So, in the last couple of years, abstract expressionism has tended toward romantic suggestion -- indications of landscape or living figures.

Colonialism alone would have been able to make these difficulties serious, for Christianity is so closely tied to colonialism in the minds of these people that repudiation of the one has tended automatically toward the repudiation of the other.

Mr. Verreau began shakily, with a voice that tended toward an unpleasant whiteness when pushed beyond middle volume.

Traditionally most computer music programs have tended toward the old write / compile / run model which evolved when computers were much less powerful.

Edward B. Tylor and Lewis H Morgan brought the term " evolution " to anthropology though they tended toward the older pre-Spencerian definition helping to form the concept of unilineal evolution used during the later part of what Trigger calls the Antiquarianism-Imperial Synthesis period ( c1770-c1900 ).

In domestic policies he tended toward socialism and wanted to nationalize and regulate ; he was never close to the Socialist Party and never bothered to read Karl Marx.

Stones contained the element earth, and earthy objects tended to move in a straight line toward the centre of the earth ( and the universe in the Aristotelian geocentric view ) unless otherwise prevented from doing so.

Although the debate tended toward a condemnation of Molinism's insistence on free will to the detriment of efficacious grace, the important influence of the Jesuit Order — among other considerations — which, beside important political and theological power in Europe, had also various missions abroad ( Jesuit Reducciones in South America, missions in China, etc.

Portable PC computers at the time were still oriented toward DOS, and tended to have the keyboard forward towards the user, with empty space behind it, so this was a surprising innovation and set the standard layout all future notebook computers would follow.

As a result, some early translators tended toward over-literalness.

The Congregationalists and the Episcopalians supported the Federalists ; most of the Presbyterians, Baptists, and other minority denominations tended toward the Republican camp.

They also tended to toward stereotyping: typically, a small group of ethnically diverse men would come together but would not be developed much beyond their ethnicity ; the senior officer would often be unreasonable and unyielding ; almost anyone sharing personal information-especially plans for returning home-would die shortly thereafter and anyone acting in a cowardly or unpatriotic manner would convert to heroism or die ( or both, in quick succession ).

It tended toward overly structuralist explanations, focusing on the role individual economic relationships in the maintenance of social order ( Wolf 1997: 7-9 ).

In recent decades economic historians, following Douglass North, have tended to move away from narrowly quantitative studies toward institutional, social, and cultural history affecting the evolution of economies.

Did English equity develop maturity early enough that all of its derivative systems necessarily tended toward the same doctrines, based on exactly the same set of general principles?

Findings revealed that participants tended to be more flexible toward an angry opponent compared with a happy opponent.

Despite the enormous box office success, the critical response to Pearl Harbor at the time of its release tended toward mixed to negative, and the film earned only a 25 % approval rating according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews with an average rating of 4. 4 / 10, making it Bay's second worst reviewed movie to date, next to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

His work of the 1860s and 1870s often tended toward the panoramic and picturesque, topped by cloud-laden and threatening skies, and included views of his native country ( Autumn Oaks, 1878, Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Catskill Mountains, 1870, Art Institute of Chicago ), as well as scenes inspired by numerous travels overseas, especially to Italy and France ( The Monk, 1873, Addison Gallery of American Art ; Etretat, 1875, Wadsworth Atheneum ).

Finally, Jesus music artists tended toward mistrust of secular corporations.

Trujillo's tended toward a peaceful coexistence with the United States government.

It is similar to Cajun cuisine in ingredients ( such as the holy trinity ), but the important distinction is that Cajun cuisine arose from the more rustic, provincial French cooking adapted by the Acadians to Louisiana ingredients, whereas the cooking of the Louisiana Creoles tended more toward classical European styles adapted to local foodstuffs.

Early work tended toward the psychedelic but more ambitious elements soon came to the fore.

Keene's playing style tended toward the strategically original and positional.

Through the 1960s, both leagues ' annual saves leaders tended toward totals of 20 – 25 saves ; few pitchers remained in the role more than two or three years, with significant exceptions such as Roy Face and knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm.

As Dollinger ( 2002 ) has found, for the last century the most secular Jews have tended toward the most liberal or even leftist political views, while more religious Jews are politically more conservative.

He tended to use cynical sarcasm in his preachings.

The individualists position has tended to lead to the view that later changes in the words of ballads are corruptions of an original text.

Enlightenment thinkers, under the influence of Newtonian science, tended to view the universe as a vast machine, created and set in motion by a creator being, that continues to operate according to natural law, without any divine intervention.

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

The Harmonites tended to view unmarried celibate life as morally superior to marriage, based on Rapp's belief that God had originally created Adam as a dual being, having male and female sexual organs.

For example, according to the theory of mythopoeic thought, the ancients tended to view things as persons, not as mere objects ; thus, they described natural events as acts of personal gods, thus giving rise to myths.

In the mid-twentieth century, H. F. M. Prescott attempted to redress the tradition that Mary was intolerant and authoritarian by writing more objectively, and scholarship since then has tended to view the older, simpler, partisan assessments of Mary with greater scepticism.

As with the study of ethics, early analytic philosophy tended to avoid the study of philosophy of religion, largely dismissing ( as per the logical positivists view ) the subject as part of metaphysics and therefore meaningless.

Experts in the field were often reluctant to announce proofs, and tended to view any such announcement with skepticism.

" Further, the view of oppression of women as a " transhistorical phenomenon " allowed middle-class white women to minimize the benefits of their own race and class privilege and tended to exclude women from history.

The first generation of anonymizer Trojan horses tended to leave their tracks in the page view histories of the host computer.

" However, chroniclers tended to take a dim view of William's reign, arguably on account of his long and difficult struggles with the Church: these chroniclers were themselves generally products of the Church, and so might be expected to report him somewhat negatively.

In response and reaction to this hyperbole, modern historians and biographers have tended to take a more dispassionate view of the Tudor period.

According to McGuckin, several mid-twentieth century accounts have tended to " romanticise " Nestorius ; in opposition to this view, he asserts that Nestorius was no less dogmatic, uncompromising than Cyril and that he was fully just as prepared to use his political and canonical powers as Cyril or any of the other hierarchs of the period.

She reports that while outsiders did not necessarily regard their vocation as unworthy of respect, they still tended to view the nuns as social misfits.

The Fourth International, in line with its Trotskyist underpinnings, tended to view the Comintern as worthy of conditional support even considering its corruption, and although it regarded its own ideas as more advanced and thus superior to those of the Third International, it did not actively seek the Comintern's destruction.

While Khrushchev, the Communist Party, and the Soviet Union's supporters in the West viewed the Gulag as a deviation of Stalin, Solzhenitsyn and the opposition tended to view it as a systemic fault of Soviet political culture — an inevitable outcome of the Bolshevik political project.

and younger officers like Ardant du Picq who tended to view fighting performance as rooted in the individual's and group psychology and suggested detailed analysis of this.

While historians have thus tended to view Bonifacio's concept of the Philippine nation as restricted to the Tagalog regions of Luzon, as compared to Aguinaldo's view of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao ( comprising the modern Philippines ), Guerrero writes that Bonifacio and the Katipunan in fact already had an all-encompassing view.

But the writers in each group tended to view the other groups with bewilderment and incomprehension.

Religious criticisms tended to the conservative view that held Christian teachings should be understood as unique, rather than seeing them as perfect expressions of truths that are found everywhere.

New Labour tended to emphasise social justice, rather than the equality which was the focus of previous Labour governments, and challenged the view that social justice and economic efficiency are mutually exclusive.

This view distinguished Bordiga from other Leninists, and especially the Trotskyists, who tended ( and still tend ) to telescope the first two stages and so have money and the other exchange categories surviving into " socialism ".