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  • 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 2005

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

    Win On-Site Professional Development For Your School! | BrainPOP Educators 2009

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • 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 2009

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

    CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2009 2009

  • 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 2009

  • 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" 2008

  • 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.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • 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 2008

  • At SRB ignitionAtlantis rose on promethean pillars of fire.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

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  • Naturally the opposite is epimethean.

    August 14, 2007

  • Prometheus meaning forethought, and Epimetheus meaning afterthought. For those who aren't up on they're mythology (like me), they were brothers.

    August 14, 2007

  • So boldly creative as to have a life-giving quality; inspiring. (from WordCraft)

    May 21, 2008

  • Always makes me think of those "Prometheus and Bob" clips on "KABLAM!" :)

    May 21, 2008

  • Can one be antimethean?

    May 21, 2008