Word: constructionistic
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...Versions. There are two distinct Protestant versions of Christian hope. One of them is prevailingly held by European theologians, the other by those American theologians most actively associated with the World Council. The Europeans tend to be Biblically strict constructionist and socially pessimistic. They hold that things on this dreary earth will never really get better-despite all that Christians might like to do meanwhile-until Christ comes again to judge and sanctify...
...Americans tend to be loose constructionist and socially optimistic. They contend that God works partly through human history, and that Christians, through their active corporate witness, must help improve their world. The two points of view are not mutually exclusive, although sometimes it would seem...
...late leggy, lantern-jawed Sidney Howard was one of the ablest, most dependable scripters who ever turned his successful plays into equally successful movies (The Silver Cord, Yellow Jack, Dodsworth). Selznick considered Playwright Howard "a great constructionist" and turned to him in his hour of need. After a brief total immersion in Gone With the Wind, Sidney Howard arrived in Hollywood in the spring of 1937. With Selznick's famed marked copy of Gone With the Wind as a starter, Selznick, Howard and George Cukor (to supply the director's angle) spent twelve hours of a series...
...Constructionist artists have achieved stark realism by the use of silk, wool, glass, cotton and various other commodities in their paintings. One, a woman, put real iron bars before a picture of lions...
...influence we desire to exert. Thus it is well for us to consider what things are of proeminent importance. As we study the life of Christ, we find the general principle exemplified in his life of laying emphasis on affirmative rather than on negative things. He was a constructionist...