Sentence examples for high theory from inspiring English sources

A distrust of high theory used to be a mainstay of conservatism.

Reaction, Robin argues, is typically high theory as much as demotic practice.

He is cheeky, voluble and exuberant, and over the past 30 years he has turned high theory into performance art.

"I HAVE made no innovations in high theory," was how Ronald Coase modestly summed up his life's work.

Despite his insistence on the "silence" of photography, this kind of image speaks straight to high theory.

This is a surprisingly simple, even naive concept for an artist who is often associated with high theory.

De Forest credited Gibbs's influence for the realization "that the leaders in electrical development would be those who pursued the higher theory of waves and oscillations and the transmission by these means of intelligence and power".

The dialectic was just the sort of high-theory concept that Wilson reflexively avoided.

5. Contrast with Cartwright's antirealism in Cartwright 1983 about universal fundamental level, on account of the local validity of empirical evidence and the approximation and idealizations that pave its twisted way to high-theory.

The manipulation of uranium needs higher theories and sophisticated apparatus even in nuclear energy extraction or in many other chemical applications.

A similarly eclectic approach to high moral theory stresses the convergence of differing theories at the level of action guiding principles.