Sentence examples for nature historical from inspiring English sources

Scroll painting subjects fall into four rough categories: nature; historical personages and events; religion; and workaday or domestic scenes.

While it is clear at the outset that as countries New Zealand and the Czech Republic are quite different in nature, historical circumstances, economic performance and geographical location, several similarities between the two countries' health care systems are apparent at a macro level of analysis.

Vico's interpretation of the history of civilization offers the view that there is an underlying uniformity in human nature across historical settings that permits explanation of historical actions and processes.

Finally, I'd say Huntington misunderstood the nature of historical change.

And until that happens, Americans will remain ignorant about the real nature of historical thinking.

Marshall Flaum, an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose movies over a 55-year career examined show business, nature and historical subjects, died Oct. 1 in Los Angeles.

Apparently, however, the facts are ambiguous, enabling Duncker to use her novel to explore not only this one life but also the nature of historical truth.

As the psychologist Steven Pinker argues in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, by historical standards violent deaths are now relatively rare.

The nature of historical writing, of memory itself, is to distort by selecting and compressing events, making the past seem more dramatic and coherent than it ever was, but this is especially true of accounts of the seventies.

In The Volcano Lover, Sontag's last novel, a fictionalised account of Lord Nelson's affair with Emma Hamilton, she carried off her unironic tale of grand passions by giving it the apparatus of a smart inquiry into the nature of historical fiction: it set itself up as a page-turner which occasionally obliged its readers to examine the nature of page turning.

Emmet McConomy said he believes the very nature of historical investigations in Northern Ireland required an independent body because questions have to be asked of the security forces.