Word: weltanschauung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rewards like money make it easy for most Amazonians to embrace the company's hyperyouthful, workaholic Weltanschauung. "Everybody's always talking about books, music, videos, computers," says Moe. "And everybody works really, really hard. It's that exhaustion-exhilaration feeling you had in college in finals week. But here, it's 24/7...
...20th century, Muslims were not alone in organizing to restore religious belief to government. Christians in America, Jews in Israel, even Hindus in India were promoting the same end. As a revolutionary, Khomeini sought to bring down not just the Shah's Western-oriented state but also the secular Weltanschauung that stood behind it. Did Khomeini's triumph augur an intellectual shift of global magnitude...
...living in the language of their choice: playing sports, re-enacting historical and political events and tuning in to their village's simulated radio and TV stations. There is little point, reason Concordia's leaders, in becoming proficient in a language and not absorbing some of the Weltanschauung of the country in which the language is spoken...
...mature enough to make this decision. My evolution as an individual will no doubt introduce me to new interests and people, as it has already done. Learning Chinese history for the first time this semester has opened my eyes to the world of the East and an entirely new weltanschauung. I expect that other Harvard courses will do the same. For this reason, I am hesitant to select a concentration at this point. I am not sure that the senior me will have the same interests as the first-year me. I could be hit by lighting. I could become...
...little suffering fits the Buchanan Weltanschauung that too much happiness in this life could reduce the chances of salvation in the next -- and that has helped him pull off his aggrieved underdog pose. From inside the Beltway, even before there was one (he was born the third of nine children in a comfortable Washington neighborhood), he has nonetheless successfully positioned himself as a scrappy outsider...