Thus, Latin grew from a highly developed cultural product of the Golden and Silver eras of Latin literature to become the international lingua franca in matters diplomatic, scientific, philosophic and religious, until the 17th century.

He was a man of highly honourable and fervently religious character.

Deists referred to this kind of manipulation of religious doctrine as " priestcraft ", a highly derogatory term.

Dominic inspired his followers with loyalty to learning and virtue, a deep recognition of the spiritual power of worldly deprivation and the religious state, and a highly developed governmental structure.

Livy and Cicero were both aware that highly specialized Etruscan religious rites were codified in several sets of books written in Etruscan under the generic Latin title Etrusca Disciplina.

Scholars may debate whether Isidore ever personally embraced monastic life or affiliated with any religious order, but he undoubtedly esteemed the monks highly.

France's exile of the highly respected Sultan Mohammed V to Madagascar in 1953 and his replacement by the unpopular Mohammed Ben Aarafa, whose reign was perceived as illegitimate, sparked active opposition to the French protectorate both from nationalists and those who saw the sultan as a religious leader.

Sculpture was not highly developed, but carved stone and wood fetishes were made for religious use.

The cultural environment in Saudi Arabia is highly conservative ; the country adheres to a strict interpretation of Islamic religious law ( Shari ' a ).

As of May 2007, it was the twelfth-largest religious body in the world, and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.

Other research has observed that the United States is a highly religious country compared to most advanced industrial countries.

The subsequent economic depression, coupled with the rootlessness enabled by access to online data and strong social pressure to be flexible ( the results of corporations wanting highly mobile workforces without strong local ties ), results in a fragmentation of society along religious, ethnic and a variety of class markers, what Toffler calls " subcults ", including what would in 2010 be described as " gangs.

An illegal interference by Earth agents with a humanoid alien race inadvertently turns a local woman into an immortal, and she eventually becomes the revered Goddess of a planet-wide religion-but all is well, since she is a highly benevolent and good hearted person who makes only a positive use of her complete religious and secular power.

The religious views will make him highly unpopular.

In 999, Otto made a pilgrimage from Gargano to Benevento, where he met with the hermit monk Romuald and the Abbot Nilus the Younger ( then a highly venerated religious figure ) in order to atone for having executed Crescentius II after promising his safety.

It had become clear that, apart from their religious and scientific aspects, these voyages of discovery were highly profitable.

His body of Catholic religious music was highly popular in 19th century Germany, and he composed one of the earliest song cycles, Die Temperamente beim Verluste der Geliebten ( Temperaments on the Loss of a Lover ).

In 1488 he joined the highly respected Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch-conservative religious group of some 40 influential citizens of, and 7, 000 ' outer-members ' from around Europe.

Self-image may be directed toward conforming to mainstream values ( military-style crew cuts or current " fad " hairstyles such as the Dido flip ), identifying with distinctively groomed subgroups ( e. g., punk hair ), or obeying religious dictates ( e. g., Orthodox Jewish have payot, Rastafari have Dreadlocks, North India jatas, or the Sikh practice of Kesh ), though this is highly contextual and a " mainstream " look in one setting may be limited to a " subgroup " in another.

Bài was highly regarded among the French, and Diệm's religious and family ties impressed him.

Although his mother was a popular spokeswoman for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and a highly religious woman, Crane did not believe that " she was as narrow as most of her friends or family.

These were highly prized substances, and required as incense in some religious rites.

Britain ’ s ranking was " ascribed to factors such as the decline of religious scruples about extramarital sex, the growth of equal pay and equal rights for women and a highly sexualised popular culture ".

Many contemporary definitions of " artist " and " art " are highly contingent on culture, resisting aesthetic prescription, in much the same way that the features constituting beauty and the beautiful, cannot be standardized easily without corruption into kitsch.

The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non -" art " activities, as well — law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.

Pneumaist aestheticism is a theory of art and a highly experimental approach to art negating historical preconceptions of the aesthetic.

Often, if the skill is being used in a functional object, people will consider it a craft instead of art, a suggestion which is highly disputed by many Contemporary Craft thinkers.

Although he was highly in demand, he did not create many pieces because he was also employed as an art dealer.

His art criticism was also highly influential.

These reports are highly readable pieces of art criticism.

At low volumes, producing a good crash from a cymbal not particularly suited to it is a highly skilled art.

" Biographer Joseph Wood Krutch described the essay as " a rather highly ingenious exercise in the art of rationalization ".

Munch's art was highly personalized and he did little teaching.

Nonetheless, Munch was highly influential, particularly with the German Expressionists, who followed his philosophy, " I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of Man's urge to open his heart.

There are many different types and styles of graffiti and it is a rapidly developing art form whose value is highly contested, reviled by many authorities while also subject to protection, sometimes within the same jurisdiction.

China, Japan and Korea have a strong tradition in painting which is also highly attached to the art of calligraphy and printmaking ( so much that it is commonly seen as painting ).

Likewise, East Asian paintings and other works of art ( such as porcelain and lacquerware ) were highly prized in Europe since initial contact in the 16th century.

" Bubbleponics " is the art of delivering highly oxygenated nutrient solution direct to the root zone of plants.

He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.

The art of the novel reached a pinnacle in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber, but its combination of social commentary and psychological insight were echoed in highly skilled novels such as Wu Jingzi's The Scholars ( 1750 ) and Li Ruzhen's Flowers in the Mirror ( 1827 ).

His meaning was that the manifestations of and experiments with psychic automatism highlighted by Surrealists as the liberation of the unconscious were highly structured by ego activity, similar to the activities of the dream censorship in dreams, and that therefore it was in principle a mistake to regard Surrealist poems and other art works as direct manifestations of the unconscious, when they were indeed highly shaped and processed by the ego.

Many of the scenarios in the book would be enacted as performance pieces throughout Ono's career and have formed the basis for her art exhibitions, including one highly publicized show at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, that was nearly closed when besieged by excited Beatle fans who broke several of the art pieces and flooded the toilets.

The conspicuous display of wealth appears to have been discouraged, although this did not preclude the production of very fine, highly decorated bronze, ivory and wooden works of art and the production of jewellery.