The theological-political predicament of modernity stems from the modern commitment to the self-sufficiency of reason that, Strauss argues, results in reason's self-destruction.
A MODERN COMMITMENT The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., has acquired "Dusuasa I," a tapestrylike hanging fashioned from discarded soda cans by the African artist El Anatsui.
It is the evasions of television executives who try to make these shows sound like the latest installment in an ongoing discussion of modern commitment.
He deserves to be remembered not only for his unwavering opposition to abuse, graft and dictatorship in Nigeria, but for his contribution to a modern commitment to human rights within the Commonwealth.
What shred of fame Toby Sheldon enjoyed came from a thoroughly modern commitment: to undergo a bevy of plastic surgery procedures so that he could resemble Justin Bieber.
Are Republicans completely, and recklessly, abandoning their modern commitment (it wasn't always so) to the free trade ideas of their purported hero, Ronald Reagan?
That's the real warm heart beating at the core of Don't Tell the Bride: a sort of uncorny, honest appraisal of modern commitment, only with a half-sassy narrator and a soundtrack that is basically 'just the first xx album'.
Gödel's philosophical views can be broadly characterized by two points of focus, or, in modern parlance, commitments.
For Mr. Bergdoll, a scholar of 19th-century architecture, it renews the Modern's commitment, dating back at least to its groundbreaking Beaux-Arts survey nearly 40 years ago, to explore the roots of Modernism.
Kimura's commitment to modern art often overshadowed his commitment to the plant.
