Scholars debate whether the Victorian period — as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political concerns that have come to be associated with the Victorians — actually begins with the passage of Reform Act 1832.

Nonetheless, they had enormous appeal to Victorian sensibilities.

The features of Maria Zambaco were clearly recognizable in the barely draped Phyllis ( as they are in several of Burne-Jones's finest works ), and the undraped nakedness of Demophoön coupled with the suggestion of female sexual assertiveness offended Victorian sensibilities.

Written for a sophisticated modern audience, it uses the traditional use of first-person narrative to portray the nominal hero Sir John Weymouth-Smythe as simultaneously a lecher and a prude, torn between his desires and Victorian sensibilities but unable to acknowledge, much less resolve, his conflicted impulses.

Neo-Victorian is an aesthetic movement which amalgamates Victorian and Edwardian aesthetic sensibilities with modern principles and technologies.

Darwin was anxious about the materialistic drift in his thinking-and of the disrepute which this could attract in early Victorian England-at the time, he was mentally preparing for marriage with his cousin Emma Wedgwood who was possessed of refined Christian sensibilities.

The major source of controversy arose from Kelley's florid and elegant plasterwork and high level of ornamentation, which reflects the use of Classical motifs combined with the decorative sensibilities of the Victorian era, and contrasted sharply with the restrained Greek Revival exterior of the structure.

MacDonald provides commentary on trends in Canadian society from a reactionary viewpoint, opposing such " fads " as physical fitness, rock music and fashion, from the point of view of an ultra-conservative with Victorian sensibilities.

Chris Snodgrass, in A Companion to Victorian Poetry describes Kipling's poetry as " imperial sensibilities with wry irony and scepticism, viewing all human endeavours as ultimately transitory ".

The swift transfer of Chinese mechanical technologies in the medieval era shifted European sensibilities to perceive the world in the image of a machine.

Susan Sontag argued in her 1964 Notes on " Camp " that camp was an attraction to the human qualities which expressed themselves in " failed attempts at seriousness ", the qualities of having a particular and unique style, and of reflecting the sensibilities of the era.

However, to appease cold war era Russian sensibilities, the album was credited to the Dave Rave " Group ", as the label was uncomfortable with the word " conspiracy ".

The Biedermeier period refers to an era in Central Europe during which the middle-class grew and arts appealed to common sensibilities in the historical period between 1815, the year of the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions.

This marked the beginning of an eclectic era that merged many of his gospel, jazz, soul, funk and rock influences with his trademark blues sensibilities.

The main recent sense of the word “ art ” is roughly as an abbreviation for creative art or “ fine art .” Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist ’ s creativity, or to engage the audience ’ s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the “ finer ” things.

But Tsuburaya wanted to appeal to children's sensibilities and broaden the genre's audience.

" I Don't Give a Damn " also turned up on occasion, depending on the perceived sensibilities of the audience.

Vasiliyev showed his financiers a marketing study stating that 30 % of Moscow's population fit the profile audience that would be willing to pay for the production, due to changing sensibilities and increasing incomes The Russian theatre community had a prejudice against this kind of play.

Indian films were soon being followed throughout Southeast Asia and the Middle East — where modest dressing and subdued sexuality of these films was found to be acceptable to the sensibilities of the audience belonging to the various Islamic countries of the region.

However the second series was felt to be too " raunchy " for the sensibilities of a public television audience, especially as the first had received a lot of complaints from the public in areas outside the larger cities for its frank portrayal of sex, drugs and rock ' n ' roll.

Muller's career with Q101 was ended in July 2006, when Marv Nyren, Vice President and General Manager of Emmis Radio, in Chicago, announced, " We've decided that the time has come for us to develop a morning show that will better serve the needs and sensibilities of this audience.

It didn't air any programming that would offend the sensibilities of its mostly fundamentalist and Pentecostal audience.

Having an American with American sensibilities first try to escape from Nazi-dominated Europe, and then to experience the worst of the Nazi charades and horrors, is a very effective way for Wouk to bring home to a modern audience just what the war against the Nazis was all about, and the terrible plight of those the Nazis hunted down and exterminated.

" That Matthew uses the word heaven is often seen as a reflection of the sensibilities of the Jewish audience this gospel was directed to, and thus tried to avoid the word God.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

In a later account, he said the theft was the work of a young trollop that he had picked up and brought back with him ; it has been submitted that " consideration for his parents ' sensibilities would have required the suppression of this misadventure.

That act destroyed any hope of reconciliation with Rome and it was no longer necessary to fear that Article XXIX would offend Catholic sensibilities.

He had opposed the more radical changes, but was open to moderate changes that would not offend traditional sensibilities.

This release presaged a modus operandi that the company would undertake later in the 1980s of acquiring films from international filmmakers and reworking them to suit US sensibilities.

In 1928, the Université de Montréal insisted that Groulx sign a paper saying that he would respect Confederation and English-Canadian sensibilities as a condition of receiving a respectable salary for his teaching work.

# do not take part in processions that would wound the religious sensibilities of any community

Indian materials were greatly modified and adapted in such a way as would appeal to the sensibilities of common people of Japan in general, transmitted through China and Korea.

Although the artist claims to be himself a practicing Catholic, Bill Donohue decried the work as " hate speech ", " garbage ", and " one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever ," describing Mr. Cavallaro as a " loser artist " and telling him in a television interview on Anderson Cooper 360, " You're lucky I'm not like the Taliban, because you would lose more than your head.

For humans, this would seem ridiculously absurd, but as Friendliness theory stresses, this is only because we evolved to have certain instinctive sensibilities which an artificial intelligence, not sharing our evolutionary history, may not necessarily comprehend unless we design it to.

In particular, the 2002 album Velocity of Sound rejects most of the psych-pop production sensibilities that would come to be associated with the band, instead featuring stripped-down production and sparse, rock instrumentation.

This would influence him towards a more vertical sensibility rather than the linear Marxist view based on revolution that influenced most artists with socially reformist sensibilities.

They did not invite the author Fay Weldon who spoke out against burning books, but did invite Shabbir Akhtar, a Cambridge philosophy graduate who called for " a negotiated compromise " which " would protect Muslim sensibilities against gratuitous provocation ".

Intimidation ( also called cowing ) is intentional behavior that " would cause a person of ordinary sensibilities " fear of injury or harm.

It was intended that British forces would temporarily enforce military government over a small section of Indochina, because of local resistance, logistics and French sensibilities.

Goethe lauded him as a poet among painters, and his work shows some of the sensibilities the Romantics would later celebrate.

In contrast, heavier and bulkier American Pontiacs, with far higher sticker prices and higher operating costs due to large displacement V8s requiring high octane fuel, would have little appeal in the Canadian marketplace for a number of reasons: a population base one tenth the size of the US, a less stratified society with lower disposible incomes, more prudent spending and savings sensibilities and far higher taxes and gasoline prices.

It was made at the instance of Lord Derby, then foreign minister, who feared the first name would wound the sensibilities of the Yankees.

Absent is the factor of commercialization with the attendant evils commonly attached to the retailing of sexual pleasures ; absent the elements of force or of involvement of minors which might constitute compulsion of unwilling participants or of those too young to make an informed choice, and absent too intrusion on the sensibilities of members of the public, many of whom would be offended by being exposed to the intimacies of others.

History, and Field Day's post-colonial sensibilities, determined that the construction of Irishness would often be worked out against notions of Britishness.

Man becomes man as he refines himself ; he even becomes godlike: “ Deus est mortali iuvare mortalem ,” wrote Pliny, translating a Greek Stoic, “ To help man is man ’ s true God .” Finally, the man who practiced humanitas cultivated his aesthetic sensibilities as he listened to his reason: " Cum musis ,” wrote Cicero, “ id est, cum humanitate et doctrina habere commercium ".< ref > Peter Gay's citation of the phrase, Cum musis, etc., refers to an anecdote in the Tusculan Disputations, in which Cicero recounts how during a visit to Syracuse, in Sicily, he had chanced to discover the tomb of Archimedes, at that time unknown to the inhabitants of the city, but which he, Cicero, recognized from its description in a line of poetry he had memorized ; and he contrasted the enduring fame of Archimedes, the mathematician, to the obloquy of the notorious Sicilian tyrant Dionysius the Elder, buried nearby: “ Who is there who has had anything at all to do with the Muses, that is, with humanity and learning, who would not prefer to be this mathematician rather than that tyrant?

In Roed ’ s later years there would be great changes in artistic sensibilities.