Word: notionalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Delivering a big victory to Labor will not advance the racist cause. For the past 30 years, Labor has supported non-white immigration, Aboriginal rights and the notion of a multicultural Australia in an impressive manner. That is not going to change just because Pauline Hanson can deliver a few votes...
...Sixth Generation renounce glamour. They eschew the star quality that marks Hollywood and Hong Kong; indeed, they often do without professional actors. Their films look less like paintings than placards. No stately settings, no echoes of the fine arts, no images that pop your eyes in wonder. The very notion of masterpiece-making seems dilettantish to the rebels of the sixth form. Here are film kids in revolt?against the government, of course, but also against their sanctified big brothers. Speaking of the Fifth Generation, Zhang Yuan has said, "They had a slogan: 'Not like the past.' It motivated...
...come a long way, baby. Flick on the TV, and see women--young women, almost always--kicking and thinking and winking at both the old notion of femininity and the aging precepts of feminism. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in her fifth season on the WB) saves her classmates from Evil, when she's not cracking a book or a joke. The Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, "the most elite kindergarten crime-fighting force ever assembled," protect Townsville with their magical powers. Max, the bionic babe on Fox's Dark Angel, occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world...
...submitted. It is entitled to its own judgment on the suitability of the ad for its audience. But in this case the judgment appears to have been that the audience was too tender to deal with what to many would have been an offensive political argument. We think that notion is false to the ideals of The Crimson and of free speech. If Harvard students cannot stand hearing an unpopular political argument, we are in a bad way. But we are utterly confident that they are capable of doing...
...pledging to take back all of Palestine. Soon after, during a speech at a South African Mosque, he vowed to carry the Jihad to Jerusalem. And so the pattern continued, with one message broadcast to western media, a very different one to the Arab World. By repeatedly reinforcing the notion that compromise was not an option, the groundwork for peace was never established...