness to contemporary novelty and an ethos of anything goes.

Another woman I met, Huang Rui, runs the hip Wheatfield Bookstore, which sells Chinese translations of everything from Baudelaire to Susan Sontag, as a kind of sanctuary for young artists and intellectuals trying to find their way through the materialistic, conformist ethos of contemporary China.

Influential behaviours were guided by values and beliefs about the principles underlying traditional science and the contrasting ethos of contemporary research.

In this indifference towards individuality, Foucault argues, resides the fundamental ethos of contemporary scientific discourse.10 The core conviction that research findings should be replicable already implies that researchers should be replaceable.

It is very much as if Darwin were testing Lamarck and rejecting his ideas at the very same time he was developing his own first transmutational notions based on Brocchi's analogy and the underlying ethos of contemporary British science: that secondary (natural) causal explanations should be sought for natural phenomena no matter to what extent God may be involved as the primary (ultimate) cause.