Gauguin's paintings, in Arles as in Brittany, share some of the language of symbolism, a taste for bright "folk" color married to religious ambitions.
I'm happy to have a relationship that is unique with my creator, to let go of long-held religious ambitions, and simply live in the reality of everyday life.
As the writer and freelance philosopher Alain de Botton argues in "Religion for Atheists," cultural and intellectual institutions are no longer about the salvation of souls: "The methodologies which universities today employ in disseminating culture are fundamentally at odds with the intense, neo-religious ambitions once harbored by lapsed or skeptical Christians..
(Where traditional Christians found salvation in "atonement," went a quip, Transcendentalists found salvation in "at-one-ment"). We perceive ourselves as alienated from God, truth, happiness and beauty, they argued, only because our minds have been fettered by prejudice, apathy and ignorance and distracted by the false idols of religious dogma, material ambition and social conformity.
Ansar Dine may have been religious, but its ambitions did not seem to challenge Algeria directly.
His parents were religious and had ambitions for Sam to become a medical missionary.
They claim that a group with a religious background and ambitions will control the situation in Yemen, which will mean no democracy or personal freedoms.
Moreover, the injustice theory, with its list of root causes, leaves no room for religious passion, irrational ambitions or cultural and tribal schisms.
No hairstyle conventions, marriage contracts, sexual inhibitions, career ambitions, religious orthodoxies, clothing protocols, racial taboos, or chemical prohibitions escaped unscathed. .
