But canons also inevitably shift and expand, not merely enshrining the thought of the past but reflecting an evolving perception of the worlds and cultures we inhabit in the present.
At the embassy cocktail reception, Mr. Biden drew on his evolving perception of the country, informed from his previous visits, and cited Baghdad's notorious traffic jams as an example of progress.
She also describes with great subtlety an evolving perception of her father from frightening, omnipotent and omniscient companion to drunken depressive of flawed and brittle vulnerability: in one instance, recalling William's quietly devastated reaction to a radio critic describing his novel The Spire as "wuthering depths".
Dunham and other characters were frequently nude in nonsexual contexts, and scenes that depicted sexual encounters were pointedly devoid of glamour, making the show a flash point for discussion of evolving perceptions of beauty, body image, propriety, and sexuality.
In the first part, Auster attempts to re-create his evolving perceptions of the world as he became an adolescent; in the second, he describes his experience of first watching two films — "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932) — that, in his words, "blasted in on you and altered the composition of your inner world".
Participants responded to daily writing prompts that allowed researchers to analyze evolving perceptions of STEM integration.
Plants are constantly exposed to environmental stresses and in part due to their sessile nature, they have evolved signal perception and adaptive strategies that are distinct from those of other eukaryotes.
With shows such as "Glee" heralded as foundational to the evolving perception and growing acceptance of LGBT individuals within political and social life, Lovato's role will play a large part in providing lesbian visibility within mainstream entertainment.
Among HIV infected and uninfected veterans, some of these changes may also be partially driven by a change in the population utilizing VA care since 1999 [ 8, 21], when Shen, et al. reported their data, and our results from five years later, and may also reflect an evolving perception of VA care or increased Medicare cost sharing.
But while the app continued to evolve, public perception didn't.
The two-day symposium is convened December 7 8 , 2018 in connection with the exhibition Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment, which reinterprets American art over three centuries in relation to environmental history and evolving ecological perception.
