Despite her insistence on historical authenticity, her depiction of the mob, with its lines of marching men, recalled the abstracted choreographies of her videos.
Though less than five feet tall and dainty in an Old World way, Ms. Abramowicz could be flintlike in her insistence upon historical and linguistic accuracy.
Stanislavsky's insistence on historical accuracy, exact realism, and intense psychological preparation by his actors led to a string of successful productions from the beginning of the century into the 1930s.
Christie's engagement with the work for more than half a century illustrates well both the development of the period music movement and his contribution to it in terms of his insistence that historical knowledge should inform modern performance, not ossify it.
It's a good story, even though the historical record, with its dreary insistence on facts, says otherwise.
The book alone certainly didn't reintroduce history back into film studies, but its insistence on the historical conditions that control and shape "textual processes," along with the depth and breadth it brought to writing film history, has been profound.
But what he gives with one hand he takes away with the other, for in almost every instance he concludes that "normalisation" produced its opposite, namely a renewed insistence on the historical uniqueness and evil essence of Nazism.
Rothschild doesn't want to admit that the invocation of Smith as a theoretical mascot of laissez-faire registers an important historical truth: for all their insistence on natural equality and the virtues of individualism, neither Smith nor Condorcet could think beyond the limitations set to these principles by the social system that invented them.
I fear that an insistence on a literal or historical reading of the Bible will ultimately lead to the irrelevance of Christianity in our society.
Their position is at odds with all of the published historical analysis, which universally acknowledges Mayr's insistence of the irrelevance of development to evolution, particularly later in his career (Gottlieb 1992; Gould 2002; Amundson 2005; Winsor 2006; Gilbert and Epel 2009), and both Watt and Calcott endorse our position.
