But again the writers make no effort to go beyond obvious racial stereotypes or well-trodden comic material: the notion that all American men, regardless of race, creed or color, revere "The Godfather" as the I Ching, has been a staple of comedy ever since Tom Hanks said it in the 1998 movie "You've Got Mail".
The firm, based in Chinatown, is known for playful and modern designs that use simple materials to invert notions of space.
He gave no indication that he was surprised or disturbed by the provenance of the promised material — or the notion that it was part of a continuing effort by the Russian government to aid his father's campaign.
Although it is doubtful that there is any direct Jewish source of gnosticism, some characteristic gnostic doctrines are found in certain groups of particularly apocalyptic 1st-century Jews the dichotomy of body and soul and a disdain for the material world, a notion of esoteric knowledge, and an intense interest in angels and in problems of creation.
This clause is taken to be a major boundary in the argument structure, marking a transition between one phase - the outlining of background material on the notion of 'task' in the psychology of Bion - and the argument which the poster is about to develop.
Jesus' Sermon on the Mount instructs us not to be anxious about material things, a notion that runs directly counter to the frenzied pressure of modern consumer culture.
#Salat: "Prayer - Five daily prayers that are essential to spiritual elevation, piety, and a life free from the ills of the material world" The notion that through one's salat, one can directly attain from the treasures of Allah.
The exhibition was an expansion upon and celebration of the 1915 treatise Projective Ornament by American architect and theosophist Claude Bragdon, and related to Auerbach's interest in "consciousness as a four-dimensional material" and the notion that ornamentation is capable of enabling mind-altering experiences.
Innocent individuals and institutions could again be ensnared by expansive notions of material support.
Together, they make the immense galleries at Gagosian seem especially vast and not a little chilly while quietly wreaking havoc with notions of material, process, subject, scale, space and of course perception.
