Sentences with phrase «american obsession with»

A big part of the parenting problem, she explains, is the American obsession with getting one's kids into a top - tier college.

There's nothing like shopping for and preparing three meals a day, every day, to make an artist think more deeply about the American obsession with food.

His latest exhibition, «Pursuit of Happiness,» (above) examines the American obsession with material gain.

The film closes on a little girl who plays JonBenét strutting down the hallway to «There She Is, Miss America,» which sums the movie up well: It's both beautiful and ridiculous, emblematic of an American obsession with over-the-top spectacle and lurid crime.

-- Harrison E. Salisbury This recipe is both my nod to that (seemingly crazy to those of us down under) phenomenon that happens around this time of year — the North American obsession with pumpkin season — and my...

Chaplain Wesley Seeliger of Texas A&M University, aroused and inspired by the «Gunsmoke» craze of the «60s, wrote a compelling little book called Western Theology (Forum, 1973) in which he showed how the American obsession with the 19th century trans - Mississippi west could be used as an occasion, and the western a medium, to teach the Christian faith.

Surely the Enlightenment notion of autonomy is one of the seeds from which the current American obsession with self has grown.

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«There are real shortcomings in how American politics are covered, including pervasive groupthink among media elites, an unhealthy obsession with the insider's view of politics, a lack of analytical rigor, a failure to appreciate uncertainty, a sluggishness to self - correct when new evidence contradicts pre-existing beliefs, and a narrow viewpoint that lacks perspective.»

The men covered a range of topics, including Buffett's «obsession» with good public schools (Detroit's schools are failing), and his prognosis for the American economy (it's looking good).

From Martha Stewart's American Made event to Entrepreneur magazine's recent spread on the theme, the obsession with the Made in America label has reached a fever pitch.

FX said 12 million people tuned in for the first episode of producer Ryan Murphy's (Glee, American Horror Story) series, which seems to have successfully reignited American viewers» obsession with one of the most high - profile criminal trials ever.

Anguin talks about an obsession Anderson had with «an attractive Asian - American in the finance department» that led to a request that Anderson work from home for months.

Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

He criticizes the undercutting of our common identity as Americans, the elect people, by an obsession with group identity and the politics of victimization.

«The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people,» said Rubio, a Florida Republican.

Brooks warns contemporary Christians that when we try to engage in public life, we are perceived as prosecuting a «culture war,» one that has «alienated large parts of three generations» of Americans, turning «a rich, complex, and beautiful faith into a public obsession with sex.»

Editorials encouraged members of the American church to step up giving to missions and expressed confidence that the Western obsession with armaments would ultimately collapse, along with war, «through its own crushing costs, its horrible tragedies, and its merciless defiance of Christian virtue» (October 15, 1914).

Not even the American people themselves seem completely at ease about whether their admitted obsessions with sexual pleasure and material possession meet the test of external and overriding criteria.

«The values that have dominated the American political landscape for decades include an obsession with gay marriage, abortion, and now contraception,» Boteach said.

I'd say the obsession first started with our fellow American's and since then, it's slowly creeped it's way over to us British bloggers and bakers.

You are definitely correct about the obsession that Americans have with kids and sleep.

Luckily, (for him), I've become accustomed to this obsession with the (American) sexualization of yoga, and I've used my yogic filter — and the principle of ahimsa — to avoid inflicting any harm on the people who immediately connect yoga with being sexy and wearing tight, stretchy clothes.

Americans» obsession with burgers isn't surprising, but the sandwich's perceived healthiness is, given the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that processed meat is a carcinogen and red meat likely causes cancer.

I've written about the epic obsession Americans have with protein.

P.S. this isn't sponsored in any way, I am just truly in loooove with American Eagle and had to share my new obsession with all of you.

Los Angeles, CA About Blog Style By Two we are two Caribbean American sisters based in Miami and Jamaica we just wan na share our obsession with Fashion, Beauty, Curly Hair, and Holistic Lifestyle with dash of other stuff too.

Basically Altman uses the country music scene as a microcosm of American shallowness, its obsession with celebrity and their symbiotic manipulation by politicians (impressively prophetic now, in retrospect).

«The Prestige» From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.

They were not, I suspect, prepared for a dark, cynical satire about American machismo and the country's absurd obsession with guns, violence, and, to put it bluntly, obtaining satisfaction off inflicting pain on others.

The sort - of superpower helps him get together with Mary (Rachel McAdams), an American with an odd obsession with Kate Moss, and the film takes us a few years into their relationship — with some bumps to negotiate, naturally.

It's in The Nutty Professor rather than The Patsy, however, that Lewis finds for his personal obsessions with celebrity, performance and popularity a form palatable to a wide public — a success confirmed by the traditional critical prejudice (in Anglo - American writing) that finds this to be Lewis» one acceptable film.

A sickly twist on nuclear morals and unadulterated, thoroughly punitive obsession, National Lampoon's Vacation etched a dark twist on small town American dreams, couching the woes of extended family, the thirst for adventure and the troubles of enclosed spaces in with themes of adultery, abuse, abandonment and totally warped family values; with a corporate theme park ironically standing in as a last bastion of joy.

With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped - down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.

A filmmaker of tableau imagery packed with defining detail and quirky humor, he's the Joseph Cornell of American cinema, creating colorful cinematic boxes around stories of dysfunctional families, absent fathers, and characters lost in ambition and obsession and the need for affirmation and parental approval.

(Her no - guilt approach to consuming carbs is sure to be appreciated by anyone tired of North American's obsession with slimness, even if Roberts herself doesn't appear to put on any weight.)

One of the formative elements in Wenders» youth was an obsession with the mainly American (but also British) pop culture of comics, pinball machines and, most importantly, rock and roll.

His obsession with perfection begins to overwhelm the facets of his life, as he slowly but steadily neglects Hepburn for his planes, and his business venture with TWA hits a major roadblock when the head of Pan American Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin) attempts to monopolize the international airline industry with the help of Senator Owen Brewster (Alan Alda).

Like the screenplays he wrote for Martin Scorsese (notably Taxi Driver) and the tormented works he's made about the wages of sin (Hardcore, American Gigolo, The Comfort of Strangers, Auto Focus), Schrader — raised as a strict Calvinist — has never lost his obsession with the war between flesh and spirit.

I think that's a shame because it's an enjoyable film that actually explores not just the recent economy and downsizing in Corporate America but the North American situation (obsession with property,...

Pullman's fantasy world is something out of the 50s or early 60s of American Graffiti, with its car obsession, decent suburban family, right down to the cute girl next door (Natasha Gregson Wagner).

Hand wringing over Americans» obsession with sports at the expense of academics is a hardy perennial in education writing, social commentary, and even sketch comedy.

In Korea, the obsession with exams, and the more than full - time study regime, is a problem; national education officials are trying to reduce this preoccupation, limiting how much time can be spent in hagwons, possibly introducing a more American - style system of selecting students for elite colleges, thereby producing, they hope, a more well - rounded student.

Perhaps we can all agree that the obsession with social mobility comes from our innately American caste and class fears, part of the national DNA passed down from our hugely idealistic founding documents and Washington, who refused the aristocratic mantle.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, calls the obsession with blaming her membership «cheap» and insidious.

These three men, with their impatience, their obsession with standardized testing data, and their general disdain for anything that doesn't match their priorities have inflicted great damage on American public education, wielding influence far beyond their wisdom.

We doubt the new Altima will curb American's obsession with crossovers, but it might keep some prospective Snow Belt buyers in a sedan.

Protagonist John Cyrus Bellman's obsession with journeying into the West echoes the ambitions and objectives of the famous adventurers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who desired to explore the unknown American frontier and detail what they found there.

Alex Camargo is an American girl who was born and raised in Miami, FL. and has an odd obsession with Hedgehogs.

Certainly, this is the best thing the «Dirt» name has ever been associated with and rallying enthusiasts are sure to be relieved that the obsession with the kind of American slang that was only partially hip in the 90s has been overcome and removed.