Sentence examples for modern perceptions from inspiring English sources

The ambiguity surrounding modern perceptions of the missionaries is captured in a painting, "The Double Face of Colonialism," which depicts a white man wearing a clerical collar and a cowboy hat, carrying both a Bible and a gun.

The answer was that, while many of Freud's theories remain unproven, the old goat nevertheless tapped into the iconoclastic zeitgeist at the beginning of the 20th century and has had a profound influence on modern perceptions.

Their so-called great rapprochement emerged from a long period of mistrust and hostility that stands in contrast to modern perceptions of their cultural similarities, mutual affection and inherently shared interests.

The notion of silver shoes ambling on a yellow brick road is thought to stand for bimetallism, a shift from the gold standard that would have given farmers access to cheaper money, although Baum is not known to have advocated that system. ) "Tin Man" finds its relevance elsewhere, in modern perceptions of youthful exceptionalism, so prevalent in other pockets of the culture.

Modern perceptions of the Mediterranean diet stem from observation of dietary traditions in Crete, Greece, and southern Italy in the 1960s, when people were physically active, spent lots of time outdoors and ate shared communal meals of fresh, seasonal, homecooked, locally produced foods.

After such a change the book would inhabit a different historical past and its relation to modern perceptions of history would change; but it would be, as it always was, a historical or fictional construct that could not sensibly be accused of falsity to contexts transiently imposed on it.

All those "fat" women in paintings by Rubens were not even commented on in that way in his time – it is a modern perception.

Yet it wasn't until the early Renaissance that our modern perception of the witch was truly formed.

The modern perception of urban planning is directed towards promoting pedestrian movement and, at the same time, limiting the excessive use of automobiles.

Relying on an examination of the changing meaning of pigeons, we clarified, in some historical depth, what particular discourses and understandings of and about non-human beings are mobilized in the modern perception of pigeons as a nuisance species.

The monthly publication polled 2,000 women and men on the modern perception of aging attitudes and behaviors.