Sentence examples for ideal of harmony from inspiring English sources
The old "melting pot" concept of America, now much out of favor, at least held out an ideal of harmony.
Lloyd Wright's turbulent home life Frank Lloyd Wright's ideal of harmony in the home was something that eluded him in his personal life.
Mao especially wanted to eliminate the traditional ideal of "harmony" and replace it with a mandate to pursue "permanent revolution," an inversion of Chinese cultural traditions he believed essential to unleashing the country's productive forces.
He gave pedagogical expression to the ideal of harmony, or equilibrium, found in all aspects of humanism, and underlined the importance of the education of the body as well as of the spirit.
Today, more than 30% of residents claim Chinese ancestry and the city is, by the standards of most western countries, remarkably easygoing – though this ideal of harmony never quite squared with immigrants' own experiences.
Idealization has been a reputable tradition in art at least since the days when the Greeks put up the Parthenon, and Rockwell's work is no more unrealistic than that of countless art-history legends, like Mondrian, whose geometric compositions exemplify an ideal of harmony and calm, or Watteau, who invented the genre of the fête galante.
To illustrate the ideals of harmony and peace, a certain amount of discord and dissonance must be endured.
Interest in the music of Islamic peoples, the arabesque-like uniformity of which seems strange to Western ideals of harmony, was also slow to develop.
In his influential book The Art of Survival, he warns that China has moved dangerously far from Taoist ideals of harmony with nature.
Sayyid Ajjal built Confucian academies alongside mosques and Buddhist temples, infusing foreign religion and culture with domestic ideals of harmony and hierarchy.
The cementation of Japan ran contrary to classic aesthetic ideals of harmony with nature and an appreciation of mujo (impermanence), but was understandable given the ever-present fear of earthquakes and tsunamis in one of the world's most seismically active nations.
