Sentence examples for high philosophy from inspiring English sources

A racy new film, Schiller, portrays the poet as a dashing, flame-haired womaniser, mixing high philosophy with simple lust, and dramatises his feverish search for recognition and success as an author.

Like many religions, it encompasses a broad swath of practice, from Laotzu's high philosophy to a riotous pantheon of deities: emperors, officials, thunder gods, wealth gods and terrifying demons that punish the wicked in ways that make Dante seem unimaginative.

But the Great American Novel, while also a hybrid (crossbred of romance and reportage, high philosophy and low gossip, wishful thinking and hard-nosed skepticism), may be more like the yeti or the Loch Ness monster - or sasquatch, if we want to keep things homegrown.

Reactions to excessively "high philosophy" began to form in the 1940s, helped by the arrival of thinkers from Europe, for example Juan D. García Bacca in the cases of Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela; Hans Lindemann in Argentina, and Gilles-Gaston Granger in Brazil.

But greed is the dominant force in the international game - and will remain as long as India's pile-it-high philosophy rules within the International Cricket Council - and Fletcher, hardly the sort to parade his doubts unnecessarily, is concerned.

First, that the Court is a purely political institution, and then that some of its members (the ones we agree with) are disinterested scholars pursuing a higher philosophy of law.

It is this quest that leads the wayfarer to a higher philosophy, a hikma muta'aliya as he describes it in the title of his major work.

But many think this could mark the end of the high-philosophy coffee third wave: "In an era when 'selling out' is widely seen as shrewdly 'buying in,' it's only a matter of time before some multinational conglomerate snatches up every last 'locally-sourced' hipster sacred cow!," Gothamist worries (ironically).

Like a leader who spoke the highest philosophies about society and the individual in the clearest of modern and folk idioms.

It is a high-risk, high-reward philosophy that had the Angels fifth in runs.

The high school philosophy teacher has just found out her husband of 25 years is leaving her.