In America, where we still jones for innocence and ruin, the intertwining of power and art hasn't generally been a preoccupation of our literature — what a photograph of a meadow might have to do with Guantánamo, whether a play about marriage is connected to the doings of the secretary of state.
It was no accident that protesters in the cities of Dara'a and Latakia went after the property of this feared and hated aristocracy, most notably that of President Bashar al-Assad's cousin Rami Makhlouf, a businessman who controls the country's cellphone network and, more than anyone else, represents the intertwining of power and wealth in Syria.
Suarez's position may be extreme, and he himself allows that Aquinas's distinctions may be heuristically useful, but his criticisms of the proliferation of distinct powers in the soul and his drive to unify the account of the soul on the basis of its "intertwining" powers struck a chord with many.
But as an assertion of commitment to values other than money-making, they will make an impression not just on Hong Kong but on China, where the intertwining of political power and money-making is germinating a new radicalism.
It's a classic case that shows the crazy extent of the intertwining of money and power in China".
The reverberations from the contours of this complex, intense story are mighty, intertwining the power of creating fictions with the lure of living them, the failures of family life with the urgent desire for belonging, the frustration of a marginal existence and the yearning for a place in the world, the connection of identity and memory.
But it also drew its power from the intertwining stories it tapped.
In addition to the gender differential, the participants' communication experiences with their urologists also intertwined with the power differential between doctors and patients in Hong Kong.
The fictitious Western representations and negative assumptions are constituted by the ongoing conflict situation and, in their turn, construe the reality of a newly emerging national identity, which is highly contested in a dialogical exchange of multiple discourses that are closely intertwined with the power structures that constrain and mould them.
Saints & Sinners centers around the pursuit of power, intertwined with greed, deception, corruption, and murder - all set against the backdrop of a large southern church.
