Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...story of the entertainment. Spaces, architectural enclosures, shape our relation to an event. You can pray at home. But a church, mosque or synagogue gives prayer scale, grace and a heightened sense of spirituality because of the aura of sacred ritual deemed appropriate within the religious house. People cling to ritual. It gives structure and comfort to chaos. It creates a sense...
...approaches that frame you when you're learning--it amazes me how deep they run. It was a while before I began to realize how formative they are. I often had to battle those biases that had shaped my own thinking with modernism as a business. I continued to cling to some of them while being responsive to other kinds of things and I guess, to some extent, clinging is evidenced by my ongoing conviction that modernism ain't necessarily dead and that I get frustrated sometimes with writers who want blithely to say, "with the discrediting of modernism...