promethean

• “The artist struggling for perfect abstract expression is trying to imitate God's self-sufficiency; the surrealist struggling to lay out the movement of thought or language as such, independent of the act of intelligible communication, is likewise engaged in a 'promethean' enterprise.”

  Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 1: Modernism and the Scholastic Revival

• “Our district is providing many teachers (over 250) with promethean boards.”

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• “The blue states primarily fear that the promethean anti-darwinian social darwinistic red states will infect the superior performance of the blue states.”

  Sociologists' Self-Criticism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Considering technology in general, Pope Benedict warns against the “promethean presumption” that we can re-create ourselves through technology, and reprises his teaching on the means of social communication urging that these too should have the good of the human person at the heart of their activity, rather than taking refuge in a supposed moral neutrality which ultimately destroys social relationships.”

  A magnificent encyclical in a great tradition

• “I still don ` t understand how a 14 karat gold bedecked promethean casket can get lost.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2009

• “After a promising start detailing the career of the first promethean consultant, the book descends into a confusing jumble of names and malign intentions, skipping backwards and forwards chronologically with only a hint of a narrative: Things got bad, then they got worse, and now they're plumb awful.”

  Thomas Frank: Joe Klein's Turnip Day

• “We are installing promethean boards in many classrooms next year, my fear is that teachers will continue to stand in front of the class and not allow students to "do work.”

  Google Tells Students to: "Major in Learning"

• “Giants of culture and humanism elsewhere in Europe swooned over Napoleon in his prime as a figure, both promethean and protean, who was capable of imagining and leading a community of many nations and cultures.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Great Experiment

• “At SRB ignitionAtlantis rose on promethean pillars of fire.”

  Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

• “Although great mathematicians possess a promethean creativity, at the same time, they know that they are not “inventing” anything.”

  Deity-free cosmos

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