Sentences with phrase «american malaise»

A fearless tragicomedy about hope, dread, longing, and forgiveness, Life During Wartime (2010) is Todd Solondz's boldest and most haunting movie to date, carrying his exploration of Middle American malaise into new territory.

In 1979, Carter made his «American malaise» speech (called that even though he never used the word «malaise») in which he asked Americans to sacrifice in order to cut back on our reliance on Mideast oil.

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It noted that more than 40 million North Americans work in cubicles, and that most aren't satisfied by that arrangement — «a malaise perhaps best represented in our popular culture by Dilbert and his colleagues.»

Perhaps because the connotations of the word «malaise» are different in French and in English, perhaps because the word is virtually unusable in this context in the United States so soon after Jimmy Carter, and surely because Taylor expressly frames his book as a continuation of the inquiry nobly undertaken by Lionel Trilling in his Norton Lectures at Harvard under the title Sincerity and Authenticity, the American edition has been entitled The Ethics of Authenticity.

A noted sociologist analyzes the reasons behind the current religious malaise in American culture, then proposes three possible scenarios for the future.

Plenary Session: «The Technocratic Body: American Childbirth as Cultural Expression»; Breakouts: «American Paradigms of Birth and Health Care»; «The Power of Ritual»; «Malaise and Meaning in Postmodern Midwifery and Childbirth Education»

Alpha House hits a few notes of inspired satire — like the bowl of American flag lapel pins the senators keep on the kitchen counter — but Trudeau's been more biting and much funnier elsewhere, past TV efforts like Tanner ’88 and the malaise - infected Doonesbury Special included.

Based on short stories from the 2009 collection «Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It» by American writer Maile Meloy, Reichardt's latest feature, Certain Women, displays the struggle for connection of three women whose loneliness mirrors the economic and spiritual malaise gripping a part of 21st century America.

Recent protests by thousands of teachers in far - flung parts of the United States reflect a deepening malaise in American education after years of budget cuts and stagnant salaries that have left many instructors feeling their work is not valued.

Before there was an American Story, before Paterson spread before Oscar and Lola like a dream, or the trumpets from the Island of our eviction had even sounded, there was their mother, Hypatía Belicia Cabral: a girl so tall your leg bones ached just looking at her, so dark it was as if the Creatrix had, in her making, blinked who, like her yet - to - be-born daughter, would come to exhibit a particularly Jersey malaise — the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.

Absent the Postwar malaise, Existentialist angst, and Surrealist bent that shaped the cultural context of Action Painting for the New York School, the uniquely American reference of landscape in Abstract Expressionism is perhaps more visible on the West Coast, especially in the work of Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell, and Charles Strong, the artists most heavily represented in the show.

Since 9/11 a malaise has taken over the American continent.

The leftover malaise from the housing and credit crisis has many Americans still renting as their finances and credit ratings improve.