Example sentences of "of [art] world around " in BNC.

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1 An awareness of politics grows out of individuals ' perception of the world around them , and earlier in this book some of the main contributing factors to an African perception of the world , notwithstanding Africa 's great diversity , were sketched .
2 China , nevertheless , remains part of the world around us ’ .
3 For the first three days after a foal is born it is usually fairly accepting of the world around it , and it is of considerable advantage to us to make use of these three days to teach the foal that we are friendly and trustworthy .
4 Afterwards Tock became suspicious of the world around him and refused to enter a room first until someone had checked it was safe .
5 According to this reading , the repetition of episodes and the lack of a linear structure can be regarded as being in keeping with the formal realism of a narrative which is being conducted by someone whose overwrought state of mind colours his perception of the world around him , and who is no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality .
6 As the train leaves , with an unnatural casualness they will separate with never so much as a pressure of the hand ; others there are who , oblivious of the world around them , stand gazing into each other 's eyes , spending their last few moments clasped in each other 's arms — matching a succession of last kisses — to separate with a look of bewildered agony on their faces .
7 As long as I refuse to recognize my part in the fallenness of the world around me , I will never be a blessing to others .
8 Their show of power and manipulation of the world around them is , with some pride types , very subtle .
9 Rather than focusing on the hazards of the world around you , try to think what you can do to make your body stronger and more resistant to environmental chemicals .
10 While doing this they appear to be lost in pleasure and increasingly unaware of the world around them .
11 Lack of awareness of the world around you , and a mind which has no ideas of its own , will show up to greater disadvantage in direct comparison with your fellow interviewees than they will in a one-to-one interview .
12 Language is a system of sounds , meanings and structures with which we make sense of the world around us .
13 It is relatively easy to see myths as constituting a discourse that provides knowledge for members of a culture of the world around them .
14 All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it .
15 To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function .
16 In natural science , we study the phenomena of the world around us , the world of things , of objects .
17 The themes covered in Advance with English have been chosen for their appeal to young learners who are becoming aware of the world around them .
18 The kind of satisfaction which can be anxiety-free is that in which my own creative powers and understanding of the world around me are at a maximum and this is satisfaction which the individual can only achieve as part of a community of persons directed at these ends .
19 His curriculum vitae notes that his work ‘ keenly combines his observation and experiences of the world around him with a sharp and often cruel sense of humour ’ .
20 Our understanding of the world around us is based on theory .
21 Books were the key to making sense of the world around me , as well as the means of transcending its realities , and my reading was obsessive .
22 The young Bischof and his friend the painter Hans Erni were not unaware of the dark clouds gathering in the sky over Europe ; but at this point , on the threshold of adult life and a career — as yet undecided between painting and photography — he paused to make a careful , thoughtful study of the beauty of the world around him , to search , in minute things , for the harmony of the universe .
23 For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him .
24 Where conditions of poverty and dependency and harmonious and pervasive personal relationships continue to predominate in agriculture then a source of ambiguity is present in the farm worker 's perceptions of the world around him .
25 Like the ‘ language ’ of narrative , the ‘ language ’ of literature serves as a source of stereotypes and models which provide ready-made explanations and prevent people from analysing the specificity of the world around them .
26 Memory , therefore , played an increasingly large part in the artist 's new vision of the world around him , and this led at first to a great simplification of form .
27 Language has developed as a sign system — one of the ways in which humans communicate and make sense of the world around them .
28 One of its great strengths is to show how many of the traditional values help people make sense of the world around them — no matter how irrational they might seem to outsiders .
29 It is ironic that while scientific exploration has been producing incredible and exciting pictures of the world around us the technology it has spawned has had some depressing results — from atomic bombs to chlorofluorocarbons .
30 But within these pages is a unique record of the life of an independent woman , an administrator of ability , a great traveller and ardent supporter of the conservative cause in politics , an active member of the local commercial and landowning society and a gifted and spirited observer of the world around her .
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