Sentences with phrase «american greed»

Gon na miss another tourney thanks to American greed.

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Yet the result is a hysterical and simplistic — if still in - the - moment compelling — parody of bourgeois American greed and ignorance.

The movie is the second in a trilogy by Von Trier, who has never visited the United States but has set several movies here, all of them generated by his ideas about American greed, racism and the misuse of power.

I understand but dislike the business aspect in him in our club, he is here to make money... can't blame him... blame the American greed philosophy.

... Spanish greed, English greed, American greed, one after another — always oligarchical greed.

But at the same time, we must listen to the complaints they have about American values, American greed, American morality, and American intervention in foreign affairs and recognize that our Muslim «enemies» might be making some good points.

Let's just say that true Christianity looks more like Marxism than pure American greed.

But the game lost its connection to Magie and her critique of American greed, and instead came to mean pretty much the opposite of what she'd hoped.

Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko was the embodiment of American greed, a reptilian corporate raider who ruthlessly destroyed companies and jobs with the aim of fattening his pocketbook.

Not exact matches

«They were the new American elite — the latest act in the carnival of creativity and greed that powers the nation forward.»

Gold prices were said to have become a barometer of political and economic fears, but in the end it was just pure GREED that drove the price until it finally peaked in January 1980 at $ 875 an ounce, almost on the very day that Americans were finally allowed to buy and own Gold bullion; the day that the big surge of American buying was to drive Gold to $ 5,000.

Why does Mr. Santorum ignore the sin that has plagued the American and world economies for many years — GREED!

and you have many rich so called American Christians who want war and serve greed.

Thank God for the Democrats that gave the poor hard working true Americans these programs, over the party of greeds objection.

The «Robber Barons» were no robbers and their greed was exaggerated, natural right - grounded classic liberals rejected Social Darwinism, and men like Justice Peckham who «discovered» and defended the liberty of contract were good men attuned to what might plausibly be derived from a natural development of American jurisprudence.

Religion News Service: Virtual vices show shift in American morality Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride still attract a lot of attention.

And the American culture of corporate greed and warfare for profit is better?

In «Mr. Bad Example,» he lampooned the greed of the eighties, and in «Boom Boom Mancini» and «The Hockey Song» he questioned the hidden violence which often drives American sports.

I am convince that they are more Americans led by God's love than those whose motivation is fueled by greed and bigotry and hatred.

In a world of unbridled greed that could so easily become a world of sensibility rather than self - possessed greed, Limbaugh exemplifies all that the right of free speech has become — so abused in hate and money mongering — can Americans somehow never listen in, never buy his brands, get this ignorant humanoid off the airwaves and back into his cave.

The crash of the market also offered Americans the opportunity to reflect on a new understanding of the problem of greed.

Money / greed, pride and ignorance, the American spirit, let this happen.

For Berry, American history has been defined by the greed of the «boomers.»

To reject materialism, greed, sensualism, militarism, power, status and the American way of life, and to affirm peace, justice, the unity of all peoples, the sanctity of human life, human rights and equal economic opportunity, is to be radically different in world view and action from the world around us.

Certainly the conservatives learned an important lesson from the war and struggled thereafter to promote equality at home, to fight against the shortsightedness and personal greed polluting our air and rivers, to champion safer foods and medicines, to extend the promise of American freedom to a broader and broader cross-section of the population?

While this system has broken down, it has decayed not simply because the animal spirits of Wall Street did not temper their zeal with a respect for greater community, but because American citizens embraced the pact that was offered them: an endless supply of baubles from citizens in chains so long as they refused to speak out in the pulpit against the notion that greed is good, that profit maximization is the chief end of man.

Sins like greed (they call it profit or being a successful businessman so it's ok) hatred and intolerance (right now it's against gays and muslims, used to be blacks and the nazis used the Jews) killing (starting wars for oil profits, they call it protecting American interests).

Yeah, greed has gotten us to where we are today and since supposedly 80 % of Americans are Christian what does that tell you about your religion.

What makes the government greed worse than the private is that the American public didn't vote for the private sector people.

I think that greed is very human, not just very American, and sadly, we must be cynical about whom we trust.

Partly because of Niebuhr's influence the churches are more likely today than in some American pasts to produce voices protesting the idolatries of nation, class, race and greed.

We need U.S. Senators, members of Congress and state legislators who have the guts to take on the big money interests whose greed is destroying the American middle class.

Award - winning film - maker Martin Scorsese directs the true story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his journey from pursuing the American dream to revelling in corporate greed.

It's time to take away some of profits racked up by American corporations as they destroy the U.S. economy with their greed.

The budget crisis has nothing to do with the American Indians but everything to do with Albany and City Hall's corruption, stupidity, greed and lack of leadership.

Costner's half - hearted media apology to the Indian nation for the atrocities committed against them in the name of unrivaled, unapologetic, rapacious greed (for which the people of One Nation Under God have made good - not) makes for a nice pass of time even if the lead characters are ironically Caucasians (though adopted by Native Americans).

Generation Wealth, simultaneously a deeply personal journey, rigorous historical essay, and raucously entertaining expose, bears witness to the global boom - bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of capitalism, narcissism and greed.

At its core, though, this twisted tale of American entrepreneurship — of young arms dealers gaming the Pentagon — captures something of runaway modern greed, played out as a bro movie from bro stars and a bro filmmaker that's equal parts comical and infuriating.

Like that earlier film — a thunderous historical epic about the American West and greed that deepens and darkens considerably with Day - Lewis's performance as Daniel Plainview, an oil - prospecting Mephistopheles — Phantom Thread continually torques its own British midcentury grandeur.

Once Upon A Time in America: Extended Director's Cut (Warner, Blu - ray, DVD, Digital HD) is Sergio Leone's portrait of a 20th century American success story as a gangster epic of greed, loyalty, betrayal, and power, seen through the haze of an opium high.

DAMNATION Picked up to series STUDIO: Universal Cable Productions / Netflix TEAM: Tony Tost (w, ep), Guymon Casady (ep), James Mangold (ep), Daniel Rappaport (ep), Gillian Berrie (ep), David Mackenzie (d, ep) LOGLINE: An epic saga of the secret history of the 1930s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans and prophets.

Robocop, which is the American debut of Brazilian filmmaker Jose Padilha (known for gritty cop action - dramas like Elite Squad), updates the greed - is - good, Reaganesque world of the original for a slick, stylish and focus - grouped America beset with questions over whether or not to allow OmniCorp's robot soldiers to be used in America.

The Big Short examines the 2008 economic collapse, and how it was spurred by predatory financial institutions taking advantage of people's hopes and dreams of succeeding in America, from the point of view of the banks that caused the catastrophe; The Florida Project shows us the swampy, brightly - colored, half - decayed Florida landscape briefly glimpsed in The Big Short, and centers on the very people who are struggling the most financially as a result of the greed of others and the desire to achieve the vaunted American Dream.

In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a mob of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything — and everyone — has a price.

Bird's spare, B - movie direction is matched by the pulpy commentary of the screenplay, which posits the hunger that cannibalism provokes as a metaphor for American Expansionism, an all - consuming greed that will not cease.

The film's matter - of - factness exposes what Kroc — in pure American Dream parlance — refers to as ambition for the selfish greed that it actually is.

9/11, George Bush, South American politics, corporate greed (yes, couched in a sequel no one wanted) and dictatorships all loomed in the frames of his films, but what many people may have forgotten is that Stone can deliver pure genre material with a great sense of humor and flair.

«Some of this shit really happened,» Seal says afterward, echoing the frenetic - slash - whimsical tone of director Doug Liman's previous foray in the genre («Mr. & Mrs. Smith») and shadowing the brow - raising title card that opens «American Hustle» (ah, another «American,» another tale about mining glory in greed).

A robust screenplay by David Scarpa, direction by Ridley Scott as bracing as a strong belt of brandy, and an excellent cast giving it all they've got contribute dramatic heft to a riveting story of American avarice and greed behind the factual 1973 kidnapping of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty's grandson, J. Paul Getty III (aka «Paul»), snatched from the streets of Rome on a sunny July day and held for a $ 17 million ransom which the old man refused to pay.