Artists certainly saw the darkness in America's worship of industry.
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The cult of personality is the worship of something temporary.
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Russia's nearly religious worship of great writers seemed to disappear overnight.
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Rather, it is a place of worship of the one God.
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Dawn's hero worship of Bill is complicated by their having slept together.
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If Assayas's goal were to unveil the worship of luxury, fair enough.
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Worship of the independent child has never extended to the independent mother.
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Indeed, her female characterization is unusual even within the cult worship of death.
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The only remaining modern worship of the Old Gods is in the North.
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It's mass murder and violence in the houses of worship of many faiths.
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Every Tuesday there is a special 5am Aarti, or worship of the god.
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As human civilization evolved, so did people's worship of humanlike gods, Aslan says.
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But Republicans refuse to put health care before their worship of the free market.
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Of course, the worship of psychological crisis is at the centre of this phenomenon.
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The UAE constitution explicitly guarantees freedom for all to exercise religious worship of their choosing.
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As a result, you no longer have quite the same slavish worship of the text.
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Mr. Handke's politics irreversibly invalidated his aesthetics, his worship of Mr. Milosevic invalidated his ethics.
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I'm a little tired of this hero worship of whoever the president has taken out.
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Houses of worship of many faiths have been the scenes of crimes in recent years.
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Next, decades of unbridled economic growth have created a Trump-like worship of money and winners.
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Q. This view also calls for more nuance in describing things like the worship of Mao.
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Worship of military service has become an indispensable cog in every politician's and corporation's endearment strategy.
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But like anyone raised Roman Catholic, I understood triumph in humiliation, the worship of sacrificial death.
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During this period in the ancient world, worship of female deities was widespread and immensely powerful.
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Heretics like Mitt Romney were slammed at every opportunity, and uncritical worship of Trump was everywhere.
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This is a nineteen-year-old boy writing to Ezra Pound about his worship of Zeus.
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The scents of places of worship, of heavy books, and ships at sea come to mind.
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Do you see the obsession with alien life as a byproduct of our worship of technology?
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The Trump administration holds none of those ideals except for the worship of making buckets of money.
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It's a feeling enhanced by the devout family's worship of the Hindu sun god Surya, he said.
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He also, more intriguingly, tried to impose the worship of an all-powerful Semitic god on Rome.
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Anderson Cooper, flustered by Jeffrey Lord's blind worship of Trump, describes a vulgar scenario to ridicule it.
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But if we're talking about purely fictional fan worship of The Walking Dead's Negan, it's all harmless, right?
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It made me remember it is about the conversation and worship of God, not where you do it.
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As a rabbi, I have deep respect for the people, symbols and places of worship of all faiths.
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You have yet to recognize your mimicking and worship of a failed, corrupt system, where profits trump people.
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That the worship of Yahweh survived — through first Judaism and then Christianity — is something of a historical miracle.
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Pope Francis has instead blamed social injustice and worship of money as being among the leading causes of terrorism.
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So, what can we do—I mean, realistically—to not fall sick from this glorious worship of the hustle?
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We caught a glimpse of similar god-like hero worship of Hillary Clinton over the last few years too.
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This means the rabid worship of Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird will become slightly less rabid.
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I found in the documents displayed not a fiction or a void, but a place of worship, of value.
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Hence the rise of active and independent central banks and the near-worship of Alan Greenspan and his ilk.
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Unlike many Slavophiles, he hated the Russian traditions of despotism and the Russian Orthodox worship of czar and throne.
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Hollywood, too, with its worship of male power and female pliability, allowed sexually predatory men to thrive largely unencumbered.
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Nearby is another temple, dedicated to Nefertari, and built to be used for the worship of sky goddess Hathor.
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I thought we were starting to move past the breathless worship of narcissistic billionaire tech bros, but apparently not.
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Certainly, no time is lost on anything that might detract from, or even complicate, our worship of Darrow's halo.
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A foundational work for comics fans, "Watchmen" is a lurid, freewheeling satire, interrogating the American worship of violent superheroes.
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Dísablót was born out of the worship of the Disir, or minor deities usually depicted as spirits of female ancestors.
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Gurus, deities, mythology, rituals, yajna (or sacrifice), meditation, and rebirth — even the worship of plants or herbs is fair game.
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Brilliant hedge fund managers like David Einhorn are ringing the alarm bells over the worship of growth stocks without earnings.
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Shintoism, a native religion which became popular around the sixth century, involved the worship of divine powers manifested in nature.
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Beyond that, intellectuals and world leaders might do well reflect on their worship of development numbers over human rights concerns.
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Over the 18 months leading up to them, I'd fostered a certain hero worship of one opposition politician, Boris Nemtsov.
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From there, Dugin invented something called Eurasianism, a mishmash of Russian culture, authoritarian government and worship of a strong leader.
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Once it guarded a temple for the worship of the all-powerful pharaoh, who was revered as a living god.
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Some, including Shukla, say Hindusim is henotheistic, which is the worship of one god without denying the existence of other gods.
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A possible explanation is that the state's pre-Christian religions involved the worship of natural landmarks like large trees and rocks.
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The cult worship of Santa Muerte (typically translated as "Holy Death" or "Saint Death") is a misunderstood — if culturally prevalent — phenomenon.
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And while the Catholic priesthood remains open solely to men, two major figures in the worship of Santa Muerte are women.
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The worship of Parvati (and her other popular forms Durga and Kali) originated on the Indian subcontinent before the Common Era.
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Florida's Matt Gaetz represents the dark future of a Republican Party completely beholden to the cult worship of all things Trump.
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In short, those of us who pursue Mariolatry—the worship of all things Poppins—are free to delight in this film.
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It's impossible, in 2016, to talk about "American Psycho" without mentioning Bateman's hero-worship of another well-tailored suit: Donald Trump.
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The movie includes subplots about unionization, (literal) debt slavery, viral videos, brutal reality television and the cultural worship of sociopathic entrepreneurs.
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Those who go for Hajj see people from all walks of life, ethnicities, nations, united in their worship of one God.
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The centuries-old religion of the Yazidi revolves around worship of a single God, who in turn created seven sacred angels.
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But this argument that we've perhaps gone too far in our worship of market capitalism is absolutely legitimate, and it's long overdue.
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Both Enriquetas allowed Refinery29 an intimate look at the people, spiritual cleanings, and offerings that make up the worship of Santa Muerte.
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"The Islamic faith rejects our God and believes that the state must mandate the worship of its own god, Allah," he writes.
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In Romeo and Juliet, the latter's celestial worship of her star-crossed lover is the inspiration behind Follen's sculpture For All Time.
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Voodoo is estimated to be more than 500 years old and centered on the worship of a range of gods and spirits.
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From a very early age, just like this worship of the women of SNL, so it was always very natural to me.
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They're the dangers of elite groupthink, of Beltway power worship, of a cult of presidential action in the service of dubious ideals.
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Tannon Penland: First and foremost, it references our collective worship of Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales and Trouble's Psalm 9—two truly unfuckwithable records!
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Roman new-year festivities included the worship of Janus, the god of beginnings and endings, after whom the month of January is named.
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The album flexes the Canadian trio's worship of guitars, distortion, and walls of amplifiers—specifically the volume knobs turned all the way up.
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Yes. My argument is there's another way to build a company and it doesn't all have to be about the worship of bigness.
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Drew McOnie's choreography marshals them into synchronized, kinetic worship of the title character, played in a state of angsty isolation by Declan Bennett.
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"Churches are dedicated for the worship of God and as havens from the cares and concerns of the world," the new policy states.
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In ancient Greece, worship of Zeus took place in groves of oak, and oaks were associated with Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Zeus.
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In a village in Karnataka, residents have a slight riff on the Hindu festival of Nag Panchami, marked by its worship of snakes.
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"The Islamic faith rejects our God and believes that the state must mandate the worship of its own god, Allah," Moore wrote of Ellison.
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One of the biggest misconceptions is that Satanists focus on death, but that's far from the truth: Satanism actually promotes the worship of life.
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A great deal of time is spent on the sisters' ecstatic, almost cultlike worship of a Black Madonna sometimes called Our Lady of Chains.
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But increasingly, as our worship of Silicon Valley gives way to a growing sense of unease, we are asking those questions and innovating appropriately.
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With "Junk," the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar examines financial chicanery in the 272s — and how it shaped the blind worship of affluence today.
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With "Junk," the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar examines financial chicanery in the 1980s — and how it shaped the blind worship of affluence today.
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Even early on, though, he expressed a kind of worship of, if not chasteness, then at least a not-just-bedroom variety of commitment.
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American movies vacillate endlessly between the worship of lawmen and the romance of outlaws, but few are as dogmatically one-sided as this one.
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In the alternative history of M.Flandia, female worship of male gods — especially those who have dragged them to the underworld against their will — doesn't fly.
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The amount of time spent in devotion of our online selves now rivals the amount of time humanity spends in worship of the major religions.
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She substituted her family's worship of the Word for a new faith in words, but found out for herself that no faith can be static.
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Homophobia, mixed-race identity, sexual abuse, the lust for fame, the worship of celebrity — each of these themes has been brought forward and then discarded.
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But where the public worship of God and support for religion constitutes no part of the duty of the state, your state will have problems.
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But in the United States most ayahuasca users are seeking a post-religious kind of spiritualism—or, perhaps, pre-religious, a pagan worship of nature.
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Quoting Gustav Mahler, she suggests that individuality is key to being a great artist: "Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire".
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" After his girlfriend post, the official Chinese news agency criticized "certain celebrities that recklessly disseminate vulgar information ... from the worship of money to sex and violence.
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Using his great wealth and power, Amenhotep IV abandoned the worship of the traditional animal-headed deities in favor of a single solar god, the Aten.
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Thanks to its well-documented worship of youth — which ties back to the same '60s-inspired counterculturalism — ageism is just as pervasive as one might expect.
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Most tourists come to Mauritius for worship of a different sort than I found at Ganga Talao, a pilgrimage to the altar of the sun gods.
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And as the urgency of the situation becomes more and more apparent, institutions like New York Fashion Week can feel tacky in their worship of excess.
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For all of Hollywood's worship of youth — the average age of Best Actress nominees at the Oscars is much lower than the equivalent award for men.
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" The video's conclusion features the spectacle of the spinning rings dancing about within the illuminated space, representing what Yoon says is representative of "eternal worship of joy.
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In her ground-breaking 1976 book, When God Was a Woman, historian Merlin Stone traces ancient worship of the Goddess back to the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages.
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America could return to its ideals and reject war as an extension of foreign policy, the political strategy of divide-and-conquer and the worship of the rich.
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Daniel is the story of a young boy who serves kings and provides them the wisdom of worship of God -- again, they better listen to him or else.
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They may not have grown up worshipping the same gods or speaking the same language at home, but worship of Bollywood heartthrob Salman Khan knows no linguistic bounds.
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This Paris pavilion, like the Mexican basilica, would be a pilgrimage site for a sort of worship: the worship of fame, and of one's own proximity to it.
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I had no entrepreneurial ability, an overriding fear that the economy would degrade into a more overt form of barbarism, and a desperate worship of all things intellectual.
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When Abraham came along, he and his son Ismail rebuilt the Kaaba on the foundations of Adam's earlier shrine as a place of worship of the one God.
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There's something intriguing, almost sublime, about the Futurists' worship of fleetness and progress, but it was clearly a set of thoughts that could only exist in a vacuum.
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Little did I know that shared universes, canonical reconfigurations, and a near-worship of lore continuity would go on the dominate the next 20 years of media production.
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Using questionable and vague sources, Hislop argued that the name of Easter derived from the pagan worship of the Germanic goddess Eostre, and through her the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.
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His pure love of the cinematic form was best observed in his hero worship of Orson Welles, whose status as a multi-hyphenate "director-writer-actor" he greatly admired.
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" The planned park includes rides like Slinky Dog Dash and Alien Swirling Saucers, based on the toys Andy finds at Pizza Planet and their obsessive worship of "The Claw.
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Both grew up in Paris, on a diet of 26s prog-rock and 215s funk—a world removed from the reverence of club culture and its worship of Detroit.
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Dr. Stager believed that by condemning the worship of calf deities, the early Israelites were seeking to purge their forebears' Canaanite influence and establish themselves as a separate people.
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From the overhyping of candidates like Kamala Harris to the breathless worship of misleading polls, the media has been consistently and unapologetically wrong in chronicling the 83 Democratic race.
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Given the intractable crisis of obesity and the stubborn worship of skinny bodies, it's somewhat surprising that it has taken this long for the miracle drug to make a comeback.
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In the 773th century, Shivaji, a ruler after whom Mumbai's train station and airport are named, spread worship of Ganesh to the wider population in his kingdom in western India.
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When he could finally travel, he ended up consorting with a group of Western New Right thinkers whose underlying theme was hatred of liberal modernity and the worship of tradition.
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Enlarged photographs of la Gioconda's eyes, all in different tints, are displayed next to each other in a grid that evokes the icon worship of Andy Warhol's "Marilyn Diptych" (1962).
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Fascism is the feverish nightmare of liberal democracy: the worship of power and mobilization for their own sake, contempt for facts and procedures, the wish to remake the world by will.
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A Scottish Presbyterian minister, Alexander Hislop, wrote a whole book about it: the 1853 pamphlet The Two Babylons: The Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife.
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While he would return to have another (albeit less prolific) spell at Spurs between 2001 and 2003, the unadulterated hero worship of the nineties would be forever qualified by his abandonment.
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Notably, just ahead of Swift's AMA performance, West tweeted out a highlighted Bible verse from the Book of Daniel which talks about "The Fiery Furnace" and the worship of false idols.
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The Canada factorHe believes one reason Shopify grew without giving up work-life balance is that it&aposs based in Ottawa, Canada, far from Silicon Valley and its worship of workaholism.
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He emphasized that its entrances were perfectly aligned with the rising and setting sun of the winter and summer solstices, proclaiming their intimate knowledge and worship of the life-giving star.
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"In this era, there is corrosion from the worship of money and hedonism," it wrote, in a piece ahead of next week's 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
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Whitehall has been subject to a malign combination of business-worship (of the sort that only people who don't know anything about business can be guilty of), management-speak and political correctness.
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Christmas is invariably the time for a grouch that neither Christ nor mas(s) feature much in a festival meant to rededicate Christian believers to the worship of the son of God.
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Traveling to 38 countries in two and a half years, he was a firsthand witness to the idol worship of the band's teenaged supporters, who even started fan pages for von Bolton.
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"Consciously resist mistaken thoughts such as the worship of money, hedonism, extreme individualism, and historical nihilism," Xi added, referring to attempts to reevaluate core events and personalities of the party's revolutionary past.
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A reductive answer would dismiss Mr Trump's admiration as nothing more than a shallow worship of celebrity and success, with a special fondness for the strutting braggadocio that was Mr Ali's trademark.
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"We must carefully craft a strategy that targets and defeats the expansionist, bloodthirsty and supremacist inspirations that fuel jihadist groups while not abridging the peaceful and tolerant worship of God," he said.
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Abraham and Ismail later went on to build the Kaaba, the black cuboid structure in Mecca that Muslims face when they pray, together, as a place of worship of the one God.
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" That brought a rebuke from Kulkarni on Facebook, where he wrote "equating Hindus' worship of Ganesh with a political party's symbol is wrong and promotes inaccurate stereotypes about the Hindu-American community.
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I mean, wouldn't it be fun to hear people talking about a shrivel of critics or a sprig of vegetarians or a worship of writers or an undulation of hills more often?!
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A tearful Mr. Lim later appeared in a government-arranged news conference in Pyongyang and confessed to plotting to overthrow the North Korean leadership by undermining the "worship" of Kim Jong-un.
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President Trump and Trumpism are manifestly a culmination of some of the worst tendencies in American society and culture in the 1980s and '90s — the feverish worship of power, success and fame.
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Although the United States could have devised additional policy initiatives to change the global energy market the past two decades, it has been hamstrung by its longstanding worship of free-market principles.
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The court determined that "Shinto priests' negligence in performing religious rights" had angered the volcano, and it ordered provinces nearest Mount Fuji to increase worship of the volcano's deity, Asama no Okami.
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Trump said the same things over and over and over and over again, based on the same few articles of faith: worship of material success, contempt for "losers," and certainty — above all, certainty.
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We are the inheritors of a free world bequeathed to us by the prophets who called us to worship of God in Ramadan and the Enlightenment philosophers who shaped a tolerant, modern world.
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Since Santa Muerte is a folk saint, not one who was canonized by the Catholic church, worship of her has been condemned by Cardinal Ravasi, the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
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Some believe McGregor is trying to win the worship of the Brazilians like Ronda Rousey did when she faced Bethe Correia in Rio at UFC 190, but Dos Anjos scoffed at the idea.
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He might claim an interest in history, but it is only on the level of a gee-whiz hero worship of the colorful exploits of an alpha male ex-soldier like Andrew Jackson.
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In the latter part of the evening, when he embodied the allegorical Dr. Marianus, whose worship of the Holy Virgin paves the way for Faust's redemption, Mr. Gerhaher's voice turned velvet and weightless.
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After Kamehameha I's death in 1819, his son Kamehameha II succeeded him as paramount chief and ended the worship of Kūkā'ilimoku as well as other religious figures, calling for the destruction of heiau.
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What those history lessons and sermons didn't teach us was the means by which evangelical Christianity had come to merge with the secular worship of wealth and power, creating a nationalist, racist faith.
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Yet this context has mostly gotten lost in the shuffle over the past half-century, as the showdown seems to permanently teeter between absurd urban mythology and obsessive hero worship of Bruce Lee.
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Muslims consider showing any of their early leaders on film unacceptable; arguing that it promotes a worship of these characters as gods in their own right, when in fact they are merely God's servants.
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But Maeve's discoveries, of her memories of being shot, her multiple drawings of the mysterious figures, and the Native American hosts' worship of those same beings — well, just imagine seeing that from her perspective.
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Names of the five victims — Hernán Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damián Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi — were released by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic on Twitter.
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Names of the five victims — Hernán Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damián Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi — were released by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic on Twitter.
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When Pentheus, king of Thebes, outlaws the worship of Dionysus, whose votaries were known to engage in orgiastic rituals, Dionysus retaliates by driving them into a state of frenzy, resulting in the king's dismemberment.
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For all of its worship of novelty and new faces, New York has an echelon of veteran chefs who have quietly persevered for decades, admired and continually achieving but not making any new headlines.
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As the Roman Emperor Trajan, I'd established a religion based on the worship of the mighty turtle and then forgotten about my people's spiritual needs as I concentrated on getting tanks before my rivals.
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Though statisticians have long been pointing out problems with "significance doping" and "P-dolatory" (the "worship of false significance") journals have increasingly relied on p-values to determine whether a study should be published.
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Cass told me that the entire economic system should be reordered away from a worship of greater GDP and toward wage growth, higher participation of workers in the labor force and a higher savings rate.
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He's best known for writing such pathbreaking graphic novels as Watchmen and From Hell, but he's always dabbled in other fields, including punk music, literary fiction, and the cult worship of the snake god Glycon.
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"We are particularly concerned about the efforts of Chinese authorities to eliminate the religious, linguistic and cultural identities of Uighur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists, as well as restrictions on the worship of Christians," Sullivan added.
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Some fundamentalists see the reverence for saints, which is common in Shiite Islam, as a form of idolatry, because in their view it shows devotion to something other than the worship of a singular God.
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In eighth grade, I had a breakdown, triggered by some of the same issues that she so eloquently describes: the tension between religious devotion and hypocrisy, and the worship of the Apocalypse and of wealth.
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There are two sets: the larger group is made up of five caves, including Cave 1, built for worship of Hindu god Shiva, while visitors will find Buddhist monuments in the smaller set of caves.
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The musical doesn't really encourage anyone to think deeply (or at all) about its premise, its worship of opulence, or whether a heroine with such limited agency can ever really rescue her billionaire hero in kind.
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In the embrace of the Trump family there is hint of a submerged yen for monarchy which, in America, seems to have cross-fertilised with a worship of celebrity—and helped to propel Mr Trump's candidacy.
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In addition to Whelan's allegations, the other "signs" for #doughnutgate believers are the ideas that Voodoo's unconventional doughnuts are intended to represent worship of demons, childrens' heads, phallic symbols, changelings, or feature symbols related to pedophilia.
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There are statues for worship of Santa Muerte (the Saint of Death), or Malverde (the Saint of Narcos) as well as totems, potions, herbs, and dolls for the practice of Shamanism, Black Magic, or White Magic.
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In an era that makes a culture out of the worship of games, we need to keep Bernie DeKoven in our hearts to remind us that we make these things to experience all of this wonder together.
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At the heart of all theistic religions is the idea that the worship of, or excessive attachment to, anything or anyone other than God is something to be avoided: a sinful distraction at best, idolatry at worst.
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It's weird as hell—but Rebel Wizard's Prosthetic debut, Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response, been steadily growing on me like some sort of toxic grave mold, so I thought I'd add it in here for kicks.
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It tells the story, through a minimalist and mesmerizing score, of the Egyptian pharaoh who, during his 17-year reign, rid Egypt of its worship of many gods and established the sun as its one true god.
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The First Men co-existed alongside the Children of the Forest, who wove their ancient magic and their worship of nature into their culture — and taught their secrets to many of the First Men, including the Starks.
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Celebrities of all stripes have always enjoyed elevated status, visibility, and mass adoration to some extent or another, but as the culture ever trends toward the projection and worship of images, this status has become tantamount to pantheism.
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Yet, thanks to toxic masculinity's abject hostility against any form of vulnerability and its worship of brutality, violence like rape through sodomy has turned into one of the ultimate forms of punishment against a man, short of murder.
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" The Rastafari worship of Selassie was inspired by the words of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who declared in 1920: "Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is at hand.
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It was a lot like Europe's early-20113s fascist governments, although with a uniquely Japanese element: the quasi-religious worship of the emperor as not just the leader and embodiment of the nation but a semi-divine figure.
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In the Oslo-based duo Philco Fiction's latest video, "June 17," directors Runar Sørheim and Øyvind Langdalen explore a rather cultish commune—one full of misfits looking for meaning and camaraderie in the worship of a radioactive entity.
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But Wemba soon became associated with a more compelling and subversive fashion movement, the Religion Kitembo, or "worship of clothes", which was in part a sardonic comment on the charmless weeds and general decay that Zairianisation had brought.
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Time for us to set aside our worship of technology and instead actively seek to connect, collaborate, create and act in community with one another again; media, marketing and technology can only manipulate us if we allow it.
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The Mass, also attended by 4,000 Muslims, was the largest public celebration of a Christian rite in the history of the Muslim country, where the worship of other faiths is tolerated but is not typically done so publicly.
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But before we put all the onus on the news media and powerful politicians alone, let's not forget the complicity the public has in this kind of saint-like worship of many of our presidential candidates in recent years.
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England — George Bernard Shaw once mocked what he called "bardolatry," but worship of William Shakespeare is in full swing here, as well it should be, since this pretty town pretty much exists on the Shakespeare industry.
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Worship of an elephant in the Indian subcontinent can be traced to about 325 B.C., with Ganesh becoming part of the Hindu pantheon around the fifth century, and then being absorbed into Buddhism and Jainism in the ensuing centuries.
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Lenny knows that the pitfall of utopian movements, and equally the fuel of fascism, is worship of the past, a misconception that the "lost Eden" we long to return to exists somewhere in history, rather than in the imagination.
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Its title alone offers a hint of the unconventional imagery within, from the crude to the whimsical: the phrase "graven images" nods to the second of the Ten Commandments that prohibits the worship of idols or representations of God.
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Shiller's comments add to budding sentiment that America's new billionaire-in-chief — with his gold-plated penthouse, private jumbo jet and multiple mansions — could shift American attitudes away from inequality and toward the 1980s-style aspiration and worship of wealth.
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In the weeks since, I have sometimes found myself crying as I realized I would soon lay my own eyes on the Kaaba, which is empty — a reminder that the heart of Islam is the worship of a singular, inimitable God.
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Tacticool may still exist on the range, but videogames have adopted the same mindset and made it into something of their own—a weird and materialistic worship of cold, misanthropic parts, all designed with one goal in mind: to look elite.
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In conversation, he cited Mahler to the effect that "tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire" — a quotation, aptly enough, that may not originally be of Mahler at all, but at least captures his spirit.
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The Mass, also attended by 4,000 Muslims, was the largest public celebration of a Christian rite in the history of the Muslim country, where the worship of other faiths is tolerated but is not typically done in such a public way.
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If you want, Success Studies can be read as the rituals of a culture that outlasted or outgrew its values and declined into the worship of omens and signs, ultimately elevating the rituals themselves over whatever purpose or notional godhead they once served.
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One powerful self-created celebrity monomaniac uses his audience with another more powerful one to ask for help getting a third onto his TV show, which airs on a network dedicated to the worship of power, and self-creation, and celebrity, and monomania.
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That may bring to mind the genuflections and flourishes of Catholic worship—a target of Lutheran criticism, which prioritised the individual's repentance and faith over outward trappings and indulgences—but may also suggest a modern obsession with, and worship of, personal wealth.
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It was kind of like the philosophical background to the environmental crisis and what's wrong with the way Americans have traditionally done it and how our most beautiful ideas about nature, which is this worship of wilderness, actually gets us into trouble.
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Archaeologists were already aware of Xipe Tótec, which means "Our Lord the Flayed," through historical accounts and associated Aztec depictions, but this is the first known structure dedicated to the worship of Xipe Tótec, an Aztec god associated with agriculture and war.
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By tolerating, if not encouraging, such flattery, Mr Xi comes close to violating the party's charter, which prohibits "any form of personality cult" (a rule introduced in 1982 to prevent a return to the frenzy and violence once spawned by worship of Mao).
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It reminds me of similar situations in Old Testament times, for example, the case of the Maccabee brothers, and the case of so many confessors and martyrs, who would not tolerate that the Catholic faith be denied through the worship of pagan idols.
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One of Mohammed's first acts upon taking control of the city was to go into the Kaaba and smash the idol of Hubal and the hundreds of other idols to pieces, rededicating the shrine as a place of worship of the one God.
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In Al Qadiri's film, phrases like "it's beautiful/…so beautiful it rivaled the roses/for the heart becomes lost/in a world of beauty" blend into fiery clouds of smoke, evoking both demonic and divine connotations, and referencing the Zoroastrian worship of fire.
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One valley west of Phobjikha is the city of Punakha, famous for a temple dedicated to the worship of a Buddhist leader known as the Divine Madman, or Lama Drupka Kunley, who had a magic phallus he used to fight off evil spirits.
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It began with the nature worship of our far-distant ancestors and continued on into the modern age thanks to people like Cleve Backster, a CIA polygraph expert who performed experiments in the 1960s to demonstrate that plants could read our minds.
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The appeal of the video is its soft-focus normalcy; it acts as a baptismal antidote to the former image of Kim and Kanye, all furs and lingerie, cleavage and peekaboo, built on worship of the intertwined pillars of fashion and fame.
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Indeed, anthropologists studying the rites and rituals of Paleolithic communities over the last two centuries have discovered countless stone figurines of pregnant women across Europe, the Middle East, and India—some dating back to 25,000 BC—that point to the worship of the divine feminine.
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Based on a culture rooted in reverence for the land and worship of mountains as gods, Ecuador's (cowboys) have a culture entirely their own, one formed by the entrance of Spanish conquistadors, but later adapted uniquely to the native culture of the Ecuadorian Andes.
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Cultlike worship of the star architect only exacerbates this condition, and there are plenty of those who work for these so-called star architects, willing to sacrifice their time and integrity because they have been conditioned to believe that this mode of production is normal.
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Many of Japan's greatest directors — including Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa, to name just two — wrestled, repeatedly, with whether and how industrialization had in some way fundamentally altered the country's essential qualities: its worship of the natural world, its humility before it, its soul.
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Its seems to intend, reasonably enough, to warn against Catholic support for the darker tendencies in Trumpism — the xenophobia and identity politics, the "stigmatization of enemies," the crude view of Islam and a wider "panorama of threats," the prosperity-gospel inflected worship of success.
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" Vogue reports that during a six-month period, the designer's conversations with the artist brought about the idea of "pagan worship of goddesses and the struggle of women artists to find their own means of expression within the female-excluding patriarchal system of western art.
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A daylong performance at Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Ky., in 2018, is shown here in the form of photographs and a three-channel video that captures the performers moving in ways that conjure or pay homage to the ecstatic worship of the Shakers.
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And it's one that's caused enormous consternation over the years from more progressive wonks who feel that the emphasis on fiscal discipline has damaged the economy and the Democratic Party in the 21st century and who resent worship of the Clinton economy for contributing to it.
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" Madia told me that because South Africans' aspirations—for more economic justice, for less racism, for less worship of a far-off Western standard of leadership and life—had become associated with such a tainted vehicle, Zuma, these deeper yearnings for change became "a bit discredited.
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Set in 1984, when international worship of Michael Jackson was at its peak, the film juxtaposes an escapist love of modern pop culture against an unflinching look at the realities of life for the Maori working class and their struggle to keep their own indigenous culture intact.
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Salomé is, in fact, starry-eyed in her worship of Iokanaan's otherworldly physical beauty, but turns into a skillful seductress once Herod, the husband of her mother, Herodias, asks her to dance for him in return of anything she might ask, even half of the kingdom.
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Like the (generally) male geeks who think their worship of the canon gives them a say in who holds the power in their culture, as well as what kind of stories are told in that culture, Bran is rewarded by a communal narrative that validates his sense of entitlement.
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That doesn't explain everything, but it explains a lot: the obsession with racial purity, the near-religious worship of the superhuman father-leader, the militarism and hostility and feverish ultranationalism, and the expectation that citizens will happily abandon their individualism for the betterment of the race-based national collective.
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That doesn't explain everything, but it explains a lot: the obsession with racial purity, the near-religious worship of the superhuman father-leader, the militarism and hostility and feverish ultranationalism, and the expectation that citizens will abandon their individualism happily for the betterment of the race-based national collective.
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His bigotry, his boasting, his lies, his pride, his scams of the vulnerable, his worship of materialism, his insults of the dead, his turning a blind eye to refugees, his bragging of adulterous behavior, his treatment of "the least" among us — all of this is antithetical to Christian philosophy.
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The Mass, which was also attended by 4,000 Muslims in keeping with the visit's emphasis on interreligious dialogue, was the largest public celebration of a Christian rite in the history of the Muslim country, where the worship of other faiths is tolerated, but only in private under normal circumstances.
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When you look at North Korea understanding this fact, it becomes clear that it survives not despite, but rather because of, the things that make it so unusual: the propaganda, the quasi-religious worship of the Kim family, and the provocative militarism that includes, this week, its fourth nuclear weapons test.
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And if it hadn't been for his fear that Stieglitz would be hurt if he made a move, and O'Keeffe's irritation with Strand's worship of Stieglitz and his general dependence — she called him "the most helpless, slow, unseeing creature I ever saw" — the course of art history might have been different.
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Excessive government secrecy, the worship of "national security" above all else and the C.I.A.'s disrupting presence overseas are exactly the sorts of issues that the Kennedy School should be questioning and challenging, given the myriad C.I.A. and Pentagon scandals and our country's constant state of war since Sept. 11.
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The other was the Children of the Forest (perhaps glimpsed at the end of season four rescuing Bran and Hodor), a nonhuman race who originally warred with the First Men, and from whom the First Men learned about the godswoods and heart trees that are the center of the worship of the Old Gods.
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The vandalism happened in the summer of 2012; that was a time when two ultra-militant Muslim groups, al-Qaeda and Ansar Dine, temporarily took control of the north of the country and imposed their zealous version of Islam which considers such shrines to be a polytheistic distraction from the worship of the one God.
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But one of the most high profile nods to traditional faith came in Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade: For "Sorry," the singer enlisted Yoruba artist Laolu Senbanjo to paint her dancers with his signature body art—which he calls the Sacred Art of Ori—similar to the kind used in dedication ceremonies to worship of Orishas.
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"With Michael Jackson, you can see how grotesquely his fame, and our worship of fame, distorts and excuses and enables evil — to the point mothers fail to protect their children and literally throw them in harm's way," says Maureen Orth, who did groundbreaking stories in the '90s for Vanity Fair about both Jackson and Allen.
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Five of the men were killed in the terrorist attack that left eight dead and 11 others injured on Halloween after a truck rammed into people on a bike path before slamming into a school bus several blocks from the World Trade Center memorial, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic confirmed Tuesday night.
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Although, or rather just because, power is the unavoidable means, and striving for power is one of the driving forces of all politics, there is no more harmful distortion of political force than the parvenu-like braggart with power, and the vain self-reflection in the feeling of power, and in general every worship of power per se.
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More than anywhere else in this multiethnic country, Salvador is steeped in Afro-Brazilian culture — from the worship of Yoruba deities (orixás), to the acrobatic practice of capoeira, to a cuisine tinged with deep orange dendê oil and smoldering with a stronger dose of hot peppers than the delicate-tongued rest of the country can handle.
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Although the Pope is unlikely to grant Sanders an audience during the Vermont senator's whirlwind two-day trip to the Holy See, Sanders generously layered his address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences with several of the Argentine pontiff's edicts, particularly on the worship of money over morals, while also addressing his own remonstrations in the US of Wall Street greed.
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No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as "the worship of jackals by jackasses") could have imagined that the 250st-century catastrophe to befall the U.S.A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell'arte figure of the boastful buffoon.
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He may not be usefully analogous to politicians of the past, but like them he benefited from historical processes that we can understand and respond to: our worship of celebrity; the persistence of gender, racial and economic inequality; the devastation of foreign wars; voter suppression; and a political system that does not reflect the diversity or policy preferences of the American people.
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The scandal, which was uncovered almost a year later, has come to be seen as baseball's "loss of innocence," the cause of fans' diminished feelings for the game they once adored and a mortal blow to the nation's confidence as it entered the 1920s, a decade of disrespect for elders, contempt for institutions and worship of the fast life and the fast buck.
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